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Gypsy Ballads: read in Spanish (B2)

Read Lorca’s Romancero gitano in Spanish. Level B2: eighteen ballads with vivid imagery, with instant word translation.

Romancero gitano (Federico García Lorca)

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Level B2 Reading focus

What you'll learn

Poetic imagery, nature and folk vocabulary, inverted word order in verse, Andalusian culture, early 20th-century Spanish poetry

This article contains the full text of Federico García Lorca’s Romancero gitano (1928): eighteen ballads about gypsies, the moon, the wind and the Guardia Civil in an imagined Andalusia. Level B2 suits readers who can follow short lines but still need help with rich imagery. You will learn the vocabulary of nature, folk life and Andalusian culture, and how Spanish verse plays with word order.

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