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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.

01

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').

el parque[el PAR-keh]

the park

el pasto[el PAS-toh]

the grass

el lago[el LAH-go]

the lake

la montaña[lah mon-TAH-nyah]

the mountain

la colina[lah ko-LEE-nah]

the hill

la planta[lah PLAHN-tah]

the plant

la tierra[lah TYEH-rrah]

the land / earth

el río[el REE-oh]

the river

el árbol[el AR-bol]

the tree

el mar[el mar]

the sea

la playa[lah PLAH-yah]

the beach

la flor[lah flor]

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

A

¿Dónde está el parque?

Where is the park?

B

Me gusta el pasto.

I like the grass.

MEM

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.

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Recall from English

the hill

EX

Practice exercises

Test what stuck. Multiple-choice and fill-in-the-blank — pulled live from this lesson's vocabulary.

01
How do you say this?

the mountain

02
How do you say this?

the beach

03
What does this mean?

la planta

04
How do you say this?

the river

05
What does this mean?

la tierra

06
How do you say this?

the flower

07

Fill the blank

Necesito el _____, por favor.

I need the park, please.

08

Fill the blank

Me gusta el _____.

I like the lake.

Score: 0 / 8

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