Español Word Collections

Spanish vocabulary for looking after an animal: la mascota, el cachorro, el hámster, el loro, la tortuga, la raza. Plus feeding, grooming and daily care, and the words for describing a symptom to a vet and understanding the treatment.

Spanish vocabulary for crime and public safety: el delito, la policía, el agente, el sospechoso, la víctima, el testigo. Covers news coverage, the legal terms behind it and the language needed to report an incident at a station.

Spanish vocabulary for celebrations: la boda, el cumpleaños, la fiesta, la celebración, el día festivo, el regalo, la invitación. Plus everyone involved in a wedding and the toasts and congratulations that are expected.

Spanish vocabulary for building and renovating: la renovación, la reparación, remodelar, el contratista, el albañil, el arquitecto. Covers tools and materials, and how to explain a job or buy the right thing in a hardware shop.

Spanish vocabulary for music: la canción, el cantante, la banda, el concierto, la guitarra, el piano, la batería. Covers genres and instruments plus everything around a live show, from tickets and the queue to the encore.

Spanish vocabulary for building a company: la empresa emergente, el emprendedor, el fundador, el cofundador, el inversor, la financiación. Covers pitching and metrics, hiring and growth — the words used in a first investor meeting.

Spanish vocabulary for talking about mental health properly: la ansiedad, la depresión, el estrés, el agotamiento, la terapia, el terapeuta. Plus the wording that keeps a difficult conversation respectful rather than clinical.

Spanish vocabulary for environmental topics: el cambio climático, el calentamiento global, el medio ambiente, la contaminación, la sostenibilidad. Covers recycling and waste, renewable energy and the terms used in news reports.

Spanish vocabulary for getting around by road: el coche, el conductor, el motor, el neumático, el volante, el freno, plus road signs and traffic rules and the phrases used at a petrol station or a car rental desk.

Spanish vocabulary for everyday technology: el teléfono inteligente, el portátil, la tableta, el cargador, la batería, la pantalla, el teclado. Plus apps and accounts and the words for describing a fault or changing a setting.

Spanish phrases for situations where hesitation costs time: ¡ayúdeme por favor!, ¡llame a la policía!, ¡llame a una ambulancia!, es una emergencia. Plus describing what happened and where, and the questions an operator asks first.

Spanish vocabulary for renting abroad: alquiler, inquilino, propietario, contrato de arrendamiento, depósito, estudio. Covers reading a listing, understanding a lease and the questions worth asking before anything is signed.

Spanish academic vocabulary for studying at a Spanish-speaking university: universidad, profesor, clase, semestre, título, beca. Covers following a lecture, structuring an essay, and handling enrolment, deadlines and coursework.

Spanish phrases for the phone, where there is no body language to fall back on: ¿puedo hablar con…?, ¿quién llama por favor?, llamo por mi pedido. Covers transfers, leaving a message and working through a customer service call.

Spanish phrases for a medical appointment abroad, from necesito ver a un médico and quisiera pedir una cita to describing exactly where it hurts and for how long. Includes understanding the diagnosis and the prescription that follows.

Spanish vocabulary for life online: publicación, muro, me gusta, compartir, comentario, seguidor and the verbs for posting, following and unfollowing. Plus the abbreviations and slang that fill comment threads and private chats.

Spanish phrases for professional email: estimado señor o señora, le escribo para informarle, adjunto encontrará. Covers greetings and closings, requests, follow-ups and delivering bad news without sounding blunt.

Spanish words and phrases pulled from series people actually watch — La Casa de Papel, Vis a Vis, El Juego del Calamar, La Reina del Flow. Each with the context it appears in, so it is recognisable next time on screen.

Spanish words learners regularly get wrong — vergüenza, murciélago, ferrocarril, arquitectura, pelirrojo — grouped by the sound behind the mistake: rolled r, the silent h and vowels that shift under an English accent.

Whole Spanish sentences from conversations that actually happen — ¿cómo estás?, estoy bien gracias, mucho gusto, buenos días. Ready to use as they stand, each with a translation and the situation it belongs in.

Advanced Spanish vocabulary for the DELE exam, grouped by the topics it actually tests: sociedad, gobierno, economía, investigación, población, desarrollo. Includes the formal register and linking words written tasks expect.

Spanish legal terminology as it appears in practice: abogado, juez, tribunal, juzgado, demanda, acusado. Covers court procedure and the people involved, recurring contract clauses, and criminal against civil vocabulary.

Spanish vocabulary for property work: inmueble, vivienda, departamento, terreno, edificio and the features that appear in a listing, plus contract and transaction terms and the language of mortgages and financing.

Spanish proverbs still used in ordinary conversation, from más vale tarde que nunca to en boca cerrada no entran moscas. Each with its literal sense, what it actually means and the nearest English equivalent.