How well can you adapt your language to different situations in Spanish? This crossword challenges your knowledge of registers, discourse markers, hedging expressions, and pragmatic strategies used by proficient Spanish speakers. From formal speeches to casual conversation, test your ability to match the right linguistic tools to the right context.
Grid
Fill in the grid: pick a square, read the clue and type your answer.
Clues
Across
- 3. To want desire
- 4. Related to the context of speech
- 6. Set of words used in a language
- 7. Form of address used toward someone
- 9. Exchange of information between people
- 10. Rise and fall of voice in speech
- 11. To arrive at a destination
- 12. Always, at all times without exception
Down
- 1. Soon
- 2. I want
- 5. Process of adjusting to a new context
- 8. System of communication using words
- 9. Neck
Answers
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Across
- 3. To want desire → querer
- 4. Related to the context of speech → contextual
- 6. Set of words used in a language → vocabulario
- 7. Form of address used toward someone → tratamiento
- 9. Exchange of information between people → comunicacion
- 10. Rise and fall of voice in speech → entonacion
- 11. To arrive at a destination → llegar
- 12. Always, at all times without exception → siempre
Down
- 1. Soon → pronto
- 2. I want → quiero
- 5. Process of adjusting to a new context → adaptacion
- 8. System of communication using words → lenguaje
- 9. Neck → cuello
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