Lesson 04: San Patricio - drinks, and numbers Hey! que tal? - Free spanish lessons

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Hi! And welcome to the fourth lesson of Hey que tal? Free spanish lessons. My name is Pablo Apiolazza and today we´ll push the edge a little bit. Hola y bienvenidos a la cuarta lección de Hey que tal? Lecciones de español gratuitas. Mi nombre es Pablo Apiolazza y hoy vamos a ir un poco más al límite. Since Saint Patrick´s Day is this wednesday we´ll take this chance to learn in this lesson how to order a drink, and pay for it. So we´ll learn the numbers as well. Dado que el día de San Patricio es este miércoles vamos a aprovechar esta oportunidad para aprender en esta lección cómo pedir un trago, y pagar por él. Así que también vamos a aprender los números. The first thing you want to ask when you get to a bar is a table, if the place is crowded. So to ask for a table we say de following: Una mesa para dos, por favor? or Tendrás una mesa para dos, por favor? Which means Would you have a table for two, please? If the place is not crowded, we just sit and wait. In terms of service, Buenos Aires and Argentina in general is very uneven regarding of the quality of the attention. Some places have perfect attention and manners, and some others don´t pay attention to customers at all. Sadly, sometimes that lack of attention is equalized with excelent food or drinks, so good that you bare the bad service. Many of us are used to that, so if you can take it, and you see that the waiter isn´t coming, you can call him raising your hand and saying like this: Mozo! Once the waiter´s here, we can ask for the menu or just for a beer. Let´s see how to ask for the menu. Me traerías una carta, por favor? And that is: Would you bring me a menu, please? Once we get the menu we can say "Gracias", and take our pick. Now let´s see how to ask for a beer. There are many different ways but we´ll see three today: Puede ser una cerveza, por favor? Which lit. means "Can it be a beer please?" The second is Me traerías una cerveza, por favor? Would you bring me a beer please? And the third, most used and easiest: Una cerveza, por favor A beer please. Of course, on seldom occasions we drink alone in bars, so let´s learn the numbers from zero to twenty. We will assume that if we have more than twenty people on the table one of them will know how to speak spanish if you need to ask for more, hehe. So zero is CERO One is UNO Two is DOS Three is TRES Four is CUATRO Five is CINCO Six is SEIS Seven is SIETE Eight is OCHO Nine is NUEVE Ten is DIEZ Eleven is ONCE Twelve is DOCE Thirteen is TRECE Fourteen is CATORCE Fifteen is QUINCE Sixteen is DIECISÉIS Seventeen is DIECISIETE Eighteen is DIECIOCHO Nineteen is DIECINUEVE and Twenty is VEINTE. As you might noticed, from sixteen on we have a little resemblance on the first half, every word starts with ten, and then the other number, sort of like ten and six. If you´re really anxious to know the rest of the numbers, you should know that this same formula will be the one to make the rest of the numbers until a hundred. But we´ll see that on the next episode. Let´s go back to the bar and our beer. Let´s say some friends came later and we ordered our beer, if we want two more we can say it like this. Dos cervezas más, por favor? Two more beers, please? Once we had enough, we can order for the check like this. La cuenta, por favor. or Me traés la cuenta, por favor? Now they will tell us the number, and probably they will ask cash or credit, so the waiter answer will be something like this: Son 18 pesos. Efectivo o tarjeta? Which means It´s 18 pesos, cash or credit card? If you´re in Argentina, you shouldn´t be so confident that they will have credit card payment in every single bar, so just in case always bring some cash with you. So once you have the money or the card, you can say this Aca tenés, gracias. There you go, thank you. Once we get our change, we can leave the tip, that is called propina, and usually is around 10% of what we had. Most of waiters will be more than happy with

Hi! And welcome to the fourth lesson of Hey que tal? Free spanish lessons. My name is Pablo Apiolazza and today we´ll push the edge a little bit. Hola y bienvenidos a la cuarta lección de Hey que tal? Lecciones de español gratuitas. Mi nombre es Pablo Apiolazza y hoy vamos a ir un poco más al límite. Since Saint Patrick´s Day is this wednesday we´ll take this chance to learn in this lesson how to order a drink, and pay for it. So we´ll learn the numbers as well. Dado que el día de San Patricio es este miércoles vamos a aprovechar esta oportunidad para aprender en esta lección cómo pedir un trago, y pagar por él. Así que también vamos a aprender los números. The first thing you want to ask when you get to a bar is a table, if the place is crowded. So to ask for a table we say de following: Una mesa para dos, por favor? or Tendrás una mesa para dos, por favor? Which means Would you have a table for two, please? If the place is not crowded, we just sit and wait. In terms of service, Buenos Aires and Argentina in general is very uneven regarding of the quality of the attention. Some places have perfect attention and manners, and some others don´t pay attention to customers at all. Sadly, sometimes that lack of attention is equalized with excelent food or drinks, so good that you bare the bad service. Many of us are used to that, so if you can take it, and you see that the waiter isn´t coming, you can call him raising your hand and saying like this: Mozo! Once the waiter´s here, we can ask for the menu or just for a beer. Let´s see how to ask for the menu. Me traerías una carta, por favor? And that is: Would you bring me a menu, please? Once we get the menu we can say "Gracias", and take our pick. Now let´s see how to ask for a beer. There are many different ways but we´ll see three today: Puede ser una cerveza, por favor? Which lit. means "Can it be a beer please?" The second is Me traerías una cerveza, por favor? Would you bring me a beer please? And the third, most used and easiest: Una cerveza, por favor A beer please. Of course, on seldom occasions we drink alone in bars, so let´s learn the numbers from zero to twenty. We will assume that if we have more than twenty people on the table one of them will know how to speak spanish if you need to ask for more, hehe. So zero is CERO One is UNO Two is DOS Three is TRES Four is CUATRO Five is CINCO Six is SEIS Seven is SIETE Eight is OCHO Nine is NUEVE Ten is DIEZ Eleven is ONCE Twelve is DOCE Thirteen is TRECE Fourteen is CATORCE Fifteen is QUINCE Sixteen is DIECISÉIS Seventeen is DIECISIETE Eighteen is DIECIOCHO Nineteen is DIECINUEVE and Twenty is VEINTE. As you might noticed, from sixteen on we have a little resemblance on the first half, every word starts with ten, and then the other number, sort of like ten and six. If you´re really anxious to know the rest of the numbers, you should know that this same formula will be the one to make the rest of the numbers until a hundred. But we´ll see that on the next episode. Let´s go back to the bar and our beer. Let´s say some friends came later and we ordered our beer, if we want two more we can say it like this. Dos cervezas más, por favor? Two more beers, please? Once we had enough, we can order for the check like this. La cuenta, por favor. or Me traés la cuenta, por favor? Now they will tell us the number, and probably they will ask cash or credit, so the waiter answer will be something like this: Son 18 pesos. Efectivo o tarjeta? Which means It´s 18 pesos, cash or credit card? If you´re in Argentina, you shouldn´t be so confident that they will have credit card payment in every single bar, so just in case always bring some cash with you. So once you have the money or the card, you can say this Aca tenés, gracias. There you go, thank you. Once we get our change, we can leave the tip, that is called propina, and usually is around 10% of what we had. Most of waiters will be more than happy with