The 10 best Spanish Anki decks (2027)

cloze course · A1-B2 · 9,263 notes · audio on 100% · updated October 2019

A 9,263-card Spanish cloze deck built from Tatoeba sentences, with audio on every card, that is worth studying as an intermediate vocabulary and listening supplement but not as a beginner course.

Verdict

The deck's strength is its material: short, natural sentences with an English translation, one cloze per card, and a recording on every note (the file check confirms the audio is present, not that it sounds good). In the sample the Spanish is grammatical and the translations are correct, and the sentences are things people actually say, such as 'Me pone de los nervios' and 'Deja de morderte las uñas'. The weakness is order. The file runs in two passes. It opens at Difficulty 4583 with targets like 'pesadillas', 'compasión' and 'aproximadamente', climbs through rare words such as 'bronceador', 'babosas' and 'prismáticos', and only restarts at the basic words (Difficulty 61, then 'hospital', 'presidente', 'negro') around card 6,520-6,550. The measurements show that the sentence text itself uses common words early, with 98 of the top 100 words appearing by about 1% of the deck, so the order is less chaotic than the cloze targets suggest. Even so, the opening cards already mix preterite, subjunctive, conditional perfect and clitic infinitives with no hint or explanation, and the middle of the deck is mostly rare vocabulary: 66-81% of new words in parts 4-7 rank past 5,000. There are no grammar notes, no context linking neighboring cards, and 35% of notes are single words or very short phrases.

Use it if you already read basic Spanish and want a large bank of sentences with audio, where you answer by recalling the right inflected form. It suits an A2-B1 learner who will reorder it first and accepts that many cards teach rare or Tatoeba-specific words. Skip it if you are starting from zero, if you want a graded syllabus or explained grammar, or if you want your first 1,000 cloze targets to be the first 1,000 words you meet.

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mixed · A1-B1 · 2,180 notes · audio on 100% · updated January 2018

A 2,180-card alphabetical word-plus-sentence deck with audio on every card: a usable vocabulary and phrase bank for someone with a base, but not a course you can follow from the start.

Verdict

The core design works. Each headword ("el abrigo") is followed by one short, natural sentence ("Siempre llevo un abrigo cuando hace frío."), and every note carries an audio tag. Roughly half the cards are sentences of four or more words, mostly travel and daily-life lines. The word list is a sound base: in the sample and the counts, 98 of the 100 most common Spanish words are taught, though only 62% of the top 1,000. The weak point is order. Cards run a to z, so the opening is abanico, abrigo and abrazar, and by card 6 a learner meets "Las damas usan abanicos cuando hace calor." with five of its seven words new. Rare forms like "acompañarlos" (card 30) and "separarme" appear early, and the closing cards use the imperfect ("Ya lo sabíamos antes de leer la noticia en el periódico.") with no grammar leading up to them. There are also real errors in the sample: "piema" for pierna, "porfavor", and questions that drop the opening ¿ ("Aceptan cheques de viajero?"). The deck has no themes, no dialogues, and no images. I can't judge the audio quality; the description says it is text-to-speech, so play a few cards before relying on it.

Use it if you already have beginner Spanish from a textbook or class and want a large bank of words to drill, each with a model sentence you can hear. It suits learners who want English-to-Spanish production practice and who will tolerate a sloppy order. Skip it if you are a true beginner who needs a path from the basics, if you want grammar taught in steps, or if you learn best from connected stories or dialogue. In the sample, nothing teaches you how the verb forms or the tú/usted choice work. The English prompts often don't tell you which one the Spanish uses.

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vocabulary list · A1-B2 · 1,000 notes · no audio · updated August 2026

A 1,000-word sample of a published Spanish frequency dictionary, with corpus-drawn example sentences and no audio or images: a reasonable word list to study, a weak way to learn the words in context.

Verdict

The word selection is the strength. Cards run in rank order, all of the top 100 words and 94% of ranks 101-500 are taught, and each card carries a sentence with an English translation. The weakness is the sentences, which come from unrelated sources and are not written for learners. Card #7 teaches 'ser' with 'la primera persona narrativa puede ser por el protagonista', which has 6 unfamiliar words out of 8. Card #27 teaches 'se' with a sentence about 'los geógrafos griegos', and #185 teaches 'gobierno' with 'el feudalismo fue la forma de gobierno'. Across the deck, only 40% of sentences add one new word or fewer, and the new-word rate stays near 20% through the late deck, so most cards ask you to absorb several unknown words around the target. There are also real errors in the sample: #986 says 26 mm in Spanish and 22 mm in English, #756 has 'naciemento', and #22 has 'Cuando' where 'Cuándo' belongs. Grammar is never taught, only whatever the source sentence happens to use.

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sentence deck · A1-B1 · 3,001 notes · audio on 17% · updated March 2024

A 3,001-card ladder of very short, high-frequency Spanish phrases that is worth studying as a beginner supplement once you repair its punctuation and audio gaps.

