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Count Lucanor: read in Spanish (B1)

Read Count Lucanor retold in modern Spanish: a MovaReader adaptation of 13 exemplos by Don Juan Manuel for level B1, with all the tenses and word translation.

El conde Lucanor (adaptación, Don Juan Manuel)

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Level B1 Reading focus

What you'll learn

Polite commands and advice with usted in the subjunctive, subjunctive after para que, hasta que and tener miedo de que, conditional and pluperfect in narration, si clauses with the pluperfect subjunctive, reported speech, vocabulary of medieval courts, the church, money and trade

This article contains a MovaReader adaptation of Don Juan Manuel’s El conde Lucanor (1335), retold in modern Spanish: a frame chapter and 13 of the book’s best-known exemplos, each with the count’s question, Patronio’s story and a rhymed moral. Level B1 suits learners who are working through all the tenses: sentences of about 12 words, the subjunctive in advice and wishes, the conditional and the pluperfect, and reported speech. You will learn the vocabulary of medieval courts, money and trade, and how Spanish gives polite advice with usted.

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