Lesson 5: Renting a Home and Handling Everyday Problems
Finding an apartment, understanding rental terms, communicating with your landlord, and dealing with household issues.
About this lesson
In this lesson, you will practise how to search for and choose a home, discuss rent, deposits (fianza), and contracts, as well as how to politely report problems and request repairs. You will work on expressing preferences and concerns, negotiating, and making plans — all using core tenses and polite forms. Perfect for real-life situations: phone calls with your landlord, enquiries, and small-scale negotiations.
40 minutes
What you'll learn
- Ask questions about rental terms (price, deposit/fianza, bills, and the contract).
- Compare listings and politely negotiate changes (e.g. a reduction in rent).
- Report household breakdowns (averías) and request help or repairs by phone or message.
- Express preferences and concerns in the right tone (conditional for politeness, subjunctive after requests).
- Use structures such as llevar + gerundio to express duration and querer que + subjunctive to make requests.
Lesson vocabulary
- — наем El alquiler incluye el agua, pero no la electricidad.
- — депозит/гаранция Tienes que pagar una fianza de un mes.
- — обзаведен Buscamos un piso amueblado con buena luz.
- — договор Voy a firmar el contrato mañana si todo está claro.
- — такси/разходи за общи части (етажна собственост) ¿Están incluidos los gastos de comunidad?
- — хазяин/хазайка La casera nos pidió que avisáramos si hay averías.
- — повреда/авария Hubo una avería en la calefacción y vinieron a arreglarla.
- — водопроводчик He llamado al fontanero porque el grifo gotea.
- — преместване Hicimos la mudanza el sábado pasado.
- — подновявам Queremos renovar el contrato por seis meses más.
- — електрически контакт Ese enchufe no funciona desde ayer.
- — сметка/фактура Ayer me llegó la factura de la luz.