"Para ir al museo toma el metro."
Translation:To go to the museum take the subway.
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I answered" Take the metro to go to the museum" because metro was a common name for the subway in the city I worked in.
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I wouldn't translate Metro. Just like I wouldn't translate pesos to dollars...
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Exactly. Reading the above, I wouldn't translate it to "the Underground".
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Though not literally correct, 'get to' might be a more natural-sounding translation for 'ir a' in these cases.
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For 'para que', sometimes Duo wants 'in order to' and sometimes just 'to'. They seem interchangeable to me in English. Is there a difference in Spanish? Thanks.
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Are you asking wether there is a difference between 'para que' and 'para que'?
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"underground" and "the tube" should be accepted for metro. We don't say subway or metro in British English
I don't get why, Para or al banco "tome" un taxi., But, Para ir al museo "Toma" el metro
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There was another sentence before: Tome un taxi. Why not toma? Do we use toma when there's an article and tome when there's a number?
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A previous sentence corrected my 'toma el tren' to 'tome'. Other students wrote that 'tome' is the formal form and 'toma' is informal. I am not sure the difference is clear in the present example.
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I'd recommend going on spanishdict and reading through the conjugation of a word whenever you're confused about some form.
It helps me a lot to clear things up
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Not all metros are subteranian, so although the Tube, in London is mostly underground, metro, which we have in other cities, and subway, should be accepted too. We have a metro in Alicante too and that is synonymous with tram! Its very confusing, so the translation needs to be quite broad.