📖LearnModule 5 · Lesson 1 of 30Basic User · CEFR A2 mastery + the B1 bridgeUnit 1 · The grand review: people
Mi familia — the people review
Module 5 of the free Spanish course (CEFR A2 mastery + the B1 bridge), lesson 1 of 30: . On this page: 8 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 familia
the family
lah fah-MEE-lyah
el padre
the father
ehl PAH-dreh
la madre
the mother
lah MAH-dreh
el hermano
the brother
ehl ehr-MAH-noh
la hermana
the sister
lah ehr-MAH-nah
los abuelosplural
the grandparents
lohs ah-BWEH-lohs
esta es mi familia
this is my family
EHS-tah ehs mee fah-MEE-lyah
el hermano menor
the younger brother
ehl ehr-MAH-noh meh-NOHR
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
Module 5 is the mastery lap: every lesson replays a piece of the band, faster and mixed, then the exam shapes take over.
Y también · And also
First lap: the family, with ser in every person. Esta es mi familia: mi padre, mi madre, mis dos hermanas y mi hermano menor. Somos seis. Mis abuelos viven cerca.
Ojo · Watch out
esta es mi familia introduces with esta (this, f) because familia is feminine; for a brother it is este es mi hermano. The pointing word agrees.
ser, presente — the table
yo soy · tú eres · él/ella/usted es · nosotros somos · ustedes son · ellos/ellas son
Do it now — on paper
Say all 8 words aloud twice from the respelling, then once from the Spanish spelling alone — begin with la familia.
Copy every word with its accents on paper; then cover the English column and write each meaning back from the Spanish.
Write out ser, 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.