hasta el final de la calle
“hasta el final de la calle” — to the end of the street in Spanish. Phrase, level B1. Almost always with sigue: sigue hasta el final. And the great word of every Spanish set of directions: todo recto — straight ahead. In a live sentence: “Sigue todo recto hasta el final de la calle y gira a la izquierda” — Go straight to the end of the street and turn left. You can hear how it sounds right here.
In short
| Written in Spanish | hasta el final de la calle |
| Translation | to the end of the street |
| Part of speech | phrase |
| Level | B1 |
- hasta el final de la calleto the end of the street
Why it looks that way
Almost always with sigue: sigue hasta el final. And the great word of every Spanish set of directions: todo recto — straight ahead
A word with a story stays in memory longer than one learned as a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.
In a live sentence
A single word almost never appears alone in conversation. A sentence shows where it fits and what stands next to it.
- Sigue todo recto hasta el final de la calle y gira a la izquierdaGo straight to the end of the street and turn left
How not to forget this word
Reading a word and remembering it are different jobs. A day later, little survives of a single reading — and that is not bad memory, that is how memory works.
- This has been tested on foreign words too. The difference shows up most when you test yourself a few days later rather than straight away.checked many timesKim & Webb, 2022, Language Learning 72(2) · 48 experiments, 3,411 participants, 98 comparisons.
- Recalling beats re-reading. Covering the translation and trying to remember it does more than reading it ten more times.checked many timesAdesope, Trevisan & Sundararajan, 2017, Review of Educational Research 87(3) · 188 experiments, 272 comparisons. g = 0.61; against plain re-reading 0.51, against passive review 0.93.
- An answer you worked out yourself sticks better than one handed to you.checked many timesBertsch et al., 2007, Memory & Cognition 35(2) · 86 studies, 445 comparisons, d = 0.40.
Frequently asked
How do you say “to the end of the street” in Spanish?
«hasta el final de la calle». In a live sentence: “Sigue todo recto hasta el final de la calle y gira a la izquierda” — Go straight to the end of the street and turn left. You can hear how it sounds right on this page. Phrase, level B1.
Why does this word look the way it does?
Almost always with sigue: sigue hasta el final. And the great word of every Spanish set of directions: todo recto — straight ahead. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.
Can I hear how it sounds?
Yes, right on this page: click the word and it will play. The sound works on any phone, and nothing needs to be installed.