Free basic Spanish words

What's inside

• How Spanish soundsSpanish is written the way it sounds. One page covers the five vowels, ñ, j, the silent h, ll, both kinds of r and where the stress falls, with an example word for each.
• 218 words, colour-codedGreetings, question words, family, days, numbers, food, places and verbs, with ser and estar explained. Every noun has its article in a colour: el blue, la pink.
• Show words and practiceReactions like ¿En serio? and ¡Qué guay!, the rude words you'll hear on screen and shouldn't copy, Spain and Latin America side by side, then ten sentences to read before you check.

How to use it

1. Read the sounds page aloud once, then keep it next to you.
2. Learn five words a day, always with their el or la.
3. Cover the grey English on the last page and read each sentence aloud, then slide the paper down to check.
4. Watch something in Spanish with Kitsumi and catch the words you know. Que, no and es turn up in nearly every line.

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