📖LearnModule 13 · Lesson 26 of 30Proficient User · CEFR C2, first halfUnit 6 · Leer el pensamiento ajeno
Seguir un pensamiento
Module 13 of the free Spanish course (CEFR C2, first half), lesson 26 of 30: An essay is one mind moving. 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
en realidad
actually (correcting)
ehn rreh-ah-lee-DAHD
seguir un pensamiento
to follow a line of thought
seh-GEER oon pehn-sah-MYEHN-toh
el giro
the turn
ehl HEE-roh
seguir
to follow
seh-GEER
cambiar de rumbo
to change direction
kahm-BYAR deh RROOM-boh
la lista de opiniones
the list of opinions
lah LEES-tah deh oh-pee-NYOH-nehs
marcar con lápiz
to mark in pencil
mar-KAR kohn LAH-pees
atento
attentive
ah-TEHN-toh
tú sigues el hilo
you follow the thread
too SEE-gehs ehl EE-loh
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
An essay is one mind moving, and following it means tracking the turns rather than the facts. Mark every ahora bien, every sin embargo, every en realidad — those are where the thought changes direction.
Y también · And also
A good test when you finish: can you say what the writer changed their mind about? If nothing turned, you have read a list of opinions, not an ensayo.
Ojo · Watch out
Follow the turns, not the facts: mark every ahora bien, sin embargo and en realidad. If nothing turned, you have read a list of opinions, not an ensayo. seguir changes its stem: sigo, sigues.
seguir, presente — the table
yo sigo · tú sigues · él/ella/usted sigue · nosotros seguimos · ustedes siguen · ellos/ellas siguen
Do it now — on paper
Say all 9 words aloud twice from the respelling, then once from the Spanish spelling alone — begin with en realidad.
Copy every word with its accents on paper; then cover the English column and write each meaning back from the Spanish.
Write out seguir, presente 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.