📖LearnModule 15 · Lesson 29 of 30Proficient User · CEFR C2 mastery — the capstoneUnit 6 · La cima
Lo que sabes hacer
Module 15 of the free Spanish course (CEFR C2 mastery — the capstone), lesson 29 of 30: Read the list and do not be modest about 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
la lista de lo que haces
the list of what you can do
lah LEES-tah deh loh keh AH-sehs
modesto
modest
moh-DEHS-toh
saber dónde uno es débil
to know where you are weakest
sah-BEHR DOHN-deh OO-noh ehs DEH-beel
una competencia en sí
a skill in itself
OO-nah kohm-peh-TEHN-syah ehn see
oír una ironía
to hear an irony
oh-EER OO-nah ee-roh-NEE-ah
negarse con cortesía
to refuse politely
neh-GAR-seh kohn kohr-teh-SEE-ah
la competencia
the competence
lah kohm-peh-TEHN-syah
sin exagerar
without exaggerating
seen ehk-sah-heh-RAR
yo sé dónde soy débil
I know where I am weak
yoh seh DOHN-deh soy DEH-beel
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
Read the list and do not be modest about it. You read a newspaper, a report and a novel. You write a letter, an essay, a synthesis and a complaint. You narrate, hypothesize, concede and refuse.
Y también · And also
You choose a register on purpose. You hear an idiom and an irony. And you know where your own Spanish is weakest, which is a C2 skill in its own right.
Ojo · Watch out
saber dónde uno es débil is una competencia en sí, a skill in itself. saber is irregular — sé, sabes, sabemos, past participle sabido. sin exagerar means without exaggerating, not without saying.
saber, presente — the table
yo sé · tú sabes · él/ella/usted sabe · nosotros sabemos · ustedes saben · ellos/ellas saben
Do it now — on paper
Say all 9 words aloud twice from the respelling, then once from the Spanish spelling alone — begin with la lista de lo que haces.
Copy every word with its accents on paper; then cover the English column and write each meaning back from the Spanish.
Write out saber, 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.