Lesson 9.1.1 · Animales y mascotas
🐄 Animals & Pets
From street dogs in Cartagena to cattle on the Llanos plains, Colombia is full of animals. Here's the core vocabulary for the creatures you'll see, eat, ride, or pet.
Pets & farm animals
Mascota covers any pet, but Colombians overwhelmingly mean perros and gatos. On a finca expect vacas, caballos, and cerdos.
animal
pet
dog
cat
cow
horse
pig
Marrano is the everyday Paisa word.
fish (alive, in water)
El pescado = fish on the plate.
Example sentences
Necesito el animal, por favor.
I need the animal, please.
¿Dónde está la mascota?
Where is the pet?
Me gusta el perro.
I like the dog.
Mini-diálogo
¿Dónde está el animal?
Where is the animal?
Me gusta la mascota.
I like the pet.
Memory lab
Five research-backed techniques — active recall, mnemonics, elaboration, interleaving, and production — applied to this lesson's vocabulary. Your progress trains a spaced-repetition schedule under the hood.
Force the answer from memory before peeking. The struggle is the workout — that's the testing effect.
Recall from English
pig
Practice exercises
Test what stuck. Multiple-choice and fill-in-the-blank — pulled live from this lesson's vocabulary.
la vaca
pig
el gato
el pez
el animal
el perro
Fill the blank
Necesito el _____, por favor.
I need the animal, please.
Fill the blank
¿Dónde está la _____?
Where is the pet?
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