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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
  • · Presentarse — Introducing yourself
  • · Los números — Numbers & prices
  • …and 36 more across three levels

The full speech loop, in Spanish

Free to start — the complete speaking experience is $19.95/month.

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