Survival Phrases
The exact phrases you need for real life abroad — with practice dialogues and audio, for every level.
Practice pronunciationEating & Drinking Out
Restaurants, cafés, bars, and ordering food.
Making a Restaurant Reservation
Use these phrases to book a table, request specific arrangements, or manage your reservation at a Spanish-speaking restaurant.
Making a Restaurant Reservation
These phrases will help you reserve a table and communicate with staff at a Spanish-speaking restaurant.
Ordering at a Restaurant
Essential phrases for arriving, ordering, and paying at a Spanish-speaking restaurant.
Ordering at a Restaurant
Use these essential phrases to order food confidently and naturally at a Spanish-speaking restaurant.
Ordering at a Restaurant
Use these phrases to confidently navigate eating out in Spanish, from ordering your courses to asking about the menu and settling the bill.
Ordering Coffee at a Café
These phrases will help you confidently order coffee, choose milks and sizes, and pay at a Spanish-speaking café.
Ordering Coffee at a Café
Use these phrases to confidently order your morning coffee and pay at a Spanish-speaking café.
Allergies & Dietary Needs
Essential phrases for communicating allergies, dietary restrictions, and checking ingredients in restaurants.
Allergies & Dietary Needs
Use these phrases to safely communicate allergies, intolerances, and dietary restrictions when eating out.
Sending Food Back & Complaints
Use these phrases when something is wrong with your food or order at a restaurant — from flagging a mistake to asking for a replacement or speaking with a manager.
Paying & Splitting the Bill
Use these phrases when you have finished your meal and are ready to settle the bill, whether paying alone or splitting with friends.
Paying & Splitting the Bill
Use these essential phrases to confidently ask for the check, state your payment method, and split the cost with friends at a restaurant or cafe.
Paying & Splitting the Bill
Use these essential phrases when you are ready to finish your meal, check the total, and pay at a restaurant or cafe.
Ordering Drinks at a Bar
These phrases will help you navigate ordering drinks, opening a tab, and paying naturally in a Spanish-speaking bar.
Ordering Drinks at a Bar
These phrases will help you confidently order drinks, open a tab, and ask for non-alcoholic options at a Spanish-speaking bar.
Takeaway & Delivery
Use these phrases to order food for takeaway or delivery, arrange payment, and solve common problems with your order.
Takeaway & Delivery
These phrases will help you order food to go or for delivery, give your address, ask about fees, and handle missing items.
Takeaway & Delivery
Use these simple phrases to order food to go, arrange a delivery to your home, and sort out payment.
At a Fast-Food Counter
Use these short, practical phrases to order your food, customize your meal, and pay at a fast-food counter.
At a Fast-Food Counter
Use these practical phrases to confidently order a meal, customize your food, and pay at a fast-food counter.
At the Bakery & Deli
Use these practical phrases to confidently order bread, pastries, and deli items by weight in a Spanish-speaking bakery or deli.
At the Bakery & Deli
Use these essential phrases to confidently order bread, pastries, and sliced meats at a Spanish bakery or deli.
Buying Street Food
Use these practical phrases to confidently order food, ask about ingredients, and pay at a street food stall.
Buying Street Food
Use these phrases to confidently order street food, ask about ingredients, and handle cash payments.