Which hospitality personas are available on /practice/hospitality?

Three native Spanish-speaking personas stand by today: a waiter greeting you at the tapas bar and recommending two or three dishes, a hotel front-desk receptionist confirming the room type and the check-in time at the lobby, and an airline agent at the check-in counter reconciling the seat assignment and the boarding pass. Each stays in character through the routine, the awkward, and the consequential — and each parks on a single carefully-chosen phrasing when the moment at the table, the lobby, or the gate matters.

Is the first branch free?

Yes. The waiter at the restaurant table is free to start — you run the first branch without a paywall and the transcript is yours. The full branching tree on the hotel front-desk and the airline agent unlocks on Pro; if you start one on a Free plan, you get a 24-hour preview window so you can feel the next branch before deciding to upgrade.

How does the branching dialogue work in practice?

Each persona adapts to what you actually say. Tap a choice from the beat the persona offers, the persona replies in character, and the next beat appears with three or four fresh options — right there on the page. Difficulty is shown per persona (A2 waiter → B1 hotel front-desk / airline agent) so you can rehearse the warm, low-stakes opening beat at the restaurant table before you walk into the front-desk voice of the hotel receptionist or the gate-counter voice of the airline agent.

Live today — three personas, free first branch

Practice the hospitality conversationswhen one phrasing sets the room.

The hotel desk, the restaurant table, the airline counter — Spanish-speaking hospitality personas rehearse the moment with you.

You walk into a hospitality moment — the restaurant table where the menu has to come across clearly and the allergy has to land before the order goes in, the hotel lobby where the room type and the check-in time have to match the booking, or the airline counter where the boarding pass and the seat assignment have to be reconciled without a fuss. Pick the moment you need to rehearse today.

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First branch freeStart with the waiter at the restaurant table — no paywall, no preview window.Full tree is ProUnlock every branch on the hotel front-desk and the airline-agent.

3: hospitality personas
A2: to B1 (CEFR)
FREE: first branch
10 min: per session

Why GlobalLingo, not generic tutoring

The conversation is the curriculum.

Every other app teaches you 100 languages. We teach the three everyday hospitality conversations that matter — the restaurant table where the allergy has to land before the order goes in, the hotel lobby where the room type and the check-in time have to match the booking, and the airline counter where the boarding pass and the seat assignment have to be reconciled without a fuss.

Practice the conversation at the restaurant table

Generic tutors drill flashcards. We rehearse the moment: the dish name and the allergy you give the waiter, the room type and the check-in time you confirm at the front desk, the seat assignment and the boarding pass you reconcile at the airline counter. The phrase that sets the room matters more than the grammar you walked in with.

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Personas that adapt to your register

Each of the three personas (waiter, hotel front-desk, airline agent) holds the line on register, rank, and pacing. The waiter stays warm and informal — first-time visitors, so they speak a little slower and use common vocabulary. The hotel receptionist mirrors usted back at you and confirms each detail one at a time. The airline agent stays calm, procedural, and brief; the boarding pass is reconciled without a fuss. A precise phrasing opens the next beat.

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Real transcripts you can review

Every session saves a full transcript — see which phrasing held up under the warmth of the restaurant floor and the formality of the lobby, mark it 1–5, and the next day start a fresh session to try the wording you wish you had. Start with the waiter for free; open the full hospitality tree on Pro.

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Pick a persona, start branching

Waiter. Hotel front desk. Airline agent.

Each persona speaks Spanish, stays in character, and adapts to what you actually say. Tap a choice, the persona replies in character, the next beat appears with three fresh options — until you reach the end of the scene. The waiter at the restaurant table ships free — start it without a paywall; the hotel front-desk and the airline agent open on Pro.

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Your first practice

Watch. Read. Choose. Review.

Every session follows the same four beats — designed so the service register actually sticks, even when you only have ten minutes between tables.

Persona · Camarero en un bar de tapas

Spanish · tapas bar in Madrid · first branch free

Practice shape

Watch

See the persona’s opening line — the exact phrasing a real Spanish-speaking waiter, hotel receptionist, or airline agent opens with.

Read

Read the role brief: who the persona is, what they will ask, how they will respond when you answer clearly and when you slip on the service register.

Choose

Tap a choice from the persona’s opening beat. The persona replies in character and the next branching beat appears with three or four fresh options, each one a different register to test.

