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Practice Buying a Train Ticket in Spanish
Comprar un billete de tren
You're at the taquilla buying a billete for a trip later today. There's more than one way to make this journey — the fast AVE or the slower Media Distancia — at very different prices and times. Find out which train actually suits you before you pay.
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You're talking to: un taquillero
You: un viajero
opening the request
Querría un billete para Sevilla esta tarde.
checking the route
¿Ese llega directo o hay transbordos?
asking for the cheaper option
¿Hay algo más barato aunque tarde más?
Your goal
Leave the taquilla with one specific billete: the train you chose, ida or ida y vuelta, with the departure time, the vía, your coche and plaza, and the price all confirmed back to the clerk.
You'll practice
- Say where you're going and roughly when you want to travel
- Compare the AVE against the slower, cheaper train
- Confirm the price, the departure time, the vía and your seat
Phrases you'll actually use
Six lines that carry most of this conversation. You'll hear them, and you'll need them.
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Querría un billete para Sevilla esta tarde.
— opening the request
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¿Ese llega directo o hay transbordos?
— checking the route
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¿Hay algo más barato aunque tarde más?
— asking for the cheaper option
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Solo ida, hoy no vuelvo.
— choosing ida or ida y vuelta
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¿De qué vía sale y a qué hora?
— asking the platform and time
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¿Me puede decir el coche y la plaza?
— getting your seat right
Level-up expressions
sacar el billete
buy a ticket
¿Puedo sacar el billete aquí mismo?
cambiar de tren
switch trains partway through a journey
¿Tengo que cambiar de tren en Córdoba?
compensar
be worth the money — used like gustar: ¿te compensa?
¿Me compensa el ida y vuelta, o saco solo la ida?
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