Spanish Pronto Reading Practice

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INSTRUCTIONS: Print out this glossary—or just open this page in a separate window—then click on the linked headline to read the first two paragraphs of this story about how massive citizen participation is making this year's Mexican presidential election different. (However, to judge by the comments below the original article, many readers remain skeptical that even this presidential election will be a fair one.)


ARTICLE:

Estas elecciones, las más vigiladas y transparentes de la historia: IFE

These elections (will be) the most well-supervised and transparent in (the) history (of Mexico) says the Federal Electoral Institute

GLOSSARY:

12:5312:53 p.m.
99.9%"noventa y nueve punto nueve por ciento"
28"veintiocho"
69"sesenta y nueve"
30/06/2012June 30, 2012
ademásin addition
afirmó(he) declared
aseveró(he) claimed
así comoas well as
casillasballot boxes
consejero presidentechair (i.e., president)
deof, than, from
DF"Distrito Federal" (federal district)
domingoSunday
eleccioneselections
electoralelectoral
electoraleselectoral
estasthese
estethis
extranjerosforeign
federalfederal
habráthere will be
historiahistory
IFEFederal Electoral Institute
informó(he) reported
instalar"a instalar" = to be installed
institutoinstitute
jornadaday
mañanatomorrow (July 1, 2012)
másmost, more
MéxicoMexico City, or Mexico
milthousand
ningunanone
observadaobserved
observadoresobservers
paísescountries
participaciónparticipation
partidosparties
políticospolitical
publicadopublished
registradarecorded
representaciónrepresentation
representantesrepresentatives
sinwithout
tendrá(it) will have
tipokind
totaltotal (number)
transparentetransparent
tresthree
vigiladasupervised
vigiladassupervised
visitantesvisitors

NOTE: The words that are not included in this glossary are very common Spanish words (as found in the first 7 days of the Español desde cero blog).


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