English Vocabulary and Pronunciation: Key Terms, Numbers and Phonetics for Spanish Speakers

English Vocabulary for Spanish Speakers

Accomplish = conseguir
Accurate = preciso
Achievement = logro
Advertisement banner = mensaje publicitario
Allow = permitir
Apply for = solicitar

Arrangement = plan
Assignment = trabajo
Attendance = asistencia
Average = promedio

Avoid = evitar
Bandwidths = ancho de banda
Based in = con sede en
Below = abajo
Both = ambos

Brackets = paréntesis
Bright = brillante
Brochure = folleto
Complain = quejarse
Development = desarrollo
Dot = punto
Earn = ganar
Easy to use = fácil de manejar

Enclose = adjuntar
Enquiry = pedir información

Erasable = borrable
Expense = gasto
Face = hacer frente
Faithfully = atentamente
Fan = ventilador
Features = cualidades
Fit = encajar
Full range = amplia gama

Get along well with = llevarse bien con
Get on someone's nerves = sacar de quicio
Graduating / degree = titulación universitaria
Leading = importante
Leisure = ocio
Hooked up = conectado
Long term = largo plazo
Looking forward to = deseando
Major = especialidad
Manage = gestionar
Management = gestión
Manufacture = fabricar
Match = emparejar
Mate = compañero
On behalf of = en nombre de
Outstanding = fuera de serie
Overtime = horas extras
Persuade = convencer
Pleasant = agradable
Please = complacer
Polite = educado
Proof = prueba

Range = gama
Recruit = contratar
Redundancy = despido
Report = informe
Research = investigación
Resume = CV
Retire = jubilarse
Sandwich course = curso con prácticas
Sign = firma
Skills = habilidades
Step = paso
Stressful = estresante

Suitable = adecuado
Supplier = proveedor
Supply = suministrar
Therefore = por lo tanto

To meet tight deadlines = ajustarse a plazos
To lead a team = liderar un grupo
Trainee = trabajador en prácticas
Troubleshooting = resolución de problemas

Unpleasant = desagradable
Wide = ancho
Willing = dispuesto a
Workplacement = prácticas en empresa
User-friendly = de fácil uso

Numbers

Thousand: 1000
Hundred: 100

1/2: one half

1/3: one third

2/4: two fourths

3/7: three sevenths

48/69: forty-eight over sixty-nine

48%: forty-eight percent

√: square root of number

21^st: twenty-first

12^th: twelfth

0.02: nought point nought two

Phonetics

[s] = [p] [t] [k] [f] (f) (ph) (gh) [θ]

[iz] = [ts] (ch) [ʃ] (sh) [s]

[z] = when it ends in a vowel sound (i)