📖LearnModule 11 · Lesson 30 of 30Proficient User · CEFR C1, first halfUnit 6 · Argumentar con matices
La cumbre de la cumbre
Module 11 of the free Spanish course (CEFR C1, first half), lesson 30 of 30: . On this page: 9 words with their genders and respellings, the rule, a watch-out line, the conjugation table and the audio — the study notes behind the workbook's QR.
The words
Spanish
English
Say it
la cumbre
the summit
lah KOOM-breh
la síntesis
the synthesis (exam task)
lah SEEN-teh-sees
el ensayo argumentativo
the argued essay
ehl ehn-SAH-yoh ar-goo-mehn-tah-TEE-boh
ya casi llegas
you are almost there
yah KAH-see YEH-gahs
dominar
to master
doh-mee-NAR
el dominio
the command of something
ehl doh-MEE-nyoh
desde el principio
since the beginning
DEHS-deh ehl preen-SEE-pyoh
el orgullo
the pride
ehl ohr-GOO-yoh
yo he dominado el subjuntivo
I have mastered the subjunctive
yoh eh doh-mee-NAH-doh ehl soob-hoon-TEE-boh
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
Look back at Module 1 of the Basic band: hola was the whole of your Spanish. Today you choose a register, grant a point before you turn it, report what someone said without quoting them, and read a novel with its -ra pluperfects. That is the first half of C1 — written in your own hand.
Y también · And also
Module 2 completes C1: the literary language at length, the careful sentence, the press, and the argued essay. Ya casi llegas — you are almost there, and the view from here is worth the climb.
Ojo · Watch out
ya casi llegas: casi (almost) sits before the verb. el orgullo (pride) is the noun; orgulloso is the adjective and agrees: orgulloso, orgullosa. And dominar is to master a subject — dominar una lengua.
dominar, pretérito perfecto — the table
yo he dominado · tú has dominado · él/ella/usted ha dominado · nosotros hemos dominado · ustedes han dominado · ellos/ellas han dominado
Do it now — on paper
Say all 9 words aloud twice from the respelling, then once from the Spanish spelling alone — begin with la cumbre.
Copy every word with its accents on paper; then cover the English column and write each meaning back from the Spanish.
Write out dominar, pretérito perfecto in full from memory, every person, and check each form against the table above.
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.