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| Using the Internet in Mexico |
| In this lesson you’ll learn about a place crucial to your travels in this modern age: the Internet café! Normally, you find Internet cafés in the big main cities. In hotels and cafés, Wi-Fi is usually part of the service. And in that case, you may need a password so you can connect. You could ask “Excuse me, what is the password to use the Internet?” |
| Disculpe, ¿Cuál es la clave para entrar a internet? is the question that will help you out. |
| Let’s break it down: |
| (slow) Dis-cul-pe, ¿Cu-ál es la cla-ve pa-ra en-trar a in-ter-net? |
| Once more: |
| Disculpe, ¿Cuál es la clave para entrar a internet? |
| Disculpe is “Excuse me.” |
| Cuál means “which” or “what”. |
| (slow) Cu-ál |
| Cuál |
| The word es, just like we mentioned in previous lessons, is a present form of the verb “to be”. |
| La clave means “the password”. |
| (slow) La cla-ve. |
| La clave. |
| The words para entrar mean literally “to enter”, but in this case mean “to connect”. |
| (slow) Pa-ra en-trar. |
| Para entrar. |
| The last words, a internet, mean “to the internet”. |
| (slow) A in-ter-net. |
| A internet. |
| If you don’t carry your laptop around, you will probably use an internet café. In Mexico, it’s called Café internet or Cibercafé. |
| You will need to ask at the reception counter how much the connection costs per hour. |
| “Excuse me, how much does it cost to use Internet for one hour?” |
| Disculpe, ¿Cuánto cuesta una hora de internet? |
| Let’s break it down: |
| (slow) Dis-cul-pe, ¿Cu-án-to cu-es-ta una ho-ra de in-ter-net? |
| Once more: |
| Disculpe, ¿Cuánto cuesta una hora de internet? |
| Cuánto means “how much”. |
| Cuesta is a present form of the verb that means “to cost”. |
| Una hora is translated as “one hour”. |
| (slow) Una ho-ra. |
| Una hora. |
| And at the end, we have the two words De internet which are translated as “of internet”. |
| (slow) De in-ter-net. |
| De internet. |
| “Excuse me, how much does it cost to use Internet for one hour?” |
| Disculpe, ¿Cuánto cuesta una hora de internet? |
| The answer will probably sound something like this: |
| Diez pesos por una hora. |
| “Ten pesos for one hour." |
| (slow) Di-ez pe-sos por u-na ho-ra. |
| Diez pesos por una hora. |
| Diez pesos means “ten pesos”. Por means “for”, and una hora means “one hour”. |
| Again, that’s: |
| Diez pesos por una hora. |
| To close out today's lessons, we’d like you to practice what you have just learned. I’ll provide you with the English equivalent of the phrase and you’re responsible for shouting it out loud. You’ll have a few seconds before I give you the answer, so !buena suerte! which means “Good luck!” in Spanish. |
| “Excuse me, what is the password to use the Internet?” - Disculpe, ¿Cuál es la clave para entrar a Internet? |
| “Excuse me, how much does it cost to use Internet for one hour?” - Disculpe, ¿Cuánto cuesta una hora de Internet? |
| “Ten pesos for one hour.” - Diez pesos por una hora. |
| Alright! That's going to do it for this lesson. Hasta luego. |
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