MilleMiglia wrote:

Una cerveza, por favor

:cheers

steve8482 wrote:

Call me a party pooper but the one phrase you should know in any language before you get here is Emergency Exit - as a fire a Dussledorf Airport showed a few years ago.

salida is exit so salida de emergencia should be obvious

I think you're right about phrase books, they seem to be written by people who have rather odd requirements sometimes. And a few off the cuff words always seems better than a rather stilted phrase read from a book.

try working a few things out at http://translate.google.co.uk - such as food items you want (or want to avoid!) and maybe create your own customised phrase book

tisonlymoi wrote:

Para mi un cidre por favour! :cheers

Helen T wrote:

sphs - I can't praise this site enough http://www.byki.com. Just dwnload the Spanish onto your computer and you'll have great fun. They actually say the word so you can repeat it - brilliant site.

shirley h wrote:

I use the byki free download and find it excellent. Take a look here and click on Spanish

juby 5 wrote:

My daughters primary school offered a free 10 week spanish course for us parents ( she's been learning spanish at school for the last 3 years ) so I took them up on this offer, just did the last one last week, and I think i've learnt a lot , I can now ask and tell someone my name, where i'm from, tell them what I do for a job , ask them, tell them about my family, ask them the same, mind you, someone said to me, the best way to test your spanish is to phone a restraunt and book a table, without a bit of sign language, i'd be proper scuppered !!
good on you sephs for wanting to learn a bit, I'm going to see my best friend who lives in a spanish town ( she's fluent) in 3 weeks and i'm going to insist on talking to her local friends in spanish ! may get laughed out of that town, but i'll give it my all !!

MilleMiglia wrote:

Una cerveza, por favor

:cheers