Spain vs Latin America: cars, phones and coger

Vocabulary

Words 4501 to 4510

Review session

Word Bubbles review session

Pop the words you just met by matching each one to its meaning. A couple of rounds and the batch is yours.

Vocabulary

Words 4511 to 4520

Review session

Crossword review session

Cross the words you just met, clued in English. Slower than a drill, and it sticks harder.

Vocabulary

Words 4521 to 4530

Review session

Word Bubbles review session

Pop the words you just met by matching each one to its meaning. A couple of rounds and the batch is yours.

Vocabulary

Words 4531 to 4540

Grammar primer

Spain vs Latin America: cars, phones and coger

The everyday words that change across the Atlantic: coche, carro or auto, móvil or celular, autobús, camión or colectivo, and the one verb to handle with care, coger.

Grammar primer

Spain vs Latin America: food and home words

Zumo or jugo, patata or papa, melocotón or durazno, piso or departamento, grifo or canilla, and two traps: jugo in Spain, torta in Mexico.

Vocabulary

Words 4541 to 4550

Review session

Conjugation Sprint review session

Sixty seconds on the endings of the verbs this chapter has drilled so far.

Read a story

Extra reading: A very nervous Monday

Un lunes muy nervioso. Emilio, in Mexico City, has to talk about his family in class, with friends from all over Latin America.

Vocabulary

Words 4551 to 4560

Review session

Word Bubbles review session

Pop the words you just met by matching each one to its meaning. A couple of rounds and the batch is yours.

Vocabulary

Words 4561 to 4570

Grammar primer

Voseo: vos tenés, vos sos, vení

In Argentina, Uruguay and much of Central America the informal you is vos: the present (vos tenés, vos podés, vos sos) and the commands (hablá, vení, decime).

Grammar primer

Ustedes for everyone, and he comido or comí

Latin America has no vosotros: ustedes tienen, to friends and strangers alike. And for today's events, Spain says he comido where most of Latin America says comí.

Grammar primer

Leísmo and dequeísmo: what the standard accepts

Le vi for I saw him is accepted in Spain, le vi for her is not; and the eso test for de que: me di cuenta de que, but creo que.

Common mistake

coger or tomar?

Neither is wrong. Using the Spanish one in Mexico or Argentina is.

Vocabulary

Words 4571 to 4580

Review session

Conjugation Sprint review session

Sixty seconds on the endings of the verbs this chapter has drilled so far.

Vocabulary

Words 4581 to 4590

Review session

Word Bubbles review session

Pop the words you just met by matching each one to its meaning. A couple of rounds and the batch is yours.

Vocabulary

Words 4591 to 4600

Community

Hear Latin America's accents

Radio Ambulante tells true stories from across Latin America, in Spanish, with the voices of the people who lived them.

Read a story

Story milestone: top 4600 words

Written inside the top 4600 words, all of them taught by now; any new word is listed at the top of the story.

Arcade review

Arcade review

Replay this chapter's words as games - a different kind of repetition, and it counts.