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LearnModule 9 · Lesson 30 of 30Independent User · CEFR B2, completedUnit 6 · Las tareas B2

El balance — B2 complete

Module 9 of the free Spanish course (CEFR B2, completed), lesson 30 of 30: Look back at Lesson 1. On this page: 8 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

SpanishEnglishSay it
el usuario independientethe independent userehl oo-SWAH-ryoh een-deh-pehn-DYEHN-teh
consolidarto consolidatekohn-soh-lee-DAR
el puentethe bridgeehl PWEHN-teh
terminé el Módulo 4I finished Module 4tehr-mee-NEH ehl MOH-doo-loh KWAH-troh
el examenthe examehl ehk-SAH-mehn
ahoranowah-OH-rah
el descansillothe landing (stage reached)ehl dehs-kahn-SEE-yoh
sólidosolid (m)SOH-lee-doh

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

Look back at Lesson 1. You now narrate in writing with three layers of past, regret what did not happen, shift a whole conversation into reported speech, join clauses with the compound relatives, hold a professional conversation, and write the four long texts B2 is examined on. With Module 3, that is the complete B2 level.

Y también · And also

Module 5 is the band-mastery book: everything consolidated in DELE B2 shape, and the honest bridge into C1. Usted es ahora un usuario independiente — you are now an independent user, which is CEFR's own name for where you stand.

Ojo · Watch out

el usuario independiente is CEFR's own name for B1-B2. el descansillo is the landing of a staircase — a stage reached — and sólido keeps its accent on the first syllable: SOH-lee-doh.

Do it now — on paper

  1. Say all 8 words aloud twice from the respelling, then once from the Spanish spelling alone — begin with el usuario independiente.
  2. Copy every word with its accents on paper; then cover the English column and write each meaning back from the Spanish.
  3. Write two sentences of your own that get the watch-out line right, then the two practice pages of workbook lesson 30 in Module 9 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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