associlangLearn Spanish: the 3000 most common words, with pictures
Learn the 3000 most common Spanish words, in order of how often they're really used — the first 1000 alone make up about 80% of the words in everyday speech and writing. Each one comes with a picture and a funny sound-alike sentence, native-accent audio and reviews just before you'd forget it, plus short stories made of words you know. Free to start.
Start learning SpanishA real example from the course
unaa
I caught one tuna, only one.
Spanish words you'll learn
unaa
estethis
sobreon
añosyears
dostwo
bienwell
puedecan
veztime
tiempotime
díaday
mejorbetter
verto see
18 more words
vidalife
siemprealways
gentepeople
mundoworld
otroother
grangreat
menosless
trabajowork
lugarplace
creoI believe
quieroI want
cuentaaccount
decirto say
gobiernogovernment
paíscountry
casahouse
tresthree
buenogood
How you learn here
Every word gets a picture and one sentence linking how it sounds to what it means — strange enough to come back to you. The word then returns just before you would forget it, and after your first 50 words you can read a short story built from the words you already know.
Common questions
- How much time does it take?
- Five to ten minutes a day. A new word is learned once, and the reviews are short and spread further apart as it sticks.
- What does it cost?
- Opening an account is free, with no card, and comes with 1000 coins — 100 words. Every day you study adds coins, and so do writing associations and inviting up to 10 friends. If you want to go faster, you can buy coins.
- Do I need to know the language already?
- No. You start from the most common words, and every word has a speaker recording and a transcription.
- What happens to words I forget?
- They come back sooner, and you can practise only the hard ones.