In the Spanish Medium Review quiz series you learned the Spanish vocabulary words for a number of different occupations such as teacher, lawyer, secretary, scientist, policemen and fireman. Clearly there are a lot more occupations and/or careers that people can go into so that first list was rather short. In this Spanish Medium Review quiz we will look at vocabulary words for a number of career choices that will help you say, this is my career!
Again, the list provide here will still not cover every possible career choice but you will definitely have a good start on many avenues available to you. So, without any further delay, let’s take a look at some of those careers.
ENGLISH | SPANISH |
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actor | actor [m] |
actress | actriz [f] |
artist | artista [m/f] (same word for male and female) |
author | autor / autora [m/f] |
banker | banquero / banquera [m/f] |
builder | constructor / constructora [m/f] |
counselor | consejero / consejera [m/f] |
duchess | duquesa [f] |
duke | duque [m] |
king | rey [m] |
lady | dama [f] |
lord | lord [m] |
manager | gerente [m] (same word for male and female) |
minister | ministro / ministra [m/f] |
newscaster | locutor / locutora [m/f] |
nun | monja [f] (note that he J sounds like an H) |
pilot | piloto [m] (same word for male and female) |
politician | político / política [m/f] |
priest | sacerdote [m] (pronounced as să-sear-dō-tāy) |
queen | reina [f] (pronounced as rāy-ē-nă) |
rabbi | rabino [m] |
reporter | reportero / reportera [m/f] |
soldier | soldado [m] (same for male and female) |
sportsman / sportswoman | deportista [m] (same for male and female) |
stewardess | azafata [f] |
teller / cashier | cajero / cajera [m/f] (note that the J sounds like an H) |
There are a lot of new words to learn or relearn here so take your time to get to know each one of them. Practice saying them out loud and look at how they are spelled and notice if they contain any accent marks. When you feel that you are ready, move on to the ten quiz sentences.
Each quiz sentence has a career word that has been shown in all capitalized letters. From the answers provided, locate the answer that correctly translates the capitalized career.