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Coffee Break Spanish

CBS 1.16 | Ordering food in a café

Coffee Break Spanish

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🗓️ 7 March 2009

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

In lesson 16 you’ll learn more useful language for ordering drinks and snacks in the café or bar. Please note that lesson 16 of Season 1 was originally known as lesson 116 of Coffee Break Spanish. We have renumbered the lessons of each season as lessons 1-40 to make things more simple for our listeners.


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We're continuing on from where we left off last time because we've not yet asked for

0:18.5

the bill in the cafe where we were having our coffees and our drinks and so on.

0:23.8

So we'll be learning how to ask for the bill and then we need to order some snacks today

0:27.5

in this lesson. I hope you enjoy it.

0:35.5

Okay, so last week we were learning all about ordering drinks in the cafe and also some

0:39.4

of the threses that the waiter and waitress might say to you when he or she brings your

0:44.0

drinks. Today we're going to take this a stage further. The keyword here is otro.

0:53.5

Otro means another or literally other and it's a good word to practice your Spanish

0:59.5

R sound. Otro. Otro. Otro. Otro. Okay, so you might want to say otro vino. Otro vino.

1:17.5

Another wine or otro café. Otro café. How would you say another white coffee please?

1:37.5

Kara. Otro café con leche por favor. Otro café con leche por favor. Muy bien.

1:46.5

Otro is the word that's used for masculine words and most of the drinks that we learned last

1:51.5

week were masculine. We talked about un café, un café con leche, un té and so on.

1:59.5

But there were feminine words, una limonada, for example. Wonder if you can work out how you

2:05.5

would say another lemonade using the feminine form of otro. What do you think that would be?

2:12.5

Otro. Otro. Exactly. Ending in E. Otro. Otro limonada. Otro limonada. Muy bien. Otro. Otro.

2:31.5

Otro. Otro. Otro. Muy bien. Another way of seeing this regardless of what drink you

2:38.5

might have is Otro de lo mismo. Otro de lo mismo. And lo mismo means the same thing.

2:50.5

So Otro de lo mismo. Another one of the same. Another of the same thing. Otro de lo mismo.

2:59.5

Otro de lo mismo. Ok, now we're going to move on because in most Spanish bars and cafes

3:09.5

you can eat as well as drink. So we're going to ask the question, can you eat here?

3:16.5

Now let's think about the parts of the sentence that we know already. What is the word for here?

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