The True History of the Conquest of New Spain: read in Spanish (C2)
Read Bernal Díaz del Castillo’s eyewitness chronicle of the conquest of Mexico in Spanish. Level C2: very long sentences, plain vocabulary, instant word translation.
Historia verdadera de la conquista de la Nueva España (Bernal Díaz del Castillo)
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Sixteenth-century narrative Spanish, long chained sentences with y, é and que, old forms and spellings, vocabulary of voyages, campaigns and colonial administration
This article contains the complete text of Bernal Díaz del Castillo’s chronicle, the memoir of a soldier of Hernán Cortés, written in old age and first printed in 1632. It covers the voyages from Cuba, the march to Mexico and the years after the conquest, told from the Spanish side. Level C2 suits readers who can follow sentences of a hundred words or more. You will learn the vocabulary of travel, war, politics and daily life in sixteenth-century Spanish.
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