Verdict

The deck does one thing well: it moves in small steps. It opens with two-word cards like "Que es?" and "Eso es.", and in the measurements 96% of sentences add at most one new word. The 90 most common Spanish words arrive early, and the cards are natural everyday speech such as "Por favor.", "No digas esas cosas." and "Vas a llegar tarde." The weaknesses are real. The sample shows the Spanish text without the opening ¿ and without accents on words like qué and sí ("Que vamos a hacer?", "Si, lo es."), so you would be copying wrong spelling. The mean card is only 3.3 words and 60% of cards are single words or short phrases, so the stated A1-B1 range overreaches; it is realistically A1 to low A2. Audio covers only 500 of 3,001 notes, none of them Speak cards. In the sample, audio appears on early Read cards (#2 to #416) and is gone by #538. There is no grammar explanation and no context beyond isolated lines. I cannot judge audio quality.

Use it if you already have a textbook or course for grammar and want a long, steady supply of short phrases to read and to produce from English. It suits learners who will tolerate editing cards and who can check Spanish spelling against another source. Skip it if you want a self-contained course, connected dialogue, explanations of why a form is used, or audio on every card. Skip it if you are past A2 and need longer sentences. It covers only 572 distinct words, so it will not take you far into reading. Common words such as sobre, entre, aunque, mientras and según never appear.

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sentence deck · B1-C1 · 7,627 notes · audio on 100% · updated August 2017

A 7,627-card Spanish listening deck with audio on every card and a sound word-by-word build, but the sentences are scraped and uneven, so it is worth using selectively rather than trusting card by card.

Verdict

The build is the deck's strength. The new-word rate drops from 19.3% in the first tenth to 1.8% by the sixth and stays between 1.1% and 3.0% after that. Overall, 87% of sentences add at most one new word. The ranks 1-100 are all taught, 97% of them in the first quarter. Every card has an audio file, and sentences average about nine words, which suits B1 listening practice. The weaknesses come from how the sentences were collected: a program pulled up to ten sentences per keyword from a pool of translated sentences. The opening runs five consecutive flower sentences (#4-#8) and six on ciencia (#13-#18). In the sample, #4565 pairs "Por favor, habla más alto." with "They all burst out laughing." Others have Spanish errors: "en los correcto" (#5722), "Es este país" (#1789) and "tú éxito" (#5217). There are also name mismatches, such as "Juan se paró ante una señal de stop" against "When Tom stopped" (#9), and English slips like "So for we have enjoyed our journey" (#30). Grammar is never sequenced, and the frequency list is only partly covered: 77% of the top 2,000 words, with common words like nivel, proceso and región never appearing.

Use this if you already read Spanish at roughly B1, want a large volume of heard sentences with a manageable number of new words per card, and can tolerate checking a translation now and then. It suits learners who want listening practice and already get their grammar from a course or grammar book. Skip it if you are a beginner (the author points to a separate deck for that), if you need accurate, curated sentences, or if you want grammar taught in a planned order. The audio is present on every card, but I cannot judge its quality, so play a few cards before committing.

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mixed · A1-B2 · 2,716 notes · audio on 38% · updated April 2022

A frequency-ordered Spanish vocabulary deck whose 500 word cards are worth studying, buried under 1,715 rare-verb conjugation drills that mostly are not.

Verdict

The word strand is the strength. It starts with de, que, no, a, el, la, and in the sample the top-100 words nearly all appear in the first quarter. It also gives you the Spanish word, the English gloss, audio on every word card, and a Wiktionary button. The sampled example sentences mostly add little beyond the headword, and 85% add at most one new word. The weaknesses are in accuracy and in the rest of the deck. The examples are subtitle-style fragments sorted shortest first, and several are literal or wrong: 'Sé la manera' glossed 'Be the way', 'Eso valgo' as 'That's worth it', and 'condujera' translated as 'conduct'. Some glosses are off: que is shown as 'adj. what', and cuanto as 'conj. that / adv. when'. The verb notes show a table of forms with no meaning and mislabeled tenses. In the sample, 'indicative past perfect' shows the preterite (hice, hiciste), 'indicative future perfect' shows the simple future (diré), and 'subjuntive present perfect' shows the present subjunctive (exponga). The verb strand is about 63% of the notes. It covers rare verbs such as roer, pudrir and yacer, in an order unrelated to need, and it ends on single-form gerund and participle cards with no example.

Use it if you are an A1 to A2 learner who wants the first few hundred most common Spanish words with audio and quick lookup, and you are willing to ignore most of what is on the back of each card. Skip it if you want graded sentences, a grammar sequence, or a clean tool for learning conjugation. The tense labels would teach you the wrong names, and the verb cards give you nothing to recall except form. The advertised A1-B2 range is not supported: the word cards stop near the top 500 by rank (46% of the top 1,000 taught), and the Part 2 link in the description suggests the rest lives elsewhere.

