¡Hola, cómo andas, welcome back to the Spanish Conversation podcast! Today our topic is a fun one for me because, your girl loves shopping, and especially abroad. To help you understand precios while making some compros, today tengo the usual ocho preguntas you can utilizar to help navigate those escenarios. Si puedes, saca some notes and/or trata de pensar of a potential respuesta. This is how you make this content stick. Alright, in the same format as always, let’s oir some words and phrases, then the questions and translations, and lastly you will responder a preguntas al azar and you can repeat or pause where needed. El vocabulario es: 1. quinientos = 500 2. el vestido = dress 3. el precio = price 4. costar = to cost 5. aceptar = to accept 6. el cambio = change 7. el efectivo = cash 8. la tarjeta de crédito = credit card Alright, are you ready? As ready as you will ever be? Vaya, ¡hagámoslo! Imagine you are in a store, or shopping in a mercado, and you want to understand how you can exchange money for something you want to buy. You could ask these preguntas: 1. ¿Cuál es el precio de ese vestido?– What is the price of that dress? The use of which is another translation breakdown between English and Spanish, and we are using ese for that to match the masculine el for vestido. To change the item, such as la gorra, would make it esa gorra. Feel free to change to this hat, as esta gorra, as well. 2. ¿Es negociable el precio?– Is the price negociable? This is a nice entry point into negotiating, without throwing out a number and getting shut down right away. You could just say is it negociable by leaving off the el precio part, for simplicity. 3. ¿Cuánto cuestan las flores?– How much do the flowers cost? This is the most common way to ask how something costs, and the conjugation of costar is based off of the amount of items. If you wanted the price of one thing, like la manta, it would be cuánto cuesta instead. 4. ¿Aceptarías cien? –Would you accept 100? Perhaps you’ve asked if the price is negociable in question two, or you just want to try to regatear, which is to barter. Aceptar is put in the conditional form, which is how we get the “would” in front of accept. 5. ¿Hay un descuento por comprar dos o más? –Is there a discount for buying two or more? Is there or are there is hay, so you could use this in other ways like are there more sizes or tallas, colors, styles, etc. 6. ¿Tienes cambio por quinientos? – Do you have change for 500? If you’re paying cash you might need change. You could try saying the number you need like quinientos, a tough one, or you could hand the bills over and leave it to the vendor to provide change, or cambio. 7. ¿Cuesta menos si pago en efectivo? – Does it cost less if I pay in cash? Here we are saying does it cost less, instead of what we said above in question 6, of is there a discount. Either is fine, here we want to know if there is an incentive for cash. 8. ¿Cómo puedo pagar, con tarjeta de crédito?– How can I pay, with credit card? The question could end with pagar, making it “How can I pay? but if you want to ask about something specific, maybe Paypal or Apple Pay, you could name the service in place of credit card. Okay, no time like the present to cement the above with using our bocas. ¡Adelante! ¿Cuesta menos si pago en efectivo? PAUSE Mi respuesta es / My answer is: Pues, sí, ¿qué tal siete en lugar de ocho? (qué tal is how about, and en lugar de is instead of) ¿Hay un descuento por comprar dos o más? PAUSE Mi respuesta es: No, el precio es el mismo, cincuenta cada uno (was the person offering a discount?). ¿Cómo puedo pagar, con tarjeta de crédito? PAUSE Mi respuesta es: Aceptamos efectivo o tarjeta de débito solo. (Will my credit card be ok?) ¿Es negociable el precio? PAUSE Mi respuesta es: El mejor precio que puedo darte es dos por cien, o uno por setenta y cinco pesos. (Did you catch the currency, and the deal I am offering?) ¿Tienes cambio por quinientos? PAUSE Mi respuesta es: Claro, espera un minuto, lo tengo en la oficina. (claro is like sure, lo here is for it, the cash) ¿Aceptarías cien? PAUSE Mi respuesta es: No, lo siento, lo mejor que puedo hacer es ciento veinticinco. Son de muy buena calidad, de cuero natural. (cuero is leather, whats the best Price?) ¿Cuánto cuestan las flores? PAUSE Mi respuesta es: Para ti señor, ofrezco las flores amarillas por tres mil, y las rosas por cinco mil (mil is thousand, perhaps we are in South America). ¿Cuál es el precio de ese vestido? PAUSE Mi respuesta es: Ese vestido tiene un descuento este fin de semana, serán doscientos pesos. (here the serán is saying they will be 200 pesos that you pay, loosely translated). Okay well done, maybe now you can try a little bartering! Or at least, understanding the amount to pay while shopping in Spanish. Take a moment if you can to choose your top questions and vocabulary words from the episode, so you can make them a part of your practice. one last cosa: If you’ve made it this far, maybe you’re ready for some short stories too! If so, search for The Gringa Spanglish Podcast in your podcast player of choice. See you next time, ¡hasta la próxima!