Lesson 3.1.1 · Familia y cuerpo
👨👩👧 Family & Body
The two vocabulary sets that come up in literally every conversation: who you're related to, and what hurts.
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.
Family members
Spanish family words come in male/female pairs. The plural masculine covers mixed groups: 'los padres' = the parents (mom + dad), 'los hijos' = the kids (sons + daughters), 'los hermanos' = the siblings.
family
mom
dad
mother
father
parents
son
daughter
brother
sister
husband
wife
grandfather
grandmother
uncle
aunt
Example sentences
Necesito la familia, por favor.
I need the family, please.
¿Dónde está la mamá?
Where is the mom?
Me gusta el papá.
I like the dad.
Mini-diálogo
¿Dónde está la familia?
Where is the family?
Me gusta la mamá.
I like the mom.
Body parts
Use these with 'me duele…' (it hurts me) — 'me duele la cabeza' = my head hurts. Spanish uses 'el/la' instead of 'my' for body parts.
body
head
neck
shoulder
arm
hand
chest
back
stomach
leg
foot
Example sentences
Necesito el cuerpo, por favor.
I need the body, please.
¿Dónde está la cabeza?
Where is the head?
Me gusta el cuello.
I like the neck.
Mini-diálogo
¿Dónde está el cuerpo?
Where is the body?
Me gusta la cabeza.
I like the head.
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
stomach
Practice exercises
Test what stuck. Multiple-choice and fill-in-the-blank — pulled live from this lesson's vocabulary.
son
chest
el papá
body
grandfather
la hermana
Fill the blank
Necesito el _____, por favor.
I need the body, please.
Fill the blank
Me gusta el _____.
I like the neck.
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