Lesson 4.2.1 · En la casa
🏠 House & Home
Rooms, doors, and the address you'll text to your friends. 'Casa' is the building; 'hogar' is the warmth inside it.
Sub-lessons
Break this lesson into focused chunks. Each sub-lesson has its own Memory Lab — active recall, mnemonics, elaboration, interleaved review, and shadowing — scoped to just those words.
The rooms
Colombians often say 'el cuarto' or 'la habitación' for bedroom. 'El baño' covers both bathroom and restroom.
the house
the home
the apartment
the bedroom
the room
the living room
the dining room
the kitchen
the bathroom / restroom
the garden
the pool
Example sentences
Necesito la casa, por favor.
I need the house, please.
¿Dónde está el hogar?
Where is the home?
Me gusta el apartamento.
I like the apartment.
Mini-diálogo
¿Dónde está la casa?
Where is the house?
Me gusta el hogar.
I like the home.
Inside the house
Doors, walls, beds, the desk where you work. 'La llave' is both 'key' and a faucet/tap.
the door
the wall
the floor
the key
the bed
the table
the chair
the desk
the shower
the tub
the address
to live in
Example sentences
Necesito la puerta, por favor.
I need the door, please.
¿Dónde está la pared?
Where is the wall?
Me gusta el piso.
I like the floor.
Mini-diálogo
¿Dónde está la puerta?
Where is the door?
Me gusta la pared.
I like the wall.
In the kitchen
From the everyday vaso (drinking glass) to the special copa (wine glass), and the sartén you'll fry your huevos in.
the glass
the (wine) glass
the cup
the saucer
the plate
the bowl
the pot
the pan
the teapot
the bottle
the knife
the fork
the spoon
the broccoli
the salad
Example sentences
Necesito el vaso, por favor.
I need the glass, please.
¿Dónde está la copa?
Where is the (wine) glass?
Me gusta la taza.
I like the cup.
Mini-diálogo
¿Dónde está el vaso?
Where is the glass?
Me gusta la copa.
I like the (wine) glass.
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
the desk
Practice exercises
Test what stuck. Multiple-choice and fill-in-the-blank — pulled live from this lesson's vocabulary.
the dining room
the glass
la silla
the shower
the teapot
to live in
Fill the blank
Necesito el _____, por favor.
I need the glass, please.
Fill the blank
Me gusta el _____.
I like the floor.
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