¿Cómo se dice “nurse” en español? In my Spanish for Medical Professionals course, I often get asked how to say various job titles. For example, “How do you say Registered Nurse in Spanish?” As to not reinvent the wheel, I found this great article, Names of Medical Professionals and Specialties in Spanish. It lists all […]
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Now that the COVID-19 vaccine is available, it is would be useful to learn a few Spanish words to help the Spanish-speaking population with this next step of the pandemic. (See Spanish Vocabulary for the Coronavirus Pandemic for more words and phrases related to the virus.) Let’s start out with general vaccination vocabulary. General Vaccination
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Our day-to-day life has been upended with COVID-19. While it would be nice to just ignore it and have it all go away, that is not our current reality. Many of us, including myself, have felt helpless in this situation. It recently dawned on me that while I am not a medical provider, I am
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I was recently asked the following question in my online class: I was wondering, with regards to pronouns and noun endings, what do we do when we want to be gender neutral/inclusive (i.e. not having masculine being default for mixed groups, being neutral when not wanting to assume someone’s gender, variations for nonbinary/genderqueer folks). This
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