The best way to learn Spanish speaking

1. 1

   You say sentences out loud

   Speaking is a skill you only build by speaking. An app that only taps and swipes trains recognition.

2. 2

   It uses whole sentences

   Sentences teach word order, endings and rhythm that single words cannot.

3. 3

   You hear native-style audio

   Listening and speaking feed each other. You need to hear how it should sound.

4. 4

   Feedback is specific

   Knowing which word you missed is more useful than a red cross on the whole sentence.

5. 5

   It is short and daily

   A ten-minute habit you keep beats a long course you drop.

Every sentence goes through the same four steps, and the last one is the point.

• Order

  Rebuild the Spanish sentence in English from a bank of words.

• Translate

  See the English and build the Spanish sentence word by word.

• Listen

  Hear the sentence in Spanish and type what you understood.

• Speak

  Say it out loud and see which words landed.

Spanish uses five clean vowel sounds, and they stay the same in every word. Get a, e, i, o and u right and you will be understood almost at once. The tapped and rolled r takes longer, so say words with it out loud early instead of saving it for later.

• Hello

  Hola

  Hello

• Thank you

  Gracias

  Thank you

• A first sentence

  ¿Dónde está la estación?

  Where is the station?

Play buttons use your device’s own voice and appear only when it has one for Spanish.

An app builds habit, vocabulary and the muscle memory of speaking. It does not replace talking with people. Once you can say a handful of sentences, find a conversation partner or tutor and use what you practised. See how long Spanish takes to plan your time.