People and feelings

What holds these lists together

What there is to say about a person once name and job have been given: how they are, how they behave, whom they trust and whom they have fallen out with. The feelings put ser and estar to the test, learnt on the first day and deciding something here for the first time. English marks the difference with an ending, «boring» and «bored»; Spanish marks it with the verb, es aburrido and está aburrido. Some adjectives look English and are not: a persona sensible is sensitive, while «sensible» is sensato. And saying enfadado where molesto would do makes you sound angrier than you are.

For example: el sentimiento (the feeling), la amistad (the friendship), la conducta (the behaviour), la rabia (the rage), la charla informal (the talk that is not a meeting), el psicoanálisis (the theory, the method and the treatment under one name)

Spread across the levels

The category runs across the levels — it is an area, not a difficulty. If you practise it, you can also choose a level at the top of the practice page and then get only the part that sits there.