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La Celestina: read in Spanish (B1)

Read La Celestina retold in Spanish: a MovaReader adaptation of Fernando de Rojas’s 1499 tragicomedy for level B1, with word translation.

La Celestina (adaptación, Fernando de Rojas)

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Level B1 Reading focus

What you'll learn

Pluperfect, conditional and imperfect subjunctive in narration, como si and ojalá with the subjunctive, si-clauses, commands with attached pronouns, reported speech, vocabulary of honour, trickery and love

This article contains a MovaReader adaptation of La Celestina (Tragicomedia de Calisto y Melibea) by Fernando de Rojas, first printed in 1499, retold in modern Spanish prose in 14 chapters. Level B1 suits learners who are working through all the tenses: sentences of about 12 words, the pluperfect, the conditional and the imperfect subjunctive, plenty of dialogue and a few lines of old Spanish. You will learn the vocabulary of honour, trickery and love, wishes with ojalá, hypothetical si-clauses and commands with attached pronouns.

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