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español de España

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Speaking-first Spanish: native voices, word-by-word pronunciation scores, and a tutor that meets you at zero.

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About Spanish, honestly

FSI Category I: among the easiest for English speakers

~600–750 class hours to professional working proficiency · Travel-conversational in roughly 2–3 months of daily practice

What's genuinely hard

  • The distinción: z and soft c sound like English "th" (gracias = GRA-thias). Casa/caza minimal pairs train exactly this
  • Vosotros: Spain's informal plural "you" with its own verb endings (-áis/-éis/-ís); you'll hear it constantly
  • The rolled rr, and Peninsular speech is fast. Use the Slow playback speeds early
  • Spain vocabulary differs from Latin America: coche, ordenador, móvil, zumo, patatas

Tips

  • Learning for Latin America instead? Switch to Spanish (Latin America): same method, different sounds and vocabulary
  • The greeting "¿Qué tal?" and the filler "vale" (OK) will carry you far in Spain

Your first lessons

  • · Saludos (Greetings)
  • · La cortesía (Please & thank you)
  • · Para entender (Getting unstuck)
  • · Emergencias (Emergencies)
  • …and 38 more across three levels

The full speech loop, in Spanish

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