Moving to another province
Spain has fifty provincias, and most of them take the name of their capital city.
| Spain has fifty provinces. | España tiene cincuenta provincias. |
A village is usually placed by its province, since the village itself may be too small to be known:
| Which province is your village in? | ¿En qué provincia está tu pueblo? |
Acogedor describes a place that makes you feel at home: a cozy flat, a welcoming village.
| Our new flat is small but cozy. | Nuestro nuevo piso es pequeño pero acogedor. |
People who arrive
El inmigrante has come to live in a country. Seen from the country they left, the same person is un emigrante.
| My grandmother arrived in Spain as an immigrant. | Mi abuela llegó a España como inmigrante. |
La jubilación is retirement, the noun of jubilarse (the person is un jubilado). Many northern Europeans move to the Spanish coast for it:
| Many English people come to live here after retirement. | Muchos ingleses vienen a vivir aquí después de la jubilación. |
Hot weather
| what is hot | how to say it |
|---|---|
| a day, a month, a summer | caluroso |
| something you touch: coffee, an iron | caliente |
| the weather, as a verb | hace calor |
| how you feel | tengo calor |
| Summers here are very hot. | Los veranos aquí son muy calurosos. |
Caliente is usually for things you can touch, so a hot summer is caluroso. Caluroso takes más like any adjective:
| Yesterday was the hottest day of the year. | Ayer fue el día más caluroso del año. |
Trade and the mosque
El comercio is buying and selling, from a local economy to el comercio internacional between countries. Vivir de is to live off something:
| This province lives off tourism and trade. | Esta provincia vive del turismo y del comercio. |
La mezquita is the mosque. Spain's most famous one, in Córdoba, is more than a thousand years old. Friday is the weekly day of shared prayer:
| On Fridays, my neighbor goes to the mosque. | Los viernes, mi vecino va a la mezquita. |
