{"id":15067,"date":"2021-07-20T10:00:51","date_gmt":"2021-07-20T14:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/?p=15067"},"modified":"2021-07-14T09:47:26","modified_gmt":"2021-07-14T13:47:26","slug":"english-spanish-parallel-texts-in-a-spanish-restaurant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/english-spanish-parallel-texts-in-a-spanish-restaurant\/","title":{"rendered":"English Spanish Parallel Texts &#8211; In a Spanish restaurant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this lesson of our English Spanish Parallel Texts course and we are going to practice ordering in a Spanish restaurant. Start by reading the texts in Spanish below. The English translations are provided later but please try not to look at them until you have read the Spanish versions various times and tried your best to understand them.<\/p>\n<p>There may be some words and phrases in the text that you are unfamiliar with, but you should be aiming to capture the main essence of what is happening. There will always be words and phrases popping up in real-life situations that you have never heard before, so it is important never to get too distracted by details.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to investigate some of the words you don\u2019t know with a dictionary that would be great, please do, but do this after trying your best to understand with what you already have in your head.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Check out this video lesson with information relevant to this topic:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/spanish-lesson-beginner-7-how-to-order-in-a-restaurant\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">In a Spanish restaurant<\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_15068\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter post-item__attachment\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15068\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/07\/In-a-Spanish-restaurant-350x233.jpg\" alt=\"In a Spanish restaurant\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-15068\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/07\/In-a-Spanish-restaurant-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/07\/In-a-Spanish-restaurant.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-15068\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image by <a href=\"https:\/\/pixabay.com\/photos\/?utm_source=link-attribution&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=image&amp;utm_content=691397\">Free-Photos<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/pixabay.com\/?utm_source=link-attribution&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=image&amp;utm_content=691397\">Pixabay<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Spanish Text<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Text in Spanish:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Camarero: Hola buenas tardes. Bienvenidos al restaurante \u2018Mira Mar\u2019. Yo soy Alfredo. Soy su camarero.<br \/>\nAlicia: Hola Alfredo. Encantada.<br \/>\nMiguel: Buenas tardes Alfredo. Mucho gusto. \u2018Mira Mar\u2019 es un restaurante muy bonito. \u00a1Qu\u00e9 vistas!<br \/>\nCamarero: S\u00ed las vistas al mar son impresionantes aqu\u00ed. \u00bfQu\u00e9 quiere beber se\u00f1ora?<br \/>\nAlicia: Para m\u00ed, un vaso de vino blanco.<br \/>\nMiguel: Y para m\u00ed, un gin tonic.<br \/>\nCamarero: Muy bien. Los men\u00fas.<br \/>\nAlicia: Gracias.<\/p>\n<p>Camarero: Bien, aqu\u00ed tiene el vino blanco, y para usted se\u00f1or su gin tonic. \u00bfY para comer?<br \/>\nMiguel: \u00bfQu\u00e9 tal es el marisco?<br \/>\nCamarero: Pues, excelente. El restaurante est\u00e1 al lado del mar y nuestro marisco es siempre fresco.<br \/>\nMiguel: Vale. De primero quiero los mejillones y de segundo quiero la langosta con una ensalada.<br \/>\nCamarero: Perfecto.<br \/>\nAlicia: Y para mi, de primero quiero la sopa del d\u00eda y de segundo quiero la pasta pesto.<br \/>\nCamarero: Muy bien. \u00a1Marchando!<br \/>\nAlicia: Perdona Alfredo, \u00bfde d\u00f3nde eres? \u00bfNo eres de aqu\u00ed, verdad?<br \/>\nCamarero: Es cierto. Soy de Venezuela. Pero vivo aqu\u00ed con toda mi familia.<br \/>\nAlicia: \u00a1Qu\u00e9 bien!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>English Text<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Text in English:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Waiter: Hello, good afternoon. Welcome to the restaurant &#8216;Mira Mar&#8217;. I am Alfredo. I&#8217;m your waiter.<br \/>\nAlicia: Hello Alfredo. Delighted to meet you.<br \/>\nMiguel: Good afternoon, Alfredo. Pleased to meet you. &#8216;Mira Mar&#8217; is a very nice restaurant. What views!<br \/>\nWaiter: Yes, the sea views are impressive here. What would you like to drink, ma&#8217;am?<br \/>\nAlicia: For me, a glass of white wine.<br \/>\nMiguel: And for me, a gin and tonic.<br \/>\nWaiter: Very good. The menus.<br \/>\nAlicia: Thanks.<\/p>\n<p>Waiter: Well, here is the white wine, and for you, sir, your gin and tonic. And to eat?<br \/>\nMiguel: How is the seafood?<br \/>\nWaiter: Well, excellent. The restaurant is next to the sea and our seafood is always fresh.<br \/>\nMiguel: Ok. For first course I would like the mussels and for second course I would like the lobster with a salad.<br \/>\nWaiter: Perfect.<br \/>\nAlicia: And for me, for first course I would like the soup of the day and for second course I would like the pasta pesto.<br \/>\nWaiter: Very good. Coming right up!<br \/>\nAlicia: Excuse me Alfredo, where are you from? You&#8217;re not from here, right?<br \/>\nWaiter: It&#8217;s true. I am from Venezuela. But I live here with all my family.<br \/>\nAlicia: Great!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>So, how did you get on? How much did you understand of the original text before checking the translation? Please let me know in the comments section below&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t worry if you didn&#8217;t understand that much, practice makes perfect! Be patient and keep reading, hearing, writing, and speaking Spanish. See you next time!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<img width=\"350\" height=\"233\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/07\/In-a-Spanish-restaurant-350x233.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"In a Spanish restaurant\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/07\/In-a-Spanish-restaurant-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/07\/In-a-Spanish-restaurant.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><p>Practice ordering in a Spanish restaurant with these English Spanish Parallel Texts. Read the Spanish version and do your best to understand before later checking the English translation.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":15068,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[8,61202,6,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15067","post","type-post","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-language","category-learning-2","category-grammar","category-vocabulary"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/53"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15067"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15067\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15070,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15067\/revisions\/15070"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}