Speak everyday Spanish, one day at a time.
One short lesson a day, built around the real phrases you’d actually use. Plus free pronunciation, verb tables and situation guides for your trip.
Start Day 1 - free →You do not have a memory problem. You have a scheduling problem.
Everyone forgets. What separates people who learn a language from people who keep starting one is whether anything brings a word back at the moment it is about to slip. That is all spaced repetition is, and it is the single highest-return habit on this site.
Ten minutes a day genuinely beats two hours on a Sunday. The catch is that a schedule is only worth something if it survives, and without an account yours lives in one browser on one device.
Every language you pick up is another few hundred million people you can meet halfway. This site exists to make that first step, the hardest one, cost you ten minutes a day instead of a term at evening class.
Most people who give up on Spanish quit in the first month, and it is usually because they tried to learn the grammar as a system before they could say anything. Here is the order that works, and what each step actually costs you.
Spanish spelling tells you exactly how a word sounds, which English spelling does not, so this is a short job you do once and then stop thinking about. Nine sounds cover it: the five vowels that never change, the rolled r, the silent h, the j, and the c that is an s in Latin America and a th in most of Spain. Skip it and you will spend months saying words you can read perfectly well.
These are the phrases you would actually use: saying hello, giving your name, ordering a coffee, asking where something is. Each day covers a few of them, explains why they work the way they do, then quizzes you. Do not binge three at once to get ahead. The day in between is doing half the work, because that is when things stick.
Spaced repetition is a flashcard deck that works out when to show you each word. You get 15 new ones a day, the useful ones first and mixed across themes, and each word comes back just before you would have forgotten it. If you only do one thing on this site, make it this. Ten minutes a day beats two hours on a Sunday, and it is not close. Do the cards even on the days you skip the lesson.
Verbs are where Spanish asks most of you and gives most back. Five endings unlock hundreds of regular verbs at once, and about a dozen irregular ones carry most of what anybody says in a day. Use the tables as a reference you come back to rather than a list to memorise, and let the daily lessons introduce them one at a time.
About 25 minutes, split three ways. One sitting or spread across the day, it makes little difference. Mornings are slightly better for the cards, because anything you get wrong comes back later the same day.
On a bad day, do the reviews and nothing else. Even four minutes keeps the schedule intact. Skip a day and tomorrow’s pile is bigger, which is how people end up staring at 200 cards and quietly giving up.
Different plan. Go straight to Situations: the restaurant, the airport, the hotel. Learn the nine sounds so people understand you, then do the daily lessons with whatever time is left. Twenty phrases you can actually say will do more for you than half a grammar book.
Daily lessons teach the phrases you would actually say, one short lesson at a time, and days 1 to 30 of 90 are free with no account. Around them, Learn holds pronunciation, the verb tables, the vocabulary themes and the grammar reference, and Practice has the spaced repetition deck and the games.
The course teaches Latin American Spanish by default. Wherever Spain differs, a switch at the top of the page shows both, so you are never quietly taught one and tested on the other.
Jump straight to the situation you need, no course required.
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