Job interview: Self introduction

💬 Word for word this is "to what do you dedicate yourself?". It's the standard way to ask someone's job, more natural than asking about trabajo.

💬 To say your job, use trabajo de plus the job with no un. For example, trabajo de recepcionista "I work as a receptionist". You can also just say soy camarero.

💬 de + el always merges into del: del centro, never de el centro. The same thing happens with a + el → al.

💬 Language names aren't capitalised in Spanish: inglés, francés, español.

💬 un poco de goes before a thing to mean "a bit of": un poco de agua "a little water".

🇪🇸 Being modest about your Spanish goes down well, and interviewers often test it with a few casual questions. Language skills, especially English, are a real asset in Spanish hospitality jobs.

💬 As a question it's two words with an accent: ¿por qué?. As the answer "because", it's one word with no accent: porque.

💬 gusta works like "pleases me", so it changes for plural things: me gustan los idiomas "I like languages". With an activity like trabajar, it stays gusta.

💬 gente "people" is grammatically singular in Spanish: la gente es simpática "people are nice", not son.

💬 Here le means the polite "you", and the present tense llamamos covers a near future plan. Spanish often uses the present this way: mañana le escribo "I'll write to you tomorrow".

💬 After por, the verb stays in its basic form: gracias por venir. Swap it out for others, like gracias por esperar "thanks for waiting".

🇪🇸 This is the polite way to hand thanks back to the interviewer when they say gracias por venir. Use a ti instead if they've been speaking tú with you.

💬 tenga is the polite usted form used for wishes after que. The same pattern gives you que tenga un buen fin de semana "have a nice weekend".