The Mnemosyne Project

Spanish idioms with English idiomatic equivalents; most include a sentence which uses the Spanish idiom, to give the student an example.

There are 576 idioms here, and if you produce one that fits a conversational situation, the odds are good that it will make you seem much more fluent. Remember, though, that idioms are often local, and don't be surprised if, occasionally, people just look at you with confusion when you use one. Instead, view it as an excellent opportunity to produce another idiom that fits.

The file is a zipped version of a tab-separated text file - unzip it, then import it, specifying tab-separated fields and an appropriate category name.

File contains only the Spanish Questions with English answers. You may of course create your own vise-versa cards when you are comfortable enough to go in that direction.

The book's title apparently is meant to be catchy and does not reflect the actual number of words, which amount to 1312 in all.

The majority of the words are uncategorized. I included sentences for words whose meaning was difficult (at least for me) to grasp without context, ex.
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Question:
repente, de

Answer:
suddenly

De repente apareció el niño.
Suddenly, the child appeared.
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I also include sentences for many reflexive verbs (casarse, despartarse, etc.) to show how they are used in context.

The latter part of the book (5 out of 55 pages) includes the following groups which I have created as categories, omitting "numbers."

animales - Animals
colores - colors
comida - food
la familia - family
los días de la semana - days of the week
los meses del año - months of the year
profesiones - professions
tiendas - shops/stores
las estaciones - seasons

Reasons to buy the book even though you have this file:

- It sells for $2.00, brand new.
- It's small and portable.
- It contains sentences for all of the uncategorized words (which is the majority of them), and tips on learning vocabulary.
- I cannot guarantee this file does not contain typos or misspellings.

Enjoy!

Spanish Vocabulary contains 2,899 cards comprising a basic set of Spanish words, mostly from my textbook, Practical Spanish Grammar, Second Edition, by Marcial Prado. Other words are from the Harper Collins Spanish Concise Dictionary, Second Edition. The total number of words in the vocabulary is about 1,400.

Most cards (nearly all) have English on one side and Spanish on the other.

The words are arranged into categories for focused study. Certain categories (Adverbs and Adjectives, Nouns, Verbs, and Other Words and Expressions) are each further divided into three units, with the more basic words in unit 1 and the more advanced words in unit 3.

"Spanish" is first in each category name because I assume that you have other categories already in use and will want it to be obvious which categories are related to the study of Spanish.

For example, Spanish:Nouns:1

The months of the year, seasons, and days of the week in Spanish.