Learn how to check in at a hotel
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| INTRODUCTION |
| Michael: Hi everyone, and welcome back to FinnishPod101.com. This is Beginner Season 1 Lesson 2 - Making Requests at a Finnish Hotel Michael Here. |
| Nico: Hei. I'm Nico. |
| Michael: In this lesson, you’ll learn some basic expressions for checking in to a hotel using the conditional form. The conversation takes place at a hotel in Helsinki. |
| Nico: It's between Aino and a hotel receptionist. |
| Michael: The speakers are in a customer service situation, so they’ll be using formal Finnish. Okay, let's listen to the conversation. |
| DIALOGUE |
| Aino: Päivää! Haluaisimme kirjautua sisään, meillä pitäisi olla varaus. |
| Hotel Receptionist: Päivää, ja tervetuloa! Millä nimellä varaus on tehty? |
| Aino: Se on nimellä Virtanen. Aino ja Heikki Virtanen. |
| Hotel Receptionist: Kyllä vain, löysin varauksenne. Kahden hengen huone kahdeksi yöksi. |
| Aino: Olisiko mahdollista saada huone merinäköalalla? |
| Hotel Receptionist: Hetki, tarkistan.. ..Kyllä, onnistuu! Uloskirjautuminen on ylihuomenna kello 12(kahteentoista) mennessä. Toivotan teille viihtyisää oleskelua! |
| Michael: Listen to the conversation one time slowly. |
| Aino: Päivää! Haluaisimme kirjautua sisään, meillä pitäisi olla varaus. |
| Hotel Receptionist:Päivää, ja tervetuloa! Millä nimellä varaus on tehty? |
| Aino: Se on nimellä Virtanen. Aino ja Heikki Virtanen. |
| Hotel Receptionist:Kyllä vain, löysin varauksenne. Kahden hengen huone kahdeksi yöksi. |
| Aino: Olisiko mahdollista saada huone merinäköalalla? |
| Hotel Receptionist: Hetki, tarkistan.. ..Kyllä, onnistuu! Uloskirjautuminen on ylihuomenna kello 12(kahteentoista) mennessä. Toivotan teille viihtyisää oleskelua! |
| Michael: Listen to the conversation with the English translation. |
| Aino: Good afternoon! We would like to check in. We should have a reservation. |
| Hotel Receptionist: Good afternoon, and welcome! What name is your reservation under? |
| Aino: It’s under the name Virtanen. Aino and Heikki Virtanen. |
| Hotel Receptionist: Oh yes, I found your reservation. A room for two people, for two nights. |
| Aino: Would it be possible to get a room with an ocean view? |
| Hotel Receptionist: Just a moment please, I’ll check. Yes, it can be done! Check out will be the day after tomorrow by twelve o'clock. Have a pleasant stay! |
| POST CONVERSATION BANTER |
| Michael: I wonder if the hotel in the dialogue was one of those ones made of ice that I saw on TV once? |
| Nico: It could be, because there is an ice hotel in Finland! Actually there are many kinds of speciality hotels that you might like to try. If you travel to Finland in the winter, the most exotic places you could stay in are perhaps the snow hotel in Kemi, or the one you probably saw, the igloo-shaped cottages with glass roofs in Levi in Lapland. |
| Michael: But are they really made of ice? |
| Nico: Yes, the snow hotel is actually a whole castle built out of snow and ice, and it gets rebuilt every year. |
| Michael: It sounds great! What’s the Finnish word for "snow castle"? |
| Nico: lumilinna |
| Michael: Do you always have to go way out into the countryside if you want to enjoy one of these theme hotels? |
| Nico: Not necessarily. In Helsinki you might enjoy hotelli Klaus K, or hotel Klaus K, which has themed rooms displaying different stories and mythic characters from the Finnish national epic, the Kalevala. |
| Michael: Listeners, if you’re a lover of fantasy fiction, you might know that the Kalevala inspired J.R.R. Tolkien when he wrote his legendary work, 'Lord of the Rings.’ |
| Nico: So if you ever go to Finland, you should definitely stay there! |
| Michael: Yea, that sounds like a really interesting experience! |
| VOCAB LIST |
| Michael: Okay! Let’s take a look at the vocabulary from this lesson. The first word is.. |
