Finding the best surf spots: Chatting with other surfers at the beach bar
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Key Phrases
Busco un buen sitio para surfear.
I'm looking for a good place to surf.
¿A qué hora es mejor ir?
What time is best to go?
Hay menos gente y menos viento.
There are fewer people and less wind.
Skills You'll Learn
Asking for recommendations of places
Preguntar por recomendaciones de lugares
Describing your skill level in an activity
Describir tu nivel de habilidad en una actividad
Asking and understanding the best time to do something
Preguntar y entender el mejor momento para hacer algo
Lesson Roleplay
Imagine you're on vacation in a beach town in Spain. You want to ask a local for a good place to surf as a beginner.
¡Hola! Perdona, ¿eres de aquí?
Hi! Excuse me, are you from around here?
¡Hola! Sí, vivo aquí al lado. ¿Qué tal?
Hi! Yes, I live just nearby. How's it going?
Bien. Busco un buen sitio para surfear. ¿Me recomiendas alguno?
Good. I'm looking for a good place to surf. Can you recommend one?
Depende. ¿Qué nivel tienes?
It depends. What's your level?
Soy principiante, más o menos.
I'm a beginner, more or less.
Lesson Vocabulary & Phrases
Perdona
pehr-DOH-nah
Excuse me
💬 Perdona is the casual form you'd use with someone you call tú. With someone you'd address politely, it becomes perdone.
🇪🇸 Around surfers at a beach bar, the casual perdona is the natural choice whatever their age. The polite form would sound oddly stiff here.
See breakdown →¿Eres de aquí?
EH-rehs deh ah-KEE
Are you from around here?
Vivo aquí al lado.
BEE-boh ah-KEE ahl LAH-doh
I live just nearby.
¿Qué tal?
keh tahl
How's it going?
Busco un buen sitio
BOOS-koh oon bwehn SEE-tyoh
I'm looking for a good spot
💬 Bueno drops its last letter to become buen when it comes right before a masculine noun. Same thing happens in un buen día "a good day".
See breakdown →Surfear
soor-feh-AR
To surf
Busco un buen sitio para surfear.
BOOS-koh oon bwehn SEE-tyoh PAH-rah soor-feh-AR
I'm looking for a good place to surf.
¿Me recomiendas alguno?
meh rreh-koh-MYEN-dahs ahl-GOO-noh
Can you recommend one?
💬 The verb is recomendar, but the e turns into ie when it's stressed: recomiendas, recomiendo. Pensar "to think" does the same: pienso.
See breakdown →Depende.
deh-PEN-deh
It depends.
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