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A1 Pronunciation Spanish accents
Spanish accents come in two parts: typing them and knowing when a word needs one.
Oct 23, 2026 Reading & listening Reading practice
A2 Reading & listening Reading practice
Spanish reading practice works best at the right level, so start with a 20-second check. Read these two sentences out loud, then play them:
Oct 23, 2026 Reading & listening Short stories
A1 Reading & listening Short stories
These Spanish short stories start right here: press play, read along, and open the English only when you get stuck.
Oct 23, 2026 Verbs -AR verbs
A1 Verbs -AR verbs
An -ar Spanish verb is any verb whose infinitive ends in -ar, like hablar (to speak), and 472 of the 710 verbs in our Spanish conjugator belong to this group. That’s two out of thr
Oct 23, 2026 Verbs Car, gar, zar verbs
A2 Verbs Car, gar, zar verbs
If you’ve ever written buscé or empezé on a quiz and gotten it back circled in red, you’ve met the car, gar, zar rule the hard way. Verbs ending in -car, -gar and -zar change one l
Oct 23, 2026 Verbs Es vs está vs esta
A1 Verbs Es vs está vs esta
Es vs está comes down to one sentence: Esta casa es grande y está limpia, “This house is big and it’s clean.” Both es and está mean “is.” Es comes from the verb ser and says what s
Oct 23, 2026
A2 Verbs Gustar and verbs like it
Gustar and verbs like gustar work backwards compared to English. Me gusta el café doesn’t really say “I like coffee.” Word for word, it says “coffee pleases me”: the coffee is the
Oct 23, 2026 Verbs The imperfect
A2 Verbs The imperfect
When English says used to or was doing, you’re usually looking at the imperfect: Spanish keeps one past tense for habits, descriptions and the background of a story. “I used to tal
Oct 23, 2026 Verbs Irregular preterite verbs
A2 Verbs Irregular preterite verbs
Ask someone ¿Qué hiciste el fin de semana? and even a simple answer needs irregular preterite verbs: Fui a casa de mi tía, hice galletas y tuve tiempo para leer. Three verbs, three
Oct 23, 2026 Verbs Present subjunctive
B1 Verbs Present subjunctive
Present subjunctive Spanish forms all come from one place: the yo form of the present. Take hablo, drop the -o, add the opposite vowel, and you have hable. That’s the whole procedu
Oct 23, 2026