The Spanish course

Learn Spanish taco by taco

Everyday Latin American Spanish, from your first ¡hola! to the tiendita, the fonda and the metro. 463 lessons that play like a game.

lessons
463
real-life topics
114
minutes a day, your pick
5–20

The whole course

Your trail through Mexico

114 units and 463 lessons, from your first ¡hola! all the way to a wedding. Here's the whole course, stop by stop.

  1. Unit1

    First Words & Greetings

    5 lessons

  2. Unit18

    Fast Food

    4 lessons

  3. Unit70

    The Town Fair

    4 lessons

  4. Unit114

    Weddings

    4 lessons

114 units · real-life scenes, level by level

  1. First Words & Greetings5 lessons
  2. Introducing Yourself4 lessons
  3. Asking for Help5 lessons
  4. Numbers & Counting4 lessons
  5. Money & Paying4 lessons
  6. Time & Dates5 lessons
  7. This & That4 lessons
  8. Small Questions Everywhere4 lessons
  9. Spanish Class4 lessons
  10. Family4 lessons
  11. Vending Machines4 lessons
  12. Café4 lessons

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Spanish

Say hello like a local

Hola, buenos días, buenas tardes and buenas noches.

6 quick steps
¡Hola! Let's say hello.

A taste of the real course. Nothing here is saved.

What you'll be able to do

From the tiendita to the lucha libre

  • A bandstand in a town square

    Say hello right for the time of day

    Unit 1: First Words & Greetings

    • Hello through the day
  • A bandstand in a town square

    Keep small talk going with quick reactions

    Unit 8: Small Questions Everywhere

    • How are you? What's up?
    • Really? Me too! Quick reactions
  • A corner shop full of snacks

    Pay cash or card, and ask for the check

    Unit 5: Money & Paying

    • Paying with cash
    • Cash or card?
    • The check, the tip & the receipt
  • A taco stand with a spinning trompo

    Order at the taquería and fix a wrong order

    Unit 18: Fast Food

    • At the taquería
    • Something's wrong with my order
  • A bakery with a giant concha on the roof

    Pick your conchas at the panadería, tray and tongs in hand

    Unit 21: The Panadería

    • The tray & the tongs
    • Conchas & pan dulce
  • A corner shop full of snacks

    Grab a snack, a coffee and a bag at the corner store

    Unit 19: The Corner Store

    • Finding a snack & a drink
    • Hot food, coffee & bags
  • A metro entrance with an orange train

    Ride the metro: tickets, transfers and the last train

    Unit 29: The Metro

    • Tickets & the travel card
    • Transfers
    • The last train
  • A metro entrance with an orange train

    Tell the driver where to go and pay for the ride

    Unit 31: Taxi & Rideshare

    • Telling the driver where to go
    • Paying & the receipt
  • A seafood stand with a shrimp sign

    Order ceviche and ask if the fish is fresh

    Unit 49: The Marisquería

    • Ordering ceviche
    • Is it fresh?
  • A fair carousel

    Ride, eat and play your way through the town fair

    Unit 70: The Town Fair

    • The rides
    • Fair food
    • Fair games
    • Music & fireworks
  • A pink church with bell towers

    Eat the twelve grapes at midnight on New Year's

    Unit 83: New Year's

    • The twelve grapes
  • The Angel of Independence on its tall column

    Cheer through a night at the lucha libre

    Unit 99: Martial Arts & Lucha Libre

    • A night at the lucha libre

Say it like it's spelled

Tiny marks, big meaning

Spanish is spelled the way it sounds, with a few marks that matter. Tap any word to hear it.

ñ is its own letter

It has its own sound. Hear it in mañana, piñata and baño.

One mark, a new word

An accent can change the meaning. El papá is dad. Las papas are chips.

Questions start upside down

Spanish opens questions with ¿ and exclamations with ¡, so you know the tone before the sentence starts.

The game

Every lesson is a game

Combos, streaks, XP, sapphires, a weekly leaderboard, and a party when you nail it.

  • Stack combos: at ×5 your combo strikes gold.

  • Keep your streak: a lesson a day, and a streak freeze for the day you miss.

  • Earn XP, and more when you beat your best.

  • Score 90% or more for the perfect-lesson party.

  • Race the weekly leaderboard, reset every Monday.

  • Review what you've learned right before you'd forget it.

  • Get a sapphire for every XP and spend them in the Shop.

Questions

Spanish, questions answered

Which Spanish does Miaru teach?

Everyday Latin American Spanish, with neutral words that travel well, like carro, computadora and celular. The scenes lean Mexican (the tiendita, the fonda, the panadería), so you also learn what people really say there.

Do I need to learn vosotros?

Not with Miaru. The course uses ustedes for “you all”, the way Latin America does, so there's one less verb form to learn. People in Spain will understand you too.

When do I use tú, and when usted?

Tú is the everyday default in the course. Usted comes in where you'd really use it: at the clinic, at the government office, with the police and at work.

How do you say hello in Spanish?

¡Hola! After that it depends on the clock: buenos días in the morning, buenas tardes in the afternoon, buenas noches in the evening. It's the very first lesson of the course.

How many lessons are in the Spanish course?

463 lessons in 114 units, from your first greeting to a wedding. Every unit is a real-life topic: money, the metro, the grocery store, the doctor, the job hunt.

Is Spanish easy to learn?

It's a friendly first language: Spanish is spelled the way it sounds, so once you know the letters you can read words out loud. Miaru starts at zero, with ¡hola!

Does Miaru teach Spanish grammar?

Yes, in small doses. A short note explains a pattern right when a scene needs it, and then the practice has you use it.

Can I hear how words are pronounced?

Every word and sentence has audio in a female and a male voice. Tap to hear it again, and slow it down in course settings.

What do ñ, the accents and ¿ ¡ mean?

Ñ is its own letter, as in mañana and piñata. Accents mark the stressed syllable and can change the meaning: el papá is dad, las papas are chips. And Spanish opens questions and exclamations with ¿ and ¡, so you know the tone before the sentence starts.

Can I learn Spanish from my own language?

Yes. The Spanish course is taught in 34 languages, from English, Deutsch and Français to 日本語, 中文, 한국어 and हिन्दी. Set the app to your language and the course follows.

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