Spanish Study Guide and Memory Tools for Vocabulary

Jake and Kumpal

Spanish Study Guide and Memory Tools for Vocabulary

Unidad 1 Leccion 1 pp 28-52

Vocabulary:

Spanish Word	Memory Tool	English Translation
Camping Trip
Al aire libre	The air outside is liberating	Outdoors
El albergue juvenil	Juvenile = youth	Youth hostel
La camioneta	Come-Net-Vagina-Truck	SUV, truck
La cantimplora	Cantim = canteen	Water bottle, canteen
El descuento	Descuent = discount	Discount
El equipo	Equip = equipment	Equipment
La estufa (de gas)	Stuf = stove	(gas) stove
La fogata	Only fags go camping	Camp
El fósforo	Phosphorescence = light = fire = match	Match
La guía	Guía is guide without a d	Guide
El kayac	It sounds like…	Kayak
La olla	The only reason I’d even go as far as saying something basic like ‘hola’ in Spanish is to get some pot	Pot
El saco de dormir	Sack of sleep	Sleeping bag
La tarifa	Tariffs and fares are things you have to pay	Fare
La tienda de campaña	Tiend = tend = tent, campaña = camp	Tent
El transporte público	Sounds like…	Public transportation
Hacer una caminata	Caminata = cami nada = go walking outside wearing a cami and nothing else!	To take a walk
Talk About What You Did with Friends
Ahorrar	Ab-whore-ar – whores don’t have much money to save or time to spare.	To save (money, time)
Conseguir	conseGET-YOUR-ASS-IN-guir-BECAUSE-I-NEED-TO-FIND-SOME-PANTS	To get, to find
Divertirse (ie, i)	In Mexico, fun is a diversion from the every-day monotony of	To enjoy, to have fun
Encender (ie)	Harry Potter – INCENDIO! *stuff catches fire*	To light (a match), to make a fire, to turn on
Escalar montañas	Scale mountains – mountains always look easier to climb when they’re little and drawn to scale	To climb mountains
Hacer una excursión	Sounds like…	To go on an excursion, guided tour
Llenar	Lena fills up on Russian food	To fill up
Meterse en	I don’t want to get into why America won’t use the meter system	To go into
Montar	Mont = mount a picture up on a wall	To put up
Navegar por rápidos	Navigate the rapids	To go whitewater rafting
Navegar	Sounds like…	To navigate, to sail
Observar	Sounds like…	To observe
Ofrecer	Take out the ‘C’, sounds like Paterno saying…	To offer
Remar	Rem = ream of paper = roll of toilet paper, roll = row if you have a speech impediment	To row
Seguir  (i,i)	Seg = SegWay – I want to follow the guy who makes these scooters home so I can steal one	To follow
Utiliar	Utilize	To use
Talk About Nature
El agua dulce	Sweet water = opposite of salt water	Fresh water
La araña	Ara = arachnid	Spider
El árbol	Arbor Day	Tree
El bosque	Don’t go into the woods without some Bosco® to defend yourself. Just squirt it in the bear’s eye. Then he’ll eat his own chocolatey eye.	Forest, woods
La flor	Flor = floral	Flower
La mariposa	Mary posed like a butterfly, and was consequently caught by a huge net	Butterfly
La naturaleza	Sounds like…	Nature
El pájaro	A jar o’ bird makes a good wedding gift	Bird
El pez	Pez dispenser with a fish head	Fish
El río	The Río Grande’s a big river	River
La selva	Save your selva! Don’t go into the jungle!	Jungle
El sendero	Don’t send your kid down the wrong path…send him to the Academy!	Path
La serpiente	Sounds like…	Snake
Other Words and Phrases
Agotador (a)	Cross of ‘matador’ and ‘goat’ – think of how exhausting it would be to try to get a goat mad enough to run into a cape	Exhausting
Al extranjero	If I had a broad named Njero, I think I’d like an extra one just in case.	Abroad
Con anticipación	In anticipation for the test, I fell asleep in advance.	In advance
Dentro	Dental work takes place inside your mouth.	Inside
Frente a	You’d help a friende facing a tough problem, wouldn’t you?	Facing
Fuera (de)	I sweara, I left the fuera outside. I wouldn’t want it messing up your carpet.	Outside (of)
Inolvidable	It’s unavoidable…and after it happens…its unforgettable	Unforgettable
Junto a	Don’t sit next to a boy or you’ll get pregnant, just like that girl in Juno. That means you, TJ.	Next to
Sin	No man is without sin…but TJ is not a man.	without

 

Unidad 3 Leccion 2 pp 178 – 201

Present Subjunctive:

 

