Learn about using an internet cafe
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| INTRODUCTION |
| Hello and welcome to Portuguese Survival Phrases brought to you by PortuguesePod101.com, this course is designed to equip you with the language skills and knowledge to enable you to get the most out of your visit to Brazil. You will be surprised at how far a little Portuguese will go. |
| Now, before we jump in, remember to stop by PortuguesePod101.com and there, you will find the accompanying PDF. If you stop by, be sure to leave us a comment. |
Lesson focus |
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| In this lesson, we'll learn about a place crucial to your travels in this modern age: the internet café! In Brazil, there are two types of internet cafés. |
| The first is a LAN House. These are the cafés that are usually dark and filled with teenagers playing games over the internet. They yell and scream when they kill something and that's okay at a LAN House. The trade off is that these are the most common, one every five blocks or so, and usually the cheapest, somewhere around R$3.00 per hour which is about $1.50. |
| A Cyber Café is more along the lines of what we usually think of as an internet café. Usually it's a kind of book shop mixed with a coffee shop and the cheapest one I ever found was R$5.00 an hour and I have paid R$12.50 per hour. The term Cyber Café was borrowed from English and as you can tell is pronounced pretty similarly to the English. There are many Cyber Cafés and LAN Houses located throughout the cities, so finding one shouldn't be a problem! However, so that things go smoothly once inside, let's go through the internet cafe experience step by step. |
| In Brazil, when you walk into the Cyber Café or LAN House the reception desk is usually near the door. The most universal phrase you can use is, "Please, one computer with internet for thirty minutes." |
| In Portuguese, this phrase is: Por favor, um computador com internet por 30 minutos. |
| Let’s break it down by syllable: Por favor, um computador com internet por 30 minutos. |
| And one time fast: Por favor, um computador com internet por 30 minutos. |
| The first word, Por favor, you already know. |
| The second word is um, which is the number "one." |
| um |
| um |
| Then we have the word computador, which means, "computer." |
| computador |
| computador |
| The next word com means, "with." |
| com |
| com |
| The next word, internet, is another borrowed word from English and means, obviously, "internet." |
| internet |
| internet |
| So, thus far we have: Por favor, um computador com internet, which in English means, "Please a computer with internet." |
| It's important to ask for the internet because some computers might not have it. |
| This is followed by the phrase por 30 minutos. |
| The first word here is por, and it means "for." |
| por |
| por |
| The next word is trinta, which we learned in our lesson on numbers as the number "thirty." |
| trinta |
| trinta |
| Then we have minutos, which in Portuguese is "minutes." |
| minutos |
| minutos |
| So all together, we have, Por favor, um computador com internet por 30 minutos. |
| Literally, this means, "Please, one computer with internet for thirty minutes." |
| The most common system is that you pay at the desk before you use the computer. So you pay for thirty minutes and they assign you a computer and you sit there to use it. They have a program that controls the computer and after those thirty minutes are up the computer will pause and you'll either have to pay more to continue or just get up and leave. Remember to say obrigado and smile when you leave. |
| For all you laptop-packing world trekkers out there, WIFI isn't very common in Brazil so don't count on it. I stayed at a five-star hotel in Foz de Iguaçu a few years ago which is a HUGE international tourist destination and even they just had a hard wired network cable. It was pretty fast internet, probably about 7 MB, but no WIFI. |
| And finally here is one more phrase that might prove useful: "Password and username please." |
| In Portuguese, "Password and username please," is Senha e nome do usuário, por favor. |
| Senha e nome do usuário, por favor. |
| Let’s break it down by syllable: Senha e nome do usuário, por favor. |
| Now let's hear it once again: Senha e nome do usuário, por favor. |
| The first word, Senha, means "password." |
| Let's break down this word and hear it one more time: Senha |
| Senha |
| This is followed by e, which in English is "and." |
| e |
| e |
| Next we have Nome, which means, "name." |
| Nome |
| Nome |
| Then we have do, which means, "of the." |
| do |
| do |
| This is followed by usuário, which in English means "user." |
| usuário |
| usuário |
| Then we have the word Por favor, which we have already learned. |
| So all together, we have: Senha e nome do usuário, por favor. |
| Literally, this means, "Password and username please." |
| These words are important to know even if you never say or hear them because if you use an internet café, you are going to need to read them so you can know what information to put into the blank field on the screen. |
Outro |
| Okay, to close out this lesson, we'd like you to practice what you've just learned. I'll provide you with the English equivalent of the phrase and you're responsible for saying it aloud. You have a few seconds before I give you the answer, so boa sorte! |
| “Please, one computer with Internet for 30 minutes.” - Por favor, um computador com internet por 30 minutos. |
| Por favor, um computador com internet por 30 minutos. |
| Por favor, um computador com internet por 30 minutos. |
| “Password and username please.” - Senha e nome do usuário, por favor. |
| Senha e nome do usuário, por favor. |
| Senha e nome do usuário, por favor. |
| Alright, that's going to do it for today. Remember to stop by PortuguesePod101.com and pick up the accompanying PDF. If you stop by, be sure to leave us a comment. |
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