📖LearnModule 9 · Lesson 25 of 30Independent User · CEFR B2, completedUnit 5 · El mundo laboral
El correo profesional
Module 9 of the free Spanish course (CEFR B2, completed), lesson 25 of 30: . 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
el correo electrónico
the email
ehl koh-RREH-oh eh-lehk-TROH-nee-koh
saludos cordiales
kind regards
sah-LOO-dohs kohr-DYAH-lehs
un saludo
best wishes
oon sah-LOO-doh
el asunto
the subject line
ehl ah-SOON-toh
adjunto
attached
ahd-HOON-toh
responder pronto
to reply quickly
rrehs-pohn-DEHR PROHN-toh
el recordatorio
the follow-up (reminder)
ehl rreh-kohr-dah-TOH-ryoh
cortés
polite
kohr-TEHS
yo he escrito el correo
I have written the email
yoh eh ehs-KREE-toh ehl koh-RREH-oh
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
A professional email in Spanish is shorter than a letter and longer than an English one. Estimada señora García: (with the colon), then the point in the first line, then one paragraph, then saludos cordiales.
Y también · And also
The closing scale is worth knowing: saludos cordiales (normal), un saludo (friendly), atentamente (formal). He escrito, he enviado — the pretérito perfecto, he plus the participle, is the tense of the email itself: le he enviado el archivo. Never open a work email with hola unless you already have.
Ojo · Watch out
saludos cordiales closes a work email; never open one with it. el asunto is the subject line, and adjunto means attached: le envío el archivo adjunto. The pretérito perfecto is he + participle: he escrito, never he escribido.
escribir, pretérito perfecto — the table
yo he escrito · tú has escrito · él/ella/usted ha escrito · nosotros hemos escrito · ustedes han escrito · ellos/ellas han escrito
Do it now — on paper
Say all 9 words aloud twice from the respelling, then once from the Spanish spelling alone — begin with el correo electrónico.
Copy every word with its accents on paper; then cover the English column and write each meaning back from the Spanish.
Write out escribir, pretérito perfecto 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.