	Hablar	Tener	Escribir
Yo	Hable	Tenga	Escriba
Tu	Hables	Tengas	Escribas
Usted/el/ella	Hable	Tenga	Escriba
Nosotros	Hablemos	Tengamos	Escribamos
Ustedes/ellos	Hablen	Tengan	Escriban

 

Certain verb changes:

Criticar	Critique
Investigar	Investigue
Penalizar	Penalice
Proteger	Proteja
Extinguir	extinga

 

Vocabulary:

 

El (la) ciudadano(a)	Dada came here from a foreign country to become an American citizen	Citizen
El compromiso	All commitments require compromise	Commitment
La conciencia social	Conscientiousness of society	Social awareness
Encargarse de	In a car, Gary must take responsibility for himself and the other drivers on the road	To take charge of, to make oneself responsible for
La irresponsabilidad	Sounds like…	Irresponsibility
Penalizar	Sounds like…	Penalize
La politica	Sounds like…	Politics
El principio	Sounds like…	Principle
Respetar	Sounds like…	To respect
Satisfacer	Sounds like…	To satisfy
La sociedad	Sounds like…	Society
La unidad	Sounds like…	Unity
Comercializar	A market is a very commercial plce	To market
Invertir (ie, i)	Invert poverty and make a healthy investment	To invest
Novedoso (a)	Nove = novel	Novel, original
La patente	Sounds like…	Patent
El producto	Sounds like…	Product
Advertir (ie)	Companies don’t like to advertise the warnings about using their products	To warn
Cometer	I think comets were one of G-d’s mistakes – flying rocks? No.	To make (a mistake)
Emprender	The emperor was undertaken by a prince and was consequently thrown into a pit of boiling Kathryn	To undertake
El error	Sounds like…	Mistake, error
Insistir	Sounds like…	To insist
Luchar	MUCHA LUCHA	To struggle
Persistir	Sounds like…	To persist
Progresar	Sounds like…	To progress
Properar	Sounds like…	To prosper
Seguir adelante	We know seguir means to follow form above, and adelante sounds like add a lantern, so if you follow a lantern you can continue through a dark maze	To continue on, to carry on
Solucionar	Solucion = solution	To solve
Superar	I AM SUPERAR MAN! I CAN OVERCOME MY FEAR OF WASHING MACHINES!	To overcome
La advertencia	Ever seen this written on the back of medicine bottles?	Warning
El fracaso	WHAT THE FRAC! YOU’RE MADE OF FAI	Failure
La mejora	This is one mejora improvement right here.	Improvement
El obstaculo	Sounds like…	Obstacle
El sufrimiento	Sounds like…	Suffering
Criticar	Sounds like…	To criticize
Es imprescindible que…	I must impress upon you that it is imperative that…	It is indispensable/ imperative that…
Es raro que…	It is rare to find a mudkip in the wild, no matter how much you liek them. It is a little strange that you like them though…	It is strange that…
Evaluar	Sounds like…	To evaluate
Por un lado	Pour human hands on the lad. That will teach him. On one hand, it’ll freak him out.	On one hand…
Por el otro lado	On the other hand, he’ll never headshot you again.	On the other hand… (duh)

 

