📖LearnModule 13 · Lesson 29 of 30Proficient User · CEFR C2, first halfUnit 6 · Leer el pensamiento ajeno
Resumir un pensamiento complejo
Module 13 of the free Spanish course (CEFR C2, first half), lesson 29 of 30: Summarizing an argument is not shortening it. 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
conservar los giros
to keep the turns
kohn-sehr-BAR lohs HEE-rohs
dejar de lado los ejemplos
to drop the examples
deh-HAR deh LAH-doh lohs eh-HEHM-plohs
en tres frases
in three sentences
ehn trehs FRAH-sehs
la resolución
the resolution
lah rreh-soh-loo-SYOHN
resumir fielmente
to summarize faithfully
rreh-soo-MEER fyehl-MEHN-teh
acortar
to shorten
ah-kohr-TAR
la disciplina
the discipline
lah dees-see-PLEE-nah
perderse lo esencial
to miss the point
pehr-DEHR-seh loh eh-sehn-SYAHL
yo resumo en tres frases
I summarize in three sentences
yoh rreh-SOO-moh ehn trehs FRAH-sehs
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
Summarizing an argument is not shortening it. Keep the turns and drop the examples: the shape is the meaning, and a summary with no ahora bien in it has usually lost the point.
Y también · And also
One useful discipline: write the summary in three sentences — the position, the objection, the resolution — before you allow yourself a fourth.
Ojo · Watch out
Summarize by keeping the turns and dropping the examples. A summary with no ahora bien in it has usually lost the point. Three sentences first: position, objection, resolution.
resumir, presente — the table
yo resumo · tú resumes · él/ella/usted resume · nosotros resumimos · ustedes resumen · ellos/ellas resumen
Do it now — on paper
Say all 9 words aloud twice from the respelling, then once from the Spanish spelling alone — begin with conservar los giros.
Copy every word with its accents on paper; then cover the English column and write each meaning back from the Spanish.
Write out resumir, 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.