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The Book of Her Life: read in Spanish (C2)

Read Teresa of Ávila’s autobiography Libro de la vida in Spanish. Level C2: long, spoken-style sentences about prayer and convent life, with instant word translation.

Libro de la vida (Santa Teresa de Jesús)

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Level C2 Reading focus

What you'll learn

Long sentences with chains of clauses, vocabulary of prayer and convent life, older Spanish spellings and forms (ansí, vía, mesma)

This article contains the complete text of Teresa of Ávila’s autobiography Libro de la vida, written in the 1560s at her confessor’s request. Level C2 suits readers who can follow sentences of about 39 words. You will learn the vocabulary of prayer and convent life and the older forms of 16th-century Spanish.

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