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Fables: read in Spanish (B2)

Read Samaniego’s complete verse fables in Spanish. Level B2: short rhymed stories about talking animals, with instant word translation.

Fábulas (Félix María de Samaniego)

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Level B2 Reading focus

What you'll learn

Verse word order, old forms and spelling, animal and rural vocabulary, the language of morals and proverbs, 18th-century Spanish verse

This article contains the full text of Félix María de Samaniego’s Fábulas, 157 verse fables in nine books first published in 1781 and 1784. Talking animals teach a moral in short rhymed lines, with a prose prologue by the author. Level B2 suits readers who can handle inverted verse word order and 18th-century vocabulary. You will learn animal and country vocabulary and the language of proverbs and morals.

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