Spanish Word of the Day: peinar (listen to this word)
Spanish-English Translation: to comb
Spanish Vocabulary In Context:
Un cadete peina el casco de su compañero antes de una ceremonia militar en la escuela de cadetes José María Córdova de las Fuerzas Armadas, en Bogotá.
Country: Colombia
Photo Vocabulary Objectives and Rationale:
Want to learn new Spanish words each day? Photo Vocab is a Spanish vocabulary builder that teaches Spanish vocabulary and Spanish phrases along with their English translation through the day’s most striking photography.
Photo Vocab is like a picture dictionary, but contextualized in both time and space. As you know, Spanish vocabulary doesn’t naturally exist decontextualized like we find it in most text books. Spanish words show up in Spanish phrases which show up in Spanish sentences which show up in day-to-day conversations about the real world which itself exists in the stream of time. Thus, Photo Vocab attempts to work backwards to learn the Spanish language: 1) View the real world through a photo taken today, 2) Read a paragraph about it, 3) Isolate a key expression or Spanish word. This method will surely work best with Visual Learners, but hopefully it will help us all to associate one new word a day with an unforgettable picture.