la zona de obras
“la zona de obras” — construction zone in Spanish. Noun, level B1. La obra in the course is already the site itself; the fenced-off stretch with warning signs is la zona de obras. In a live sentence: “No se puede entrar en la zona de obras” — You can't enter the construction zone. You can hear how it sounds right here. A word from the everyday Spanish course, level B1.
In short
| Written in Spanish | la zona de obras |
| Translation | construction zone |
| Part of speech | noun |
| Level | B1 |
- la zona de obrasconstruction zone
Why it looks that way
La obra in the course is already the site itself; the fenced-off stretch with warning signs is la zona de obras
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.
- No se puede entrar en la zona de obrasYou can't enter the construction zone
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 “construction zone” in Spanish?
«la zona de obras». In a live sentence: “No se puede entrar en la zona de obras” — You can't enter the construction zone. You can hear how it sounds right on this page. Noun, level B1.
Why does this word look the way it does?
La obra in the course is already the site itself; the fenced-off stretch with warning signs is la zona de obras. 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.