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vocabulary list · A1-B2 · 756 notes · audio on 97% · updated March 2017

A 756-note Spanish vocabulary deck with audio on nearly every card and pictures on most, but its sequencing, accuracy and grammar handling are uneven, so treat it as a supplement rather than a course.

Verdict

The deck's strength is its card format: nearly every note has a recording, most have an image, and the simple notes pair a headword with a short, usable example such as "Tenía mucha hambre." or "Pagué la cuenta." The top 100 Spanish words are almost all covered (98 of 100). Its weaknesses are order and polish. The first notes are mid-frequency verbs like obligar, apasionar, alcanzar and surgir, with long English explanations and early rare forms (tíralo, muéstrame). Coverage then thins to 60% of the top 1,000 and 44% of the top 2,000. The sample also shows errors: the English and Spanish sentences swapped on #495, a misspelled "toces" in #17, and Hungarian glosses ("tűnődik", "pár percen belül") left in the English fields. Some sentences are scraped corpus lines too hard for the word they illustrate, such as the planetary-movement sentence on #575. A few cards are bare notes with no sentence at all, and others put English text in the audio field.

Use it if you already have a basic footing in Spanish and want pictures, audio and example sentences for single words and verb forms. It is a poor fit if you want a guided path from zero, a grammar progression, or a deck you can trust without checking. The 'A1-B2' label and the 'best deck, period' claim are not supported by what the sample shows: the opening is not beginner-friendly and the grammar cards are scattered.

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exam word list · A1-B1 · 1,772 notes · no audio · updated September 2020

A complete AQA GCSE Spanish word list of English-to-Spanish cards that suits exam revision but is weak as a general Spanish course and has several visible typos.

Verdict

The deck does one thing well: it covers the AQA 9-1 spec by topic, with clean cards and the article placed after the noun, as in 'calle, la' and 'mes, el'. It is bare vocabulary, though. In the sample, 95% of notes are single words or short phrases, and the few longer items are fixed phrases like 'estar de moda' rather than sentences. There is no audio, no images and no example sentences, so you never see a word used in context. The order is thematic, not graded: the first 30 cards are connectors and comparatives ('a pesar de', 'aunque', 'tan … como'), and the new-word rate stays near 50% from part 2 to the end. Coverage of common Spanish is partial: 51% of the top 1,000 words, with 'su', 'yo', 'tú', 'mi' and 'familia' never taught. Accuracy is a real concern. The sample shows 'plor' for 'olor', 'maltar' for 'matar', 'encargardo' for 'encargado', and an unclosed 'menos (que'. Many English prompts also list several senses, such as 'main, major, larger, bigger, greater' for 'mayor', which makes the recall task ambiguous.

Use this if you are a UK student sitting AQA GCSE Spanish and want a word list that matches the spec, and you can check spellings against your textbook or a dictionary. Skip it if you want to learn Spanish from scratch, want sentences or listening practice, or want a deck you can trust without checking. Because the content is isolated words, it works best next to a course or a set of sentence-based materials, not on its own.

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vocabulary list · A1-C1 · 5,001 notes · audio on 100% · updated October 2017

A 5,000-word Spanish frequency list with a picture and audio on every card, useful as a vocabulary backbone but with no sentences and no grammar teaching.

Verdict

The ordering is the deck's strength. It opens with el/la, de, que, y, a, en and moves on to common verbs like ser, estar, tener and hacer, and it covers 92% of the top 1,000 Spanish words and 89% of the top 2,000 by the list comparison. The words it misses are mostly inflected forms such as del, son, hemos and hacerlo, plus names, which a headword format leaves out. The visible headwords, genders and glosses in the sample are accurate (hermana (nf) 'sister', cometa (nmf) 'comet (m), kite (f)'). Each note makes a forward and a reverse card, with audio and a picture throughout. The weaknesses are structural. No card shows a word in a sentence, so you learn glosses, not usage, and grammar is limited to a part-of-speech label. Many glosses list several senses, as in 'caja: bank, box, safe' and 'prueba: proof, trial, test', and on the reverse card that makes the English cue ambiguous. The hidden part-of-speech tags are often wrong: ser, poder and bajo (adj) carry nm, nm and prep tags, and como (conj) carries adv. The author also says the pictures were picked automatically and may not match the word. I can't judge the pictures or the audio.

Use this if you already have a course or other input for grammar and reading, and you want a frequency-ordered list to build recognition vocabulary toward roughly B1-B2 and beyond. It also suits someone who wants a lot of words quickly and will add sentences themselves. Do not use it as your only resource, as a true beginner with no other material, or if you want to learn how words behave in sentences. The A1-C1 label overstates it: the deck lists words and teaches no grammar or usage. In the sample, the last tenth is mostly rare, specialized words like hectárea, penumbra and irrumpir.