| Nico: kirjautua [natural native speed] |
| Michael: to check in |
| Nico: kirjautua[slowly - broken down by syllable] |
| Nico: kirjautua [natural native speed] |
| Michael: Next we have.. |
| Nico: varaus [natural native speed] |
| Michael: reservation |
| Nico: varaus [slowly - broken down by syllable] |
| Nico: varaus [natural native speed] |
| Michael: Next we have.. |
| Nico: nimellä [natural native speed] |
| Michael: under the name |
| Nico: nimellä [slowly - broken down by syllable] |
| Nico: nimellä [natural native speed] |
| Michael: Next we have.. |
| Nico: huone [natural native speed] |
| Michael: room |
| Nico: huone [slowly - broken down by syllable] |
| Nico: huone [natural native speed] |
| Michael: Next we have.. |
| Nico: merinäköala [natural native speed] |
| Michael: ocean view/ sea view |
| Nico: merinäköala [slowly - broken down by syllable] |
| Nico: merinäköala [natural native speed] |
| Michael: Next we have.. |
| Nico: kahden hengen huone [natural native speed] |
| Michael: a room for two people |
| Nico: kahden hengen huone [slowly - broken down by syllable] |
| Nico: kahden hengen huone [natural native speed] |
| Michael: Next we have.. |
| Nico: uloskirjautuminen [natural native speed] |
| Michael: check-out |
| Nico: uloskirjautuminen [slowly - broken down by syllable] |
| Nico: uloskirjautuminen [natural native speed] |
| Michael: Next we have.. |
| Nico: ylihuomenna [natural native speed] |
| Michael: the day after tomorrow |
| Nico: ylihuomenna [slowly - broken down by syllable] |
| Nico: ylihuomenna [natural native speed] |
| KEY VOCAB AND PHRASES |
| Michael: Let's have a closer look at some of the words and phrases from this lesson. The first phrase is.. |
| Nico: kahden hengen huone |
| Michael: And it means "a room for two." |
| Nico: The expression is made up of three words, kaksi meaning "two," henki or henkilö meaning "person," and huone, "room." |
| Michael: In this expression you first state the number of people, then the word for “person” in the genitive case, and finally the word for “room.” So Nico, what is “a room for four people?” |
| Nico: neljän hengen huone |
| Michael: Do you use this phrase only when you’re at a hotel? |
| Nico: Not just hotels, you can use it when you’re booking or requesting a room on a cruise too, or even when you’re booking a meeting room. |
| Michael: Can you give us an example using this word? |
| Nico: Sure. For example, you can say.. Hotellissa ei ole yhtään kahden hengen huonetta vapaana. |
| Michael: ..which means "There aren't any rooms for two available at the hotel." Okay, what's the next word? |
| Nico: merinäköala, |
| Michael: literally this means "sea view" or “ocean view.” |
| Nico: The expression merinäköala is made out of two words- meri meaning "sea," and näköala meaning "view." You can use this word whenever you want to say “ocean view.” |
| Michael: Can you use a similar expression if you want to ask for a different view? |
| Nico: You can also replace the word “sea,” meri, with another suitable word, such as vuoristo, |
| Michael: meaning "the mountains." |
| Nico: In that case, you have vuoristonäköala, |
| Michael: which would be “mountain view.” Can you give us an example using “ocean view”? |
| Nico: Sure. For example, you can say.. Täältä on upea merinäköala. |
| Michael: .. which means "The ocean view from here is astonishing." Okay, what's the last word? |
| Nico: uloskirjautuminen |
| Michael: meaning "check-out." |
| Nico: This word is made up of two words, ulos, "out," and kirjautuminen, "logging in" or "checking in." |
| Michael: I suppose you can use this word when you’re checking out of a hotel, or from any other place or service, or even when you’re logging off of e-mail. |
| Nico: That’s right, it works for all those cases. |
