Learn Spanish
Spanish is the language most people can get furthest with fastest, and the reason is that it is written the way it is said. Once you know what each letter does, you can read a word you have never seen and be right. iLexiBox starts you at that point — the alphabet and the handful of rules that govern it — and then never runs out of material.
Start at the alphabet
The Spanish on-ramp is written by hand, not generated, and it is 478 cards long. Every card is spoken in a recorded Spanish voice, and what you get right is scheduled for review rather than shown again at random.
- 27letters
- 10digits
- 21pronunciation rules
- 300core words
- 60everyday phrases
- 60sentences
Three of the pronunciation cards, exactly as the on-ramp teaches them:
- c (a, o, u) — “c” sounds like K before a, o, ucasa — house
- c (e, i) — “c” sounds like S (TH in Spain) before e, icena — dinner
- z — “z” sounds like S (TH in Spain)zapato — shoe
Your first Spanish phrases
The first phrase and sentence cards of the on-ramp, each spoken in a recorded voice:
- ¿Qué tal? keh TAHL — How is it going? (informal)
- ¿Cómo está usted? KOH-moh ehs-TAH oos-TEHD — How are you? (formal)
- ¡Buenas tardes! BWEH-nahs TAHR-dehs — Good afternoon!
- Hola, ¿cómo estás? OH-lah, KOH-moh ehs-TAHS — Hello, how are you?
- Me llamo Ana. meh YAH-moh AH-nah — My name is Ana.
Then material that does not run out
Above the on-ramp sit the practice path (A1 to C2), Make a text at your level and the album: more than 2,700 photographs, each captioned and spoken in Spanish. Spanish has practice and tools, not lessons — the only course on iLexiBox is the full English course (how each part works).
What Spanish actually costs a beginner
What is genuinely hard is not the spelling but the verb. Spanish marks person and tense in the ending, so the pronoun disappears and the work moves to a syllable you have to hear. The other early cost is the c and g pair, which each say two different things depending on the vowel behind them, and the z that Spain and Latin America do not agree about. All of that is on the on-ramp as its own cards, with a recorded voice on each, because a rule you have only read is a rule you cannot hear coming.
The full English course, A1–C1 →