Lesson 7.3.2 · El mundo entero
🌎 Places & Countries
From the village down the road to the continents across the ocean — the vocabulary of geography and nationality.
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.
Places
Layers of place: el lugar (the place), el pueblo (village), la ciudad (city), el país (country), el continente (continent), el mundo (the world).
place
village
city
country
continent
world
Example sentences
Necesito el lugar, por favor.
I need the place, please.
¿Dónde está el pueblo?
Where is the village?
Me gusta la ciudad.
I like the city.
Mini-diálogo
¿Dónde está el lugar?
Where is the place?
Me gusta el pueblo.
I like the village.
Countries & nationalities
Countries are capitalized; nationalities (adjectives) are not. Add -a for feminine: 'mexicano / mexicana'. Some, like 'inglés', drop the accent in the feminine form: 'inglesa'.
United States of America
American
England
English
Spain
France
French
Italy
Italian
Mexico
Mexican
Panamanian
China
Chinese
Example sentences
Estados Unidos.
United States of America.
Mi amigo es muy americano.
My friend is very American.
La comida está Inglaterra.
The food is England.
Mini-diálogo
Siempre digo: "Estados Unidos".
I always say, "United States of America."
La comida está americano.
The food is American.
Continents & regions
Like nationalities, the regional adjectives have masculine/feminine forms (norteamericano/a).
America
North America
North American
Central America
Central American
South America
South American
European
Asia
Asian
Example sentences
Hoy estoy América.
Today I feel America.
Mi amigo es muy Norteamérica.
My friend is very North America.
La comida está norteamericano.
The food is North American.
Mini-diálogo
Mi amigo es muy América.
My friend is very America.
La comida está Norteamérica.
The food is North America.
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
European
Practice exercises
Test what stuck. Multiple-choice and fill-in-the-blank — pulled live from this lesson's vocabulary.
English
el pueblo
Inglaterra
el continente
Asia
italiano
Fill the blank
Necesito el _____, por favor.
I need the place, please.
Fill the blank
Hoy estoy _____.
Today I feel America.
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