📖LearnModule 11 · Lesson 1 of 30Proficient User · CEFR C1, first halfUnit 1 · El registro — la voz escrita
Tres registros, una sola idea
Module 11 of the free Spanish course (CEFR C1, first half), lesson 1 of 30: Welcome to the Proficient band. On this page: 10 words with their genders and respellings, the rule, a watch-out line and the audio — the study notes behind the workbook's QR.
The words
Spanish
English
Say it
el registro
the register (level of language)
ehl rreh-HEES-troh
culto
formal, elevated
KOOL-toh
neutro
neutral (m)
NEHW-troh
coloquial
informal, colloquial
koh-loh-KYAHL
exhausto
exhausted
ehk-SOWS-toh
adecuado
appropriate
ah-deh-KWAH-doh
solemne
solemn
soh-LEHM-neh
el matiz
the shade of meaning
ehl mah-TEES
elegir las palabras
to choose your words
eh-leh-HEER lahs pah-LAH-brahs
la voz escrita
the written voice
lah bohs ehs-KREE-tah
Respellings follow the course’s say-it key; the stressed syllable is in capitals. Print this lesson’s flashcards (PDF) — the words on the front, the English and respelling on the back.
La regla · The rule
Welcome to the Proficient band. C1 is not more vocabulary so much as CHOICE: the same idea said three ways. Coloquial: está reventado. Neutro: está muy cansado. Culto: está exhausto.
Y también · And also
Spanish grammars name the levels registro coloquial, registro neutro and registro culto (or formal). The one you pick tells a listener who you are being — a friend, a colleague, a writer — and every lesson here asks which one the moment deserves.
Ojo · Watch out
reventado (worn out) is coloquial and fine among friends; exhausto is its culto twin. Neither is wrong — each belongs to a room. And registro here is the level of language, not a record.
Do it now — on paper
Say all 10 words aloud twice from the respelling, then once from the Spanish spelling alone — begin with el registro.
Copy every word with its accents on paper; then cover the English column and write each meaning back from the Spanish.
Write two sentences of your own that get the watch-out line right, then the two practice pages of workbook lesson 1 in Module 11 are the written half of this page.
This free course is the reading half. The writing half — write-in lessons, daily practice pages with built-in review, self-checks and a full answer key — is the companion workbook series, The Spanish Ladder: one workbook per module, fifteen in all, released band by band with the Basic band (Modules 1–5) first.
Keep these words
Turn this lesson’s words into flashcards, then space your reviews — the two habits the research behind our study guides backs hardest.