🇬🇧🇪🇸 autobiography - autobiografía : English Lesson

Meaning of "autobiography" ("autobiografía"), detailed definition, and a short video lesson below.

An autobiography is a story that a person writes about their own life. It includes important things that happened to them, like their childhood, adventures, successes, and even their mistakes. Unlike a biography, which is written by someone else, an autobiography is written by the person who lived through all those experiences. It’s like telling your life story to the world in book form!

Watch and listen to this English flashcard to understand the word in more detail, with an easy example sentence.

I started writing my autobiography, but I got stuck after the part where I learned to walk.

If my cat ever writes an autobiography, it’ll probably be 300 pages about sleeping and ignoring humans.

My autobiography would include a whole chapter about the time I accidentally glued my fingers together.

I imagined my autobiography being made into a movie… until I realized it’s mostly me playing video games.

If my pet hamster wrote an autobiography, it would be called "Running Nowhere: The Wheel of Life."

Grandma laid her new autobiography on the kitchen table. The autobiography smelled of salt and ink. Her son read the first page, then the dog nudged the autobiography close to her hand. She laughed, flipping a page of the autobiography and pointing to a photo. He cried, then wrote a note in the back of the autobiography. They hugged, proud.

This word is at the C2 level, which means it represents the highest mastery of English. It’s often used in specialized or highly formal contexts and helps you communicate with precision and subtlety, much like a native speaker.

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