Society, politics and media

What holds these lists together

The words a society uses to talk about itself: in the news and on social networks, in the debate about migration, in parliament and over who may stay. They are learnt less in conversation than from what is broadcast and printed. An English reader meets a gap straight away: Spanish has one word, la política, for both politics and policy, and tells them apart by context or by the plural, as in las políticas públicas. Other words carry a political sense beside the literal one. La comunidad in Spain is also an autonomous region with its own parliament, and el pueblo is a village as well as a people. Knowing one meaning, you read half a headline.

For example: la noticia de última hora (the breaking news item), el Estado (the State), la emisión (the emission), el medio digital (the online outlet), la migración (the migration), la red social (the social network)

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.