Major Update!
22nd January 2018 - audio added.
Level:
High Intermediate (verbs in preterite, imperfect, future, conditional and imperative tense.)
These are cards of words followed by a single card with an example sentence of the preceding word, eg.
(Card # 19)
Front: to end, to finish
Back: acabar
(Card # 20)
Front: Our work never ends.
Back: Nuestro trabajo nunca acaba.
(Card # 21)
Front: the action
Back: la acción
(Card # 22)
Front: His actions confuse me.
Back: Sus acciones me confunden.
This is my favourite way to learn spanish - be introduced to the word with it’s general English translation, and then see the word in a sentence to learn one way it’s applied.
In most cases, ‘you’ is the formal pronoun ‘usted’. Though
there are no instances of ‘vosotros’, this deck is a mix of spanish from both Spain and Latin America.
Text To Speech will pronounce correctly since the diacritical marks are there. You can view a poorly rendered text version of the deck here -
http://www.vellosoft.com/dloads/Spanish_Vocabulary_Builder.pxt
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Thank you below for the comment about ‘no mp3’. I recommend IVONA TTS (Android) as a substitute for mp3 files - it’s a very natural sounding TTS engine. Thanks to Martin Patz, Nate Fillmore & Steve Brooks for their input.
Thank you below for the comment about ‘invierno’ - that card now says ‘winter’. Thanks for the comment about ‘Suguiero’ - it’s now in the 1st person present tense since the original version wasn’t as natural. Regarding the comment about not knowing if the subject or object is plural, this is how it was in the original book. It’s also ambiguous if the address should be usted or tú. If someone takes the time to fix this in the english, I would be happy to update the deck.
I would like to thank the Native Speaker Review for his insights. I’ve implemented the specified suggestions to make the sentences sound more natural. I think the main benefit of this deck is to drill common vocabulary, but another benefit is to expand your comprehension of conjugations which you don’t often get exposed to in conversation (hence the frequency of usted in the deck). This is the main benefit of Anki I believe - to expand comprehension which you won’t frequently get in conversation (but you will commonly come across in movies). If someone wants to learn sentences that build conversation skills, I would recommend a different deck.