María Zambrano: Returning After Exile
An A2 Spanish biography of María Zambrano, her long exile, poetic reason and historic Cervantes Prize.
María Zambrano: volver después del exilio
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What you'll learn
Biography and exile vocabulary, past-tense narration, seguir plus gerund and questions about ideas.
María Zambrano left Spain in 1939, taught philosophy in Mexico, wrote across several countries and returned in 1984 before becoming the first woman to receive the Cervantes Prize.
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Phrases, words, grammar, and quick practice from this text.
Phrases for training
Add useful phrases to SRS or mark them as already known.
volvió a España
newreturned to Spain
Volver a plus a place means to return to that place.
Useful in biographies and travel stories.
durante más de cuatro décadas
newfor more than four decades
A década is a period of ten years.
Useful for describing long periods.
cruzó la frontera francesa
newcrossed the French border
Cruzar una frontera means to pass from one country into another.
Important language for migration and travel.
fue la primera mujer con este premio
newwas the first woman to receive this prize
La primera mujer identifies the earliest woman in a sequence.
Useful for describing historic achievements.
Key words
Vocabulary that carries the school-day topic.
el exilio
el exilio
exile
Life away from one's country because returning is impossible or unsafe.
Essential for many twentieth-century biographies.
una filósofa
una filósofa
a female philosopher
A woman who studies or develops philosophical ideas.
Useful for professions and intellectual history.
el pensamiento
el pensamiento
thought, body of ideas
Here it means the ideas developed by a thinker.
Common in biographies of writers and philosophers.
la razón poética
razón poética
poetic reason
The name associated with Zambrano's way of bringing philosophical thought closer to poetic language.
Central vocabulary for understanding her work.
una obra
su obra
a work, body of work
In this context, obra means everything an author created.
Useful when discussing writers and artists.
su ciudad natal
su ciudad natal
her hometown
The city where a person was born.
Common biography vocabulary.
Grammar in context
Patterns from the text worth noticing after reading.
María nació
María nació
María was born
Nació is the third-person singular preterite of nacer.
A core form for biographies.
Vivió fuera
Vivió fuera
She lived abroad
Vivió presents the period as a completed part of her life.
Useful for completed periods in biographies.
siguió escribiendo
siguió escribiendo
she kept writing
Seguir plus a gerund expresses continuation.
Useful for saying that an activity continued despite change.
¿Qué parte de la vida de María Zambrano te interesa más?
¿Qué parte de la vida de María Zambrano te interesa más?
Which part of María Zambrano's life interests you most?
Qué asks the listener to identify information.
Useful for open questions about a text.
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