Occupations

This 10-question vocabulary set pairs common English job titles with their Spanish translations. You are given an occupation in English, such as barber, doctor, or firefighter, and match it to the right Spanish word, one at a time. A useful thing to notice early on is that many job names in Spanish look a lot like their English cousins, so words for roles like actor and editor give you an easy head start. The rest, like the word for a farmer, are less obvious and worth a closer look. Recommended level: beginner.

Here is a second round of occupation vocabulary, this time with 15 English job names to translate into Spanish. It covers roles like pilot, photographer, and taxi driver, including a few that are made up of more than one word. One pattern worth spotting is that some Spanish job words ending in -ista stay exactly the same whether you are talking about a man or a woman, so only the little article in front of them changes. It is a small detail that saves you from memorizing two versions of the same word. Recommended level: beginner.