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Number 7 in our ranking. Part 1 of a 3-part deck; each part is ranked on its own score. Its scores and full report are in the top 10 above.

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vocabulary list · A1-B2 · 1,441 notes · audio on 100% · updated May 2018

A 1,441-word Spanish headword list from Duolingo's 2018 course, with full audio and no sentences: usable as a supplement, weak as a main deck.

Verdict

The deck's strengths are its audio and its card layout. Every note has a sound file, the Read and Speak cards cover both directions, and the Gender and WordType fields are filled in systematically ("la mujer", f, N; "beber", V). The weaknesses are structural. There are no example sentences, only about 98 proverbs and idioms near the end, such as "En tierra de ciegos, el tuerto es el rey." Selection follows Duolingo units, not frequency. The deck teaches 68% of the top 1,000 Spanish words and leaves out "del", "mi", "cuando", "tu" and "nos", while "suéter", "cangrejo" and "sacerdotisa" show up early. The sample also shows errors: "atrá" for "atrás", "forcar" as a synonym hint for "obligar", "adiós" tagged as Prep, "el agua" marked masculine, and "la prenda" glossed as "dress". The last cards are out of unit order, with idioms, Christmas, flirting and color cards mixed in.

Use it if you already have a course or textbook and want a pronunciation-backed word list to check recognition and recall of vocabulary, ideally with the unit tags used to pick what to study. Do not use it as your only deck or as a path to B2: it will not teach you how words work in sentences, how verbs are conjugated, or the most frequent words in everyday speech. Check any translation or gender against a dictionary before you trust it.

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vocabulary list · B1-C1 · 3,250 notes · audio on 100% · updated April 2025

Part 3 of a 3-part deck; each part is ranked on its own score.

A 3,250-note Spanish vocabulary deck with an example sentence, audio, and a typed recall card for every word, which is useful for widening vocabulary around B1 but is not a frequency-ordered core or a way to learn grammar.

Verdict

The deck's strengths are consistency and fit to its job. Nearly every note has a headword, a short sentence of about 8 words (7 to 10 across the deck), a cloze version, an English sentence, and audio on both the word and the sentence. The cards are built the same way throughout. The sentences I sampled are mostly clean, e.g. 'El río serpentea a través del valle' for 'serpentear'. The new-word rate falls from 28.9% to about 10-12%, and in the last third 58-87% of sentences add at most one new word. The weaknesses are in selection and accuracy. The deck opens with dessert and kitchen vocabulary ('el helado de vainilla', 'la tarta de manzana') that does not read as B1-C1. Many words are far from frequent: 'espátula' ranks 17,963 and sits at 7% of the deck, and 'hinojo' ranks 17,430 at 1%. In this file, 13% of the top-1,000 words are never taught, including 'aunque', 'además', 'todavía', and 'nosotros'. They may be in Parts 1 and 2, which this analysis did not measure. The sample also shows real errors. In #2439, 'pernoctar' is glossed 'overnight stay', but its sentence says 'Pasamos una noche en un hotel' and the cloze answer would be 'Pasamos'. In #383, the headword 'la cuita' appears as 'cuidas' in its sentence. In #814, 'entumecido' is glossed 'stiff' when it means numb. 'aprehender' appears twice (#1668, #2630). The proverb cards hide the whole sentence ('__ , ya verás'), so they test recall of a memorized saying, not use of words.

Use this deck if you are already past the basics, read Spanish with some ease, and want a large, audio-backed list of nouns, verbs, and set phrases to widen your vocabulary, especially if you are following the author's Natural Language Journey pathway alongside it. You should be willing to skim the cards for oddities. Skip it if you are a beginner, if you want the most common few thousand words first in a strict order, or if you want to learn grammar or follow connected text. Each sentence stands alone, and the vocabulary mixes Mexican usage ('platillos', 'computadora', 'cacahuate') with Spain-leaning forms ('patatas', 'tarta').

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vocabulary list · B2-C2 · 3,766 notes · audio on 1% · updated October 2026

A 3,766-note supplement of low-frequency Spanish words (mostly under 20 per million) with images and many example sentences each, worth studying once you already have a core vocabulary.

Verdict

The deck's strength is its selection and per-card information. Each note carries a headword with its article, an English gloss, a picture (98% of notes), a frequency line such as "1.4 fpm (agobiante)", and 5 or more translated example sentences, so you see a word used in several ways. Sentences are short and natural: "Sentí un leve temblor durante la noche." The weaknesses are order and polish. Notes run by topic subdeck, not difficulty, so the opening Adj & Adv run gives you "grueso", "hondo" and "propicio", and the Clothing subdeck has "taparrabos" (0.33 fpm) and "levita". Only 185 of the 1,000 most common Spanish words are taught, and "pero", "porque" and "cuando" never appear, so this is not a core deck. Audio is nearly absent (33 notes). Some glosses and sentences are loose: "expediente" is glossed "Documentation" while its sentences say "case file" and "record"; "cartera" lists wallet as a Spain meaning while "billetera" says "Not cartera"; and the "hondo" sentences lean on a Honda car pun. Many sentences follow the same template ("Cuando era niño…", "Ayer…", "Mañana…"), so they read as generated. There is no grammar teaching beyond gender articles and a few hint lines.

