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Read Pereda’s novel Sotileza in Spanish. Level B2: the fishermen of Santander, sea vocabulary and long descriptive sentences, with instant word translation.
Sea and fishing vocabulary, Cantabrian regional speech, long descriptive sentences, 19th-century realist prose
This article contains the full text of José María de Pereda’s novel Sotileza (1885), set in the fishing quarter of Santander, where the orphan Silda grows up among boats, nets and rough boys. Level B2 suits readers who can follow long descriptive sentences and local speech in Spanish. You will learn sea and fishing vocabulary, Cantabrian turns of speech and 19th-century narrative prose.