Learn words and phrases about internet cafes
Now Playing: Lesson Audio
Get a breakdown of the dialogue and translations instantly with the Premium line-by-line Audio. Sign up for your Free Lifetime Account Now and get 7 Days of Premium Access including this feature.
Get this lesson’s key vocab, their translations and pronunciations. Sign up for your Free Lifetime Account Now and get 7 Days of Premium Access including this feature.
Unlock Lesson Notes and Transcripts for every single lesson. Sign Up for a Free Lifetime Account and Get 7 Days of Premium Access.
| INTRODUCTION |
| In this lesson, you’ll learn about a place crucial to your travels in this modern age: the Internet! Normally, you find Internet cafés in big cities, but with the spread of smartphones and mobile devices, combined with free Wi-Fi, the Internet Café has all but disappeared in Denmark. In hotels, airports, some common areas and cafés, Wi-Fi is usually part of the service and free. In these cases, you may need a password in order to connect, and some places require you to register on a site. But if this is not the case, you might need to ask “Excuse me, what is the password for the Internet?” |
| GRAMMAR POINT |
| Undskyld, hvad er koden til internettet? is the question that will help you out. |
| Let’s break it down: |
| (slow) Undskyld, hvad er koden til internettet? |
| Once more: |
| Undskyld, hvad er koden til internettet? |
| Undskyld is “Pardon me.” |
| It’s followed by the question hvad er, which means “what is”. |
| Then we have koden or in English “the password” or “the code”. This is a shortened version of the word adgangskoden. Which literally is “the access code” |
| (slow) Ko-den. |
| Koden. |
| The last words til internettet are literally translated as “for the internet”. |
| (slow) Til in-ter-ne-ttet. |
| Til internettet. |
| ・ |
| If you aren’t carrying your laptop or another internet capable device around, you will likely have to find an Internet Café or a library that can give you access to a computer. The library is free but at an Internet Café, you would have to ask at the reception counter how much the connection costs for one hour. |
| “Excuse me, how much does it cost for one hour of Internet access?” is |
| Undskyld mig, hvor meget koster det for en times Internet adgang? |
| Let’s break it down: |
| (slow) Und-skyld mig, hvor me-get kos-ter det for en ti-mes In-ter-net ad-gang? |
| Once more: |
| Undskyld mig, hvor meget koster det for en times Internet adgang? |
| Hvor meget means “how much”. |
| (slow) Hvor meget. |
| Hvor meget. |
| Koster is the plural form of the verb koste that means “to cost”. |
| (slow) Koster. |
| Koster. |
| Det is “it” and together with koster they create the meaning “does it cost” |
| Then you have for en, which translates as “for one” or “for an”, followed by times which is “hours”. Altogether, these make up “for one hour” |
| (slow) For en times. |
| For en times |
| Internet is “internet”. |
| And at the end we have the word adgang which means “access”. |
| (slow) Adgang. |
| Adgang. |
| “Excuse me, how much does it cost for one hour of Internet access?” |
| Undskyld mig, hvor meget koster det for en times Internet adgang? |
| ・ |
| The answer will probably sound something like this: |
| Tyve kroner for en time. |
| “Twenty crowns for an hour.” |
Comments
Hide