At an American breakfast table, people offer, ask and refuse in very short phrases: "More coffee?" "I'm good." "Can you pass the milk?" Learners often translate a long polite request from their own language, like "Please, could you give to me the milk?" Or they answer "No, I don't want" when someone offers food, which can sound sharp. This episode follows an invented family at breakfast. You will learn food words, short offers and kind refusals, and you will decode every line. In this episode: • Breakfast food and drinks • Offering • Asking and answering • The scene • Sounds and reductions at the table • Practice • Self-check questions with answers Key phrases from this episode: oatmeal — hot, soft oats. "Oatmeal with bananas, please." butter and jam — what people spread on toast. scrambled eggs — eggs mixed and cooked in a pan. sunny-side up — a fried egg with the yellow part on top, not turned over. over easy — a fried egg turned over quickly, yellow still soft. pancakes with syrup — flat, round cakes with sweet sauce. leftovers — food from an earlier meal. "There are leftovers from last night." OJ (OH-jay) — orange juice (casual). black coffee — coffee with nothing in it. cream and sugar — what people add to coffee. "Cream and sugar?" "Just cream." decaf (DEE-kaf) — coffee without caffeine. More coffee? — would you like more coffee? (casual) Want some toast? — the casual way to offer. Would you like some eggs? — the polite way to offer. Can I get you anything? — do you need something? (polite, warm) There's more if you want it — you can have more. Season 2 · Real American English: the complete spoken course for learners worldwide — accent, everyday grammar, prepositions, articles, phrasal verbs, idioms, slang and real conversations at home. Listen, repeat out loud, then take the 52-question quiz. Audio voiced with AI from an original script by Dr. Rashmi R Nair.