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Examples
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Tengo un perrito y yo quisiera llevarlo a la habitación.
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Tengo un perrito y yo quisiera llevarlo a la habitación.
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Wao Rober is the best. quisiera que viniera aVenezuela ... aqui tambien (personalmente) te apreciamos un mundo!!
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If you simply say, "No gracias, no bebo cerveza (tequila, ron etc. or simply alcohól), pero quisiera un refresco," you'll probably get a soft drink instead and no one will be offended.
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If you simply say, "No gracias, no bebo cerveza (tequila, ron etc. or simply alcohól), pero quisiera un refresco," you'll probably get a soft drink instead and no one will be offended.
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Wao Rober is the best. quisiera que viniera aVenezuela ... aqui tambien (personalmente) te apreciamos un mundo!!
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As another poster suggested, my colleagues said that quiero could be heard as too demanding and that quisiera was polite.
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When I was learning Spanish -- not in school or other classes, but during years of lived experience in Mexico with native Spanish-speakers -- I was told that quisiera was the correct way to ask for something that I wanted another person to do for me, whatever the situation.
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When ordering food, is the polite way to order quisiera un bistec, or is it acceptable to say dame un bistec or quiero un bistec.
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Am I correct in assuming that the only polite way to order food is to go with quisiera?
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