📖LearnModule 14 · Lesson 19 of 30Proficient User · CEFR C2, continuedUnit 4 · Los lenguajes profesionales
La tecnología
Module 14 of the free Spanish course (CEFR C2, continued), lesson 19 of 30: Technical Spanish keeps its own words where English has borrowed: el programa (software). On this page: 9 words with their genders and respellings, the rule, a watch-out line, the conjugation table and the audio — the study notes behind the workbook's QR.
The words
Spanish
English
Say it
el programa informático
the software
ehl proh-GRAH-mah een-fohr-MAH-tee-koh
el equipo
the hardware (the machine)
ehl eh-KEE-poh
la actualización
the update
lah ahk-twah-lee-sah-SYOHN
la copia de seguridad
the backup
lah KOH-pyah deh seh-goo-ree-DAHD
el ajuste
the setting
ehl ah-HOOS-teh
ajustar
to adjust
ah-hoos-TAR
el anglicismo
the anglicism
ehl ahn-glee-SEES-moh
oficial
official
oh-fee-SYAHL
yo ajusto la pantalla
I adjust the screen
yoh ah-HOOS-toh lah pahn-TAH-yah
Respellings follow the course’s say-it key; the stressed syllable is in capitals. Print this lesson’s flashcards (PDF) — the words on the front, the English and respelling on the back.
La regla · The rule
Technical Spanish keeps its own words where English has borrowed: el programa (software), el equipo (hardware, the machine itself), la actualización (update), la copia de seguridad (backup), el ajuste (setting).
Y también · And also
Official Spanish resists anglicisms and often loses: correo electrónico is correct and mail is what people say; software and hardware are simply used, in italics. Read both, write the one your reader uses.
Ojo · Watch out
el equipo is HARDWARE — the machine — as well as the team, so read the context. la actualización is an update; the verb is actualizar. la copia de seguridad is the backup, never la salvaguarda.
ajustar, presente — the table
yo ajusto · tú ajustas · él/ella/usted ajusta · nosotros ajustamos · ustedes ajustan · ellos/ellas ajustan
Do it now — on paper
Say all 9 words aloud twice from the respelling, then once from the Spanish spelling alone — begin with el programa informático.
Copy every word with its accents on paper; then cover the English column and write each meaning back from the Spanish.
Write out ajustar, presente in full from memory, every person, and check each form against the table above.
This free course is the reading half. The writing half — write-in lessons, daily practice pages with built-in review, self-checks and a full answer key — is the companion workbook series, The Spanish Ladder: one workbook per module, fifteen in all, released band by band with the Basic band (Modules 1–5) first.
Keep these words
Turn this lesson’s words into flashcards, then space your reviews — the two habits the research behind our study guides backs hardest.