Use it if you read or watch Spanish at B2-C2, already know roughly the top 2,000-5,000 words, and want to fill gaps for passive comprehension. It rewards you if you follow the author's advice: study the Spanish-to-English cards only, and work through the fpm tags from higher frequency downward. Skip it if you are a beginner or an intermediate learner still missing basic words, if you want a guided course with grammar or dialogue, or if you need audio for speaking and listening practice. Check the tail: tags like 0-1fpm hold things like "el taparrabos" and "el sustantivo", words you may rarely meet.

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sentence deck · A2-B1 · 332 notes · audio on 100% · updated January 2018

A 332-card English-to-Spanish drill of commands in the imperative: useful for reinforcing the forms, but the sentences are uneven and a few are wrong, so study it selectively.

Verdict

The deck's strength is its focus. It drills one grammatical form, mostly in runs of 2 to 4 sentences per verb, such as 'Let's decide later' / 'Decidamos más tarde.' and 'Let's not decide now' / 'No decidamos ahora.' Every card has audio, and the Rioplatense variants (for example 'Tira!' versus 'Apúrate! / Apurate!') are a real extra. The weaknesses are in the sentences themselves. Many prompts are stilted or odd, such as 'Desist putting yourself in contact with me', 'Remain still in the presence of the lord' and 'Don't fail to try the fantastic indian icecream'. Formal commands get a tacked-on 'usted' that native speakers would usually drop ('Siga usted leyendo', 'Léales usted la carta'). The sample also shows real errors: 'Don't show everyone the video' is answered with 'a nadie' (nobody), the same slip appears in 'No se lo ofrezcas a nadie', and no command carries an opening ¡. A copy-pasted note, '(No es pronomial porque la mano no es necesario para hacer la acción.)', is ungrammatical Spanish and is attached to cards like 'Trata de flexionar la espalda' where it explains nothing. Vocabulary is narrow: 22% of the top 1,000 Spanish words, and common words like cuando, sin, qué and siempre never appear. Each card is a standalone line with no context, and the card design is a plain single prompt-and-answer card.

Use it if you already know basic Spanish (it is stated as A2-B1, but the early cards assume you recognize imperative endings) and want repeated exposure to command forms, especially tú, usted, ustedes and nosotros, or the negative-imperative-equals-subjunctive link. It suits you best if you will edit as you go and treat the Spanish as a drill, not as a model of natural phrasing. Skip it if you are a true beginner who needs a progressive course, if you want general high-frequency vocabulary, or if you cannot spot and ignore a wrong card. Do not take its formal-register phrasing as typical speech.

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vocabulary list · A1-C1 · 5,001 notes · audio on 100% · updated January 2025

A frequency-ranked 5,000-word Spanish vocabulary deck with good word selection, but its unchecked AI example sentences contain errors, so it is worth studying only if you can spot and fix them.

Verdict

The word list is the strong part. It follows a published frequency dictionary, covers 983 of the 1,000 most common words and 1,918 of the top 2,000, and puts them early. Sentences are short (about 16 words on average) and mostly built from known words: 73% add at most one new word, though only 32% do in the first tenth of the deck. The weak part is the example sentences, which the author says were generated by GPT-4o mini and not checked. In the sample, #8 'a' gives 'Estudia para a ser médico.', #17 'mí' gives 'Mí no me importa lo que digan.', and #4989 'acusado' gives 'Su comportamiento fue motivo de un acusado.' Some sentences fit a different sense than the gloss: #2510 'aspirar' is glossed 'to aspire, want', yet both examples mean inhale and vacuum, and #1258 translates 'congreso' as 'community meeting'. Several examples also have broken accents, such as 'Asistirí© al congreso' and 'ejí©rcitos'. The cards drill headword-to-gloss and gloss-to-headword and nothing else, so there is no grammar teaching and no connected text.

Use this if you already read basic Spanish and want to widen your vocabulary in frequency order. You need to check each sentence against the gloss and be willing to ignore or correct the bad ones. It suits someone who keeps a grammar course or graded reader alongside it. Skip it if you are a true beginner, because the opening cards are bare function words with several unknown words in each example (#2 'de' brings 7 new words among its examples). Also skip it if you need sentences you can trust without checking, grammar explanation, or conversational material.

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conjugation drill · A2-C1 · 6,222 notes · no audio · updated October 2017

A 6,222-card Spanish conjugation drill (pronoun + infinitive + tense, type the form) that works as a targeted paradigm workout for learners who already know the verbs, but teaches no vocabulary or usage.

