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Spanish Route episode FIVE. Your guided route to Spanish

Good morning, good afternoon or good evening. Welcome to SpanishRoute.

The program, the podcast to learn Spanish the easy and fun way.

My name is Sergio and I'm your personal trainer Spanish. How are you going to study Spanish? Are you practicing every day?

Very good! Today is the fifth program, the fifth stage on your way to Spanish and will talk about the vocabulary of computer and Internet (Spanish Internet Vocabulary). 

But first, as always, I want to remind you that on my website spanishroute.com have the transcription and translation into English of this class. Also, from SpanishRoute.com/contact, you can write with doubts and questions to resolve in the program. 

And if you want to improve your speech I can help you practice your Spanish with Skype conversation sessions. Remember SpanishRoute.com. And now. Let 's start with the class.

Spanish Internet Vocabulary

Because the Internet is a very modern technology, many of the words we use come from English. Why is this language which was used for the first time. They are therefore Anglicisms.

But as we saw in the previous chapter the use of Anglicisms still uses and geographic customs.

The word Internet is often used without an article but also can be used with both male and female article. "El Internet" or "La Internet".

The word "online": how do you say in Spanish?

The word online is translated into Spanish by "en línea" when we perform any task connected to the Internet. But the English form online is also very common among those who speak Spanish.

Another word is widely used in Internet mail or email. Spanish is commonly used in the English form but the right thing is to use the Spanish translation: "correo" or "correo electrónico".

For example: I can say you:

Mi dirección de correo electrónico es: [email protected]

As you can hear, the email address we have a new word that is "arroba". The "arroba" is a letter or rather a symbol of ancient origin that was recovered in the Internet age for use in email addresses. It is written between the user name and the domain name, server or provider mail account. In English "arroba" is said "at". 

The "arroba" symbol @ in Spanish

The "arroba" symbol is a letter "a" locked in an open circle. In Spanish the word "arroba" also means old unit weight and volume variable value according to regional differences.

When we say an e-mail also added the word "punto", as in the domains or URLs to add the termination of domain or mail account provider.

"Punto" is the punctuation mark that ended with sentences and paragraphs in Spanish. English "dot" is said.

URLs (Uniform Resource Locator) in Spanish

On the Internet there are also the addresses of web pages or web sites. Also known URLs acronym, which stands for the English words in Spanish means Localizador Uniforme de Recursos (Uniform Resource Locator), so the acronym should be LUR, but still use the orignial English acronym URL). You can also listen to the English form website, but the right thing is to use the Spanish translation "sitio web" or "página web".

Urls usually start with three double-ues. (WWW). Followed by a dot (punto), and the domain name. After another dot and finally a extenson or termination, which can be com, net, es, etc.

Double-u letter (Uve doble) in Spanish can be called in several ways depending on the geographical origin of the speaker.

In Spain it is usually called "Uve doble" and Latin America is often called "doble u" or "doble ve" seen since in those countries the letter "uve" (v) also called "ve baja". 

We will review the names of the letters of the alphabet in Spanish in upcoming programs. Since there are more letters that can be difficult for students of Spanish.

Therefore the urls with the structure of the three double-ues, the domain name and extension are usually "pagina de inicio del sitio web"  (home pages of a website). What in English is known as the Home. You can also hear talk of "home" to a Spanish speaker to refer to the homepage of a website.

Bar, hyphens and underscore in Spanish

For other pages of a website URL uses the sign / ("barra" or "barra inclinada"). In English slash or forward slash, to add content to the web address after the extension. When the content between bars of a URL is made up of more than one word they are usually separated by "guiones" (Hyphens in English) not to be confused with "la raya" or "gión largo" (that English is Dash). "El guión" is also on the keyboard minus (or subtraction in math).

"La arroba" we saw earlier is not only used for email addresses. Currently also they used to indicate usernames on Social Media. User names on social media are written with the @ followed by the username. No spaces or other intermediate signs.

Social Networks in Spanish

The two main social networks I use are Twitter and Facebook. The names of social networks are not translated into Spanish but if your pronunciation vary by geographic region of the speaker.

