Lesson 1 · Read first
Introduction to Spanish
Read this first. The orientation: how Spanish works, what it costs in hours, what the apps get wrong, and how to use this curriculum.
Curriculum
Learn Spanish from word 1
A guided path through the first 1,000 words of Spanish in frequency order. Chapter 1 is bespoke: an orientation, a starter vocabulary, word order, more pronouns, your first graded story, and the articles. From Chapter 2 onwards, rote ten-word sessions take you the rest of the way, with a milestone story at every hundred-rank mark.
Chapter 1
Lesson 2 · Vocabulary
First words for sentences
A pronoun, a few verbs, the things they act on. Enough to build a real Spanish sentence by the end.
Lesson 3 · Grammar primer
Word order in Spanish
Subject, verb, object - and the moments Spanish bends the English order.
Lesson 4 · Vocabulary
More people, more words
Subject pronouns for everyone else, plus the rest of the vocabulary you need for your first story.
Lesson 5 · Read a story
Your first story in Spanish
Every word in this story comes from the lessons you've just finished. No lookups required.
Lesson 6 · Vocabulary
Spanish articles
The definite and indefinite articles in one place: el / la / los / las / un / una. The next lesson covers when to use which.
Lesson 7 · Grammar primer
Spanish articles: when to use which
Definite vs indefinite, masculine vs feminine, singular vs plural - the agreement rules and the cases where Spanish uses an article and English doesn't (and vice versa).
After the first 1,000
Once you have the first 1,000 down, the Core 1,000 and Core 5,000 lists let you self-pace the rest as a reference.