Verdict

The card design is clear and the sampled forms are accurate, irregulars included: 'hicisteis', 'supisteis', 'vendré', 'hubieres visto'. The front gives the pronoun, infinitive, tense and mood, you type the answer, and the back shows the answer in red plus a full paradigm table with the changing endings marked. The deck has serious limits, though. There are no sentences, no translations and no audio. Every card is a one- or two-word answer, so you never see a conjugated form used in a sentence. The study order is shuffled across verbs, tenses and persons (the opening alternates jugarse, dormirse, querer, ser, trabajar), and rare tenses like the subjunctive future perfect ('hubieren trabajado') sit beside the basics. In the sample the main accuracy slip is the reflexive imperative, where the accents are missing: 'vengamonos' (should be vengámonos), 'ven«gase»' and 'veni«os»'.

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vocabulary list · A1-B1 · 1,152 notes · audio on 93% · updated April 2015

Easy Spanish is a 1,152-note thematic vocabulary list with audio on nearly every card, useful as a word bank beside a real course but weak as a first or only deck.

Verdict

The deck's strength is consistent, simple cards: one word or short phrase per note, an audio file on 93% of notes (presence only, since the audio can't be judged here), and both directions to practice. Its weaknesses sit in the material. Words are grouped by chapter and theme, so a beginner meets 'anaranjado' as the third card and 'tacaño' by the first tenth, while the deck never teaches common words like si, pero, porque, hoy, or entonces, and covers only 34% of the top 1,000 Spanish words. Only 116 notes (11%) are sentences, nearly all in the last tenth, where subjunctive lines like 'Aunque haya mucho tráfico, queremos viajar' arrive with no earlier grammar and no explanation. Errors appear in the sample: 'le frente' for 'la frente', 'el jurado' glossed as 'the judge', an English typo ('Althouth'), and a Spanish/English person mismatch ('Ellas van a preparar... como tú quieras' against 'they... however they want').

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cloze course · B1-B2 · 802 notes · no audio · updated May 2022

A 802-note cloze deck of B1-B2 Spanish sentences that works as a supplementary phrase bank, not as a course, and needs error-checking before you trust it.

Verdict

The deck's strength is its sentences: most are natural, usable lines that put an idiom or verb in a real context, such as "Ya que lo mencionas, debo revisar mi correo electrónico" and "No puedo darme el lujo de pelearme con ella." The English hint sits inside the blank, so no answer is revealed, and the measurements confirm 0 of 1,001 deletions leak. The deck also reaches 99 of the top 100 Spanish words and 58% of the top 1,000. The weaknesses are order and reliability. Card 1 already asks for "pasado por alto" with 7 of 7 words new, and the first ten cards bring in "clavé," "envejeció" and "disimulando" before basics like "también" (never taught) or "nadie." Only about half of later sentences add at most one new word, the cards have no grammar sequence, and there is no audio or imagery. The sample also contains real mistakes: "La hotel está por allí," "Tengo todo la culpa," "no se movea," "suspendé," "habia" and "solia" without accents, and translations that don't match, such as "Madrid es como ningún otro lugar" translated as "Paris," and a Chilean minister translated as "Colombian." Because these are spread through the deck, you can't assume a card is right just because it is in the deck.

Use this if you already read Spanish at a solid A2-B1 level, want to build idiom and phrasal-verb range, and can tell when a card looks wrong. Skip it if you are a beginner or need a guided path, because the sequence won't teach you grammar or build up from the basics. It is also a poor fit if you want audio, or if explicit vocabulary such as "me estoy cagando" and "¿Te corriste dentro?" (tagged nsfw) would be a problem where you study.

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sentence deck · B1-B2 · 1,100 notes · audio on 100% · updated January 2018

A 1,100-card English-to-Spanish sentence deck of short, mostly natural Latin American sentences with audio on every card; worth studying as a supplement if you can spot and ignore its errors.

Verdict

The strength is the sentences. They average about 5 words, and most teach a real structure in everyday Spanish, such as 'No suelo abrir el correo todos los días', 'A pesar de mi esfuerzo, la relación no mejora' and 'Acabo de llegar'. After a hard opening, the share of new words in sentences falls to about 10%, so later cards mostly recycle known words. Tú is used consistently, and regional variants are labeled (prender (latino), encender (hispanic); Rioplatense tags). The weaknesses are accuracy and structure. The sample shows a dropped pronoun ('Juan dijo que dolía la cabeza'), a misspelling ('movíl'), a wrong agreement ('De que colores son la bandera'), and a stray '¿' at the end of a sentence. Prompts also sometimes don't match the answer: 'I received (tener) the gift' becomes 'Tuve el regalo'. Questions and exclamations are mostly missing their opening ¿ and ¡. The order is by loose topic, with no grammar sequence. The first five cards are all aches and pains in mixed past tenses, and the first card introduces 10 new words of 10.

