📖LearnModule 13 · Lesson 3 of 30Proficient User · CEFR C2, first halfUnit 1 · El énfasis
La dislocación
Module 13 of the free Spanish course (CEFR C2, first half), lesson 3 of 30: Spoken Spanish pulls a word out of its sentence and leaves a pronoun in its place. On this page: 8 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
yo, la verdad, pienso que no
personally, honestly, I think not
yoh, lah behr-DAHD, PYEHN-soh keh noh
ese libro, lo leí dos veces
that book, I read it twice
EH-seh LEE-broh, loh leh-EE dohs BEH-sehs
la dislocación
the dislocation
lah dees-loh-kah-SYOHN
el tema
the topic
ehl TEH-mah
la información nueva
the new information
lah een-fohr-mah-SYOHN NWEH-bah
el español hablado
spoken Spanish
ehl ehs-pah-NYOHL ah-BLAH-doh
descuidado
careless
dehs-kwee-DAH-doh
organizar
to organize
ohr-gah-nee-SAR
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
Spoken Spanish pulls a word out of its sentence and leaves a pronoun in its place. Yo, la verdad, pienso que no. Ese libro, lo leí dos veces. Al director, no lo conozco.
Y también · And also
It is not careless; it is how Spanish speech organizes information, putting the topic first and the news second. Writing it in a formal essay is wrong; hearing it and not noticing is C2.
Ojo · Watch out
Dislocation belongs to speech: yo, la verdad, pienso que no. In a formal essay it is wrong; in conversation it is how Spanish orders topic and news. Hear it; do not write it there. The pronoun left behind is compulsory: ese libro, LO leí.
Do it now — on paper
Say all 8 words aloud twice from the respelling, then once from the Spanish spelling alone — begin with yo, la verdad, pienso que no.
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 3 in Module 13 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.