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CEFR C2 · Proficiency
Nine lessons on what separates excellent Spanish from native Spanish — the choices that carry nuance, the idioms nobody translates, and the mistakes native speakers themselves make.
New lessons are added regularly — this list will keep growing.
Dijo que — backshifting tense, mood, pronouns and time markers all at once.
Start lesson → 2Ir vs. irse, acordar vs. acordarse — when se rewrites the meaning.
Start lesson → 3Six ways to say "become" — and why English speakers pick the wrong one.
Start lesson → 4Where both moods are correct — and the mood becomes a rhetorical choice.
Start lesson → 5El cual, lo cual, cuyo — the relatives that mark formal register.
Start lesson → 6The register ladder — from así que to por consiguiente, and when each belongs.
Start lesson → 7Tomar el pelo, meter la pata — the layer you can't deduce from the words.
Start lesson → 8Fronting, dislocation and clefts — how Spanish stresses without raising its voice.
Start lesson → 9Dequeísmo, queísmo, leísmo — the errors natives make and the rules behind them.
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