el grupo de música
“el grupo de música” — band in Spanish. Noun, level A2. El grupo alone is just any group of people, hence the tag. La banda is a brass band, not a rock band. In a live sentence: “Montaron un grupo de música en el instituto” — They put a band together at secondary school. You can hear how it sounds right here. A word from the everyday Spanish course, level A2.
In short
| Written in Spanish | el grupo de música |
| Translation | band |
| Part of speech | noun |
| Level | A2 |
- el grupo de músicaband
Why it looks that way
El grupo alone is just any group of people, hence the tag. La banda is a brass band, not a rock band
A word with a story stays in memory longer than one learned as a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.
In a live sentence
A single word almost never appears alone in conversation. A sentence shows where it fits and what stands next to it.
- Montaron un grupo de música en el institutoThey put a band together at secondary school
How not to forget this word
Reading a word and remembering it are different jobs. A day later, little survives of a single reading — and that is not bad memory, that is how memory works.
- This has been tested on foreign words too. The difference shows up most when you test yourself a few days later rather than straight away.checked many timesKim & Webb, 2022, Language Learning 72(2) · 48 experiments, 3,411 participants, 98 comparisons.
- Recalling beats re-reading. Covering the translation and trying to remember it does more than reading it ten more times.checked many timesAdesope, Trevisan & Sundararajan, 2017, Review of Educational Research 87(3) · 188 experiments, 272 comparisons. g = 0.61; against plain re-reading 0.51, against passive review 0.93.
- An answer you worked out yourself sticks better than one handed to you.checked many timesBertsch et al., 2007, Memory & Cognition 35(2) · 86 studies, 445 comparisons, d = 0.40.
Frequently asked
How do you say “band” in Spanish?
«el grupo de música». In a live sentence: “Montaron un grupo de música en el instituto” — They put a band together at secondary school. You can hear how it sounds right on this page. Noun, level A2.
Why does this word look the way it does?
El grupo alone is just any group of people, hence the tag. La banda is a brass band, not a rock band. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.
Can I hear how it sounds?
Yes, right on this page: click the word and it will play. The sound works on any phone, and nothing needs to be installed.