| Michael: Can you give us an example using this word? |
| Nico: Sure. For example, you can say.. Uloskirjautuminen on mielestäni aivan liian aikaisin. |
| Michael: .. which means "The check-out is way too early in my opinion." Okay, now onto the grammar. |
Lesson focus |
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| Michael: In this lesson you’ll learn how to check in to a hotel. You’ll become familiar with basic expressions for checking into a hotel and using the conditional form. In the conversation, Aino and Heikki were checking in to a hotel. |
| Nico: In Finland, when you get to a hotel and you want to check in, there are two possible phrases you can use. If you've already booked a room and you want to tell the desk staff that you have a reservation, you can say Minulla on varaus. |
| Michael: “I have a reservation.” |
| Nico: In the dialogue, Aino was with Heikki so she used the plural form me, meaning “we.” She also used the polite form of “should have,” pitäisi olla. Meillä pitäisi olla varaus |
| Michael: which means “We should have a reservation.” What if you haven’t booked yet, how can you say "I would like a room?”. |
| Nico: That’s Haluaisin yhden huoneen. The first word, haluaisin, means "I would like." Then we have yhden, |
| Michael: meaning "one" in the accusative form, |
| Nico: and finally huoneen, |
| Michael: which means "room" in the accusative form. |
| Nico: Yhden huoneen. Altogether, the phrase is Haluaisin yhden huoneen, |
| Michael: literally meaning "I would like one room.” After this, you will most likely be asked "May I have your name, please?" |
| Nico: And in Finnish, that is Saisinko nimenne, kiitos. In the dialogue, the receptionist asks Aino Millä nimellä varaus on tehty? |
| Michael: Which means “What name is your reservation under?” |
| Nico: You can also give your name to the receptionist to confirm your reservation. You can do this by saying minulla on varaus, “I have a reservation,” then nimellä which means "under the name," and finally your name. Altogether, we have Minulla on varaus nimellä plus your name. |
| Michael: Which is "I have a reservation under the name of ..." and here you add your name. |
| Nico: Sometimes you might be asked to spell your name, and in Finnish, this is Voisitteko tavata sen, kiitos? - or “Could you spell it, please?” The first word, voisitteko, means "Could you?" in formal Finnish. The next word, tavata, means "to spell." At the end is sen, which is se, or "it," in the accusative form. To make the phrase polite, you usually add kiitos, |
| Michael: which means “please” or “thank you.” Aino also asked if she could get a room with an ocean view, right? |
| Nico: That’s right. She used the conditional and asked the question Olisiko mahdollista saada huone merinäköalalla?, |
| Michael: “Would it be possible to get a room with an ocean view?”. Nico, can you use a similar sentence to make other requests? |
| Nico: Yes, you can say Olisiko mahdollista meaning “Would it be possible to…” and after this you can add the verb saada, meaning “to get,” and the name of the object you’d like to get. |
| Michael: Can you give us an example? |
| Nico: For example, Olisiko mahdollista saada lisävuode? |
| Michael: “Would it be possible to get an extra bed?” |
| Nico: "Huomenta, olisiko mahdollista kirjautua sisään jo tähän aikaan?" |
| Michael: "Good morning, is it possible to check in already?" |
| Nico: Or you can also use it in a different way, "Haluaisin kirjautua ulos vasta iltapäivällä. Onko se mahdollista?" |
| Michael: "I wouldn't want to check-out until the afternoon. Is that possible?" |
| Nico: Note that here, Onko se mahdollista? means “Is that possible?” |
Outro |
| Michael: Okay, that’s all for this lesson. Thank you for listening, everyone, and we’ll see you next time! Bye! |
| Nico: Hei hei. |
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