Immersive Spanish - Season 4 - Episode 4 - Sistema de Salud (The Health System)

Real Talk Before We Start If you want to speak Spanish confidently, you have to get comfortable making mistakes out loud. That is the secret. Fluency Builder creates a safe space for that. It's an app on your phone. Download it. I teach you video lessons on your device. Rodrigo, our AI coach, coaches your speaking right for your phone with instant feedback. Guess what? It's judgement free, mistake friendly. Practice anywhere, anytime. Your phone, your coach. Download it at studio.com/immersive-spanish. Season 4. Episode 4. Systema de Salud Hola via heros. Today, hoy, I'm at a Centro de Salud in Madrid to register for the Spanish public health care system. An essential step for anyone planning to live in Spain. I'm registering both myself and Anna, so she'll be all set when she arrives. It sure looks like there are a lot of people waiting. I hope it doesn't take too long. But I still can't believe that, after our adventure in Colombia, I'm now here preparing a new life for Anna and me. It's like a dream. Going from treasure hunting to doing bureaucratic paperwork. Who could have imagined it? So, it's probably a wise idea that we learn some health care basics in Spanish. Let's begin. To say social security is La Seguridad Social La Seguridad Social Here's a handy grammar tip. Notice "seguridad" is feminine. La Seguridad. Well, words ending in DAD that are almost always feminine. Like "la seudad", the city, or "la libertad", the freedom. So just think "dad" equals feminine. The next word we should learn is Health Center Health Center is El Centro de Salud El Centro de Salud The Center of Health Here's a memory trick. Salud means health. Think of how Salud Sounds like salad. Something we eat for good health. So, to remember Spanish for health, just think salads. Easy, right? Next, we have Public Health System. El Sistema de Salud Público El Sistema De Salud Público El Sistema de Salud Público Public Health System. Next, we have Medical coverage, something that we want. La Covertura Medica La Covertura Medica La Covertura Medica Here's a pronunciation tip. Covertura, Roll the "ah". It comes from "cubrir", which means to cover. So, think of a blanket covering you. Next, we have Health Insurance. El Seguro Medico El Seguro Medico How about this for a word connection? Seguro also means "sure" or "serten". Insurance makes you feel "sure" you're protected. El Seguro Medico Health Insurance. Next, we have Public Health Care. La Sanidad Pública La Sanidad Pública How do you think we would then say "private health care"? Remember, public health care is La Sanidad Pública Private health care is La Sanidad Privada La Sanidad Privada So, you may be wondering How does the health care system work in Spain? How does the health care system work in Spain? Well, basically, Spain has a universal health system. A universal health system. Once we are registered, We will have free medical attention or low cost. Well, before number gets cool up, let's cover some essential administrative phrases. Tosque, what documents do I need to present? We would say What documents do I need to present? What documents do I need to present? Tosque, how long does the process take? You would say How long does the process take? How long does the process take? By the way, It's like English Tadi. They're both about time delays. Next we have Where do I pick up the health card? Remember to let your tongue relax. That's the key to Spanish. Where do I pick up the health card? If you wanted to ask, how do I choose my primary care doctor? You would say the following. How do I choose my primary care doctor? How do I choose my medical care doctor? Finally, we might want to ask Where is the nearest pharmacy? To which you would ask Where is the nearest pharmacy? Finally, my turn. I have all the documents I need. I have my passport, the formulations and the contract of alquiler. I also have the DNA documents to register. Good morning. I want to register in the health system. I'm an foreigner and I have come to live in Madrid. I need sanitary cards for my girlfriend and for me. She arrives in a week. Well, whilst this helpful member of staff enters my details into the system, Let's take advantage of this brief moment to get up to scratch with some of you. medical vocabulary. Do you know how to say emergency in Spanish? It's la emergencia. La emergencia. Illness is en fermerdad. Now, do you think that's a masculine word or a feminine word? Remember what I told you about words ending in that? That's correct. It's a feminine word because, like, most Spanish words are ending in that, it is feminine. La en fermerdad. To say the pain in Spanish is el dolor. El dolor. Theology or allergy is la leerjia. La allerjia. The good news is that alerjia sounds very similar to allergy in English. But remember, when a word ending in A, such as la, is followed by a word starting with A, such as alerjia, we blend them together smoothly. I mentioned this in the first episode of season 4. So, if you want to sound like a native, it's not la allerjia, but la allerjia. We blend those two words together. Next we have prescription. La receta. La receta. False friend alert. Receta also means recipe. Doctors give you a recipe for medicine. In other words, a prescription. La receta. The word for medication is medicamento. Medicamento. One medication is medicamento. Many medicamentos. Example ad in es. En entonces. ¿Cómo elijo nuestro centro de salud? Entiendo. Normalmente se asigna según la dirección del domicilio. Quiero uno cerca de nuestro apartamento. Por favor. ¿No es una medica de medicamentos en español? No. Perfect. ¿Y lo que pasa con el endo de este episodio? ¿Dónde es que hay un hospital? Es hospital. El hospital. So, hospital es spelled exactly the same in Spanish as it is in English. But we do not pronounce the H. Therefore, it is pronounced hospital. Here's another word that is almost exactly the same in Spanish as it is in English. Clinica. La. Clinica. Meaning, of course, clinic. Next we have the healthcare center. ¿Dos recuerdos? Centro de salud. Centro de salud. The center of health. Remember to think of those healthy salads. Next we have a room. I hope you don't soon find yourself in an emergency room. Which is la sala de emergencias. La. Salah. De. emergencias. ¿Y cómo pido citas médicas? ¿Puedo usar la aplicación móvil? ¿Chamar por teléfono? O ir personalmente al centro de salud. So, you're probably wondering how do I request medical appointments? ¿Cómo pido citas médicas? ¿Sí? ¿Ringring? ¿O ir personalmente al centro de salud? ¿Sí? ¿Es bastante conveniente? To make an appointment is pedir cita. pedir cita. Muchas gracias por su ayuda. Cuando recibiré nuestras tarjetas sanitarias. Y desde cuando podemos empezar a usar los servicios médicos. Bueno, eso fue más sencillo de lo que esperaba. Un paso más en nuestra nueva vida. Ana va a estar contenta cuando le cuente que ya está todo preparado. Cada día me alegro más de estar aquí preparando todo esto para nosotras. Here are some Spanish healthcare quick facts. ¿Digunos? Spain's public healthcare system is ranked amongst the best globally. ¿And emergency services are free for everyone, even tourists? All right, the hairdos, time to test what you've learned. Don't worry if you don't get them all. This is practice. Question one. How do you say health center in Spanish? Think about our salad memory trick. To say health center in Spanish, you say "El Centro de Salud" El Centro de Salud. Question number two. What's the Spanish word for prescription? Hint. It's also what you follow when cooking. The Spanish word for prescription is "La receta". Question number three. How would you ask how long does the process take? Until the time the process takes. Question number four. Words ending in that, like "infermedad" or "libertad" are usually what gender? They are feminine. Question number five. How do you say "I want to make an appointment"? How would you ask what documents do I need to present? That's the end of the questions. Remember, every The expert was once a beginner. So just keep practicing. And in our next episode, we'll visit a state agent to look for a permanent home in Madrid. Join me as I continue building our new life in Spain. Hasta la próxima! Let me tell you about what fluency builder actually is. Because it's different. It's a mobile app. Download on your phone right now. When you sign up, we figure out your level, complete beginner, intermediate, whatever. And we build you a custom path right in the app. Then, I coach you every day through video lessons you watch on your phone. 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