Advanced Spanish Tech Vocabulary

Technology is a necessary part of all of our lives, and some of the most common terms we use every day. Think about all of the time you spend online, telling people about things you said or saw on social media, or using different softwares at work. So much of our lives are in screens, which makes advanced Spanish tech vocabulary a necessity.

Basic phone and computer words are in most intro vocabululary lists. Those words are important, like móvil or ordenador. Однако есть еще очень много слов, которые крайне важны для перехода на следующий уровень беглости речи. Интересно, что ты можешь заметить, что некоторые из этих слов похожи на словарный запас классной комнаты. Это потому, что многие технические слова были названы в честь какого-то материального предмета, например "папка" или "мусорное ведро".

Advanced Spanish Tech Nouns

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Представь, что ты traveling in Spain and you realize you need to borrow a charger because your phone battery is running low. Do you know what you should ask for? These Spanish tech nouns will help you communicate more effectively, whether it’s for fun or in an emergency.

• La batería / la pila - battery
• El borrador - draft
• El cargador - charger
• La carpeta - folder
• La contraseña - password
• El defecto - bug, glitch
• El enlace - link
• La impresora - printer
• Los medios sociales - social media **ПРИМЕЧАНИЕ: В английском языке это единственное число, но в испанском - множественное.
• Портативный орденадор - laptop
• La pestaña - tab
• Крыса - mouse
• La red - network
• El teclado - keyboard
• El usuario - username
• El virus - virus

Key verbs

In Spain, sometimes I used to help my host mom with Facebook. I quickly learned which words I knew and which ones I didn’t! These are verbs that you encounter daily in English, and will encounter often in Spanish.

• Anular - to cancel **NOTE: For technology, this tends to be more common than cancelar in some areas
• Arrastrar - to drag
• Borrar - to erase
• Buscar - to search for **NOTE: Since buscar means to search forТы не используешь "para" после buscar
• Cargar - to load
• Confirmar - to confirm
• Ingresar - to enter information
• Начало сеанса - to log in
• Instalar - to install
• Publicar / postear - to post
• Registrarse - to sign up

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There are more words where these came from, and new words come up every day. Technology is moving pretty fast, but these terms will help you keep up!