Spanish C1 · Day 46
Day 46: La reforma penal y el debate sobre la nueva delincuencia — Peninsular versus American past (part 1)
What you'll learn
- Grammar: Peninsular versus American past (part 1)
- Reading: La reforma penal ante la nueva delincuencia: castigo, garantías y percepción social
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Grammar point: Peninsular versus American past (part 1)
At CEFR C1, you are refining how Spanish locates events in the past, and one choice that still demands precision is that between the pretérito perfecto compuesto ( he juzgado ) and the pretérito indefinido, also called pretérito perfecto simple ( juzgué ). You already form both. The C1 difficulty is distribution: the same finished act is narrated differently in central Spain and in most of Latin America, and the …
Key vocabulary (8 of 20 words)
- el derecho penal – criminal law
- la reforma penal – criminal law reform
- promulgar algo – to enact, pass (a law)
- la modificación legal – legal amendment (of a law)
- los bienes jurídicos – legal interests protected by law
- los tipos penales – elements of a crime, statutory offences
- la ciberdelincuencia – cybercrime
- el abuso de datos – data misuse
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