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The pronoun that got left out, and why
If you have been paying attention you may have noticed something odd: this is lesson 92, the course has been using habéis and vosotros in dialogues since well before this, and only now is there a lesson about it. That gap is worth explaining, because it is a gap in almost every Spanish course in the world. Spanish teaching materials are made for a market, and the market is overwhelmingly American. Something like nine in ten Spanish speakers are in the Americas, most Spanish learning happens in or for the United States, and the Americas have no vosotros at all. So the commercial logic points one way: teach ustedes for every plural, mention vosotros in a footnote, and save a conjugation. Many well-known courses do precisely that, and for a learner heading to Mexico or Colombia it is the right call. It is the wrong call for this course, because this course is set in Spain. In Madrid, Barcelona, Valencia, Bilbao and almost everywhere in between, vosotros is not a regional flourish; it is what you say to two friends, to your own children, to a group of colleagues you are on tú terms with. Using ustedes instead is not incorrect, and you will be understood, but it puts a layer of formality between you and everybody in the room — roughly the effect of addressing your friends as sir and madam. The practical consequence is small and constant: a learner who has never drilled vosotros can produce usted-level Spanish all day and still be unable to say bring drink and do not go to any trouble to two friends. The good news is how cheap it is. There is one new set of endings — -áis, -éis, -ís and their relatives — one new pronoun, os, one new possessive, vuestro, and the most regular imperative in the language. That is a morning's work, not a term's. The harder part is listening: vosotros forms are long, stressed at the end, and in fast speech the -d of the imperative and the -s of the ending both erode, which is what the next lesson is about. One thing not to do. Do not mix systems inside a conversation. If you are in Spain, speaking to friends, use vosotros consistently; if you are in Lima, use ustedes consistently. Sliding between them in the same breath — ¿vosotros queréis? … ¿y ustedes cuándo llegan? to the same two people — is the one version of this that sounds genuinely wrong rather than merely foreign.