Politics and political
La política is politics. As a subject it takes the article; after hablar de it usually goes without one:
| Politics doesn't interest me. | La política no me interesa. |
| My father loves talking about politics. | A mi padre le encanta hablar de política. |
Político is the adjective. Like most adjectives, it usually follows the noun and agrees with it: un problema político, las ideas políticas.
| My grandfather never talks about his political ideas. | Mi abuelo nunca habla de sus ideas políticas. |
Spain's autonomous communities
Spain is divided into seventeen comunidades autónomas, plus two autonomous cities, Ceuta and Melilla. Each has its own president and government, and some have a second official language:
| comunidad autónoma | second official language |
|---|---|
| Cataluña | catalán |
| Galicia | gallego |
| País Vasco | vasco |
| Andalucía | none |
| Spain has seventeen autonomous communities. | España tiene diecisiete comunidades autónomas. |
| Galicia is an autonomous community with two official languages. | Galicia es una comunidad autónoma con dos idiomas oficiales. |
On its own, la comunidad is a community of people:
| In my neighborhood there is a very big Chinese community. | En mi barrio hay una comunidad china muy grande. |
Studies and foreign languages
You know el estudio as a studio flat and a TV studio. In the news, un estudio is usually a piece of research, and según un estudio means "according to a study":
| According to a study, young Spaniards read little. | Según un estudio, los jóvenes españoles leen poco. |
Extranjero ("foreign") usually follows the noun: un idioma extranjero, turistas extranjeros.
| Speaking a foreign language is very useful. | Hablar un idioma extranjero es muy útil. |
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