Papiamentu ABC | 13: Ordering At A Restaurant!

Welcome to another quick and easy Papiamentu lesson. In todays class you will learn some common phrases that will help you order at a restaurant. Revisit the lessons as often as you need to, repetition is key in learning a new language. And try to practice out loud!
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A special thanks goes out to Isa who assisted us on this production and helped to make it a "bubblier than usual" shoot! 🙃
Disclaimer:
We are not official Papiamentu teachers by any means. While we take great care in bringing you the Papiamentu language as it is spoken in Curaçao, we do not claim responsibility for 100% accuracy.
Lesson transcripts:
May I take your order?: Mi por tuma bo òrdu pedido?
Can you recommend a restaurant? - Bo por rekomendá
un restorant?
You can eat well there - Bo por kome bon einan
Would you like a table? - Bo ta deseá un mesa?
Table for two please - Mesa pa dos por fabor
May I order a drink? - Mi por pidi algu di bebe
May I have some lemonade? - Mi por haña un aw’i lamunchi?
What time are we having dinner? - Kuant’ or nos ta bai kome anochi?
Let’s have breakfast - Ban desayuná
That was a delicious lunch - Esei tabata un dushi lùnch /
almuerso
A glass of water please - Un glas di awa por fabor
Appetizer: apetaiser
Main course: Plato prinsipal
Dessert: Pasaboka
Pot: Wea
Utensils: bestèk
Knife: kuchú
Fork: fòrki
Spoon: kuchara
Cup: Beker
Bowl: kònchi (kòmchi is also accepted)
Glass: glas
Napkin: nèpkin
Table: mesa
Plate: Tayó
Chair: stul
Drinks & foods : Bibida i kuminda
Coffee: kòfi
Tea: te
Tea with sugar: te ku suku
Coffee with milk: kòfi ku lechi
Cake: bolo
Ice cream: eiskrim
Rice: aros
Potato: batata
French fries: batata hasa
Polenta: funchi
Vegetables: berdura
Chicken: galiña
Fish: piská
Meat: karni
Goat: kabritu
Stew: stobá
Soda: limonada
Juice: djus
Beer: serbes
Wine: biña
Alcoholic beverage: bibida stèrki
Pasta: aletria
Hungry yet?: Bo tin hamber kaba?
Dicho i palabra (Proverbs and words)
Positivo - Positive
Bida i salú - Life and health
Chapters
0:00 intro
0:22 common restaurant sentences
1:50 common restaurant vocabulary
3:08 Drinks and foods
5:05 Outro
5:20 Palabra i dicho (words and proverbs segment)
6:30 Outtakes
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[@richharrison6695]

Keep up the good work.

[@danielcasas7343]

Great work and keep up! Mi ta kier siña hopi!

Masha bon!

[@robtheslob3940]

Is Papiamentu spoken anywhere outside the ABC islands ? Not related, but, have you seen any tree groves growing the Lahara orange trees ? I see one or two trees at the distillery but that's it; you would think there needs to be a lot of these trees to fill the need at the distillery ?

Hi Rob, Officially not. But of course in places like holland there are such large communities of the ABC-islanders that Papiamentu is widespread. It is said that Papiamentu still resembles the Cape Verdean Creole from which it stems. About the Laraha, good question. not to our knowledge. You might find out more through Dinah Veeris herb garden. Many of us did have some growing in our yards at one point or another. But there have been widespread diseases that affected the Laraha trees over the years. And they really are not very tasty compared to the more common orange.

[@robtheslob3940]

@ Thanks, I'll ask when I'm there. I've been Google "mapping" the whole island and I don't see anything in terms of groves like you would see in Florida (I know the scale of things are way off) but is this Curacao's little secret - no Lahara trees are used anymore ? Bum-bum-bummmmmm ! I'm kind of obsessing about it because I have some of my own fruit trees and live in a northern climate and it's a hit-and-miss proposition. Pears and apples, nice. Peaches, one year plenty of great samples, then nothing. Same for cherries. So frustrating...same for the Spanish centuries ago and they had to bring these things from Spain and nothing but a shriveled up green lump lol.

@@robtheslob3940 Yeah, one Floridian orange grove could cover all of Curacao 😂 Perhaps you can let us know your findings once you’re here. Could make for an interesting CuracaoCurious segment! Much of our produce is imported. But we have become better at local harvests in recent years. Expect to find amazing papaya and mango’s here.

[@robtheslob3940]

@ I actually asked the Tourism Board and they said there was a couple of trees at the distillery ... a couple of trees, that's it ?