4.16 Introducción: ¿Cuál es la profesión de …?

In this section, you will learn about professions and the verb ‘gustar’ + infinitives to describe what you like to do.

By now you should have a lot of Spanish vocabulary, but forgetting words is only human nature. Rather than instantly reverting to English and asking your instructor “¿cómo se dice “teacher” en español?”, try using circumlocution to describe the word you forgot.

Circumlocution is a strategy for describing or defining a concept instead of saying or writing the specific words. This is the best way to practice learning unknown vocabulary, as you would do if you were in a Spanish-speaking country.

As in the example above, you could say “¿Cómo se dice una persona que enseña o trabaja en una escuela?” Try practicing circumlocution with the words you already know or play a game of taboo.