Spanish books at B2 level

What B2 means, in numbers

24 lessons

Lesson 67 to lesson 90, all free.

13,050 words

Of B2 Spanish to read straight through, the story alone.

544 words a lesson

From 456 to 684. About fifteen minutes of reading each.

4 review units

One every five lessons, going back over the level.

The Spanish itself

• The imperfect subjunctive, and unreal conditions: si tuviera, daría.
• The compound tenses of both moods, and what they let you say about blame.
• Register: two people at one table speaking two different Spanishes, and what that tells you about them.
• Old spelling, deliberate archaism, and how to read a page of 1605 without a modern edition holding your hand.

After B2 there is no book to sell you. There are eleven free pages of unadapted Cervantes with the apparatus a C1 reader needs: the C1 and C2 pages.

The 24 free lessons at B2

All free, with no sign-up. Each one is a chapter of Don Quixote rewritten at B2, with 4 review units among them.

• Camacho’s wedding feastLesson 67Para que and a fin de que: the subjunctive of purpose
• Basilio’s trickLesson 68Aunque: one word, two moods
• Down into Montesinos’ CaveLesson 69The imperfect subjunctive: how it is built
• Dulcinea asks for six realesLesson 70Si tuviera seis reales, se los daría
• Master Pedro’s puppet showLesson 71Reporting what somebody ordered
• Paying for the broken puppetsLesson 72Set phrases and ways of exaggerating
• The enchanted boat on the EbroLesson 73Guessing: deber de, quizá and tal vez
• Arrival at the duke’s castleLesson 74Speaking like a duke, and what that hides
• The duchess and SanchoLesson 75Two registers at one table
• The Countess Trifaldi’s beardLesson 76Old Spanish and how to parody it
• The flight of ClavileñoLesson 77Will have happened and would have happened
• Sancho governs BaratariaLesson 78How an official document talks
• The judgements of SanchoLesson 79Chaining reasons together
• The governor goes hungryLesson 80If he had eaten, he would have been ill
• Sancho gives up the governorshipLesson 81Hubiera outside sentences with si
• Ricote, the exiled neighbourLesson 82The subjunctive, all of it at once
• Doña Rodríguez and the duelLesson 83Dar por and darse por
• Arriving in BarcelonaLesson 84Hay, está and es for describing a place
• The visit to the printing houseLesson 85Saying what a word means and what a book is called
• Roque Guinart the banditLesson 86Cause and consequence: how a man ends up where he is
• Defeat on the beachLesson 87Resignation: what you say when nothing can be done
• The plan to become shepherdsLesson 88Suffixes: how Spanish manufactures new words
• The will of Alonso QuijanoLesson 89Que plus subjunctive, with nothing in front
• The end of the storyLesson 90The whole of B2, and the whole course behind it