# Pre-Lesson Prep Sheet *Run this once, ten minutes before a lesson, or the morning of. You are not re-learning anything here — you are loading what's already fragile into working memory so it's primed when Javier brings it up. If you find yourself re-reading a whole entry, you've overshot; this page should be enough on its own.* --- ## 1. ERROR TRACKER — READ, DON'T RESTUDY | Date Logged | Error | Type | Status | |---|---|---|---| | 12 Jul (Entry V) | Swapped *rubio* (blond) and *hablador* (talkative) in homework | Vocabulary — meaning confusion between unrelated adjectives | **Fixed in source. Retest before marking fully resolved** — use both words correctly, unprompted, in a future sentence | | 12 Jul (Entry V) | Querer table mislabelled all three forms (quiero/quieres/quiere) as "I want" | Note-taking error | **Fixed in source (16 Jul correction pass)** | | 16 Jul (Entry VI) | Wrote *bien* where *buena* was needed | Adverb vs. adjective confusion | Self-caught, resolved. Watch for recurrence — this is a category of error, not a one-off | | 16 Jul correction pass (Entry V) | Tener table had nosotros/ellos English labels swapped — *Nosotros tenemos* marked "They have," *Ellos tienen* marked "We have" | Note-taking error, direct inverse of the querer fix | **Fixed in source** | **Pattern worth naming:** all four logged errors are label/translation-direction swaps, not grammar failures — you know the Spanish, you're mismatching which English gloss sits next to which row. That's a proofreading habit to build into your correction passes, not a comprehension gap. Four for four is enough to call it a pattern rather than coincidence — worth a deliberate check ("does row order match label order?") every time you type up a conjugation table, not just when something feels off. --- ## 2. OPEN LOOPS — CONFIRM STATUS BEFORE YOU WALK IN | Item | Owed Since | Due | Status | |---|---|---|---| | Translate: "I have a cat, my cat's name is Lola" | 16 Jul | 24 Jul lesson | — | | Translate: "I don't have a cat but I have a dog. His name is Tango" | 16 Jul | 24 Jul lesson | — | | Translate: "I want to drink a white wine but it's too expensive" | 16 Jul | 24 Jul lesson | — | | "voy" — flagged as next lesson's topic | 16 Jul | 24 Jul lesson | Upcoming, expect *ir* conjugation | If any translate row is still blank the morning of the lesson, do it before you glance at anything else on this page. Turning up with unfinished homework and a primed error tracker is a strange kind of preparation. --- ## 3. LAST LESSON'S CORE STRUCTURE — ONE GLANCE *Whatever the most recent entry taught, its core table goes here. Currently: Entry VI (16 Jul), practical/shopping Spanish.* - **costar** is irregular and only exists meaningfully in third person: *cuesta* (it costs) / *cuestan* (they cost). You don't conjugate it for yo/tú — objects cost, people don't. - Price-asking triad: *cuánto cuesta* (how much does it cost) / *cuánto vale* (how much is it worth) / *cuánto es* (how much is it) — functionally interchangeable, Javier gave you three ways in, not three separate rules. - *Vale* on its own = "okay." Same word also means "value." Context, not spelling, tells you which. --- ## 4. VERB TABLES YOU NOW ACTUALLY HAVE (as of the correction pass) | | tener | querer | necesitar | pagar | |---|---|---|---|---| | yo | tengo | quiero | necesito | pago | | tú | tienes | quieres | necesitas | pagas | | él/ella | tiene | quiere | necesita | paga | | nosotros | tenemos | *(not given)* | necesitamos | pagamos | | vosotros | tenéis | *(not given)* | necesitáis | pagáis | | ellos | tienen | *(not given)* | necesitan | pagan | Querer's plural forms (nosotros/vosotros/ellos) have never been given in any entry. Worth noticing if it comes up naturally in the 24 Jul lesson — if not, it's a fair thing to ask for directly rather than letting it sit as a permanent gap like tener did. --- ## 5. WALK-IN SUMMARY Read this line last, then close the notebook: > *I have ser, estar, tener, necesitar, pagar fully conjugated. Querer is missing its plural. Costar only exists in third person. My last three errors were all translation-direction swaps, not grammar failures. Homework: three translations, topic "voy" incoming.* That's the whole state of play. Anything Javier introduces tonight builds on top of it. --- *Run before every lesson. Update Sections 1–2 the same day a new entry is logged — this page should never be more than one lesson behind.*