Lessons for English speakers
Learn to read Spanish
A short, active path into reading Spanish: five vowels that never move, nine real words decoded before the alphabet, ser against estar, the verb ending that replaces the pronoun, and two short stories before your first book.
13 core sections · ≈ 34 min + 3 optional lookups · ≈ 50 min with everything
16
Into your first book
≈ 1 min
What you'll learn
- Start with the Green Hill fables, which use deliberately limited language.
- Read the Spanish line before looking across at the English.
- One habit matters more than everything else: keep going.
- After Green Hill, move to Winnie-the-Pooh, then Doctor Dolittle.
Three things skipped on purpose
| What you will meet | What to do with it |
|---|---|
| lo violoh byoh, le dijoleh DEE-hoh, se fueseh fweh | Little words in front of the verb, pointing back at somebody already mentioned. Read past them. |
| vosotrosboh-SOH-trohs, tenéisteh-NAYSS | Spain, and older books. Read them as ustedes forms and nothing is lost. |
| porpohr against paraPAH-rah | Read para as for, and por as for, by or through — por is not always for. Caminó por el bosque is “walked through the forest”. |