¿Podría hablar más despacio?
Polite — a safe request with strangers or staff.
Grammar
- podría could you; polite conditional form
- hablar to speak
- más despacio more slowly
"Could you speak more slowly?"
Use this when someone is speaking too quickly. “Podría” softens the request and works well in most conversations in Mexico.
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