ES Learn Spanish Words

Jon Sevaj

About this app

ES Learn Spanish Words is a free Spanish learning app. It offers a different approach to learning Spanish and building a vocabulary. It consists of two stages of learning:

• Browse websites in Spanish. Read the news or whatever may catch your interest. Touch any word you don't understand and read the translation in the bottom part of the screen. If you wish, you may add the word to your word list.
• Practice your word list using flashcards. The flashcards consist of various quizzes: First, a multiple choice quiz. Then a quiz where the initial letter of the word must be touched. After that, a hangman style quiz. And finally, the word must be spelled out to be considered fully learned. When a word is fully learned, the estimated date of reaching the next milestone is shown. The first milestone is 10 words, then 100, 500, 1000 words and so on.

If a verb is added to your word list, a quiz will appear that allows you to practice the verb conjugations.

You may also practice the pronunciation of the words and sentences you add. The app will test your spoken Spanish and if you pronounce the word or sentence in an acceptable way, a reward is granted.
(The app will ask for permission to record audio. This permission is used to enable speech recognition.)

The app also includes a hands-free mode using the built in speech synthesis, that enables you to practice your words while driving, while working out, or whenever you feel like it.

Your personal word list may be organized by adding tags to the words. Pictures and example texts may also be added to a word. Selected words may be shared with friends or exported to Google Drive as a CSV file or as internal file format.

The app does not contain ads, but it links to external web pages that may or may not contain ads.

(Please note: This app is probably not for the absolute beginner.
The app was previously called "Spanish Vocabulary Surfer")

Ratings and reviews

This app is a super cool concept and is implemented really well. There are a couple of things I would like to make it indispensable: 1. the ability to somehow put all of the simple present forms of a verb on a card rather than just the infinitive for irregular verbs. Even if you know 'ir', that's not very useful for learning the other forms. 2. the ability to override the system when it says you're wrong. Sometimes I put in a synonym, the system says I'm wrong, and it sets back my progress on learning the word and is generally frustrating.

By far my favorite app for learning Spanish. You can go to a Spanish Web page and touch any word. A definition will pop up, then the word can be added to a word list. When practicing the word list you can pronounce the word. If your pronunciation is off you will be provided with a list of words that your pronunciation sounded like. This is the only app that I have found that comes close to Googles Translator. This app, in fact blows Google Translator away! This app is so easy to use. Get it!

Amazing!!!! By far the best Spanish learning app out there IMO, thank you so so much for making all that hard work accessible for free! One of the many things I love is how in multiple choice mode, the options become really similar, so useful and challenging! One small suggestion: would it be possible to add participle/gerund forms and/or imperatives to the conjugations? :)

What’s new

- Fixed speech recognition
- Bug fixes
- Updated default web links