Spanish flash cards
Vocabulary
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Everyday verbs
The twelve verbs that carry most of a conversation.
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Numbers
Zero to twenty, then by tens to a hundred, then the big round ones.
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Colors
The colors, and which of them change to match what they describe.
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Body parts
The body, from head to foot, with the articles Spanish uses instead of a possessive.
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Days, months and holidays
The week, the year, and the days worth marking in it.
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Transportation
What you ride, what you drive, and the street it all happens on.
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Travel
The trip: the passport, the room, the delay, and the place you came to see.
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Food
The meals, what goes on the plate, and how to ask for the bill.
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Weather
What the sky is doing, in the verbs Spanish uses to say it, and the four seasons.
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Sports
The games, the people who play them, and the words for what happens in a match.
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Sewing and quilting
The bench, the cloth, and the words for putting the two together.
Conjugation
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Regular -AR: hablar
hablar — a regular -AR verb through the six commonest tenses, every person of each.
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Regular -ER: comer
comer — a regular -ER verb through the six commonest tenses, every person of each.
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Regular -IR: vivir
vivir — a regular -IR verb through the six commonest tenses, every person of each.
Reading
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La noche boca arriba, page 1
Cortázar, page 1: the ride out of the hotel, the crash, the ambulance.
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La noche boca arriba, page 2
Page 2: the ward and the operating table, then the first night running from the Aztecs.
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La noche boca arriba, page 3
Page 3: broth and fever in the ward; off the causeway, and taken.
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La noche boca arriba, page 4
Page 4: the hole in his memory, and the dungeons under the teocalli.
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La noche boca arriba, page 5
Page 5: the stairway, the stone knife, and which of the two was the dream.