About this site
Learn Spanish Online Hub is a small independent site, written by one person, with no team behind it pretending otherwise.
Who writes it
A learner rather than a native speaker, writing the course they wanted when they started.
How a lesson gets made
Each day is written to the same shape: three groups of phrases, each closing with an explanation of the mechanism rather than a restatement of the rule, one culture note, four lines carried forward from that day, and eight questions of which at least one has to be typed rather than picked from a list.
Typing an answer is harder than choosing one and that is the point. Recognition is not recall, and a course made entirely of multiple choice questions will make you feel fluent without making you fluent.
If you find a mistake
Tell us. Send the day number or the page address to [email protected] and it gets corrected, with credit if you want it.
Which Spanish
Latin American Spanish is the default, because it is the larger market, the larger population and the variety most English speakers will meet first. Where Spain differs in a way that matters, the switch at the top of the lesson shows it. The clearest differences, the c and z sound and the vosotros form, are taught explicitly rather than quietly ignored.
Why there is no audio for every phrase
Recorded audio for a 90 day course means a booth, a voice actor and a budget, and doing it badly is worse than not doing it. The pronunciation page and the review deck use your device's Spanish voice, which is honest about what it is. Recorded audio is on the list, after the review.
Chispa
Chispa is an Iberian lynx cub. The lynx lives only in Spain and Portugal, and it came close to extinction around the year 2000 before a breeding programme brought it back, which makes it about as local to Spain as an animal gets. The black ear tufts, the pointed ruff and the spots are what make it a lynx rather than any cat. Chispa means spark.
The company
Learn Spanish Online Hub is a trading name of Lunar Interactive Arts Ltd, registered in England and Wales, company number 12044811. Company number 12044811, registered office 102 Lady Margaret Road, Flat D, London, England, N19 5EX. Questions to [email protected].