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Módulo 11·0/5 complete

Salud y Sentimientos - Health and Feelings

Talk about how you feel and what hurts, and get through a Spanish doctor's appointment

What you'll learn

  • Doler in the gustar pattern — me duele la cabeza, me duelen las muelas
  • Choosing ser or estar with adjectives — a lasting trait versus how you are right now
  • Getting through a Spanish medical appointment: booking a cita, describing symptoms, asking for a receta
  • Reflexive emotion verbs: alegrarse, enfadarse, preocuparse
  • Reacting the Castilian way — qué pena, qué guay, qué fuerte, vaya tela, menos mal

Why it matters

You can describe your past now, but a conversation also needs the present tense of how you actually feel. Estoy cansado. Me duele la cabeza. Qué pena. These are the phrases that turn small talk into real talk. The grammar load is lighter than the last two modules — the lift here is vocabulary that lets you take part.

Before you start

Module 10 — the imperfecto and when to choose it over the indefinido. You'll also lean on ser and estar from Modules 2 and 4.

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