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Talk About School in Spanish

Quick Answer

¡Hola!Learn how to talk about school in Spanish! Specifically, learn how to do the following in Spanish:

• talk about school subjects

• state what you want to be

• say what classes you have

Vocabulary

Let's start off with the vocab words in these lessons!

Nouns

Spanish	English
el arte	art
el/la artista	artist
el aula	classroom
la biblioteca	library
la cita	appointment
la clase	class
la clase de Español	Spanish class
la clase de Estadística	statistics class
la clase de Física	physics class
la clase de Historia	history class
la clase de Matemáticas	math class
el consejo	tip
el diccionario	dictionary
el escritorio	desk
la escuela	school
el horario	schedule
el lápiz	pencil
la librería	bookstore
el/la maestro	teacher
las matemáticas	math
la mochila	backpack
la nota	grade
la oficina	office
el papel	paper
la prueba	test
la respuesta	answer
la universidad	university

examples
Voy a la universidad. I'm going to the university.
Esta es mi clase. This is my class.
Tengo clase de Español. I have Spanish class.

Capitalization Tip

Words like Historia and Matemáticas are capitalized in Spanish when they refer to the name of an academic subject. When they're used in general, they are not capitalized. Also, note that the names of languages are only capitalized in Spanish when we are talking about the academic subject.

examples

Martín va a estudiar para la clase de Historia.

Martín is going to study for history class.

examples
Martín va a estudiar para la clase de Historia. Martín is going to study for history class.

Tricky Words: Librería

Librería may look like it means library, but it doesn’t. It’s a false cognate! False cognates, often called falsos amigosin Spanish or false friends in English, are words in different languages that look similar, but do not actually mean the same thing.

Gender Tip

Despite using the masculine article, aula and arte are feminine nouns. So, why do they use el? Singular feminine nouns that start with stressed a or ha sounds use the masculine singular article, el. This occurs for the same reason we use an instead of a in English—two as together are very difficult to pronounce!

Note that both aula and arte use las when they are plural.

examples

¿Dónde está el aula de Arte?

Where is the art classroom?

¿Dónde están las aulas de la universidad?

Where are the university’s classrooms?

examples
¿Dónde está el aula de Arte? Where is the art classroom?
¿Dónde están las aulas de la universidad? Where are the university’s classrooms?

Verbs

In this skill you review the present tense conjugation of tener(to have), a stem-changing verb with an irregular yo form.

Tener

Pronoun(s)	Conjugation	Translation	Notes
yo	tengo	I have
tú	tienes	you have	informal singular you
vos	tenés	you have	informal singular you (in parts of Latin America)
él, ella	tiene	he, she has
usted	tiene	you have	formal singular you
nosotros, nosotras	tenemos	we have
vosotros, vosotras	tenéis	you have	informal plural you (in Spain)
ellos, ellas	tienen	they have
ustedes	tienen	you have	plural you (in Latin America), formal plural you (in Spain)

Phrases

Here are some of the phrases used in these lessons!

Spanish	English
¿Dónde está el aula de Arte?	Where is the art classroom?
Quiero ser artista.	I want to be an artist.
Tengo clase de Español.	I have Spanish class.