Spanish School & Learning Vocabulary

Spanish School & Learning Vocabulary: the list

Gender: m. masculine · f. feminine · n. neuter · c. common

Tips

• Nouns ending in -ción, such as graduación, are reliably feminine, so you can learn that ending as a pattern instead of memorising the gender word by word.
• Watch out for tesis: it ends in -s but is feminine (la tesis), and the singular and plural forms look identical, so context tells you which is meant.
• Lectura is a classic false friend: it means "reading," not "lecture" — link it to the act of reading rather than to the English word it resembles.
• Sort the teacher words by setting: maestro is common for a primary-school teacher, profesor for secondary school or university, and profe is the casual spoken short form.
• Practise graduar and graduarse together: graduar is what an institution does to a student, while reflexive graduarse is what the student does.
• Drill verbs in meaning pairs — enseñar with aprender, estudiar with repasar — so you retrieve them by sense rather than at random.

Frequently asked questions

What kind of words are in this Spanish school vocabulary list?

It mixes people (maestro, profesor, alumno, tutor), places (instituto, internado), and core actions (enseñar, aprender, estudiar, repasar, dibujar), plus academic milestones such as graduación and doctorado — the everyday words for talking about school and learning in Spanish.

How should I practise this school and learning vocabulary?

Type the Spanish word for each English prompt and let spaced repetition resurface items like tesis or enseñanza just as you are about to forget them. Practising related forms together, such as graduar with graduarse, helps the grammar stick alongside the meaning.

Do I need to learn the gender of nouns like clase or instituto?

Yes — Spanish nouns carry a gender, and it is shown for every noun here, so you can learn clase as feminine and instituto as masculine from the start. That makes choosing the right articles and adjective endings much easier later.

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