Spanish spelling maps onto pronunciation almost perfectly, so the hard part is never how a word sounds — it is recall under time pressure, and recall is exactly what spaced repetition trains. The verb system is where most learners stall: roughly a dozen tenses, each with six person endings, plus a subjunctive mood that English barely has. That is a large table of small facts, which is the ideal shape for scheduled review.
Why spaced repetition suits Spanish
What English speakers find hard about Spanish
- The subjunctive mood, which has no clean English equivalent and is triggered by specific verbs and conjunctions rather than by meaning alone.
- Ser versus estar — two verbs for "to be", split along a permanence axis that feels arbitrary until it is drilled.
- Preterite versus imperfect, a past-tense distinction English collapses into one form.
- False friends inherited from Latin: embarazada is not "embarrassed", éxito is not "exit".
Cards you might meet
Generated from whatever theme you name — these are the kind of thing that comes back.
la sobremesa
the conversation that lingers after a meal
No single-word English equivalent.
el atardecer
dusk, the late afternoon
aprovechar
to make the most of
echar de menos
to miss (someone)
madrugar
to get up very early
Spanish conjugation drills
Name a verb, pick the tenses, and get five fill-in-the-blank sentences with every answer marked — including near-misses where only an accent is wrong. Available tenses:
PresentPreteriteImperfectFutureConditionalPresent SubjunctiveImperfect SubjunctiveImperative
What you get
- SM-2 scheduling with four grades and keyboard shortcuts
- Generated Spanish vocabulary on any theme you name
- Pronunciation for every card
- Conjugation drills across 8 tenses
- Writing feedback on your own sentences
- Photo vocabulary — name what is in front of you
Popular Spanish themes
food & cookingtravelfamilyworkeveryday life
Spanish questions
- How many Spanish words do I need to be conversational?
- Frequency studies consistently show the most common 1,000–2,000 word families cover the large majority of everyday speech. At twenty new cards a day that is a few months of steady review, which is well within what a spaced repetition schedule sustains.
- Does Language Flash teach Latin American or European Spanish?
- Generated vocabulary leans neutral and widely understood. You can steer it by naming a region in the theme box — "Mexican slang" or "Argentine everyday speech" — and the cards follow.
- Can I practise Spanish verb conjugation?
- Yes. The conjugation drill covers present, preterite, imperfect, future, conditional, both subjunctives and the imperative. You pick the verb and the tenses, and every answer is marked — including near-misses where only an accent is wrong.