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Learn the words that matter. Try three right now.
Here is day one on Kilo Lingo: the most useful words in the language, ranked by real frequency data and drilled the way the course drills them. By the end of chapter 1 you are reading a story.
Your first three Spanish words
de, que and qué, no signup. It's the same drill the course uses.
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.
The course does ten words a day, then puts them in games, grammar drills and a story you can read.
Start freeYour first ten Spanish words
Ranks 1-10 of Spanish's frequency list. Day one teaches these, then drills them until they stick.
- 1
deof, from - 2
quethat, which, what - 2quéwhat (interrogative); how, what a... (exclamative)
- 3
serto be (identity, essential qualities) - 4
nono, not - 5
ato, at - 6
lathe (feminine singular) - 7
elthe (masculine singular) - 8
estarto be (state, location) - 9
yand
Now pop them
Word Bubbles, playing the commonest Spanish words. Match the word in the cannon to its meaning on the board; a miss turns to rock and stacks up. All the games on the site use the words you're learning.
How the first week goes
- 1
Ten words, four ways
Recognise, recall, type and build each one. Then play them through an arcade game, which counts as revision because it is.
- 2
Yesterday's words come back
Spaced review brings each word back at growing intervals, alongside the next ten. Five minutes covers it.
- 4
Grammar, when it earns its place
Short, opinionated lessons turn up once you have the vocabulary to use them, with the rule, the gotchas and a drill.
- 7
Your first story
A graded reader written in words you've already met, with the odd new one listed before the text, so you can read the whole thing on the first go. That's the whole idea.
5,000
words in our biggest course, commonest first
532
graded reader stories
750
grammar articles
Ten words down. 4,990 to go.
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