Visit Lake Titicaca in Spanish

Quick Answer

¡Hola!Learn how to visit Lake Titicaca in Spanish in this article and the lessons above! Specifically, learn how to do the following in Spanish:

• ask for and give travel advice

• use vocabulary related to tourism

• talk about activities you can do and places located on Lake Titicaca

Vocabulary

Let's start off with the vocab words in these lessons!

Adjectives

Spanish	English
abrigado	warm
cortés	polite
navegable	navigable
panorámico	panoramic
seco	dry

examples
Yo, en tu lugar, llevaría ropa abrigada. If I were you, I'd wear warm clothes.
Sería cortés con los isleños. I'd be polite to the islanders.
Es el lago navegable más grande del mundo. It's the largest navigable lake in the world.

Adverb Phrase

Spanish	English
sin lugar a dudas	without a doubt

examples
Sin lugar a dudas, sí. Without a doubt, yes.

Nouns

Spanish	English
el isleño, la isleña	islander
el lugareño, la lugareña	local
el mate	maté
la península	peninsula
el quechua	Quechua
el soroche	altitude sickness
el templo	temple

examples
Sería cortés con los isleños. I'd be polite to the islanders.
Conversaría con los lugareños. I'd talk to the locals.
¿Tú, en mi lugar, probarías el mate? If you were me, would you try maté?

What is Quechua?

Quechua(Quechua) refers to a family of languages spoken in the Imperio inca(Inca Empire) in América del Sur(South America). The Inca Empire first arose in Perú(Peru) and later extended through the Andes(Andes) to Bolivia(Bolivia), Ecuador(Ecuador), southern Colombia(Colombia), northern Chile(Chile), and northwestern Argentina(Argentina). Currently, Quechuan languages are spoken primarily in Bolivia, Perú, Colombia, Ecuador, and Argentina.

You can learn more about Quechua’s influence on Spanish in this article.

Noun Phrases

Spanish	English
la isla Taquile	Taquile Island
las islas Uros	Uros Islands
el lago Titicaca	Lake Titicaca
la observación de aves	birdwatching

examples
Yo que tú, visitaría la isla Taquile. If I were you, I'd visit Taquile Island.
¿Tú, en mi lugar, visitarías las islas Uros? If you were me, would you visit the Uros Islands?
Realizaría observación de aves. I'd do birdwatching.

The Simple Conditional

The conditional tense in Spanish el condicionalo el pospretéritois used to talk about hypothetical situations and probabilities as well as to make polite requests and give and ask for advice.

In the Spanish conditional tense, both regular and irregular verbs use the same set of endings, and any stems that are irregular in the simple future are also irregular in the conditional.

Regular Conditional Forms

To form the conditional tense with regular -ar, -er, and -ir verbs, simply add the conditional endings to the end of the infinitive:

Spanish Conditional Endings

Subject	Conditional Ending
yo	-ía
tú, vos	-ías
usted, él, ella	-ía
nosotros, nosotras	-íamos
vosotros, vosotras	-íais
ustedes, ellos, ellas	-ían

Do these verb endings look familiar? They should! They’re the same as the imperfect tense endings for -er and -ir verbs.

Irregular Conditionals

As we stated before, any stems that are irregular in the simple future are also irregular in the conditional. The irregular stems in the conditional are:

Infinitive	Conditional Stem
caber	cabr-
decir	dir-
haber	habr-
hacer	har-
mantener	mantendr-
poder	podr-
poner	pondr-
querer	querr-
saber	sabr-
salir	saldr-
tener	tendr-
valer	valdr-
venir	vendr-

For example:

examples
¿Podrías reservar tú el tour? Could you book the tour?
¿Querrías venir conmigo? Would you like to come with me?

examples

¿Podrías reservar tú el tour?

Could you book the tour?

¿Querrías venir conmigo?

Would you like to come with me?

Conditional Markers

Just like in English, there are words and phrases that let us know that we need to conjugate our verbs in the conditional tense. In these lessons, you learned the following conditional markers: