Spanish

English and Spanish are both Indo-European languages (opens in a new tab), it is no wonder that English and Spanish share some similarities, so most of the common foundations of PPResume can be reused for English and Spanish.

Linguistics

Character Set

The character sets of English and Spanish are very similar—both languages primarily use the Latin alphabet (opens in a new tab), which consists of 26 letters. However, Spanish has an additional letter, the ñ, which represents a unique sound. Here's a quick comparison:

The main differences between the English and Spanish's writing systems:

• Additional letter: the Spanish alphabet includes the letter ñ, which does not exist in the English alphabet.
• Diacritics (opens in a new tab): Spanish uses several diacritics that change he pronunciation of vowels. For example, accents indicate stress and pronunciation changes (e.g., é vs. e).
• Punctuation marks: Spanish uses inverted punctuation marks (¿ for questions and ¡ for exclamations) that are absent in English.

Idioms

Date

Days of the week and months are capitalised in English, but not in Spanish. For example, "Sep 2021" in English is translated as "sept 2021" in Spanish.

PPResume only uses months, hence the translation table:

Capitalization

English tends to capitalize many words, while Spanish is more conservative and follows a much tigher set of rules (opens in a new tab).

PPResume internally adopts a fixed set of options and terms for all resume templates. For example, languages in PPResume resume templates adopt Linkedin's language fluency options (opens in a new tab):

• Elementary Proficiency
• Limited Working Proficiency
• Minimum Professional Proficiency
• Full Professional Proficiency
• Native or Bilingual Proficiency

These are translated to Spanish as follows:

• Competencia elemental
• Competencia limitada de trabajo
• Competencia profesional de trabajo
• Competencia profesional plena
• Competencia nativa o bilingüe

Only the first word is capitalized.

Typesetting

Punctuations

Spanish has several notable differences in punctuations from English:

• Quotation marks: In English, periods and commas are placed inside quotation marks, whereas in Spanish, they are usually placed outside.
• Inverted marks: Spanish uses inverted question marks ¿ and exclamation marks ¡ at both the beginning and the end of interrogative and exclamatory sentences, whereas English does not.
• Serial comma: English often uses a serial comma before "and" in lists (e.g., "apples, oranges, and bananas"), whereas Spanish does not use a comma before "y" (e.g., "manzanas, naranjas y plátanos")
• Numerical formats: English uses a period is used as a decimal separator (e.g., 3.14), whereas Spanish uses a comma is used (e.g., 3,14).

Translations

PPResume adopts the following translations for various options and terms used in Spanish resumes

Education Degrees

Languages

Language Fluencies

Location (Countries and Regions)

Section Names

Skill Levels

Options and Terms