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Module 14 of the free Spanish course (CEFR C2, continued), lesson 25 of 30: Some things should stay in Spanish, and a C2 speaker knows which. 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 tertulia
the regular conversation circle
lah tehr-TOO-lyah
el compadre
the close friend bound by godparenthood
ehl kohm-PAH-dreh
la nota al pie
the footnote
lah NOH-tah ahl pyeh
glosar
to gloss
gloh-SAR
el nombre propio
the proper name
ehl NOHM-breh PROH-pyoh
el clima
the climate
ehl KLEE-mah
dejar en español
to leave in Spanish
deh-HAR ehn ehs-pah-NYOHL
cultural
cultural
kool-too-RAHL
me alegro de que ustedes hayan venido
I am glad you (all) came
meh ah-LEH-groh deh keh oos-TEH-dehs AH-yahn beh-NEE-doh
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
Some things should stay in Spanish, and a C2 speaker knows which. Proper names of institutions (la Real Academia), cultural terms with no equivalent (la tertulia, el compadre), and quotations.
Y también · And also
The rule of thumb: if translating it would require a footnote anyway, leave it and gloss it in a clause. La tertulia — the same people, the same café, the same evening every week, talking.
Ojo · Watch out
la Real Academia, la tertulia and quotations stay in Spanish and are glossed in a clause, never in a footnote. la tertulia is not a party: it is a regular conversation circle. glosar is to gloss, never to gloss over.
venir, pretérito perfecto de subjuntivo — the table
yo haya venido · tú hayas venido · él/ella/usted haya venido · nosotros hayamos venido · ustedes hayan venido · ellos/ellas hayan venido
Do it now — on paper
Say all 9 words aloud twice from the respelling, then once from the Spanish spelling alone — begin with la tertulia.
Copy every word with its accents on paper; then cover the English column and write each meaning back from the Spanish.
Write out venir, pretérito perfecto de subjuntivo 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.