Sunday, September 16, 2007

Pourrais-j'avoir un petit café à emporter?

September 10 - 16

à emporter: to take away/to go
I learned this one after talking around it for about 5 minutes this morning during my coffee order. I now have my order down pat: un petit café crème à emporter, s.v.p.

sur place: to stay
This was also a part of my bakery language lesson.

écrémé: skim
Thank goodness this means what I thought it did. I only looked it up today and I was a little worried I had been downing whole milk for two weeks.

Pourrais-je?: May I?
I never realized how much I used this phrase until I didn't quite know how to say it correctly.

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