"¡Hola! Soy Carlos. Me abres y subo. ¿vale?"

Question

I tried to translate this sentence here but the translations given don't make much sense to me. Could someone please help me out?

Thanks

Answer 1

"Hi, It's Carlos when you open up I'll come up, OK?"

Many apartment houses, Here in the US, Spain, everywhere have an entrance door at the ground floor. You push the button of the apartment you want, If the occupant is there he/she will talk to you through the intercom. If they want to let you in, they will "buzz" the lock on that door, then you go up to the apartment.

"Vale" means "OK" in Spain. Occasionally I'll use it without thinking and get some strange looks from my Latin-american friends.

I just noticed that this question requires an answer. Here's a negative one.

"¿Caarloos?---¡De ninguna manera! ¡No te acordaste de traerme flores para mi cumpleaños!

Chaaarlie?? No way José! You didn't remember to bring me flowers for my birthday!!

:-) - LuisCache, Nov 28, 2014

Excellent! - sanlee, Nov 28, 2014

Thanks a lot for taking the time to give such a detailed answer Daniela. Much appreciated. - Ali8970, Nov 28, 2014

And your "negative response" is really good too. :-) - Ali8970, Nov 28, 2014

Answer 2

You open me and I climb.

Is this from a song?

It's a sentence in my book. It goes like this "¡Hola! Soy Carlos. Me abres y subo. ¿vale?" - Ali8970, Nov 27, 2014

Can you provide more context? Perhaps he is talking about going up to an apartment? - NikkiLR, Nov 27, 2014

Thing is, that's all I am given in this exercise. There are 8 sentences. All separate. This is one of them. We are supposed to write two responses for each sentence. One as a yes and the other as a n - Ali8970, Nov 27, 2014