Portuguese · Real conversations
Cafés: Portuguese conversation practice
Order a drink and clarify a small detail. Read the exchange, reveal the translations when you need them, then try your part before looking at the sample answers.
A1 · Read and rehearse
Your role: A customer ordering at a café.
Goal: Order a drink and clarify a small detail.
Read the conversation
Partner
O que você gostaria de colocar no café?
Show English translation
What would you like in your coffee?
You
Eu poderia pedir sem açúcar?
Show English translation
Could I have it without sugar?
Partner
É para comer aqui ou para viagem?
Show English translation
Is this for here or to take away?
You
Para levar, por favor.
Show English translation
To take away, please.
Partner
Claro. Você quer café com cafeína?
Show English translation
Certainly. Would you like regular coffee?
You
Você poderia fazer descafeinado?
Show English translation
Could you make it decaf?
Partner
Sim, podemos fazer. Mais alguma coisa para beber?
Show English translation
Yes, we can do that. Anything else to drink?
You
Posso pedir água da torneira?
Show English translation
Can I have tap water?
Partner
Aqui está sua água. O total está indicado aqui.
Show English translation
Here's your water. The total is shown here.
You
O serviço está incluído?
Show English translation
Is service included?
Try your part first
Partner says: What would you like in your coffee? Your goal: Could I have it without sugar?
Reveal a sample reply
Eu poderia pedir sem açúcar?
Could I have it without sugar?
Partner says: Is this for here or to take away? Your goal: To take away, please.
Reveal a sample reply
Para levar, por favor.
To take away, please.
Partner says: Certainly. Would you like regular coffee? Your goal: Could you make it decaf?
Reveal a sample reply
Você poderia fazer descafeinado?
Could you make it decaf?
Partner says: Yes, we can do that. Anything else to drink? Your goal: Can I have tap water?
Reveal a sample reply
Posso pedir água da torneira?
Can I have tap water?
Partner says: Here's your water. The total is shown here. Your goal: Is service included?
Reveal a sample reply
O serviço está incluído?
Is service included?
Make it your own
- Change the drink.
- Ask for a different ingredient to be left out.
- Stay at the café instead of taking the order away.
Keep the useful expression and change the detail. There can be several appropriate answers; the revealed replies are examples to learn from.
This rehearsal in other languages
A note on speaking Portuguese
These guides use Brazilian Portuguese. Você is a common everyday address; senhor or senhora may fit a more formal interaction. Eu gostaria and poderia can soften requests without making them complicated.
Keep the accents and nasal spellings, such as não and conexão. Portuguese in Portugal may use different everyday vocabulary or pronouns. The examples aim for broadly understandable Brazilian wording.