Review

Replay the transcript, see which branches you reached, and start a fresh session the next day to try a firmer or more measured rephrase — hospitality Spanish rewards deliberate practice.

Live today

Start practicing the hospitality conversation that sets the room.

Pick the waiter to start free — the first branching beat is yours the moment you land. Open the full hospitality tree on Pro and the hotel front-desk and the airline agent both open up the same day.

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four skills, hospitality-shaped

What you’ll learn to say — and what you’ll understand when they say it back.

The same four-skill scaffold that powers every GlobalLingo conversation persona — adapted for hospitality encounters where restaurant-floor vocabulary, service-register across roles, single-phrasing clarity, and calm under pressure at the lobby or the gate all have to line up in the same exchange.

Restaurant-floor vocabulary

Menu words (entrante, principal, postre, carta de vinos), service words (cuenta, propina, tarjeta, para llevar), and allergy / dietary words (alergia al gluten, sin lactosa, vegetariano) — drilled inside a real back-and-forth with a Spanish-speaking waiter, not in isolation.

Service-register across roles

Warm tú with the waiter at the table, measured usted with the hotel receptionist at the lobby, calm procedural register with the airline agent at the gate — three voices in three rooms. The picker lets you rehearse each so register stops being something you have to think about mid-sentence.

Single-phrasing clarity

A single mis-phrased dietary request can land the wrong dish on the table. A single carefully-chosen room-type confirmation can save a long walk back to the lobby. The personas model the patience and pacing these conversations need — every beat is a chance to slow down and pick the right one.

Calm under pressure at the lobby or the gate

The hotel receptionist stays measured when the booking has a mismatch. The airline agent pauses to reconcile the seat assignment before pushing the boarding pass. The waiter folds the dietary request into a single clear sentence before the order goes in. The personas model staying in character when the service register gets formal.

The three personas on this page

One for every hospitality moment where phrasing sets the room.

Waiter

The tapas-bar table voice — welcome first, recommendation next, allergy on the third beat, order on the last. Warm without rushing the table.

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Hotel front desk

The lobby voice — booking first, room type next, check-in time on the third beat, key handover on the last. Measured and procedural without stalling the queue.

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Airline agent

The gate-counter voice — booking first, seat assignment next, boarding pass on the third beat, gate number on the last. Calm and brief, hands the boarding pass without a fuss.

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What the branches feel like

A vague dietary request becomes a clear order. A vague booking becomes a key card.

The persona reads what you say and decides what comes next. Every vague phrasing is a moment to find a more concrete one — every clear, measured reply unlocks the next beat.

Vague “sin picante” → a clear dietary request

A thin "no me gusta el picante" triggers the waiter to ask one field at a time — qué plato le interesa, qué nivel de picante le va bien, si prefiere que el cocinero lo ajuste o que se lo aparte — until the answer comes back in the register and shape the kitchen needs. The next beat forks: repite para confirmar, escala al cocinero, o cierra el pedido con un siguiente paso concreto.

Vague booking at the lobby → a room-type reconciliation

A precise, scoped request — booking reference, room type, check-in time, length of stay — earns a calm reconciliation at the desk: confirm the room, hand the key card, name the breakfast hour. The receptionist models how to fold a vague booking into a single, measured sentence so the guest walks away with the next step in hand.

Keep practicing the vocabulary that came up

The branching beat opens a door. Sora and the pronunciation coach hold it open.

The persona gives you the hospitality moment; the rest of GlobalLingo keeps the vocabulary in your mouth. Run Sora between branches to lock the phrasing in, and let the pronunciation coach score it phoneme-by-phoneme.

Sora — the AI tutor

Sora listens, replies, and quietly scores your accent. Run a fifteen-minute session between branches to keep the hospitality vocabulary in your mouth — the dish name and the allergy you give the waiter, the room type and the check-in time you confirm at the front desk, the seat assignment you reconcile at the airline counter. Sora drills each one until it lands.

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Pronunciation coach

Phoneme-by-phoneme scoring against a native curve. The usted pronunciation that lands a measured lobby confirmation, the rolled /ɾ/ that marks a formal usted at the gate counter, the nasal /n/ the waiter leans on when folding a dietary request into a single clear sentence — the coach surfaces exactly the syllables you missed.

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