Mi aplicación favorita

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What you'll learn

Spanish present tense and app words: search, playlist, account, and song.

On Sunday Luis's grandmother sings three words and cannot remember the song. Luis opens Spotify and first searches for a famous singer, but it is the wrong song. He then types the three words, finds it, and saves it in a playlist called Domingo en la cocina. In the afternoon he opens the same account on the tablet and the playlist is there. When the song ends, they put the tablet down and talk.

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Mi aplicación favorita se llama Spotify

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my favorite app is called Spotify

Se llama + name means is called. Favorita agrees with aplicación (feminine).

Basic phrase for introducing your favorite app.

Es una aplicación para escuchar música

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it is an app for listening to music

Para + infinitive explains purpose: para escuchar música means for listening to music.

Useful pattern for describing what an app does.

Con Spotify puedes escuchar millones de canciones

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with Spotify you can listen to millions of songs

Puedes + infinitive expresses ability. Con Spotify shows the tool used.

Typical phrase about music streaming capabilities.

También puedes crear tus propias listas

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you can also create your own playlists

Tus propias listas means your own playlists. Crear + listas means to make playlists.

Useful when talking about personalizing music.

Me gusta compartir música con mis amigos

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I like sharing music with my friends

Me gusta + infinitive means you enjoy doing something. Con mis amigos means with my friends.

Personal experience phrase about music apps.

hacen nuestra vida más fácil y divertida

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they make our life easier and more fun

Hacer + life + adjective describes making something easier. Más fácil y divertida means easier and more fun.

General evaluation of mobile apps' role.

Las aplicaciones nos ayudan a comunicarnos

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apps help us communicate

Ayudar a + infinitive means to help do something. Nos ayudan is they help us.

Summary thought about the value of technology.

Key words

Vocabulary that carries the school-day topic.

Application

aplicación

application / app

Aplicación is a program on your phone for music, messages or other tasks.

Central word of the entire article.

Songs

canciones

songs

Millones de canciones means millions of tracks from many countries and languages.

Key word in the Spotify section.

Playlists

listas

playlists / lists

Listas de reproducción are song collections for studying, exercise or relaxing.

Word from the personalization section.

Ads

anuncios

advertisements / ads

Anuncios entre las canciones are ads in the free version between songs.

Important word from the free vs Premium comparison.

Download

descargar

to download

Descargar música means saving songs offline without internet.

Feature of the paid Spotify Premium version.

Recommends

recomienda

recommends

Te recomienda música nueva means the service suggests new tracks based on your taste.

Word from the Weekly Discovery section.

Device

dispositivo

device

Tienda de tu dispositivo is the app store on your phone or tablet.

Word from the opening paragraph about app stores.

Grammar in context

Patterns from the text worth noticing after reading.

Gustar: liking

Me gusta compartir música con mis amigos

I like sharing music with my friends

Me gusta + infinitive: the action compartir is what you enjoy. Con mis amigos shows who is involved.

Typical pattern for expressing you enjoy an activity.

Poder: ability

Con Spotify puedes escuchar millones de canciones

with Spotify you can listen to millions of songs

Puedes + infinitive expresses ability. Con Spotify shows the tool used.

Shows poder for app capabilities.

Ser: description

Es una aplicación para escuchar música

it is an app for listening to music

Ser + noun describes what something is. Para + infinitive explains its purpose.

Ser + para combination for describing an app's function.

Daily habit

Todos tenemos aplicaciones favoritas

we all have favorite apps

Tenemos is present tense for a general habit. Todos stresses this applies to everyone.