Hello! Hi and welcome to light speed Spanish. Here we've got something very very special, very different today. Have you seen it? Yes, we do. We have a guest with us today. One of the big questions that many people ask us is is there much difference between the Spanish of Spain and the Spanish from other countries, other Spanish-speaking countries? And of course, yes there are differences. Amongst many similarities there are differences. So we have a guest today and his name is Jeff. Say hi Jeff. Hello! And Jeff is from Mexico. And Jeff has his own channel on YouTube and he helps people understand Mexican Spanish and also Mexican slang. So what we're going to do is we're going to do a comparison between the way that Spanish speakers talk about food and the way that Mexican people talk about food and also not just food but in a bar. And Cynthia is going to provide us with true Spanish, Spanish all the way from my grief in Spain. And Jeff is going to supply us with either the same, that they do the same in Mexico or the differences. And perhaps with a little spot of slang in there as well. Okay, so you're ready Jeff? Here we go. First thing, going into a bar in Spain, beir una bebida o algo así. Now in Spain typically if you walk into a bar Cynthia, what will you say to the barman? Camarero. Okay, let's take a look. Let me see if you can order a coffee. Okay, so in Spain you're going to say... Me pone un café. Okay, in Mexico they would say... Well, something that happens in Mexico, sometimes we might be a bit too polite. We most of the times say, por favor, which is please. And we usually ask for things in the most polite way we find. In this case, for this expression, the word pone en en Mexico sounds weird like me pone un café. Usually we might use that if it's like for the road, not to drink there. We would say me that. Would you give me, would you give me a, me da un café por favor? Would you give me a coffee please? Me sirve un café por favor? Would you... Put coffee for a coffee please? Okay, so... That's the... The difference of the similarity in Mexico, okay? Now, okay, so me pone en Spain. Also then, when you're ready to pay, now I know we have the classic la cuinta por favor. But in a bar situation where you're standing at the bar, you wouldn't necessarily ask for la cuinta. You would ask them to take payment. In Spain, how do you say that? Me cobra. Okay. In Mexico, they say... In Mexico, me cobra would work just fine. Something would say me cobra por favor. Also, we often say is, How much is it going to be? How much is it going to be? Some people might even say, how much is it going to be? Literally, how much do I owe you? But we're asking for the... For the clerk who told us, how much is it going to be? Okay, great. So, in Spain, me cobra. And the way I used to remember that was I used to imagine that the barman was a cobra snake. It's sss. And then that would be how I remember in the cobra. It's nice and easy. Okay. Now, if you sit in the cafe area, okay, so the way it is coming over to the table, and you want him to bring you a drink, yeah? How would you ask in Spain, can you bring me a drink? Can you bring me? Me trae. Me trae. Me trae una poca cola. Okay. And in Mexico, what would you say? Who would use the verb trae una poca cola? Excuse me, would you bring a coke for me please? Just as I said, we sometimes might make the sentence as long as this could be a polaria trae una poca cola. Along sentence to show a lot of blindness. In Madrid, now I'm only going to talk about this region because it varies by region. You want to get the attention of the waiter. Apart from doing that, yeah, that one always works. Yeah, straight over, yes, madam. Okay, you want to get the attention of the waiter. What are you going to shout in Spain? Disculpe. Another option? Okay. Oh, you got perdone. Okay, I noticed you say, oh, you got perdone. And not just oh, you got on its own. Some people do, I wouldn't recommend it. Okay. Oh, you got disculpe. Oh, you got perdone. Okay. Now, in Mexico, Jeff, what do you say? We could use the word disculpe. But don't know here would not sound... It's something we don't say very often. The school page is more often. We also might address the waiter by Hovern. Disculpe Hovern. Like, excuse me, lad. Sometimes we might simply raise our hands and say, Miserro, waiter. Now, moving on to when you're ordering food. Okay. And let's say that you're going to say, I'm going to have the... I don't know the paella or something like that. Yeah. So, how would you say that to the waiter? Okay, you can have different ways. You can say, para mí, una paella, o yo voy a tomar una paella. Okay. So para mí, o voy a tomar. Mexico, Jeff, how would you say that? Specifically here, no de la cara. Many people use the word get it a lot. So we would say, quiero una paella. Quiero unos tacos, por favor. Quiero un cozole, por favor. We would also say, me trae. Me trae, por favor, una... Me trae, por favor, unas flautas y unas enquiladas, por favor. For me, it's going to be such and such. Right. Let's talk about something of interest. Which I think is always fun. Spanish people. Okay. In Spain, they are constantly talking about food. And I find it fascinating. And I like it a lot because, you know, why not get passionate about food? And I think it's a lot of fun. And I think it's a lot of fun. And I like it a lot because, you know, why not get passionate about food? Just today, actually. Just today. Three men, I'll tell you, talking about cheese. In the streets. Three young men. We walked past them when we were saying, ah, no, the best cheese is goat's cheese. Not cow cheese, you know, they go, but it's strong on the... And then in the street, that's it. In the UK, they'll be talking about alcohol or girls or drugs. Cheese in Spain. Ah. Football. Okay. So, talking about good food, Cynthia, in Spain, if you really... Now, we'll talk formal first then, then informal. You want to really say the food's good. What would you say? Esta comida está riquísima. O, ¿que es decir? Esta comida está para morirse. Para morirse. Riquísima. And notice that Cynthia's using esta. Okay? Esta. And that's typically... That's used in Spain when you're talking about food in the moment, yeah? Yes. And that's when you can say esta buena. ¿Reta? Esta buena es tasty. Es tasty. Es buena. That means it's good food, good quality food. Okay. All right. So, Jeff, in Mexico, you want to say the food's good. What do you say? Well, we're eating with my say, oh, esta está riquísima. Like, this is delicious. It's just a muy rico, which means also very good. Also, we could also say, la comida está buenísima. Está muy bueno, which is, again, it's tasty. It's good. When we say, es buena, we also, we believe, it's good for you, for your health. It's muy bueno, but it's been, you come as, beña, just an example. A fun expression we have, we might say, está para troparaseros, that literally means it's too, like, at your fingers, because it's like, it's so delicious that while you're getting it, you know, like, tacos, or we eat them with our hands, with our fingers. So, we're eating them, we might have some food on our fingers, so it's so delicious that we want our fingers to continue eating that thing. So, para troparaseros, it's like, too, to eat it from your fingers. Cynthia, I've also heard this expression, which is, huele, que alimenta. Sí? Correcto. What's that saying? That's just before you eat. Mm-hmm. And you smell when you want, you can smell it from the kitchen. Uh-huh. And you can say, smells so nicely. It smells really nicely. It smells really nicely. It's already filling me up. Oh, it's already... Okay. Because I was imagine, it smells like, it could fill you up. Uh-huh. Something like that, yeah? Mmm. Huele que alimenta. Okay. All right. In Mexico, for that kind of expression, what would you say? We didn't have the exact same sort of expression, but we might say, simply, huele de vicioso, it smells delicious, carrico huele. It smells very good. How good it smells. But, I'm expression that, it might have, like, some idea when we smell it, when we say, just me, so I will have water, which literally means, my mouth is watering, because, you know, when something is really delicious, you want to eat it, like, you get a lot of saliva in your mouth. So, I say, I will have water. And we could say, like, it happens from seeing it, from seeing it, or from smelling it. The matter of it looks like, I say, well, I will have water.