Newbie - Send a taxi

Hey newbies!

So we are taking a cab today!

The question of the day is: How much is the cab fare where you live?

Here in Shanghai the cab fare starts at 11rmb which is 1.6 USD for the first 9 minutes. For example from my house to work I pay 19rmb (2.7 usd) and it´s 15 min cab ride, pretty good right!

Es muy barato! De mi casa a donde me gusta de salir, es cerca de $20 NZD (que es cerca de $12 USD). Es un viaje 15 minutos también. Qué caro!

Sí lili, ¡es muy barato! en inglaterra, tenería que pagar más que doble por el mismo viaje.

No idea on the cost here. Which is the situation Alex the main character in "Ciudad de los Bestias" runs into when he arrives in New York and needs to get to his Grandmother's apartment.

There is a lot of non-newbie stuff in this sentence imperfect and conditional tenses but the part I found amusing and pertinant here was the final phrase, - la carrera en taxi-  Carrera often means career as in occupation or race as in auto or horse race.  Here it means the journey or course and somehow race seems appropriate, at least for some cabbies.

No sospechaba a qué distancia estaba su apartamento ni cuánto costaría la carrera en taxi.
He didn't have a clue how far it was to her apartment nor what it would cost for a taxi ride.

En mi pais, los joferes de taxi no tienen muy buena reputacion. Especialmente en Praga. Es que tienen diferentes precios para los extranjeros. Pero pienso que esta mejorando (I am not sure about using the subjunctive here...?).

Un viaje de 15.minutos cuesta aprox. 200 CZK, que es +/- $10.

Corrections of my spanish are welcomed :-) Thanks.

olinka28

You are correct.  See the last comment in this thread.  Subjunctive

La tarifa de taxi de mi casa al aeropuerto más cercana es aproximadamente 100.00 dólares canadienses más la propina, entonces por lo general tomo mi proprio coche o hago que alguien me conduzca.

Muchas gracias por esta lección. Estoy segura para usarlo cuando visito Playa del Carmen el próximo febrero.

Stevestrv

thank you for the explanation :-)

Hola Amigos de SpanishPod,

Si quieren alguna vez sentir un terror de veras, tienen que tomar un taxi en la ciuidad de Mexico. Los taxistas alli manejan como locos, y el trafico es horrible, pero saben manejar bien y casi nunca chocan. Se lo recomiendo como una experiencia inolvidable. Pagaran lo que pida el taxista para poder salir rapido del taxi!

La Piedra

ok so i am totally new here anybody got any tips on where to start ???

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if you do not know any spanish which is the easiest lesson to start with ?

lesaley: That's not an easy question because all Newbie lessons are supposed to be equally difficult (there is no progression within each channel). I guess many users start with the lesson that was first published: Are you ready yet? Personally I don't think that the lessons were produced in the order they were published. My guess would be that the lesson My name is... is one of the lessons that was recorded very early (maybe the first). And then there are personal favorites, my favorite newbie lesson is Smells good. Hope this helps

ok thanks for the help

Me acuerdo con La Piedra about el traffico in Ciudad Mexico.  Son locos!  Mi esposo y yo visitimos en enero y viajimos por autobus de Monterrey a Mexico D.F.  En los aerpuertos y los terminales de autobus es possible a comprar boletos para taxis autorizados que son mas seguros que los otras en la calle.  Los precios son muy barato, usualmente tres a cinco dollares.  En Mexico D.F., el hotel llamo un radio taxi para nosotros a la aeropuerto que costo 130 pesos pero fue un grande Chevrolet Suburban y muy luxurious. Y tambien el manejero fue fearless en el traffico!

Disculpame para mi espanol malo (that's why I'm on this site!) and my keyboard doesn't have an accent key.  I love this site because it gives real world Spanish lessons.

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Cobre

!Gracias¡

Ooops, or should it be ¡Gracias! ?

En mi país, el taxi es P30 = US $ 0.625 para el primero 5kms, y Php2.50 = $ 0.05 para los próximos 500 metros, y otro pago para el tiempo de espera Php2.50 = $ 0.05.Tiempo de espera de taxis no está en marcha en trafico

desde mi casa a la oficina de 12kms, pago  Php150= US $ 3.125 si no estoy "ripped off"

= como se dice " to be ripped off" en espanol?

hmmmm... ¡no tengo idea!

I have never taken a cab in my home city. That would be too weird.

He tomado el taxi localmente, pero fue hace más de 30 años.
Me habían contratado para el diseño, "Oscuro de la Luna" para la producción de una escuela secundaria. Normalmente tomé el autobús, pero fui tarde, así que llamé a un taxi. Con ojos por el medidor, que me visto el creciento de esto que casi devorar todos de me dinero.

Detuvo el taxi a 3 cuadras corto de mi destino, y pagué casi todos el dinero que me tenía, excepto la tarifa de autobús para la casa.

Llegué,dos minutos tarde. El jefe, fueron veinte minutos tarde, él tomaron el autobús.

       
I have taken a taxi locally, but it was over 30 years ago.
I had been hired to design, "Dark of the Moon" for a high school production. I normally took the bus, but I was late, so I called the taxi. With eyes on the meter I watched it devour almost all my money.
I stopped the taxi 3 blocks short of my destination, and gave the guy all the money I had except for bus fare home.
I arrived two minutes late. The director arrived twenty minutes late, he took the bus.

Starting at 5 yuan and goes up to 100 yuan you can take a taxi here in Xi'an.

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¿Yallegó?(Did it already arrive?) should be "Has it already arrived?", right? (in the expansion section)

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