Spanish for a hotel
Hotel Spanish is predictable, which makes it a good place to have your first long exchange in the language. The staff are used to learners and will slow down if you ask.
Arriving
A nombre de, in the name of, is the phrase that finds your booking. Spell your surname with the Spanish letter names if they ask, and say the reservation name, not your own, if someone else booked.
The room
¿Está incluido? and ¿hay? are the two questions that cover a room: is it included, and is there one. Hay works for anything at all, wifi, a lift, hot water, without changing.
Something is wrong
No funciona, it does not work, covers almost every fault in a room. Put the thing first, el aire acondicionado, and the verb after. ¿Me puede cambiar? is the polite ask for a fix.
Leaving
Quisiera, I would like, is the softest way to ask for anything, and it is the right register for the front desk. ¿Puedo dejar? asks permission, which is how luggage storage is offered and taken.
Two things worth knowing
It covers anything broken, from a light to a lift to a website. Point at the thing and say no funciona and you will be understood everywhere, which is more than can be said for the specific noun.
Say the surname clearly and be ready to spell it. Learn the Spanish alphabet sounds for the letters in your own name before you travel, because that is the one spelling you will be asked for.
The 90 day course builds these phrases into real conversation, one short lesson a day. Days 1 to 7 need no account.
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