Scraped a 4h Spanish fundamentals YouTube video (transcript + OCR on 14810 frames), extracted structured content across 52 chapters, and generated fill-in-the-blank quizzes for every grammar topic. - 13 new GrammarNote entries (articles, possessives, demonstratives, greetings, poder, al/del, prepositional pronouns, irregular yo, stem-changing, stressed possessives, present/future perfect, present indicative conjugation) - 1010 generated exercises across all 36 grammar notes (new + existing) - Fix tense guide parser to handle unnumbered *Usages* blocks - Rewrite 6 broken tense guide bodies (imperative, subj pluperfect, subj future) with numbered usage format - Bump courseDataVersion 5→6 with TenseGuide refresh on upgrade - Add docs/spanish-fundamentals/ with raw transcripts, polished notes, structured JSON, and exercise data Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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{
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"chapter_id": "23",
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"slug": "the-verb-saber",
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"title": "The Verb Saber",
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"time_range_sec": [5812, 5991],
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"summary": "Saber means 'to know' factual information or 'to know how to do something.' Conjugates regularly except in the yo form (sé). Spanish drops 'cómo' before infinitives.",
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"suggested_grammar_note_id": "saber-vs-conocer",
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"rules": [
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{"title": "When to use saber", "bullets": ["Knowing factual information (facts, times, answers).", "Knowing how to do something (skills, learned abilities).", "Think of saber as the cognitive equivalent of ser (factual identity)."]},
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{"title": "Irregular yo: sé", "bullets": ["yo sé carries an accent to distinguish from 'se' (reflexive/IOP).", "All other forms follow the regular -er pattern."]},
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{"title": "No 'cómo' before infinitives", "bullets": ["Say 'Yo sé hablar español' not 'Yo sé cómo hablar español.'", "The act of knowing how is implicit in saber + infinitive."]}
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],
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"examples": [
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{"es": "Yo sé hablar español.", "en": "I know how to speak Spanish.", "tags": ["skill"]},
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{"es": "Tú sabes la hora.", "en": "You know the time.", "tags": ["fact"]},
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{"es": "Él sabe nadar.", "en": "He knows how to swim.", "tags": ["skill"]},
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{"es": "Yo sé hablar inglés.", "en": "I know how to speak English.", "tags": ["skill"]},
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{"es": "Tú sabes tocar el piano.", "en": "You know how to play the piano.", "tags": ["skill"]},
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{"es": "Él sabe cocinar bien.", "en": "He knows how to cook well.", "tags": ["skill"]},
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{"es": "Nosotros sabemos la respuesta.", "en": "We know the answer.", "tags": ["fact"]},
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{"es": "Ellos saben la verdad.", "en": "They know the truth.", "tags": ["fact"]},
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{"es": "¿Sabes el número de teléfono?", "en": "Do you know the phone number?", "tags": ["fact", "question"]}
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],
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"vocab": [
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{"es": "saber", "en": "to know (facts/skills)", "pos": "verb"},
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{"es": "la verdad", "en": "the truth", "pos": "noun"},
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{"es": "la respuesta", "en": "the answer", "pos": "noun"},
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{"es": "nadar", "en": "to swim", "pos": "verb"},
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{"es": "cocinar", "en": "to cook", "pos": "verb"},
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{"es": "tocar", "en": "to play (an instrument)", "pos": "verb"}
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],
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"conjugation_tables": [
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{
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"verb": "saber",
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"tense_id": "ind_presente",
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"forms": {"yo":"sé","tu":"sabes","el":"sabe","nosotros":"sabemos","vosotros":"sabéis","ellos":"saben"}
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}
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],
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"exercises": [
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{"sentence": "Yo _____ la respuesta a la pregunta.", "correct": "sé", "distractor": "conozco", "explanation": "Knowing a fact uses saber; yo form is sé (with accent)."},
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{"sentence": "Tú _____ tocar la guitarra muy bien.", "correct": "sabes", "distractor": "conoces", "explanation": "Knowing how to do something is a skill — use saber."},
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{"sentence": "Yo _____ hablar tres idiomas.", "correct": "sé", "distractor": "se", "explanation": "Yo sé needs the accent; without it, 'se' is a reflexive pronoun."},
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{"sentence": "Nosotros _____ la verdad sobre eso.", "correct": "sabemos", "distractor": "conocemos", "explanation": "The truth is a fact — use saber."},
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{"sentence": "Ella _____ cocinar comida italiana.", "correct": "sabe", "distractor": "conoce", "explanation": "Cooking is a skill (how to do something) — use saber."},
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{"sentence": "Ellos _____ qué hora es.", "correct": "saben", "distractor": "conocen", "explanation": "Time is factual information — use saber."}
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],
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"caveats": "OCR truncated 'sé' to 'say' and 'sabe' to 'sa' in many spots; reconstructed from context."
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}
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