1:50A1 · Grammar lesson
Saying what you want with quiero and quería
Quiero, quería
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Spanish listening practice from A1 to C2
Graded Spanish stories, listening quizzes and conversations with slow, clear native audio and English subtitles. Listen, then repeat each sentence out loud, at every CEFR level.
Lessons by level
Every lesson stays within the words and grammar of its CEFR level.
Elementary
A1
About 500 words
Very short, concrete sentences about yourself, family, numbers, food and daily life, in the present tense.
31 lessons
Elementary
A2
About 1,200 words
Simple everyday situations: shopping, weather, hobbies, getting around, what happened today and yesterday.
26 lessons
Intermediate
B1
About 2,500 words
Connected stories about experiences, plans, opinions and feelings.
Intermediate
B2
About 4,000 words
Natural Spanish on a wide range of topics, with nuance, reasons and arguments.
Advanced
C1
About 8,000 words
Fluent, idiomatic Spanish with complex structures and a varied register.
Advanced
C2
About 16,000 words
Near-native Spanish, including literary style, wordplay and fine shades of meaning.
New lessons
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4:26A2 · Survival Spanish
At the Hairdresser
En la peluquería
1:16A2 · False friends
Carpeta, Embarazada: 2 Spanish False Friends
carpeta · embarazada
0:57A1 · Survival Spanish
At the Bakery
En la panadería
0:42A2 · Story
The Key to the Door
La llave de la puerta
1:35A1 · Conversation
The Hard Path
El camino difícil
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A new Spanish lesson every day for English speakers, made for listening with no screen: graded stories to shadow, grammar taken apart, survival Spanish for the farmacia, the mercado and the metro, listening quizzes, a café chat between a learner and a native speaker from Spain, a weekly audio drama and slow Spanish news. Every episode is graded to a CEFR level (A1 to C2) and leaves you pauses to speak out loud.
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Three ways to practise
Stories
Short illustrated stories at your level. Each sentence is read slowly with the translation, then you repeat it in the pause.
Listening quizzes
Hear a sentence with no subtitles and pick its meaning from three answers. Then see the answer and repeat it out loud.
Conversations
Everyday conversations with two voices. You play one person: answer in your own words, then hear and repeat the real reply.