Spanish C1 · Day 13
Day 13: Cautela en las afirmaciones científicas — Inverted si-less conditional clauses
What you'll learn
- Grammar: Inverted si-less conditional clauses
- Reading: Afirmaciones científicas sin cautela: Un desafío para la confianza pública
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Every lesson: vocabulary with audio, grammar, reading, a speaking step and a short test.
Grammar point: Inverted si-less conditional clauses
At C1 level, you can handle subtler ways of stating conditions in Spanish. You already open them with „si“, or more formally with „siempre que“. Spanish also offers elegant alternatives that drop the conjunction: a verb-first condicional invertida sin si , and „de“ plus an infinitive.
Key vocabulary (8 of 39 words)
- la relativización (f.) – qualification, relativization
- la limitación (f.) – restriction, limitation
- la atenuación (f.) – mitigation, weakening
- la evidencia (f.) – evidence (strong, scientific)
- la plausibilidad (f.) – plausibility
- la causalidad (f.) – causality
- la correlación (f.) – correlation
- corroborar algo – to substantiate, to underpin
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