Unidad 6 Leccion 1 pp 332-353

Vocabulary

El banco	Sounds like bank…but when you can’t own a bank, buy a bench.	Bench
La bombonería	Never bomb a candy store. It’s just bad karma.	Candy store
El buzón		Mailbox
El cajero automático		ATM
La carncería		Butcher shop
El correo		Post office
El escaparate	If you put a doggy in the display window of a pet shop, it will try to escape and hit its head against the window. Don’t.	Display window
La estación de metro	Metrosexuals ride the subway. Real men teleport.	Subway station
La ferretería	You have to go the hardware store to buy things to build a ferret playground.	Hardware store
La florería	Sounds like…	Flower shop
La frutería	Sounds like…	Fruit stand
La fuente	In fuent of the fountain there’s a statue of the ownerer.	Fountain
El kiosco	Sounds like…	Kiosk
La lechería	The milk has leeches in it.	Dairy store
La manzana	Man! This is one zany block!	(city) block
La oferta	Sounds like offer but with a T	Offer
La pastelería	Paste…ría = pastry	Pastry shop
La verdulería	Verdu = veggu = veggies	Vegetable stand
(sacar) el billete	If you take a ticket you’ll probably get a big bill	(to buy) a ticket
(subir/bajar) el metro	Metrosexuals ride the subway. Real men teleport.	(to get on/to get off) the subway
(abrir/cerrar) el grifo	Good grief! Can you ever remember to shut off the faucet? This makes 14 times you’ve flooded the house.	(to turn on/to turn off) the faucet
(tocar) el timbre	We installed doorbells on all the trees so instead of shouting TIMBER when we cut them down, we just ring the bell and they fall.	(to ring) the doorbell
Aprovechar	I don’t approve of characters who take advantage of people	To take advantage (of something)
Arreglar	It’s important to repair irregularities	To repair
Dar una vuelta	Vuelta = pole vaulting – it’s probably a better idea just to walk	To take a walk
Dejar	Shit, I left duh jar at home!	To leave (behind)
Enterarse de	You should find out about STD’s before you enter arse.	To find out about
Hace los manadados	You have to do the mandatory thigns	To do errands
Ir de tapas	Take her out to eat if you want to tap that ass (This was Kumpal’s.)	To go out to eat
Ordenar	Sounds like order, to put things in order means to…	To organize
Quitar	The best way to make someone quit smoking is to just take away their cigarettes (I don’t actually know if that’s true).	To take away
El balcón	Sounds like…	Balcony
La bañera	You have been officially banned from the bathtub after you left me that nasty surprise.	Bathtub
Desordenar	Desordenar sounds like disorder	To mess up
La ducha	Doncha wish our shower wasn’t one foot by one foot?	Shower
Ensuciar	If you give a two year old (or a TJ) some dirt, horrible things will ensue.	To get dirty
La entrada	Entra = enter	Entrance
El fregadero	Friggin idiots at the hardware store gave me two dish washers but no kitchen sink!	Kitchen sink
El horno (ha-ha)	Giggle.	Oven
El lavabo	Let’s hope there’s no lava in your bathroom sink.	Bathroom sink
El lío	Don’t lio to me. I know you made this mess.	Mess
La mesita	I’m in a huge mess because I had a one nightstand.	Nightstand, end table
El microondas	Micro = micro wave	Microwave
El piso	My apartment smells like piss.	Apartment
El refrigerador	Sounds like…	Refrigerator
Romper	If you have a romp, don’t break anything	To break
Roto(a)	Broken rotors	Broken
El Sello		Stamp
La Terraza	Sounds like…	Terrace

 

Preterito:

Regular:

(on page 37 in case you want to check it out)

 

	Escalar	Corer	Salir
Yo	escalé	Corrí	Salí
Tú	Escalaste	Corriste	Saliste
Usted/el/ella	Escaló	Corrió	Salió
Nosotros	Escalamos	Corrimos	Salimos
Ustedes/ ellos	Escalaron	Corrieron	salieron

 

Verbs with spelling changes in the preterite yo form:

 

	C            qu	g                gu	z                 c
	Practicar	Navegar	Organizar
Yo	Practique	Navegué	Organicé
Tu	Praticaste	Navegaste	organizaste

 

Irregular:

(on page 42 in case you want to check it out)

 

Preterite Endings (for the verbs below)

 

-e                     -imos

-iste                 -isteis

-o                     -ieron

 

 

i-stem verbs		u-stem verbs		uv-stem verbs
Hacer	Hic-hiz (note: the stem of hacer is hiz- for the usted/el/ella form only ex: ella hizo la tarea.)	Haber	Hub-	Andar	Anduv-
querer	Quis-	Poder	Pud-	Estar	Estuv-
Venir	Vin-	Poner	Pus-	tener	Tuv-
		Saber	Sup-

 

Preterite Endings (for the verbs below)

 

-e         -imos

-iste     -isteis

-o         -eron

 

 

j-stem verbs
Decir	Dij-
Traer	Traj-
Conducir	Conduj-

 

Other irregular verbs:

Ser and ir	Dar	Ver
Fui	Di	Vi
Fuiste	Diste	Viste
Fue	Dio	Vio
Fuimos	Dimos	Vimos
Fueron	Dieron	vieron

 

Presente de Perfecto
(on page 342 if you want to check it out)

 

If you want to talk about things that have already happened, you use the present perfect tense.

 

First, you conjugate the verb haber in the present tense

 

Then you add the past particple of the main verb

 

In the present tense, the past particple of that main verb always ends with –o.

 

Haber
He	Hemos
Has	Habeis
Ha	han

 

Examples:

 

Ella ya ha ido de tapas

--She has already gone out to eat

 

Rosa nunca ha robado nada.

--Rosa has never stolen anything

 

If you use object or reflexive pronouns, you put them before the conjugated form of haber.

 

Examples:

 

Alberto te ha comprado el billete?

--Has Alberto bought you the ticket?

 

Si, me lo ha comprado

Yes, he has bought it for me

 

If there is a stem that ends in a, e or o, there is a written accent over the i for –er and –ir verbs.

 

Traer becomes traido

Oir becomes oido

Leer becomes leido