language learning center · A2 · Lesson 4
Ordering food politely
Practice this topic in Spanish: Ordering food politely.
Understand and learn
Work from a natural example to useful language, one small pattern, a spoken attempt, and a response that is relevant to your life.
Lucía
Quisiera una mesa para dos, por favor.
I would like a table for two, please.
Mateo
¿Qué me recomienda?
What do you recommend?
Lucía
Para mí, la sopa y el pescado.
For me, the soup and the fish.
Mateo
Sin cebolla, si es posible.
Without onion, if possible.
Notice, try, and speak
Understand a natural example and learn a small set of useful words, phrases, and patterns.
Useful words and phrases
These items were selected by the lesson curriculum for practical use—not extracted as an every-word list.
Quisiera una mesa para dos, por favor.
I would like a table for two, please.
Quisiera una mesa para dos, por favor.
¿Qué me recomienda?
What do you recommend?
¿Qué me recomienda?
Para mí, la sopa y el pescado.
For me, the soup and the fish.
Para mí, la sopa y el pescado.
Sin cebolla, si es posible.
Without onion, if possible.
Sin cebolla, si es posible.
¿Nos trae la cuenta, por favor?
Could you bring us the bill, please?
¿Nos trae la cuenta, por favor?
Notice, try, and speak
Which Spanish sentence has this meaning: “I would like a table for two, please.”
Make it yours
Say the five Spanish turns aloud, then connect two of them naturally.
Change one detail so the message is true for your own life or opinion.
Use it with someone
Use this Spanish in a real conversation
- 1. Quisiera una mesa para dos, por favor.
- 2. ¿Qué me recomienda?
- 3. Para mí, la sopa y el pescado.
- 4. Sin cebolla, si es posible.
- 5. ¿Nos trae la cuenta, por favor?