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The 5,000 Spanish words that matter, in the order you'll actually need them.
Our biggest course: a gap-free path from rank 1 to rank 5,000, with a graded story at every milestone, a conjugation table for every verb, and both sides of the Atlantic on every page.
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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
Only words the course has taught
. . .
Today I go home. I'm hungry and I want to eat. My friend says there is food on the table.
Tap any word for its word page
Read Spanish from the first week.
64 graded readers written only from words the course has already taught you, from hundred-word starters to core-5,000 capstones. You read fluently from page one and tap anything you forget.
Browse Spanish storiesGrammar that treats you like an adult.
Spanish carries the subject inside the verb ending, which is why it can drop the pronoun. The course teaches that properly: every tense explained, every one of the 799 verbs tabled.
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".
Built for Spanish, specifically
Not one course photocopied six times. Each language gets the tools its own difficulties actually call for.
Spanish by the numbers
Counted from the course, not rounded up for the brochure.
- words, taught in frequency order
- 5000
- verb conjugation tables
- 799
- graded stories
- 64
- words with Latin American IPA
- 975
words, taught in frequency order
verb conjugation tables
graded stories
words with Latin American IPA
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