At a Movie Theater in Spanish
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In this Spanish conversation, a customer buys movie tickets for an evening screening. Read the dialogue to practice natural Spanish for asking about ticket availability, choosing a movie time, selecting subtitled or dubbed versions, picking seats, discussing prices, and completing a cinema ticket purchase.
Spanish Conversation
Customer: Hola. ¿Todavía hay boletos para la función de las siete?
Customer: Hi. Are there still tickets for the seven o'clock showing?
Clerk: ¿Para cuál película?
Clerk: Which movie?
Customer: La nueva de ciencia ficción.
Customer: The new science-fiction one.
Clerk: Sí, todavía hay. ¿Cuántos necesita?
Clerk: Yes, there are. How many do you need?
Customer: Dos.
Customer: Two.
Clerk: ¿Subtitulada o doblada?
Clerk: Subtitled or dubbed?
Customer: Subtitulada.
Customer: Subtitled.
Clerk: Perfecto. ¿Prefieren más al centro o más atrás?
Clerk: Perfect. Would you prefer seats more toward the middle or farther back?
Customer: Al centro, si hay dos juntos.
Customer: In the middle, if there are two together.
Clerk: Déjeme ver... sí, fila nueve, asientos doce y trece.
Clerk: Let me see... yes, row nine, seats twelve and thirteen.
Customer: Esos están bien.
Customer: Those are fine.
Clerk: Son doscientos ochenta en total.
Clerk: That's 280 total.
Customer: ¿La sala es la normal?
Customer: Is that the regular theater?
Clerk: Sí. La función con asientos reclinables empieza media hora después.
Clerk: Yes. The showing with reclining seats starts half an hour later.
Customer: No, esta está bien.
Customer: No, this one is fine.
Clerk: ¿Paga con tarjeta?
Clerk: Paying by card?
Customer: Sí.
Customer: Yes.
Clerk: Puede acercarla aquí.
Clerk: You can tap it here.
Customer: Listo.
Customer: Done.
Clerk: Perfecto. Aquí están los boletos.
Clerk: Perfect. Here are your tickets.
Customer: ¿La sala queda por ese pasillo?
Customer: Is the theater down that hallway?
Clerk: Sí, sala seis, al fondo a la derecha.
Clerk: Yes, theater six, all the way down on the right.
Customer: ¿Cuánto falta para que empiece?
Customer: How long until it starts?
Clerk: Como veinte minutos.
Clerk: About twenty minutes.
Customer: Perfecto. Entonces nos da tiempo de comprar palomitas.
Customer: Perfect. Then we have time to get popcorn.
Clerk: Sí, aunque ahorita hay bastante fila.
Clerk: Yes, although there's quite a line right now.
Customer: Entonces mejor vamos de una vez.
Customer: Then we'd better go now.
Clerk: Buena idea.
Clerk: Good idea.