Art and craft
Textiles, ceramics, silver and paint — what the things are called, and how to say what you think of them.
A1
- Spanish colours and patterns
The colours, which ones change for gender and which do not, and the words for stripes, checks and the patterns on Peruvian textiles.
A2
- Spanish for doors, doorways and entrances
Puerta, portón, zaguán and portada — the words for the doorways you will photograph in Peru, and how to describe them.
- Spanish for Peruvian textiles and crafts
Alpaca and acrylic, the words for weaving, silver and ceramics, and the questions that tell you what a craft piece actually is.
B1
- Spanish for art: materials, movements and saying what you think
The vocabulary of the studio and the gallery — pigments, canvas, movements — and the one grammar rule art talk forces: negated opinions take the subjunctive.
- Spanish for architects: the vocabulary of a building
Parts of a building, periods, drawings and the tools on the desk — the Spanish architects actually use, plus ser and estar for describing what you see.
- Spanish for colonial architecture in Peru
Balconies, patios, cloisters and sillar — the vocabulary for reading a Peruvian colonial street, and the verbs for talking about it.
- Spanish for the performing arts: stage, cast and performance
Theatre, dance, circus and opera vocabulary — who does what backstage, plus the impersonal se that almost every sentence about a production uses.
- Spanish for photography: the camera, the light, the shot
Aperture, ISO, focus and the genres — the Spanish photographers use, grouped the way you actually talk, plus the verb-to-noun pattern that builds half of it.