Keep the article with the noun

In el libro and la mesa, the article helps you remember grammatical gender alongside meaning. Endings offer useful patterns, but do not turn every noun ending into an absolute rule. Learn the form you actually encounter.

Watch for false friends

Embarazada means pregnant, not embarrassed. English and Spanish share many recognisable-looking words, but visual similarity is not enough to establish meaning. Check the sense before adding it to your mental vocabulary.

A small practice example

libro → book; mesa → table

Recognise the Spanish first, then retrieve it from the English meaning. Mix the order so that you are recalling the word rather than remembering which card came next.

This course in Vocabee

The published catalog contains 19,869 word/sense entries for this target language. Counts can vary by teaching language; they are not counts of word families or a certified proficiency measure.

Words are organised in A1–C2 study bands and units of about 50 entries. Meet a small group, answer in both directions and return for later reviews.

Supported teaching languages: Arabic, German, English, French, Italian, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Turkish.

See all published language pairs.

What should accompany card practice?

Add short readings, listening and actual conversations. Finding the correct answer on a card does not mean you can use the word in every context. Check the meaning first, then try to retrieve it independently after a break.

Sources and further reading