Asking cute stranger out to a date: Agreeing on a day, time and place

💬 vale is everywhere in Spain but sounds very Spanish in Latin America. There, people say está bien or ok instead.

💬 "Why" is written as two words with an accent: por qué. Written as one word without the accent, porque means "because".

💬 Literally "it comes well to you": the day is what does the suiting, and te is the person it suits. Swap in me for yourself: me viene bien "it works for me".

💬 Days take el where English uses "on": el sábado means "on Saturday". Make it plural for a habit: los sábados "on Saturdays".

💬 Putting sí after the thing you're agreeing to picks it out, often in contrast with other options. El viernes no, el sábado sí means "Not Friday, but Saturday yes".

💬 Times use las because the hidden word is horas "hours". The exception is one o'clock: a la una.

🇪🇸 In Spain la tarde runs from after lunch until about nine at night. A las ocho de la tarde is normal, where English would say "evening".

🇪🇸 Five in the afternoon is coffee time in Spain, not dinner time. Dinner usually starts around nine or ten, so this reads as a relaxed first date.

💬 Quedar here means "to arrange to meet", not "to stay". ¿Quedamos? on its own is a casual "Shall we meet up?".

💬 In Spain, cafetería means a café or coffee bar, not a self-service canteen.

🇪🇸 Many Spanish towns have a Plaza Mayor "main square", so it works as an easy, obvious meeting point.

💬 La stands in for la cafetería, so it's feminine. For a masculine place like el bar, you'd ask ¿Lo conoces?.

💬 Conocer adds a z in the "I" form: conozco, but conoces "you know". Same pattern: parecer "to seem" gives parezco "I seem".

💬 Cierto usually means "true" or "certain", but por cierto is a fixed phrase for "by the way". It doesn't mean "for certain".

💬 Encantado matches the speaker, not the other person. A woman would say Encantada.

💬 Hasta plus a time makes a goodbye: hasta mañana "see you tomorrow", hasta luego "see you later".