Practise Spanish in two ways. The vocab drill works through about 480 common words in ten tiers, with audio. The grammar drill has nine tracks — present-tense conjugation and ser vs. estar, articles and gender, negation, describing things, questions, gustar, commands, the future, and the preterite vs. the imperfect — each built from short concepts with a reference to read before you start. Every concept starts as multiple choice and moves on to typing whole sentences.
The five vowels are pure and never glide: a e i o u are always ah eh ee oh oo, however fast you say them.
Stress falls on the second-to-last syllable — ha·bla, li·bro — unless the word ends in a consonant other than n or s, which moves it to the last: ha·blar, us·ted. A written accent overrides both: ca·fé, lá·piz.
ü appears only in güe and güi, to say the u that would otherwise be silent: pingüino, vergüenza.
Consonants that differ from English:
Choose a track to practice.