- taller – workshop (seen on a sign at a mechanic, and at home depot)
- alineacion – alignment (like for your car)
- llanta – tire
- freno – brake
- vidrio – glass (like a window)
- anteojos – glasses
- polvo – dust
- alcanzar – reach
- nivel – level
- fijar – to fix
Category Archives: languages
Double words
I missed yesterday, so here are 20 for today
- ferrocarril – railroad
- torre – tower
- recorrido – route
- bañera – bathtub
- ducha – shower
- fregadero – sink
- grifo – faucet
- tocador – toilet
- sitio – site
- escasez – shortage
- prensa – press (media)
- ejército – army
- manta – rug/blanket
- interruptor – switch
- bombilla – lightbulb
- tornillo – screw
- escritorio – desk
- lámpara – lamp
- teclado – keyboard
- premio – prize
words
- Portada – cover (page)
- Firma – signature
- Desarollo – development
- Foro – forum
- Sede – seat (as in government)
- Proporcionar – provide
- Sugerir – to suggest
- Fundador – founder
- Logro – profit
- Prevenir – prevent
Word
Here are today’s words. I started doing a construction theme halfway through.
- Antigua – ancient
- Cordillera – mountain range
- Sierra – saw (tool)
- Lechada – grout
- Azulejo – tile
- Peña – rock
- Gabinete – cabinet
- Alfombra – carpet
- Clavo – nail
- Martillo – hammer
Palabras del día
10 more important words for today:
- Actualmente – at the moment, right now
- Destacado – outstanding
- Fronterizo – border
- Ave – bird
- Informático – computer science
- Muro – wall
- Cabo – end
- Pantalla – screen
- Almacenar – to store
- Madera – wood
Spanish
Ok, so the race is on. I let my Mom borrow my German CD’s because I am so busy with the condo right now. With that in mind, it seems to make sense to focus on Spanish for the time being. I read a bit of news on news.google.es today, but it’s kind of tricky, especially because journalists typically seem to try to use big words to sound more sophisticated. I found an article on the Firefox 2.0 release, which was actually pretty easy to read, since I am a nerd and interested in nerdy things. With that in mind, I figured I would pursue some nerd subjects, then it came to me. I spend hours reading Wikipedia articles, so I might as well read them in Spanish. I’m not sure how that’ll work out, but I’m giving it a try. By the way, if you are gonna pursue anything like this, I highly recommend using Firefox with a translator extension, it makes things SO much easier. Also, try to absorb the words instead of just translating and moving on.
I got to thinking about it, and I think my main problem with Spanish is a lack of vocabulary. I know how to say a bunch of stuff, but I always run into stuff I don’t know. So, I looked it up and found this article talking about number of words. It sounds like if you knew about 20,000 words, you would have a pretty good conversational vocabulary. So, say you learned 10 words a day for a year…but, give yourself some days off, so say 200 days. That gives you 2,000 words. This is going to take forever, but I think 2,000 words will actually be pretty sizable, and it will probably grow exponentially. Oh well, here are 10 stupid words for today:
- Descargar – to download
- Además – also
- Quizás – perhaps, maybe
- Lanzar – to send, launch (used for football, software, and who knows what else)
- Mejora – improvement
- Herramienta – tool
- Prueba – test
- Sencillo – simple
- Sobremesa – tablecloth or desktop (computer form factor)
- Pestaña – eyelash and I think tab (as in firefox)
That’s it for today. If you are a Spanish speaker, feel free to correct any mistkaes I’ve mad.