Learn how to access the web at a Portuguese Internet cafe
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| INTRODUCTION |
| 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 some hotels and cafés, Wi-Fi is part of the service. That means you may need a password in order to connect. You could ask “Excuse me, what is the password to use the Internet?” |
| GRAMMAR POINT |
| Com licença, qual é a senha para usar a internet? is the question that will help you out. |
| Let’s break it down: |
| (slow) Com li-cen-ça, qual é a se-nha pa-ra u-sar a in-ter-net? |
| Once more: |
| Com licença, qual é a senha para usar a internet? |
| Com licença is “Excuse me.” |
| Qual means “which”. |
| (slow) Qual |
| Qual |
| The word é , just like mentioned in the previous lesson, is a present form of the verb “to be”. |
| A senha means “the password”. |
| (slow) A se-nha. |
| A senha. |
| The words para usar mean “to use”. |
| (slow) Pa-ra u-sar. |
| Para usar. |
| The last words a internet mean “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 Portuguese, it’s the same internet cafe. |
| You will need to ask at the reception counter how much the connection costs for one hour. That’s: |
| “Excuse me, how much does it cost to use Internet for one hour?” |
| Com licença, quanto custa uma hora de internet? |
| Let’s break it down: |
| (slow) Com li-cen-ça, quan-to cus-ta u-ma ho-ra de in-ter-net? |
| Once more: |
| Com licença, quanto custa uma hora de internet? |
| Quanto means “how much”. |
| Custa is a present form of the verb that means “to cost”. |
| Uma hora is translated as “one hour”. |
| (slow) Uma ho-ra. |
| Uma 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?” |
| Com licença, quanto custa uma hora de internet? |
| ・ |
| The answer will probably sound something like this: |
| Dois euros por uma hora. |
| “Two euros for one hour." |
| (slow) Do-is eu-ros por uma ho-ra. |
| Dois euros por uma hora. |
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