Master city life vocabulary with flashcards, audio pronunciation, and tiered difficulty levels designed to take you from beginner to advanced.
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Memory Trick: Think of rasca (scratches) and cielos (skies). A skyscraper literally 'scratches the sky'.
It scratches (rasca) the sky (cielo)!
Memory Trick: Notice how similar it is to 'pharmacy'. Just swap 'ph' for f and add cia at the end.
FARM-ah-see-ah is where you get medicine!
Memory Trick: Think of a semaphore signaling system used by ships, adapted for city streets as a traffic light.
SEMA-foro acts as a semaphore for street traffic!
Memory Trick: Picture eating a bowl of a-CEREAL while walking along the sidewalk on your morning routine.
Walk safely on the acera!
Memory Trick: Imagine dropping mail into a box and hearing a loud BOO-ZONE sound ringing out.
BOO-zone for mailing letters!
Memory Trick: Connect it with ferrum (Latin for iron) or steel tools sold in a hardware shop.
FERRE-tería for iron tools and hardware!
How city life vocabulary varies across Spain and Latin America.
Spain: el coche
Mexico & Central America:
el carro
Argentina & Chile: el auto
Spain & Mexico: el autobús
Argentina & Uruguay: el colectivo
Cuba & Canary Islands: la guagua
Spain, Mexico & Chile: el metro
Argentina: el subte
Spain & Colombia: la acera
Argentina & Uruguay: la vereda
Mexico: la banqueta
Spain: el aparcamiento
Mexico & Central America:
el estacionamiento
Argentina & Peru:
la playa de estacionamiento / el parqueo
Spain: el atasco
Mexico & Central America:
el embotellamiento
Colombia: el trancón
Chile: el taco
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