Use it if you already read simple Spanish at roughly A2-B1 and want volume of short, spoken-style sentences to review with audio, and you can check an answer against a dictionary when it looks off. It suits learners who like production practice and who are interested in feelings, relationships and daily life. Do not use it as a primary course, as your only source of grammar, or if you are a true beginner who needs a gentle ramp. Skip it too if you need the subjunctive, future or conditional, which the author says are left out. Treat anything that looks odd as a possible error rather than a model, and never copy its punctuation.

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exam word list · B1-B2 · 3,637 notes · no audio · updated December 2023

A 3,637-card AQA A-Level topic word list that is only worth studying as a supplement to the Oxford textbook, not as a way to learn Spanish.

Verdict

The deck does one thing well: it gives you the textbook's topic vocabulary, split by module, with gender articles on most nouns and a reverse English-to-Spanish set for each module. In the sample the glosses are mostly sound, and the cards are clean and quick to review ("la pantalla" / "screen", "to kidnap" / "secuestrar"). It also has real weaknesses. 96% of notes are single words or short phrases with no example sentence, no audio, and only 5 images. Spelling errors appear in about 90 sampled notes: "el embrazo", "auxilar", "secuestar", "sospecho" glossed as "suspicious", and "la indole" without its accent. Core vocabulary is thin, with only 28% of the top 1,000 Spanish words taught. Missing words include "para", "pero", "porque" and "también", while rare items like "plumero" and "suplantar" appear in the first few percent. Order inside each module follows the book, not difficulty, and the same entries repeat, such as "el derecho" and "a largo plazo".

Use it if you are taking AQA A-Level Spanish with the Oxford textbook and want to drill the module lists in the same order as your class. Check the Spanish spellings against the book before you memorize them. Skip it if you want to learn Spanish from scratch, build a general B1-B2 vocabulary, or learn how words work in sentences. In those cases, use it only alongside other material that supplies context and common words.

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vocabulary list · A1-C1 · 5,000 notes · audio on 100% · updated May 2025

A frequency-based 5,000-word deck with a sound word list and usable example sentences, but shipped in the wrong order, so it is worth studying only if you reorder it first.

Verdict

The word choice is the strength. The deck teaches 989 of the 1,000 most common Spanish words and 1,944 of the top 2,000, and every card pairs the headword with a real example sentence and a translation (for example 'no debemos renunciar a esa idea excelente'). The weakness is the order. The deck opens at frequency rank 1,975 ('oh', 'ave', 'asamblea', 'permiso'), climbs to about rank 4,585 by note 2,501, then wraps around to common words ('aquí' is note 3,046, rank 130) and ends at rank 2,085. In the first tenth, 38% of the words in the sentences are new and only 9% of sentences add one or fewer new words. You meet rare vocabulary like 'ave' and 'asamblea' before basics like 'aquí' and 'imagen'. The deck also teaches no grammar. The sentences are unconnected corpus lines, many of them formal or political, and the sample shows proofreading slips: 'eldistritode', 'poblaciónacercade', 'light tuned off', 'pistol', 'arquological', 'familiy'. There are no recordings, only text-to-speech on the headword.

Use this if you already read Spanish at roughly an A2 to B1 level and want to widen your vocabulary toward 5,000 words, and you are willing to spend ten minutes reordering the cards. It is a reasonable word-list supplement next to a course or graded reader. Skip it if you are a true beginner who plans to study in the shipped order, or if you want grammar, dialogues, connected context or native recordings. Those would mean replacing the material, not adjusting the deck.

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mixed · A1-B1 · 12 notes · no audio · updated January 2024

A 12-note primer that names the Spanish tenses and moods with short English explanations, useful as a companion to the KOFI deck but too small and too rough to study as a deck on its own.

Verdict

The strongest part is the Spanish cue phrase on each card, which is a short prompt that points at one tense: "Ahora mismo," for the present, "En esa época, a menudo," for the imperfect, "Si sucediera esto," for the conditional, and "Fue sorprendente que..." for the past subjunctive. Each cue is paired with a shared frame, "you talk about the past," so you can compare tenses side by side. The English examples are mostly natural. The weak parts are accuracy and layout. The participle card renders "Hugo ha ..." as "Hugo has ‹to talk› about Costa Rica," which shows an infinitive where a participle belongs. The gerund card offers "I like running" as an example, which is an English noun use that doesn't map to the Spanish -ndo form. The participle back is cut off mid-sentence ("The test was corrected by the te …"), and the past subjunctive card has no example sentences at all. Highlighting runs across quotation marks and sentence boundaries in several examples, such as the imperfect and conditional cards. Imperative is labeled a "tense" although it is a mood. The back of each card is one block of cue, translation, definition and examples with no field separation. The deck contains no audio, no images, no vocabulary teaching and no Spanish sentences beyond the cue fragments.

