day 2how do you say it where you live?

unit 1 · language & identity

how do you say it where you live?

Switch register on purpose: colloquial, neutral and formal Spanish; tú, usted and vos; a noun instead of a verb in writing.

today’s words

sujeto · subject (to), liable (to)
la definición · definition
apropiado · appropriate, suitable
gallego · Galician (also the language)
el rollo · a drag, a bore (colloquial); a roll
pasivo · passive
irregular · irregular
lingüístico · linguistic, language (adj.)
el sinónimo · synonym
la vocal · vowel
el latín · Latin (the language)
la lingüística · linguistics
verbal · verbal, verb (adj.)
la sigla · acronym, initials
plural · plural; diverse
el vocabulario · vocabulary
la ortografía · spelling
el apodo · nickname
el dialecto · dialect
neutro · neutral
el/la hablante · speaker (of a language)
el quechua · Quechua (the language)
chulo · cool, nice (colloquial, Spain)
el castellano · Castilian, Spanish (the language)
el euskera · Basque (the language)
el peninsular · peninsular, of mainland Spain
despectivo · insulting, pejorative
coloquial · colloquial, informal
impropio · inappropriate, out of place
el mote · nickname (often teasing)
la consonante · consonant
el/la caradura · cheeky person, someone with a nerve
el/la hispanohablante · Spanish speaker, Spanish-speaking

sentences

En España se hablan castellano, catalán, gallego y euskera. · In Spain people speak Castilian, Catalan, Galician and Basque.
El castellano viene del latín, como el gallego. · Castilian comes from Latin, like Galician.
Casi 500 millones de personas son hispanohablantes de nacimiento. · Almost 500 million people are native speakers of Spanish.
El español tiene cinco vocales y bastantes más consonantes. · Spanish has five vowels and quite a few more consonants.
«Chulo» es coloquial; en un informe sería impropio. · “Chulo” is colloquial; in a report it would be out of place.