The name of my facebook page is www.facebook.com/spanishroute and my username on Facebook is @spanishroute.

On Twitter (in case you want to follow) my username is @spanish_route ¿"guión bajo"?

What does "gión bajo" mean? You're wondering ...

"El guión bajo" is the sign that English is called underscore. It is a horizontal line at the base of the writing line. Unlike the hyphen that goes in the midline of the accompanying letters.

The underscore was formerly used in typewriters for underlined.

Currently, it is used in internet and computer to separate words that programming needs can not be separated.

Although the names of social networks are not translated into Spanish if new words have emerged due to its use. 

In Spanish there is "tuitear" verb (which already recognizes dictionary Spanish) and means "to communicate via tweets" or "send something through a tweet."

"El tuit" or "los tuits" are messages that are written to twitter.

There is also the word "tuiteo", which is the action or effect of "tuitear".

How to write these new words have been adapted to Spanish phonetics and writing. It is not used, therefore, neither W nor the two T Twitter name. 

"Tuitear" is written with the following letters: T-U-I-T-E-A-R

On Twitter and other social networks we use the sign # (almohadilla) which in English is hash, to introduce hashtags. Which has no translation into Spanish. It could be translated by "etiqueta" (tag) and therefore this English word is used although it does not exist in the Spanish dictionary.

More vocabulary computer and internet in Spanish (Spanish Internet Vocabulary)

When using social networks like Facebook or Twitter, we have a "usuario" (user) and a "perfil" (profile). "El usuario" is the name we give to know on the internet and "el perfil" is the information you give to know on the internet and other users can see you. There is also "el muro" that English is said wall or timeline, which is the activity of other users and pages that follow in this social network.

When writing an email we can attach documents (images, pdfs, and audio). We can send mail just write or forward to someone else via e-mail just received.

Both in our email and on our computer we have "carpetas" (folder, in English) where we store documents. One of them, which is called "papelera" (trash, in English) is where we want to remove documents or documents trash.

Software help us perform many tasks on the computer. On the mobile phone, these programs are called (applications) or apps (with two P, as in English)

Cloud, upload, download ... in Spanish

Although currently many tasks can be done "en linea"(online) even save your documents in "la nube". "Nube" is called "claud" in English.

And when we keep something in the cloud, we use the verb "subir" (to rise, to upload), or the verb "colgar" (to hang). On the contrary, we use "bajar" o "descargar" (to download), when we retrieve a document from the cloud. For example, I can say:

“Acabo de subir el pdf a mi cuenta de google drive. Te mando el enlace por correo electrónico para que lo puedas descargar”

"I just uploaded the pdf to my Google drive. I send the email link so you can download ".

In this phrase I use the word "enlace" instead of the "link" English form. 

When using internet, we "navegamos" surf the Internet, the program to connect to the Internet is "el navegador" (the browser), such as Explorer, Chrome or Firefox. The text box where you enter the URL or website address you want to visit is called "barra de navegación" (the navigation bar).

The browser tabs (pestañas del navegador") open to have more than one webpage open. How "pestaña" is said in English? "Pestaña", in English "pestaña" is tab. In Spanish "pestaña" is the same word we use to name long hairs we have on eye lids. 

"La ventana" (window in English) is each of the programs or folders that are open on our computer. Same browser can be opened more than once in different windows and each window to have more than one tab open. You understand, right?

Sometimes we want to update or refresh a page to reload. The button where we will click ("clicar" what means to click or to enter) is an open circle with an arrow on one end.

Many new words have hispanicized literally translating the English word. It is what happens to "refrescar"translated to refresh.

Types of computers in Spanish

In Spanish it is called "ordenador" to computer we use to connect to the Internet, but it can also be called "computador". When it is smaller and easily transportable called "portatil" also "ordenador portatil". In some Latin American countries often use the English form laptop. 

Smaller and touchscreen are "tabletas" or tablets. English tablet form is often used both in Spain and Latin America.