Use it if you are about to start Lisardo's KOFI deck and want ten minutes with the tense names, what each one is for, and which Spanish cue goes with it. Skip it if you want to learn Spanish vocabulary, hear the language, or drill conjugation, since it doesn't do any of that. Treat the sample as a good picture of the whole deck, because the deck is only 12 notes. Check the participle and gerund cards against a grammar reference before you trust them.

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vocabulary list · B1-C1 · 3,196 notes · audio on 100% · updated April 2025

Part 2 of a 3-part deck; each part is ranked on its own score.

A 3,195-note Spanish vocabulary list with a recording for every sentence, but themed lists of rare words with thin, one-sentence context; worth studying only as a supplement to something else.

Verdict

The deck's strength is consistent audio and a simple two-card routine: Card 1 shows the word in a sentence, Card 2 gives a blank, an English cue and a typed answer. Sentences are mostly short and readable, for example "El pato nadaba en el lago." Weaknesses: the order is by theme (verbs, adjectives, soccer, animals, regional food), not by frequency or difficulty. Only 58% of sentences add at most one new word, and in the first two tenths that falls to about 22%. In the sample there are real errors: "luchador" glossed as "brave" when the sentence is about a fighter, "hidalgo" as "generous", "la arte marcial" with the wrong article, and "Ellos me enteraron de la noticia", which reads oddly. The adjective cards I saw (#800-809) leave a blank in the English translation, e.g. "The wine became tastier after being __." The vocabulary drifts from useful to specialized, with 73% of new words in the last tenth ranking past 5,000 (huitlacoche, atole, molote, orujo). Meanwhile common words such as también, entonces and además are never taught. The deck teaches 80% of the top 1,000 words and 68% of the top 2,000. It teaches no grammar beyond incidental exposure.

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alphabet or script deck · A1 · 27 notes · audio on 100% · updated March 2016

Pronunciation: the alphabet.

A 27-card Spanish alphabet deck with audio on every card and clear pronunciation notes, useful as a quick first-day reference but too thin to count as a reading course.

Verdict

The deck does one job well: each letter gets a name, an English-based respelling, and a short note on the sound. The notes handle the real trouble spots: soft and hard c and g, silent h and u after q, tapped r versus rolled rr, ñ as a separate letter, and b and v sounding alike. Every card has its own audio file, and the card is uncluttered. But the title promises "Practice Words" and none appear in the sample. The 27 measured entries are all letters, so you never see a letter inside a real Spanish word. Nothing links a note to a lesson or a sentence, and the front prompt is just "A a", with no cue whether you should recall the name, the sound, or the spelling. Because it teaches only letters, the deck gives almost no vocabulary or grammar, and the frequency measurements show only 5 common words, which are letter names.

Use it if you are a complete beginner who wants to hear the alphabet and learn the main spelling-to-sound rules in an evening. Do not use it expecting to learn to read Spanish, build vocabulary, or practice sentences. Once you have the sounds, move to a vocabulary or sentence deck. Play a few audio files before relying on them, since the audio was counted, not heard.

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alphabet or script deck · A1 · 95 notes · audio on 100% · updated August 2024

Pronunciation: the writing system.

A free Refold deck that teaches about 31 Spanish sounds and their spellings with audio on every card; it is worth a short pass if you are a true beginner, but not as a stand-alone reading course.

Verdict

The deck's strength is its structure. Each sound gets a spelling, an example word and a short sentence, with audio for the letter, the word and the sentence. The same 31 or so items come back in a priming pass and then two practice modes, so you hear a sound before you have to read it. The sound-first approach is useful because it shows when one letter has several sounds (c as /k/ or /s/, g as /g/ or /x/). The weak points are the example sentences and some of the content. Many sentences are alliterative contrivances: 'El sol puso tos' (translated 'The sun coughed') and 'Marta parte la carta cara'. Each also brings in several unfamiliar words. In the sample the priming cards often show 4 or 5 new words per sentence, and only 7% of sentences add one new word or fewer. There are also real errors. 'Pedro pinta un papel' is translated 'paints a role' instead of 'paper'. The trilled-r card gives 'r (at the start of a syllable)' as a spelling, but the r in 'ca-ro' starts a syllable and is tapped. The /b/ note says the medial sound is 'a bit like v', which is misleading for English speakers. 'yema' has no translation on its card, because only 'key' is given for 'yema, llave'. In the sample I saw no card for ch, silent h, or the diphthongs ia, ie, io and ua, so the coverage looks incomplete.

Use it if you are starting from zero, plan to immerse in Spanish alongside it, and want an audio-backed tour of Spanish spelling in a few short sessions. It also suits you if you want a listen-and-look drill for tricky pairs like r/rr, b/v and ll/y. Skip it if you want vocabulary, grammar, or anything you could call a course. The words are chosen to show sounds, not for frequency: common words such as que, y, no, por and para never appear, and only 61 of the top 1,000 words are taught. Skip it too if you already read Spanish comfortably, since you gain little beyond a few spelling rules. Check the translations and the r and b/v notes before trusting them.

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