LearnModule 5 · Lesson 22 of 30Basic User · CEFR A2 mastery + the B1 bridgeUnit 5 · Exam training

Reading the letter

Module 5 of the free Spanish course (CEFR A2 mastery + the B1 bridge), lesson 22 of 30: The exam's longer read is a friendly letter or email. On this page: 7 words with their genders and respellings, the rule, a watch-out line and the audio — the study notes behind the workbook's QR.

The words

Spanish	English	Say it
querida Emma	dear Emma (f)	keh-REE-dah EH-mah
no puedo ir	I cannot go	noh PWEH-doh eer
libre	free (available)	LEE-breh
¿estás libre?	are you free?	ehs-TAHS LEE-breh
besos	kisses (sign-off)	BEH-sohs
el domingo por la tarde	on Sunday afternoon	ehl doh-MEEN-goh pohr lah TAR-deh
la respuesta	the answer	lah rrehs-PWEHS-tah

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

The exam's longer read is a friendly letter or email. Read for the FIVE facts every task asks: who writes, to whom, what is happening, when, and what the reader must do.

Y también · And also

Querida Emma: ¡Gracias por tu invitación! No puedo ir el sábado porque vamos a la casa de mi abuela. ¿Estás libre el domingo por la tarde? ¡Contéstame pronto! Besos, Lea.

Ojo · Watch out

A Spanish letter opens with a colon after the name — Querida Emma: — where English uses a comma. querido for a boy or a man, querida for a girl or a woman.

Do it now — on paper

Say all 7 words aloud twice from the respelling, then once from the Spanish spelling alone — begin with querida Emma.
Copy every word with its accents on paper; then cover the English column and write each meaning back from the Spanish.
Write two sentences of your own that get the watch-out line right, then the two practice pages of workbook lesson 22 in Module 5 are the written half of this page.

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.

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