Lesson 9.1.2 · La naturaleza
🌳 Nature & Outdoors
Colombia is parks, mountains, rivers, and three coasts. Here's the landscape vocabulary you'll use on every weekend escape.
The landscape
Note 'el río' (river) keeps its accent — without it 'rio' is a verb form. 'El mar' is masculine in everyday speech but goes feminine in poetry ('la mar').
the park
the grass
the lake
the mountain
the hill
the plant
the land / earth
the river
the tree
the sea
the beach
the flower
Example sentences
Necesito el parque, por favor.
I need the park, please.
¿Dónde está el pasto?
Where is the grass?
Me gusta el lago.
I like the lake.
Mini-diálogo
¿Dónde está el parque?
Where is the park?
Me gusta el pasto.
I like the grass.
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 hill
Practice exercises
Test what stuck. Multiple-choice and fill-in-the-blank — pulled live from this lesson's vocabulary.
the mountain
the beach
la planta
the river
la tierra
the flower
Fill the blank
Necesito el _____, por favor.
I need the park, please.
Fill the blank
Me gusta el _____.
I like the lake.
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