Learn how to buy a prepaid phone card
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| INTRODUCTION |
| While most people would never leave home without their cell phones, it's usually not possible to use your personal cell phone while in another country. Dont worry though, In the Czech Republic, you can buy prepaid phone cards for cell phones. These prepaid cell phone cards are sold in phone operators’ kiosks and offices. These include a SIM card with PIN and Czech phone number. You can insert the SIM card into your mobile phone and use it with a Czech number. Easy, isn’t it? In this lesson, you’ll learn the phrases you need to get prepaid cell phone cards. |
| GRAMMAR POINT |
| The Czech expression for “prepaid cell phone card” is předplacená karta na telefon. This is literally translated as “prepaid phone card for a telephone”. |
| Let’s break it down. |
| Před-pla-ce-ná kar-ta na te-le-fon. |
| Once more: |
| Předplacená karta na telefon. |
| The first word předplacená is the singular of “prepaid” in English. |
| (slow) Před-pla-ce-ná. |
| Předplacená. |
| The second word karta means “card”. |
| (slow) Kar-ta. |
| Karta. |
| And next we have na telefon which literally means “on telephone”. |
| (slow) Na te-le-fon. |
| Na telefon. |
| The whole expression for the Prepaid phone card’ is... |
| Předplacená karta na telefon. |
| When you’re looking for a SIM Card, you can use this word to refer to it in the Czech Republic. |
| Using the word, you can ask “Do you sell prepaid cell phone cards?" In Czech, this is.. |
| Prodáváte předplacené karty na telefon? |
| Let’s break it down: |
| Pro-dá-vá-te před-pla-ce-né kar-ty na te-le-fon? |
| Once more: |
| Prodáváte předplacené karty na telefon? |
| The first word prodáváte is translated as “do you sell” |
| (slow) Pro-dá-vá-te. |
| Prodáváte. |
| The second word is předplacené, which is the plural of “prepaid” in English. |
| (slow) Před-pla-ce-né. |
| Předplacené. |
| Next we have the word karty, in English “cards”. |
| (slow) Kar-ty. |
| Karty. |
| And at the end we have na telefon which literally means “on telephone” in English. |
| All together, we have |
| (slow) Pro-dá-vá-te před-pla-ce-né kar-ty na te-le-fon? |
| Prodáváte předplacené karty na telefon? |
| Literally this means, “Do you sell prepaid phone cards for telephone?” |
| The answer to this will be “ano” meaning yes or “ne” meaning no. If they have the cards, you can say ‘One prepaid card, please.” |
| To say “One prepaid card” in Czech, you can say.. |
| Jednu předplacenou kartu na telefon, prosím. |
| (slow) Jed-nu před-pla-ce-nou kar-tu na te-le-fon, pro-sím. |
| Jednu předplacenou kartu is the form of the expression jedna předplacená karta which means “one prepaid card” in English. |
| Using the word, you can say... |
| Jednu předplacenou kartu na telefon, prosím. |
| This literally means “One prepaid card for the telephone, please”. |
| (slow) Jednu předplacenou kartu na telefon, prosím. |
| Jednu předplacenou kartu na telefon, prosím. |
| When you buy new cell phone cards, they might already have a small amount of money on them. If you want to charge it with more, you can say ‘Charge the prepaid card, please.’ In Czech, this is.. |
| Kredit na telefon, prosím. |
| (slow) Kre-dit na te-le-fon, pro-sím. |
| The first word kredit , means “credit” or “charge”. |
| (slow) Kre-dit. |
| Kredit. |
| Next we have the expression na telefon which literally means “on telephone”. |
| (slow) Na te-le-fon. |
| Na telefon. |
| At the end we have prosím, the word for “please”. |
| Kredit na telefon, prosím. |
| This literally means “Credit for the phone, please” |
| Let’s say you want to recharge your account with 5 euros. In this case, add “for five Euro” or za pět euro at the end of the sentence. In Czech, “Charge the prepaid card with 5 Euros, please.” is.. |
| Kredit na telefon za pět euro, prosím. |
| Let’s break it down: |
| (slow) Kre-dit na te-le-fon za pět eu-ro, pro-sím. |
| Kredit na telefon za pět euro, prosím. |
| Za pět euro means “for five euros”. |
| (slow) Za pět eu-ro. |
| Za pět euro. |
| Here’s the entire sentence again. |
| Kredit na telefon za pět euro, prosím. |
| This literally means, “Credit for the phone for five euros, please.” |
| If you want to charge it with 7 euros, simply replace the number. In Czech, you can say 7 as sedm. |
| (slow) Sedm. |
| Sedm. |
| When you want to say ‘Charge the prepaid card with 7 euros, please’, it’s... |
| Kredit na telefon za sedm euro, prosím. |
| (slow) Kre-dit na te-le-fon za sedm eu-ro, pro-sím. |
| Kredit na telefon za sedm euro, prosím. |
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