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ReadingA01 min
El restaurante
Un menú de diez opciones y una decisión difícil entre chocolate y fruta.
OpenGrammarA2
Por o para
Por looks backwards: cause, reason, duration, movement through, parts of the day. Para looks forwards: purpose, destination, deadline, who something is for.
OpenExercisesA1/A210 preguntas
Reflexive verbs in the present
Write the verb in brackets in the present, with the pronoun that matches the subject.
OpenExpressionsA215 frases
At the family table
What gets said at a Peruvian lunch, from knocking on the door to saying goodbye. Almost none of it translates literally, and getting it wrong here is more noticeable than any grammar mistake.
OpenCollections6 lecturas
Living in Peru
The situations that actually come up: the Sunday lunch, the family group chat, the market, the first time you are introduced to the aunts and uncles. With the Peruvian words annotated and the politeness formulas that decide whether the family finds you warm or stiff.
OpenExamsB1
Comprensión de lectura · Práctica 1
Tres tareas en el formato del examen: un texto largo con seis preguntas, seis enunciados para relacionar con tres textos, y un texto con huecos gramaticales. Los textos son originales, escritos para practicar el formato.
OpenGrammarA1
Ser o estar
Ser for what something is: identity, origin, material, time. Estar for how or where it is right now: location, state, mood.
OpenExpressionsA114 frases
Greetings and manners
The formulas you choose in the first ten seconds of every conversation, and which decide whether you sound warm or distant.
OpenCollections10 lecturas
First steps
Start here. The first two readings lean on words you already recognise — hotel, taxi, restaurante, chocolate — with the present tense of ser, estar, tener and hay. The rest add everyday vocabulary a little at a time.
OpenReadingA02 min
La granja de mi tía
Quince gallinas, tres vacas y un gato gordo. Contar, describir y tener.
OpenExpressionsA215 frases
On the street and at the market
Buying, asking, catching transport and getting out of a scrape. Includes the Peruvian words you will hear on day one and that no course teaches.
OpenCollections10 lecturas
Grammar in context
Readings written to practice one point in particular: the past tense contrast, the subjunctive, reported speech.
OpenReadingA11 min
Mañana viene mi hermana
Una visita de dos días, planeada hora por hora. Todo lo que va a pasar mañana.
OpenGrammarA2
Verbos reflexivos
A pronoun that matches the subject. Sometimes it turns the action back on the doer, and sometimes it makes a different verb entirely.
OpenExercisesA2/B110 preguntas
Preterite or imperfect
Write the verb in brackets in the preterite or the imperfect, whichever the sentence needs.
OpenExpressionsA111 frases
Talking about yourself
What people will ask you the moment you are introduced, and how to answer without going silent.
OpenCollections3 lecturas
Camila's story
The same people, chapter by chapter: the first lunch with the family, the WhatsApp group, the birthday. Read them in order, though each part stands on its own.
OpenReadingA11 min
La camisa azul
Una camisa de cumpleaños que le queda grande, y una mamá que mira los precios antes que las tallas.
OpenGrammarA1
Concordancia del adjetivo
Adjectives copy the gender and number of the noun they describe. Some change for both, some only for number.
OpenExercisesB110 preguntas
Present subjunctive
Write the verb in brackets in the present subjunctive or the present indicative, whichever the sentence needs.
OpenExpressionsA217 frases
False friends
They look like an English word and mean something else. Every one of these has produced an awkward silence at a real table, which is why they are worth learning by heart.
OpenReadingA11 min
La foto de la sala
Una foto antigua en la pared, y cinco personas que son de una manera y ese día están de otra.
OpenGrammarA1
El tiempo con hacer
Weather uses hacer with a noun: hace sol, hace frío. Rain and snow are verbs instead: llueve, nieva.
OpenExercisesA1/A210 preguntas
Gustar and similar verbs
Write the pronoun and the verb in the right form.
OpenExpressionsA219 frases
Chat and WhatsApp
Written Spanish on a phone looks nothing like the textbook. This is what you will see in your partner's family group, abbreviations and voice notes included.
OpenCollections3 lecturas
Object pronouns, step by step
Three stories in order: one built on direct objects, one on indirect objects, and one where both land in the same sentence. Read them in sequence and se lo di stops being a puzzle.
OpenReadingA11 min
Lo que nos gusta
Fútbol, series coreanas y música criolla en la misma casa, y nadie dice nada.
OpenExercisesA210 preguntas
Replacing the direct object
Rewrite each sentence replacing the underlined part with lo, la, los or las. Write only the pronoun.
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