Wifi in Spanish: the phrases week one actually needs.

Wifi in Spanish: six lines that solve it.

Wifi in Spanish is el wifi, roughly wee-fee. ¿Hay wifi aquí? means is there wifi here? — hay is the word for there is. ¿Tienen wifi? means do you have wifi? and points the question at the staff. So for do you have wifi in Spanish, say ¿Tienen wifi?; for is there wifi in Spanish, say ¿Hay wifi aquí?

The password line is the one that gets you online. The key word is la contraseña; you may also hear la clave in some countries, but contraseña is understood everywhere. The opening question mark goes where the question begins: the Real Academia Española’s Diccionario panhispánico de dudas says the ¿ sits at the start of the question itself, so a lead-in stays outside it — Perdón, ¿cuál es la contraseña del wifi?

A wifi router in Spanish is el router in everyday speech in Mexico; the box supplied by the company is often el módem, and el enrutador is the word in a manual rather than in a kitchen. Internet is usually masculine, el internet, though you will hear la internet in some countries.

The flat: bills, keys, contract.

Learn these as things in your flat, not as a topic.

La luz means light, but in everyday speech it also means electricity, so ¿ya pagaste la luz? is about the power bill, not the lamp. In some countries you will hear la factura instead of el recibo, and rentar instead of alquilar. El comprobante de domicilio is the proof of address companies ask for when you contract anything, which is why a light bill in your name comes before internet.

Book the installation: a phone script.

Phone calls are harder than counters: no face, no pointing, and the other person is reading from a screen. The fix is a fixed order — greeting, request, address, name on the contract, documents, appointment — so you know what is coming even when the words blur. Use usted throughout; you are calling a company, not a friend.

An illustrative practice dialogue written for this page, not a recording and not a real provider’s script. Prices, packages and visit windows differ.

Have three things in front of you before you dial: the full address including the flat number, the proof of address and your ID. If the line runs too fast, one phrase saves the call: Perdón, ¿puede repetir más despacio, por favor? There is a fuller set in the repeat-and-slow-down guide.

¿A nombre de quién? Ask before anything else.

¿A nombre de quién? means in whose name? You will hear it for a contract, an account and a bill, and on a rented flat it decides who pays and who can change the service later. If the electricity is in the owner’s name: El recibo está a nombre del dueño. If you want it moved: Quiero poner el recibo a mi nombre.

Notice sería and puede in these lines. That is usted, and the RAE’s entry on it explains why the verb looks third-person: the pronoun refers to the person you are speaking to, but grammatically it is third person — it comes from vuestra merced — so the verb agrees with it, puede, not puedes. With a neighbour you can use tú: ¿Tienes wifi? With a company or a desk, keep usted: ¿Tiene wifi?

Say the twenty out loud, then cover them.

Now answer these five aloud with the tables covered. Check only after you have tried all five.

• I can ask for wifi and the password without switching to English.
• I can name the bills I will pay in the flat.
• I can book a technician’s visit on the phone.

So how is this different from an app?

This page is not an app and not a course. It is a page you can read now, with no account and no microphone, and nothing to install. You find out whether you can say ¿Cuál es la contraseña del wifi? by saying it, not by tapping a tile that gives you points.

About the upsell worry: the 7 Day Spanish Starter Plan is five pages, and the whole plan is also on the web page, so you can read Day 1 and Day 2 in the browser. Day 2 is the clarification set — ¿Puede repetir, por favor? — the survival kit for a call at normal speed, and the Conversation Rescue Card puts the time-buying lines on two pages. There is a paid side here too, and it is planned rather than open: the pricing page sets out what each option would include and what is not confirmed yet — no dates, no checkout, no coach named. The Spanish is checked with AI review and no independent teacher review yet, which our editorial policy says plainly. This is practice, not a fluency test, and progress varies.

One next step.

Tonight: open the phone script, cover your lines, and answer the company’s questions aloud until A mi nombre and Tengo el recibo de luz come out without checking. Then take the same phrases into the flat-hunting conversation, because the landlord uses most of them.

Rent a flat in Spanish: the next set

Also useful: Day 2 of the free plan for the repeat-and-slow-down lines, and Spanish for relocation for the order of business in month one.

Common questions.