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Matizar sin retroceder
Module 15 of the free Spanish course (CEFR C2 mastery — the capstone), lesson 8 of 30: Qualification is not retreat. On this page: 10 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.
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
Qualification is not retreat. Ciertamente, bien es cierto que, hasta cierto punto — each grants ground and then takes the paragraph back with pero, no obstante, lo cierto es que.
Y también · And also
The structure is fixed and worth drilling: concession, then reversal, then the point restated more precisely than before. A qualification that does not return is a surrender.
Ojo · Watch out
ciertamente, bien es cierto que and hasta cierto punto each need their RETURN: pero, no obstante, lo cierto es que. A concession that does not come back is la rendición, a surrender, not a nuance. lo cierto es que takes the indicative.
ser, pretérito perfecto de subjuntivo — the table
yo haya sido · tú hayas sido · él/ella/usted haya sido · nosotros hayamos sido · ustedes hayan sido · ellos/ellas hayan sido
Do it now — on paper
Say all 10 words aloud twice from the respelling, then once from the Spanish spelling alone — begin with no obstante.
Copy every word with its accents on paper; then cover the English column and write each meaning back from the Spanish.
Write out ser, 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.