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El registro en la conversación
Module 15 of the free Spanish course (CEFR C2 mastery — the capstone), lesson 19 of 30: In speech the scale is carried by structure as much as vocabulary. 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
¿vendrá usted?
will you be coming? (formal)
behn-DRAH oos-TEHD
¿vienes?
coming? (informal)
BYEH-nehs
la entonación
intonation
lah ehn-toh-nah-SYOHN
mantener un registro
to hold a register
mahn-teh-NEHR oon rreh-HEES-troh
la duración de una conversación
the length of a conversation
lah doo-rah-SYOHN deh OO-nah kohn-behr-sah-SYOHN
moverse primero
to move first
moh-BEHR-seh pree-MEH-roh
adaptarse
to adapt
ah-dahp-TAR-seh
la estructura de la pregunta
the question structure
lah ehs-trook-TOO-rah deh lah preh-GOON-tah
usted vendrá mañana
you will come tomorrow
oos-TEHD behn-DRAH mah-NYAH-nah
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
In speech the scale is carried by structure as much as vocabulary. ¿Vendrá usted? is formal; ¿va a venir? is neutral; ¿vienes? is informal — and the choice of usted or tú runs through every verb ending after it.
Y también · And also
You already know all three. Mastery is choosing one and holding it for the length of a conversation, and adjusting only when the other person moves first.
Ojo · Watch out
¿vendrá usted? is formal, ¿va a venir? neutral, ¿vienes? informal. Choose one and hold it for the whole conversation — adaptarse only when the other person moves first. venir is irregular in the future: vendré, vendrá.
venir, futuro — the table
yo vendré · tú vendrás · él/ella/usted vendrá · nosotros vendremos · ustedes vendrán · ellos/ellas vendrán
Do it now — on paper
Say all 9 words aloud twice from the respelling, then once from the Spanish spelling alone — begin with ¿vendrá usted?.
Copy every word with its accents on paper; then cover the English column and write each meaning back from the Spanish.
Write out venir, futuro 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.