{"id":5809,"date":"2012-10-24T08:00:31","date_gmt":"2012-10-24T12:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/?p=5809"},"modified":"2014-07-15T15:02:03","modified_gmt":"2014-07-15T19:02:03","slug":"how-to-shop-in-spanish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/how-to-shop-in-spanish\/","title":{"rendered":"How to shop in Spanish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Hello, everybody!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I&#8217;m in the United States for a few weeks and as a tourist I&#8217;ve been doing some shopping so I thought I&#8217;d share some interesting and useful expressions you can use to shop in a Spanish-speaking country.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00bfEn qu\u00e9 puedo ayudarte? &#8211; How can I help you?<br \/>\n\u00bfCu\u00e1nto cuesta(n)? &#8211; How are does it\/do they cost?<br \/>\n\u00bfCu\u00e1nto cuesta eso? &#8211; How much does that cost?<br \/>\n\u00bfCu\u00e1nto vale(n)? &#8211; How much is it\/are they worth?<br \/>\n\u00bfHay&#8230;? &#8211; Is there&#8230;? Are there&#8230;?<br \/>\nQuisiera&#8230; &#8211; I&#8217;d like to&#8230;<br \/>\npor favor &#8211; please<br \/>\nQuisiera probarlo. &#8211; I&#8217;d like to try it on.<br \/>\nMe lo quiero probar. &#8211; I want to try it on.<br \/>\n\u00bfHay en negro? &#8211; Do you have it in black?<br \/>\n\u00bfHay en otros colores? &#8211; Do you have it in other colors?<br \/>\n\u00bfTienen la talla&#8230;? &#8211; Do you have it &#8230; (medium, small, large)?<br \/>\n\u00bfSe aceptan tarjetas de cr\u00e9dito? &#8211; Do you take credit cards?<br \/>\nMe llevo dos de esos. &#8211; I&#8217;ll take two of these.<br \/>\nS\u00f3lo estoy mirando. &#8211; I&#8217;m just looking.<br \/>\n\u00bfPuedo curiosear? &#8211; Can I have a look around?<br \/>\n\u00bfMe puede dar un recibo? &#8211; Can I have a receipt?<br \/>\nVoy a pensarlo. &#8211; I&#8217;ll think about it.<br \/>\nVuelvo m\u00e1s tarde. &#8211; I&#8217;ll come back later.<br \/>\n\u00bfA qu\u00e9 hora abren\/cierran? &#8211; What time do you open\/close?<br \/>\n\u00bfD\u00f3nde est\u00e1(n)&#8230;? &#8211; Where is\/are&#8230;?<br \/>\n\u00bfD\u00f3nde encuentro&#8230;? &#8211; Where can I find&#8230;?<br \/>\nBusco&#8230; &#8211; I&#8217;m looking for&#8230;<br \/>\n\u00bfVenden&#8230;? &#8211; Do you sell&#8230;?<br \/>\nQueda grande\/peque\u00f1o. &#8211; The fit is big\/small.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Some useful vocabulary too!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">peque\u00f1o &#8211; small<br \/>\nmediano &#8211; medium<br \/>\ngrande &#8211; large<br \/>\nestrecho, apretado &#8211; tight<br \/>\nlargo &#8211; long<br \/>\nancho &#8211; wide<br \/>\nsuelto &#8211; loose<br \/>\n(muy) de moda &#8211; (very) fashionable<br \/>\nla etiqueta &#8211; price label<br \/>\nvender &#8211; to sell<br \/>\nvendedor &#8211; salesperson<br \/>\ncomprar &#8211; to buy<br \/>\nel probador &#8211; fitting room<br \/>\nempuje &#8211; push<br \/>\ntire &#8211; pull<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Well, hope you have a good time shopping!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Want more free resources to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.transparent.com\/learn-spanish\/\">learn Spanish<\/a>? Check out the other goodies we offer to help make your language learning efforts a daily habit.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<img width=\"350\" height=\"350\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/10\/conversation-350x350.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/10\/conversation-350x350.jpg 350w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/10\/conversation-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/10\/conversation-144x144.jpg 144w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/10\/conversation.jpg 578w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><p>Hello, everybody! I&#8217;m in the United States for a few weeks and as a tourist I&#8217;ve been doing some shopping so I thought I&#8217;d share some interesting and useful expressions you can use to shop in a Spanish-speaking country. \u00bfEn qu\u00e9 puedo ayudarte? &#8211; How can I help you? \u00bfCu\u00e1nto cuesta(n)? &#8211; How are does&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/how-to-shop-in-spanish\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":5820,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[358369],"class_list":["post-5809","post","type-post","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-vocabulary","tag-vocabulary"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5809","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\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5809"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8131,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5809\/revisions\/8131"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}