📖LearnModule 2 · Lesson 25 of 30Basic User · CEFR A1, completedUnit 5 · La comida — food
En el café — ordering politely
Module 2 of the free Spanish course (CEFR A1, completed), lesson 25 of 30: The café scene, five lines: ¡Buenas tardes! On this page: 9 words with their genders and respellings, the rule, a watch-out line and the audio — the study notes behind the workbook's QR.
The words
Spanish
English
Say it
el mesero
the waiter
ehl meh-SEH-roh
la cuenta
the bill
lah KWEHN-tah
el menú
the menu
ehl meh-NOO
aquí tiene
here you are
ah-KEE TYEH-neh
muchas gracias
thank you very much
MOO-chahs GRAH-syahs
de nada
you are welcome
deh NAH-dah
el restaurante
the restaurant
ehl rrehs-tow-RAHN-teh
delicioso
delicious (m)
deh-lee-SYOH-soh
sabroso
tasty (m)
sah-BROH-soh
Respellings follow the course’s say-it key; the stressed syllable is in capitals. Print this lesson’s flashcards (PDF) — the words on the front, the English and respelling on the back.
La regla · The rule
The café scene, five lines: ¡Buenas tardes! Quisiera un jugo de naranja, por favor. — Aquí tiene. — ¡Muchas gracias! — De nada. — La cuenta, por favor.
Y también · And also
El mesero is the waiter across Latin America (camarero in Spain). Aquí tiene means "here you are" — literally "here you have". Delicioso and sabroso are the two words a cook wants to hear.
Ojo · Watch out
de nada answers a thank-you; it never opens one. And la cuenta, por favor asks for the bill — la cuenta, not el cuento, which is a story.
Do it now — on paper
Say all 9 words aloud twice from the respelling, then once from the Spanish spelling alone — begin with el mesero.
Copy every word with its accents on paper; then cover the English column and write each meaning back from the Spanish.
Write two sentences of your own that get the watch-out line right, then the two practice pages of workbook lesson 25 in Module 2 are the written half of this page.
This free course is the reading half. The writing half — write-in lessons, daily practice pages with built-in review, self-checks and a full answer key — is the companion workbook series, The Spanish Ladder: one workbook per module, fifteen in all, released band by band with the Basic band (Modules 1–5) first.
Keep these words
Turn this lesson’s words into flashcards, then space your reviews — the two habits the research behind our study guides backs hardest.