Mi Casa
Name the rooms, place the furniture, and give a home tour — out loud.
Learn the rooms with their articles — la cocina, el baño, la sala, el dormitorio — because the gender is half the word. Then place things with estar plus one preposition: está en la cocina, sobre (on top of), debajo de (under), al lado de (next to). And know that homes are where Spanish gets most regional: a bedroom is la recámara in Mexico and el cuarto in Colombia, the living room becomes el living in Argentina, and the fridge is el refri, la heladera or la nevera depending on the country.
Below: the house words lesson by lesson, what Mexicans and Argentines actually call the furniture, the ser/estar slip that gives you away — and a way to practice it &Be's way: talking through your own home out loud, no flashcards, no drills.
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Regional Spanish
Textbooks teach one word. Locals use several — pick your region's and stay consistent.
| English | Mexico | Argentina |
|---|---|---|
| refrigerator | el refri | la heladera |
| living room | la sala | el living |
| closet | el clóset | el placard |
| shower | la regadera | la ducha |
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Olivia
Your vocabulary teacher for this pack
Nothing to flip, match or fill in — in the Mi Casa lessons you learn house words by saying them where they live. Olivia asks you for a tour of your own home: you walk her through it room by room — la cocina, la sala, el dormitorio — naming what's in each one. Then she loses things on purpose: where's the phone? And you place it out loud — está en la cocina, al lado de la lámpara, debajo de la mesa — one preposition per sentence, until locating things in Spanish is a reflex. And she talks back.
Blank mid-sentence and nothing bad happens — she waits. That's the practice, without unnecessary judgement.
Finish the 5 lessons and Mi Casa is yours — earned, not given.
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Quick answers
La cocina (kitchen), el dormitorio (bedroom), el baño (bathroom), la sala (living room), el comedor (dining room). In real speech Mexico says la recámara for bedroom and Colombia says el cuarto.
La sala is the standard word. Argentina prefers the loanword el living, and in the Caribbean you'll hear la sala-comedor when living and dining share one space.
Estar + a preposition: está en la cocina (it's in the kitchen), sobre la mesa (on the table), debajo de la cama (under the bed), al lado de la ventana (next to the window). One preposition per sentence keeps it clear — and Mexicans add the friendly ahí nomás, 'right there'.
The fridge: el refrigerador, shortened to el refri in Mexico, but la heladera in Argentina and la nevera in Colombia. The stove is la estufa in Mexico — but careful: in Argentina and Spain la estufa often means a heater, so there the stove is la cocina.
Estar, always: está en la cocina, never es en la cocina. Location takes estar even for things that never move — it's the single most common slip with house vocabulary.
