Are there any formalities to go
through with the police ?
Must one have an identity-card ?
Only if one stays beyond fifty-six days.
In that case, my passport will be enough.
I had ratherjhavea room looking onto the street; a room at the back.
I don’t like to be higher than the second floor.
I require two rooms next to each other.
Do the rooms open into each other ?
What price are your rooms on the first floor ?
Is attendance included ?
Is there a telephone in the room ?
How much do you charge for full board ?
How much for a week ?
Do you reduce your charges for a long stay ?
Haven’t you anything better ? cheaper ?
I intend to stay a week at least.
What price are meals ?
I shall take breakfast only here.
I shall take my meals outside.
Your charges suit me.
Will you please have this room shown me ?
I should like to see the drawing-room and dining-room as well.
Please take me to the lift.
AIR TRAVEL
Where is the air-terminal, please ?
Which is the coach for the airport ?
At what time does it start ?
How long does it take to reach the aerodrome ?
Where are the formalities, prior to the take-off completed ?
My passport has already been examined by the Immigration Officer.
Me duku al ricevo, pli. Ar vu kamos frida ? Mi vur i un kam unbeda; dubeda; un kam kon dipla bed.
Ar vu un kon bad ? Cu lo kam-presyo insar badkam-uto ?
Taxar vu adpago es mi utar l’etaga
badkam ? Kan taxar vu un bad ? Un shiling ?
Mi sem prenar friga bad. Kostor
sendube sit pencos ? Par so i fok kamye ?
Certe, ye sor adpago.
Cu formalos kumpenda po polis ?
Shar so i idento-kart ?
Nur es so star otre qinissit idos.
Yenkaze, ma pasport sufor.
Mi prifur un kam ver veo; ver kortel.
Mi no libar sti obire qam dua etago.
Mi nesar du kamos kontiguas.
Cu lo kamos komunikar ? Kan kostar va prim-etaga kamos ?
Cu sirvo insa ? Cu fon kamye ?
Kan askar vu po plen-pensyon ? Kan pro vek ?
Far vu def po longira sojorno ?
Ar vu nilo mela ? plu cipa ?
Mi intentar resti pomine un vek. Ka lo mensos-presyos ? Mi prenor ik nur dijun. Mi prenor ma mensos exe. Va presyos me konvenar. Var vu me montri et kam, pli ?
Mi dezur vidi an lo salon e lo pransaro.
Pli me duku al lift.
ER-TRAVEL
Vo l’erodrom, pli ? Ka lo vetur pol erodrom ? Kaore departar it ? Kan durar us l’erodrom ?
Vo lokedar predepart-formalos ?
Ma pasport ja vistat pel Imigro-funser.
Here is my ticket.
I have already had my baggage weighed and registered. Here is the check.
How long is it till we go to the embarkation point ?
Please give me a seat near a window.
I should like to be able to look out.
Is the plane about to take off ?
Please be so kind as to help me fasten on my safety-belt.
Doesn’t that light mean one cannot smoke yet ?
How shall I know when the plane has reached its cruising-height ?
May I take my belt off now ?
Are we allowed to move about in the plane now ?
Will you please ask the airhostess
if she can bring me something to drink ?
Thank you for having brought me my meal-tray.
I never suffer from air-sickness.
There is no need to ?ive me that paper bag.
Is it time to put the belt on again ?
We are going to land.
The plane is taxiing.
Where have we to go to claim our luggage, please ?
Em ma tikel.
Ma bagio ja pezat e bukat. Em lo ricel.
Kan durar us nos nel imbarkaro ?
Pli me diu un plas nir fenso. Mu vur pi miri ver exo.
Cu l’iv ju abteror ?
Pli benvu m’elpi fixi ma sekurbelt.
Cu no mindar et lum so par nonok fumi ?
Kom spor mi van l’iv atangar sa kruziralto ?
Par mi nun diataci ma belt ?
Cu ne permat cirkuli ivye nun ?
Var vu pli aski l’erospin es el par m’aporti somo bevenda ?
Dank po me aportinde ma platal.
Mi ni sofrar pe eregro. No nesa me di papelsak.
Cu tempo reaponi lo belt ?
Nos ju ateror.
L’iv rular ol suol.
Pli, qo ut ritiri bagio ?
SHOPPING
Would you like to go shopping in the big Western Stores ?
Those shops must be very expensive. They have very rich customers. I should like to have the address of some less expensive places - but still first class ones.
Are there often clearance sales in the big stores ?
When is their stock-taking ?
I think there is a stock-taking sale at X’s.
Are there good bargains to be picked up ?
Is that shop selling off ?
Do they sell retail ?
Do you sell on the instalment system, or only cash down ?
You never sell on credit ?
Gan you send me this on approval ?
I should like to speak to the head of the department.
Would you mind telling me where the perfumery department is ?
Which way is the lift ? the escalator ? the stairs ?
The way out, please!
Libur vu fi kofelos nel gran Westa shoponos ?
Yen shopos shar si tro shira. Zi ar rikega kundos. Mi vur i l’adres de som shopos min shira - mo dok primorda.
Cu of saldos nel shoponos ?
Van far zi inventor ? Mi krar ye un inventor-vendo she X…
Cu ye okazyonos kolgibla ?
Cu et shop liqidar ? Cu zi vendar detale ? Vendar vu rate о nur kase ?
Vendar vu ni kredite ?
Par vu me sendi eto kondise ?
Mi vur parli al ripart-aldo.
Benvur vu m’indiki lo parfum-ripart ?
Voe lo lift ? l’eskalator ? lo skal ? L’exado, pli!
I don’t see an assistant; can you find me one ?
Are you engaged ? Can you attend to me ?
No one is attending to me, and I have been waiting for ten minutes.
I am going to complain to the management. There is no getting service here.
I should like you to show me…
What have you got in the line of…
What is the price of this ?
What are you selling this at ?
Have you nothing better ? cheaper ? smarter ? stronger ? larger ? smaller ?
Show me the best you have.
If you haven’t got it in stock, can you have it sent for ? get it for me ?
How long will it take to get it ?
You say you are out of it ? have sold out ? do not stock it now ?
How is that ?
I am not satisfied with this article. Can you take it back ? exchange it ?
I bought it two days ago, and I have never used it. Just look at the ticket.
Why don’t you mark your goods in plain figures ?
Is that your lowest price ?
Have I to make a deposit if I give you an order ?
Make it up into a parcel.
I cannot take it with me. Can you have it delivered ?
Have it delivered at this address.
When can you have it sent on ?
I will pay on delivery.
I prefer to pay now/
Make me out a bill.
Please receipt it.
Can you forward it carriage paid ? carriage forward ?
Send it by slow (fast) goods train.
What does it all add up to ?
I am going to the cash-desk, if you will come with me.
Are you open on Sundays ?
What day do you close on ?
What time do you close ?
Do you stay open at lunch-time ?
AT THE STATIONER’S AT THE BOOKSELLER’S
Come along with me to the bookseller’s. I want to buy a few novels.
I need a good dictionary as well. I shall be glad of your opinion. What are the latest things out ?
Mi vidar nil vender; pur vu me tri un ?
Cu vu okupat ? Par vu me sirvi ?
Nilun me sirvar, e mi atendar dep is minutos.
Mi gor riklami al derko. Nil sirvo ik.
Mi vur vu me montru…
Ke ar vu in mat de…
Ka lo presyo d’eto ?
Kapresye vendar vu eto ?
Ar vu nilo bonira ? cipira ? plu eleganta ? plu solida ? granira ? letira ?