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The interactive word list below gives you immediate access to 100 essential Spanish words:
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What's in Each Deck
Deck 1: Everyday Essentials (25 words): Greetings, core verbs, basic nouns, and social vocabulary you'll use constantly. Includes words like hola, adiós, hablar, comer, gustar, amigo, and perro.
Deck 2: Around the House & Daily Life (25 words): Home, food, family, daily routine, and common objects. Practice words like agua, pan, cocina, dormir, madre, dinero, and ropa.
Deck 3: Getting Around (25 words): Directions, transport, places, shopping, and travel essentials. Learn calle, tren, autobús, izquierda, restaurante, billete, and precio.
Deck 4: Describing Your World (25 words): Adjectives, colors, weather, time, emotions, and seasons. Master words like bonito, fácil, rojo, azul, feliz, triste, and verano.
All words are A1 level (absolute beginner), with simple, natural example sentences that show how the word is used in context.
Spanish Language Tips
Diminutives add emotional color
-ito/-ita makes words smaller or more affectionate: perro → perrito (doggy), momento → momentito (just a sec). It's not about literal size; cafecito doesn't mean tiny coffee, it softens the request. Use diminutives to sound more polite and warm.
Stem-changing verbs follow the boot pattern
Verbs like querer (want) change their stem vowel in present tense: quiero, quieres, quiere, then back to normal queremos, then stem change again quieren. Draw it on paper and it looks like a boot. The stem shifts everywhere except nosotros/vosotros.
False cognates create real confusion
Embarazada = pregnant (not embarrassed). Éxito = success (not exit). Recordar = remember (not record). Largo = long (not large). When a Spanish word looks like English but the meaning feels off in context, it's probably a false friend; look it up.
Every verb has dozens of forms
Spanish conjugates heavily: 6 present tense forms (all different), 6 preterite, 6 imperfect, 6 future, plus subjunctive and imperative. Compare to English's ~5 forms per verb. The good news: pronunciation is so regular that hearing a form once tells you how to spell it.
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