Welcome to speed learning English your podcast for smarter and more professional English hello Richard Harris when my certainty, nice talking to you. Have you been to a restaurant recently were irrational with the covert restrictions and with the order for everyone to shelter and quite difficult to attend a restaurant but a prerecorded and we all can remember. This fun and amazing times where we were allowed or it was possible in that sense, it's a good restaurant is okay and what kind of restaurants do you like what you saying restaurant to restaurant, how do you pronounce it while it's tomatoes to matters relevant with ankle sang the song I say potatoes and you say potatoes who think that some are you your gifts, but in the blanks. But hey, you're not able to remember. Okay, we will find out later and we'll get this information for the next episode maybe okay so what what kind of restaurants you prefer when you go to restaurant well as of late I have found myself in a situation where I'm in a relationship. So my old bachelor days are gone and I kind of like the questions that's not high-class I'm not in the text record right now but but I think that's more than a fast food restaurant that I formally used to attend to every every now and then but as a Florida think it's more credibility if you ask me that. But what Kitching standards more or less Asian, Italian, and believe it or not, the German kitchen is still one of my favorite the German kitchen is quite rich because we have a lot of vegetables with a lot of meat forms. I mean it's very meat and how do you say I always say fly should last me too focused maybe and the main leave spell based on food or meet heavy meet heavy accent and in the more you come to the South to Bavaria, for example, the more meat you have and sometimes quite difficult for people who will are vegetarians or even vegans to find something attractive and more and more, and restaurants here in our area start to adapt on that, so they have a an extra card for vegetarian and vegan with a mark the meals with a nice land behind the description of the meal. Okay, so if you want to book a table in the restaurant and you phone the restaurant. Let's say and you are having a celebration or you want to invite some friends for a nice dinner and you phone your restaurant of your choice and the date this podcast episode will be published. We hopefully are able to go to restaurants, so we record this in February 2000 and 21 and it will be published in maybe March or April, so we hope that people can go to restaurants because it's a very important socializing place. How would you book a table so as of today you can use technology weekend. There are several apps that you can use to the table so there is it's the nonverbal way of putting table technological way. That we are we are having a podcast for people to motivate and speak English. We don't want to tell them how to use apps is the help she would have to have to tell them all the options and then tell them why the verbal option is the best one. You're right. You're probably right in the so and give the world the way of booking table and just bring the restaurant and person at the reception will pick up the phone and say hello and introduce the restaurant. Hopefully, probably, and then you will just say that you want to book a table for the amount of people you want to book it for anytime and this information is certainly enough for the receptionist because you are not the first and certainly not the last one to call it that for that day, so surely she or he will know what to do with information and then afterwards if Joe also gave her name so only the name of Richard. For example, the railroad would say ceramic a table full please effort to please my case was by my girlfriend okay and if you're if your name for example your surname is a bit complicated. You also have to be able to to spell your name maybe sorry somebody has the name that is quite exotic. Maybe it doesn't it doesn't sound very, very common, then it might be necessary to spell the name so spelling once name or email address is always always important so that you can spell your name in any language you speak is late when when I went to to the Netherlands last year and I wanted to book a table at by the way, you say booking a table is not to make a reservation. Richard reserving a table. The correct phrases to book a table is that yes, indeed. So to make reservations very German heavy that sense but cannot you can't see English speaking countries not mainly England but English speaking country using turn to you to make a reservation, but I think the most safe way to have a universal acceptance acceptance and understanding of what you want and mean. His use of booking retailers. I think maybe the reason why, especially if you see and if you see this on websites. Make a reservation that this the word reservation is international. We have another vehicle in German. We have reservation in English with a divorce knowing French we have that they were young in Spanish. Sherry directs the owner in Italiano so a lot of international audience will understand what to do when the they see reservation whereas book a table or book here and requires the knowledge of that English word, so maybe that's the reason why okay and also the reason is our English country countries that are not heavily but in some way impacted by the French language. As mentioned before, so some African nations that speak English. Most of the time, heavily influenced by the French language then obviously Canada, obviously influenced by the French language. But the Americans for example have a tendency to avoid all guaranteed worried. This influence of the French language in their language, even though it sometimes you see them using French words without any context and in the care of the dates there that there is there that the conversations similarly thesis is that you need these influences your language teachers is near and are using French phrases makes your your language sound shake maybe leading the so and yeah and when I went to book this table and in the Netherlands. They were asking me something I didn't understand because I never heard about that before. I mean, I made the booking and Dutch. So it was quite difficult for me to understand. But then we find out they wanted to know how many households we wear, so this was and during the first and Corona lockdown where the restaurants in the Netherlands were allowed to do to remain open, but only one household per table was permitted so when you are booking the table you had to announce how many households where involved in your booking so this was quite challenging. Also, I hope you you you you were you were there with only one household for softcore have a very big family. It's just one household. Okay, Richard, and thank you very much for this insight into how to book a table or make reservation restaurant and in the next episode I would like to talk with you about invitations in a private household. For example, birthday invitations or invitations for somebody's in some countries you celebrate the day of your name very, very intensively, or maybe Easter, Christmas, Ramadan and other festivals okay and by the way, we were talking about potato potato, tomato, tomato, and this is from a song and it's it's named let's call the whole thing off and it's performed by Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong and this tubercle is a potato and you say it is this is this typical Louise Armstrong voice. By the way Louis Armstrong was not the guy who was landing on the moon. This was somebody it's okay Richard, thank you very much. Thank you. Selling in the spirit of this podcast available use of French same for the Bible say over different or brother