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Voice setup

Browser voices come from your system — install the voice in your OS settings:

  • Windows: Settings → Time & language → Speech → Manage voices → Add voices → select Spanish (Spain)
  • macOS: System Settings → Accessibility → Spoken Content → System voice → Manage voices → download Spanish (Spain)
  • iPhone / iPad setup: Settings → Accessibility → Spoken Content → Voices → Tap Spanish (Spain), download a voice
  • Android setup: Settings → Language & Input → Text-to-speech output → Tap gear icon next to Google TTS → Install voice data → Download Spanish (Spain) voice
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Speaking task

Role-play: you are in a bar in Madrid with a friend. Order drinks and two or three tapas, ask the waiter for a recommendation and ask for the bill. Record both roles or practise with a partner.

Checklist

Model answer

— Hola, buenas noches. ¿Qué os pongo? — Para mí, un batido de fresa, por favor. — Yo prefiero un agua con gas. ¿Qué nos recomienda? — Las croquetas están muy buenas. — Pues una ración de croquetas y una tapa de tortilla. — … — ¿Nos cobra, por favor? — Son quince euros con ochenta.

— Hello, good evening. What can I get you? — A strawberry milkshake for me, please. — I prefer sparkling water. What do you recommend? — The croquettes are very good. — Then a portion of croquettes and a tapa of tortilla. — … — Can we pay, please? — That's fifteen euros eighty.

Can you do it?