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El balance — C2, casi entero
Module 14 of the free Spanish course (CEFR C2, continued), lesson 30 of 30: Look back at Lesson 1. 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
solo queda un peldaño
there is one rung left
SOH-loh KEH-dah oon pehl-DAH-nyoh
el peldaño
the rung
ehl pehl-DAH-nyoh
la última etapa
the last stage
lah OOL-tee-mah eh-TAH-pah
terminé el módulo cuatro
I finished Module 4
tehr-mee-NEH ehl MOH-doo-loh KWAH-troh
a la vez
all at once
ah lah BEHS
la escala entera
the whole scale
lah ehs-KAH-lah ehn-TEH-rah
poner a prueba
to put to the test
poh-NEHR ah PRWEH-bah
casi entero
nearly whole
KAH-see ehn-TEH-roh
ustedes quedan invitados
you (all) are invited
oos-TEH-dehs KEH-dahn een-bee-TAH-dohs
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 Lesson 1. You now move across the whole register scale on purpose, hear an idiom as one word, read a sentence built the way written Spanish builds them, follow a legal or medical document, know where the two languages fail to meet, and write the three long forms.
Y también · And also
One module remains: the capstone, where all fifteen books of the ladder are put to work at once. Solo queda un peldaño — there is one rung left.
Ojo · Watch out
solo queda un peldaño: queda here is there remains, and solo means only. el peldaño is a rung or a stair; la escala is the scale you climb through — and also a stopover, which a C2 reader will meet at the airport.
quedar, presente — the table
yo quedo · tú quedas · él/ella/usted queda · nosotros quedamos · ustedes quedan · ellos/ellas quedan
Do it now — on paper
Say all 9 words aloud twice from the respelling, then once from the Spanish spelling alone — begin with solo queda un peldaño.
Copy every word with its accents on paper; then cover the English column and write each meaning back from the Spanish.
Write out quedar, 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.