Lesson 3.2.1 · La gente
🧑 People, Titles & Feelings
How to describe people — by age, by title, and by how they're feeling. Note the polite 'don / doña' you'll add before first names of elders.
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.
People & titles
'Señor / señora / señorita' are the everyday Mr / Mrs / Miss. 'La gente' (the people) is singular in Spanish: 'la gente es amable'.
the person
the people
the adult
the baby
the child / boy
the boy
the girl
the man
the name
the age
Mr / sir
Mrs / ma'am
Miss / young lady
Example sentences
Necesito la persona, por favor.
I need the person, please.
¿Dónde está la gente?
Where is the people?
Me gusta el adulto.
I like the adult.
Mini-diálogo
¿Dónde está la persona?
Where is the person?
Me gusta la gente.
I like the people.
Feelings & descriptors
Watch the ser/estar split: 'es aburrido' = he's a boring person; 'está aburrido' = he's bored right now. Same trick with 'emocionado' and 'contento'.
glad
sad
excited
exciting
boring / bored
funny
smart / ready
intelligent
long
Example sentences
Hoy estoy contento.
Today I feel glad.
Mi amigo es muy triste.
My friend is very sad.
La comida está emocionado.
The food is excited.
Mini-diálogo
Mi amigo es muy contento.
My friend is very glad.
La comida está triste.
The food is sad.
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 adult
Practice exercises
Test what stuck. Multiple-choice and fill-in-the-blank — pulled live from this lesson's vocabulary.
listo
excited
the boy
emocionante
la edad
Mrs / ma'am
Fill the blank
La comida está _____.
The food is excited.
Fill the blank
Mi amigo es muy _____.
My friend is very sad.
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