When travelling to a Spanish-speaking country, one of the essential skills you need is how to order drinks in Spanish. Whether you’re in a bustling café in Madrid or a cosy bar in Mexico City, knowing the right phrases can enhance your experience and help you connect with locals. This guide is designed for beginner learners of Spanish, providing you with the essential vocabulary and phrases to confidently order your favourite beverages.
Common drinks in Spanish
Let’s start with some of the most popular drinks you might want to order:
- un café – coffee
- un café con leche – coffee with milk
- un cortado – it’s stronger than a café con leche.
- un té – tea
- un té con limón – tea with lemon
- un zumo – juice (Spain)
- un jugo – juice (Latin America)
- una limonada – lemonade
- un agua con gas – sparkling water
- un agua mineral – still mineral water
These phrases will get you started with the basics of drinks in Spanish. In the audio lesson, we cover more drinks, so don’t forget to listen to it!
How to order drinks in Spanish
Now that you know the names of some common drinks, let’s move on to ordering them. Here are some useful phrases that you may hear and that you can use when ordering drinks.
How to ask what others want to drink in Spanish
When you’re in a group or unsure what others want, you can use these questions:
- ¿Qué van a tomar? – What are you all going to drink?
- ¿Qué quiere tomar? – What do you want to drink? (formal)
- ¿Qué quieres tomar? – What do you want to drink? (informal)
These phrases are incredibly handy for making sure everyone gets their preferred drink.
How to say your order in Spanish
Now that you have been asked, you can use the following phrases to say what you want to drink:
- quiero… – I want…
- para mí… – For me…
- para mi amigo… – For my friend…
Por ejemplo, here are some full sentences:
- Quiero un té con leche y para mi marido, un café solo, por favor. I want tea with milk and for my husband, a black coffee, please.
- Para mis hijos, un zumo de piña. Para mi madre, un agua sin gas y yo quiero un café, por favor. For my children, pineapple juice. For my mother, spring water, and I want coffee, please.
Learning how to order drinks in Spanish is a fun and practical way to enhance your language skills. Not only will you be able to enjoy your favourite beverages, but you’ll also be able to interact more naturally with native speakers. By mastering these basics, you’ll feel more at home in any Spanish-speaking environment. So next time you find yourself in a café or bar, you’ll be ready to confidently order drinks in Spanish.
After ordering drinks, we’ll need food! So don’t forget to check out the next episode, where we teach you how to order your favourite food in Spanish. ¡Delicioso!
Happy Coffee Breaking!
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My English is not very well, just learned it at school and I am listening to it with Rocksongs 😉
I need to upfresh my little Spanish, which got lost in space…
And… I didn’t find any helpful podcast that comes with German-Spanish 🙁
Now I’m so happy with CBS, it means to me: getting up with TWO lenguages in the same time – perfect / estupendo / klasse!
Alles Gute, Karin aus Deutschland.
Hi Karin,
just curious, how do you mean you are learning German here? The Coffee break Spanish only has Spanish, oder? Is there another German podcast on Radio Lingua?
Ciao,
Parky
I guess he meant learning english as well as spanish : ]
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Learning with you is real FUN! Mark,muchas gracias por su gran trabajo de mejorar mi espanol. No hay caracteres especiales en mi teclado, lo siento! Saludos!
I thought you might be interested in the following story:
I live in Belgium and was returning from Brussels Midi station to my local station, about a 30 minute journey. An older man got on the train and sat down opposite me, he asked in broken French if he was on the right train to Kortenberg and I replied that he was, he then went on to ask how far it was, I replied that I was getting off at Kortenberg so I would tell him when we got there.he then asked if I knew where the Abbey was as he was a priest and was actually Spanish and was going to perform some marriages there. I then mentioned to him that I was learning Spanish (in fact, at that time, the only knowledge I had was listening to your Coffee Breaks Spanish podcasts, I had only got up to lesson 15) he was so pleased to hear that and the rest of the journey was a mixture of Spanish and English (his English was as good/bad as my Spanish!) but we got by.
When we arrived at Kortenberg I gave him a lift to the Abbey. I think we were both rather pleased with ourselves that we had managed to communicate with each other.thanks Mark for the podcasts, as you can see they really do work!
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No entiendo how white wine can be ‘vino blanco’ but red wine can’t be ‘vino rojo’. Is it just a spanish thing?
The reason is that tinto literally means “tinted” or “dyed” and this refers to the process of making red wine where the skins of red grapes tint the wine until it turns red.