Spanish module
The Spanish module covers over 1,100 verbs in sixteen tenses, over 1,600 nouns, and the smaller word classes around them.
The ways to study it are described under Ways to study in the User Guide. This guide describes what is in the course, word type by word type.
Each word type has its own tile on Self Study, and each tile opens a hub with the same Theory / Study / Practice sections as the rest of the app. Level and topic are not set per hub. Your level is chosen in Scheme and level (the chip with the flag), the topics in Self Study → Select word scope, and every hub draws on both. There is no frequency filter in Self Study.
- Verbs — over 1,100 verbs in 23 verb groups, conjugated in sixteen tenses and forms: the indicative, subjunctive and imperative, and the gerundio. Choose verb groups and tenses, read the theory, look up any verb's full conjugation, then drill meanings, production, recognition and the choice drills. See Verbs.
- Nouns — over 1,600 nouns: gender, plurals, meanings and translations. See Nouns.
- Adjectives — over 290 adjectives: agreement, shortening, comparison and adverb derivation.
- Adverbs — over 230 adverbs, derived (-mente) and lexical.
- Pronouns — around fifty pronouns: personal, demonstrative, possessive, relative, interrogative and indefinite.
- Prepositions — over 30 prepositions, taught by usage: por / para, en / a / de, collocations and idioms.
- Numerals — cardinal numbers and their relatives, with shortening (un, cien) and agreement in the hundreds.
- Other Vocabulary — the remaining single words: conjunctions, articles, determiners and interjections.
- Phrases — over 270 curated set phrases, plus the example sentences from the verb and noun catalogues. See Words and phrases.
Some features exist only in the Spanish course:
- Traps — curated decks of things that actively mislead a learner: false friends, nouns whose ending lies about their gender, nouns whose meaning changes with the article, and adjectives whose meaning changes with ser or estar. On iPhone and iPad it is a card under Tools on Self Study; on the Mac it is in the sidebar. See Traps.
- Spanish verb drills — the form drills from Past participle (Participio) to Stem changes (Presente) drill the forms where Spanish irregularity concentrates, and Ser or estar, Gustar and verbs like it, Ir a, tener que, acabar de and Which past tense? (Perfecto / Indefinido) are choice drills no other course has. See The choice drills.
- Setting up Spanish speech — how to get a natural Spanish voice for the app to speak with.
Level schemes
The Spanish course has two level schemes. Choose one in Scheme and level (the chip with the flag); the schemes themselves are under Level schemes in the course tab of Settings (see Level schemes in the User Guide).
- CEFR — the standard scheme, for someone learning Spanish as a foreign language: six levels, A1 to C2, with translations in your app language.
- Escuela — for a Spanish-speaking pupil following Lengua castellana at school. Its levels are the school years, 3.º de Primaria to 2.º de ESO. Choosing it sets the app language to Spanish, shows no translations, names the tenses as Spanish schools do (pretérito perfecto simple for the indefinido), and leaves out what is meant for foreign learners: the meaning drills, Traps, Linguistic analysis, the theme lessons and the false friends. 1.º de ESO completes the conjugation (the imperfect and compound subjunctive); 2.º de ESO adds the drills on periphrasis and aspect and the rarest words. The scheme ends there: from 3.º de ESO on, the subject is syntax, text types and literature, which the app does not teach.