Today's reminder (handy for restaurants):
i am planning a trip to a Spanish restaurant. Where? Spain?
Flag of Malaysia.
No, the Salud restaurant, in Malacca, in Malaysia. I have made a list of useful words in Spanish.
Flag of Malaysia.
No, the Salud restaurant, in Malacca, in Malaysia. I have made a list of useful words in Spanish.
Finding A Restaurant/Table/Toilet
Spanish - English
mesa - table
reserva - reservation
where - donde
where is - donde esta
the restaurant - el restaurante
the bathroom - el baño
(toilet - el inodoro)
(toilet - el inodoro)
Gents toilet - baño de caballeros
ladies toilet - señoras
this restaurant - este restaurante
new restaurant - restaurante nuevo
open - abierto
closed - cerrado
Days of the week
Monday - lunes
tuesday - martes
Wednesday - miercoles ( accents miércoles)
Thursday - jueves
Friday - viernes
Saturday - sabado (watch out - sabado is Saturday not Sunday; note the letter 'a' is the second letter in both the English and the Spanish; watch the accent - Sábado)
Watch out /take care - cuidado
Sunday - domingo (how to remember it: the lord's day, think he dominates the world, the master of all)
Watch out /take care - cuidado
Sunday - domingo (how to remember it: the lord's day, think he dominates the world, the master of all)
Times of Day
morning - manana
afternoon - tarde
evening - noche
last - pasado
next - siguente (like sequence)
now - ahora
time - hora (like hour)
yesterday - ayer (ayer - aye, which is old yes and Scottish yes, it's over)
tomorrow - mañana
when - cuando (remember the song, cuando, cuando, cuando, tell me when, when, when)
wait - espere (hope or expect)
hurry - prisa
Introductions To People
English - Spanish
I - yo
I am - yo soy
you - tu / usted
he - el
she - ella
a bottle of wine - botella de vino
a carafe - la (the) garrafa (double r)
the alcohol - el alcohol
without alcohol- sin alcohol
(NB Muslim Malay restaurants will have no pork and no alcohol. Chinese restaurants will have pork and wine. Hotels will have wine.)
In a Chinese hawker centres (food courts) you may have beer but not wine.
Coffee - cafe
sugar - azucar
milk - leche
(a) cup - (una) taza (the a of the una matches or rhymes with the a of taxa)
sin -without (it would be a sin to have it so I'll have it without)
a cup of coffee - una taza de cafe
a coffee with sugar - un cafe con azucar
a cup of coffee without sugar - una taza de cafe sin Azucar (the accent on the u means pronounce it)
a cup of coffee without milk - un a taza de cafe sin leche
An orange juice - Un jugo de naranja (juice of orange)
Ordering Wine
Sparkling wine -
white wine -vino blanco (notice the adjective is second after the noun)
The food is/was delicious
thank you
please - por favor
the Champagne - el champan
good Champagne - champanes buenos (no g)
this restaurant has - Este restaurante tiene
does this restaurant have
do you want to open - quieres abrir
Spanish Juices and Fruit
(un) jugo - (a) juice (not jug)
jugo de manzana - apple juice
(de) naranja - orange (both languages have the letter r in the middle of the word for orange)
apple - manzana (manzania - z sounds like th - camomile or little apple in a style sherry from a town, dry pale sherry, more saline on the Atlantic ocean, the south west, arched bay east of Portugal)
banana
mango
Food
fruit
meat - carne
chicken - pollo
the grilled chicken - el pollo asado
fish - pescado (like the French piscine for swimming pool, and Pisces zodiac sign)
pasta
potatoes
rice
vegetables
sandwich
hamburger
Popular Wines:
Cava - (literally from the cave, made by the Champagne method, like the French cremant, made from any combination of three Spanish grapes: Macabeo (called Viura in Rioja); Parellada; Xarel-lo pronounced charello) The dash is a raised full sto which we don't have in English (an interpunct dot in Catalan language from the Catalan region of Spain, interpunct - punct volat - flying point between two letters l, where each belongs to a different syllable.
Rioja - red from Grenache and white temperanillo (double ll pronounced ya - like tempera- knee-yoh!)
(Mateus Rose is from Portugal - oops!)
Priorat near Barcelona makes rich red blends.
Sherry from Jerez, fortified wine.
espimoso - sparkling
Useful websites
To be continued.
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Angela Lansbury is a travel writer and photographer, author and speaker. She teaches English to adults at colleges and businesses as well as other languages. Please share links to your favourite posts.
