📖LearnModule 8 · Lesson 18 of 30Independent User · CEFR B2, first halfUnit 4 · El medio ambiente y la sociedad
La sociedad
Module 8 of the free Spanish course (CEFR B2, first half), lesson 18 of 30: Social vocabulary in Spanish leans on a few abstract nouns that English mostly shares: la igualdad. On this page: 9 words with their genders and respellings, the rule, a watch-out line and the audio — the study notes behind the workbook's QR.
The words
Spanish
English
Say it
la igualdad
equality
lah ee-gwahl-DAHD
la ciudadanía
citizenship
lah syoo-dah-dah-NEE-ah
el voluntariado
voluntary work
ehl boh-loon-tah-RYAH-doh
la asociación
the non-profit organization
lah ah-soh-syah-SYOHN
la justicia
justice
lah hoos-TEE-syah
la libertad
freedom
lah lee-behr-TAHD
el ciudadano
the citizen
ehl syoo-dah-DAH-noh
la comunidad
the community
lah koh-moo-nee-DAHD
comprometido
committed to a cause (m)
kohm-proh-meh-TEE-doh
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
Social vocabulary in Spanish leans on a few abstract nouns that English mostly shares: la igualdad, la libertad, la justicia, la ciudadanía (citizenship). What English does not have in one word is el voluntariado — unpaid voluntary work, a word Spanish texts use constantly.
Y también · And also
Una asociación here is a non-profit organization, not a club in the loose English sense; if a text says trabaja como voluntario en una asociación, it means he volunteers for a charity. La comunidad is the community, and comprometido is committed to a cause.
Ojo · Watch out
una asociación is a non-profit organization, not a loose club. el voluntariado is voluntary work; el voluntario is the volunteer. And comprometido means committed to a cause here — it also means engaged to be married.
Do it now — on paper
Say all 9 words aloud twice from the respelling, then once from the Spanish spelling alone — begin with la igualdad.
Copy every word with its accents on paper; then cover the English column and write each meaning back from the Spanish.
Write two sentences of your own that get the watch-out line right, then the two practice pages of workbook lesson 18 in Module 8 are the written half of this page.
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.