The Student of Salamanca: read in Spanish (A2)
Read Espronceda’s El estudiante de Salamanca in simple Spanish prose: a MovaReader adaptation of the 1840 verse legend for level A2, with word translation.
El estudiante de Salamanca (adaptación, José de Espronceda)
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Pretérito indefinido and imperfecto in narration and description, usted in dialogue and commands (deme, guarde, salga), si clauses with the imperfect subjunctive (si la mujer estuviera aquí... la jugaría), wishes with que and the subjunctive (que Dios la tenga en su gloria), vocabulary of night, swords, gambling and ghosts
This article contains a MovaReader adaptation of José de Espronceda’s verse legend El estudiante de Salamanca (1840), retold in simple Spanish prose with dialogue in 14 chapters that follow the poem’s four parts. Don Félix de Montemar, a fearless student of Salamanca known as a second Don Juan, abandons young Elvira, gambles away his fortune, faces her brother Don Diego and one night follows a mysterious lady in white through the dark streets. Level A2 suits learners who know the past tenses: sentences of about 8 words, the pretérito indefinido and imperfecto, usted, and plenty of dialogue. About 5,900 words.
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