
At the airport: Check in counter
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Key Phrases
¿A dónde viaja hoy?
Where are you traveling to today?
¿Me da sus pasaportes, por favor?
May I have your passports, please?
¿Cuántas maletas van a facturar?
How many suitcases will you check in?
Skills You'll Learn
Greet airport staff politely and respond to basic travel questions.
Saludar al personal del aeropuerto con educación y responder a preguntas básicas de viaje.
Say your destination and who you are traveling with.
Decir tu destino y con quién viajas.
Talk about passports, tickets, luggage, and boarding gate distance.
Hablar de pasaportes, billetes, equipaje y la distancia a la puerta de embarque.
Lesson Roleplay
Imagine you are at the airport check-in desk in Spain, speaking with an airline agent before your flight to Madrid with your family.
Hola, buenos días.
Hello, good morning.
Buenos días. ¿A dónde viaja hoy?
Good morning. Where are you traveling to today?
Viajo a Madrid con mi familia.
I am traveling to Madrid with my family.
Muy bien. ¿Me da sus pasaportes, por favor?
Very well. May I have your passports, please?
Sí, aquí tiene los pasaportes y los billetes.
Yes, here are the passports and the tickets.
Lesson Vocabulary & Phrases
Hola.
OH-lah
Hello.
Hola, buenos días.
OH-lah BWEH-nohs DEE-ahs
Hello, good morning.
Buenos días.
BWEH-nohs DEE-ahs
Good morning.
💬 In Spain, [buenos días] is used well into the দুপুর-like middle of the day, often later than English [good morning].
See breakdown →¿A dónde?
ah DOHN-deh
Where to?
💬 [A dónde] is the pattern for movement toward a place: [¿A dónde va?] = [Where are you going?]. For location instead, use [dónde]: [¿Dónde está la puerta?].
See breakdown →Viaja hoy
bee-AH-hah oy
Are you traveling today
💬 [Viaja] here is the formal [you] form, the one staff use with passengers: [¿Viaja solo?]. With a friend it would be [viajas].
🇪🇸 At an airport counter in Spain, staff will normally speak to adult passengers with the formal form unless the situation becomes unusually casual.
See breakdown →¿A dónde viaja hoy?
ah DOHN-deh bee-AH-hah oy
Where are you traveling to today?
💬 [Viaja] here is the formal [you] form, used for one person: [¿Viaja por trabajo?]. With [usted] verbs, the ending often looks like [he/she]: [viaja], [tiene], [necesita].
🇪🇸 This is standard polite counter language in Spain. You can answer in the same register, but you do not need to say [usted] yourself every time.
See breakdown →Viajo a
bee-AH-hoh ah
I am traveling to
💬 Use [viajo a] before cities and many destinations: [Viajo a Madrid], [Viajo a Barcelona]. Before a country, it may change to [al] with masculine singular ones, like [Viajo al Japón] in theory, though with common country names you'll often just learn each one as you meet it.
See breakdown →Madrid.
mah-DREED
Madrid.
Viajo a Madrid.
bee-AH-hoh ah mah-DREED
I am traveling to Madrid.
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