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Ratón Pérez: read in Spanish (B2)

Read Luis Coloma’s children’s tale Ratón Pérez in Spanish. Level B2: long period sentences and dry humor, with instant word translation.

Ratón Pérez (Luis Coloma)

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Level B2 Reading focus

What you'll learn

Long period sentences, old-fashioned verb forms with the pronoun after the verb, court and household vocabulary, late 19th-century Spanish prose

This article contains the full text of Luis Coloma’s tale Ratón Pérez, written in the 1890s for the child king Alfonso XIII, about King Buby I, who loses his first tooth and meets the mouse who collects it. Level B2 suits readers who can follow long sentences with several clauses in Spanish. You will learn vocabulary of the court, of old Madrid and of family life.

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