Vocabulary that actually matters
Learn the 1,000 words that matter. Skip the ones that don't.
The first 1,000 words of any language cover roughly 80% of everyday conversation. Most apps teach you "elephant" before "I need". We teach the words you will actually say, in Spanish.
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Quick taster
3-word session
A quick mix of exercises - recognise, recall, type and build each word. Miss one and it comes back round until it sticks.
Graded reader
Una mañana en casa
Top 1,000 words
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Today I go home. I'm hungry and I want to eat. My friend says there is food on the table.
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Comprehensible input
Read real stories, in words you already know.
Graded readers built only from the vocabulary at your level. You read fluently from the first page and pick up the rest from context - the way immersion actually works. Tap any word you forget.
Browse Spanish storiesGrammar, clearly
Grammar that treats you like an adult.
Opinionated, example-led guides: the rule, why it matters, and where the gotchas hide. No cartoon mascot, no streak guilt - just the clear explanation you came for.
Explore Spanish grammarPresent tense
hablar
to speak - Regular -ar verb
- yo
- hablo
- tú
- hablas
- él / ella
- habla
- nosotros
- hablamos
- vosotros
- habláis
- ellos
- hablan
The ending carries the subject, so Spanish usually drops the pronoun: hablo means "I speak".
Take it off the screen
Every lesson, story and grammar topic comes with a printable worksheet - handy for teachers, or for studying away from a glowing rectangle. Tap one to open it.
How it works
Three steps, built on how memory actually works - not on how long we can keep you tapping.
Step 1
Learn by frequency
Every word is ranked by how often it actually appears. You learn the most useful words first, not random nouns an app picked to look fun.
Step 2
Learn it every way
A fast, four-way drill - recognise, recall, type and build each word - backed by interactive games, graded-reader stories and grammar guides that put the words to work.
Step 3
Review at the right moment
Spaced repetition resurfaces each word just before you would forget it - the proven way to move vocabulary into long-term memory.
Everything an adult learner actually needs
The tools the gamified apps will not build, because they undercut the subscription pitch.
The maths is on your side
A handful of words does most of the work. Spend your time on those.
- of everyday speech from 1,000 words
- 80%
- core words that do the heavy lifting
- 1000
- languages, more to follow
- 4
- hours to conversational Spanish (FSI)
- ~600
of everyday speech from 1,000 words
core words that do the heavy lifting
languages, more to follow
hours to conversational Spanish (FSI)
Coverage figure from Nation (2006): the most frequent 1,000 word-families cover 81-84% of spoken English (BNC). Comparable figures hold across major languages by Zipf's law. FSI hours from the US Foreign Service Institute difficulty rankings.
Pick your language
Three chosen for how far an English speaker's effort goes - plus English itself, for the rest of the world. More to follow.
Stop learning "elephant". Start saying "I need".
Free, no streak guilt, no fake congratulations. Just the words that get you talking, fastest.