do you feel nervous when you are in another country and you go to a
restaurant it's time to order the food pay the check, talk to the waiter and these
situations start to make you feel really nervous and you forget what you
have to say if that happens to you watch this video I will show you easy things
you can do and say that will help you go to any restaurant around the world
without feeling anxious nervous or bad about your English hey Friends teacher
Prix here to help you talk to anyone anywhere anytime in English thanks for
coming back for another video now if you're watching this video it
means you can probably understand what I say but can you speak basic everyday
situations test your English all the time when we travel abroad a very basic
situation frustrates many English learners the restaurant fast-food place
or an ordinary restaurant I have had so many students and followers share their
frustrations stories wrong orders problems at the cashier and so many
other things that made them believe they can't speak English well they usually
say teacher I understood but when I had to speak I was completely stuck I felt
so embarrassed or they also say teacher I could make
the order but it was so difficult I felt so bad about my English speaking
before I tell you some basic and simple phrases that will help you in this
moment there is one thing that I must tell you what you need to stop doing in
those situations there are a million ways to order food at a restaurant and
there are many possibilities of things that can go wrong when you are at a
restaurant stop focusing on being correct and using the most beautiful and
appropriate expressions in English you have three goals when you go to a
restaurant order the food pay for the food and have a good
time the problem is that when you decide to go to a restaurant whether alone or
with family you anticipate the situation what is to anticipate to imagine what
will happen and we usually imagine the worst case scenario a really bad
scenario where you confuse everything your hands get sweaty you stutter
everybody starts to look at you and you feel so pressured that you pick the
first name on the menu that you can kinda understand you end up having a
horrible experience that will block your English the next time you need to use it
so this is the first thing you need to stop doing this mental creation of this
horrible movie passing on and on in your head about this terrible experience at
the restaurant so let's focus on some basic expressions that will help you get
what you need help you have a good time and continue your day while you're
traveling abroad ordering the food please here the name of the food plus
the word please you don't need to remember expressions like I would like
to have can I have I'll have these are cool expressions but at the end of the
day just look at the menu point say the name of the word and then please and
you're good to go if you don't understand a name of a food or a dish
use Google Images so that you can have a better idea of what the dish looks like
of what that food looks like okay there's nothing wrong with that I want
chicken breast and broccoli please now is I want the best and most appropriate
way to order food no but if that's the phrase you can remember hey that's
perfect and that's all you gotta do so it's not about being able to speak
correctly all the time and being perfect but it's being able to communicate
efficiently quickly so in this case I want is completely okay remember it's
about having your order and having a good time risotto
with the shaved truffles and the roasted rib steak with the golden chanterelles
and the Bordelaise sauce unless any of that stuff I just said means snails it
does not tomato tart and which of the pastas would you recommend oh well
they're both... both it is thank you and the more common one can I have the
chicken breast with broccoli please this is a more popular one but hey if you
don't remember name of the food plus please and use your fingers you can
point the food on the menu okay and just add the word please and you'll be good
to go your English will be just fine now problems with the order sometimes we
don't get what we ordered it happens it has happened to me I have seen it happen
to my friends and many times English learners don't know exactly what to say
in these occasions or they get you anxious let me give you some very easy
phrases that you can use sorry this is not my order I want chicken breasts with
broccoli another example sorry this is not what I ordered I ordered chicken
breasts with broccoli again are these the perfect expressions and phrases you
can use well not really I could complement them a little bit but
remember it's about having a good time and communicating efficiently so that
you don't create negative associations with the language so that you don't feel
like you can't speak English because when you create those associations you
will start to block your speaking potential and we don't want that to
happen Paying. If you finished your meal you can say hi excuse me can I have the
check please then when the waiter brings the machine
for you to make the payment they will probably ask you credit or debit just
say one credit credit please debit please and you're good to go you
shouldn't worry about that when you finish paying they can give you a piece
of paper with the details which we call receipt and the waiter
will ask you ma'am sir would you like your receipt yes please
no thank you now there are more things more situations of things that can
happen in a restaurant that I will talk about in the future in other videos but
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