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Meet Spanish for Real: guided conversation practice for your first real-life moments in Spanish. Hear the words, repeat them, then try them in a new situation — with help whenever you need it.
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Spanish audio, everyday situations in Colombia. Inside the course you can practise with no microphone at all — and when your browser can listen, it compares the words you said with the written phrase.
Two included companions
Listen and repeat with Colombian voices, check the words you said, keep your place, then reuse the same language in missions and on paper.
40 pages · PDF
40 illustrated pages for 16 everyday contexts, with 128 essential phrase examples, bilingual dialogues and simple ways to adapt each reply.
18 pages · fillable PDF
Ten self-paced speaking sessions with checkpoints, model answers and a review planner.
Print them or fill the workbook in a compatible PDF reader. Entries in the PDFs do not sync to the app.
The moment this is for
You practised "Hola, yo soy…" for weeks. She says something warm and fast, and you smile and nod.
"¿Quieres más?" — you know both words. You still answer in English.
The price comes back as a number you have never heard out loud, and you just hand over a note.
Practise introducing yourself, ordering food, asking for help, hearing prices and checking in — one short conversation at a time.
How it works
Take one line: ¿Cuánto cuesta? This is what happens to it.
Two or three phrases you hear before anything is asked of you.
What did that mean, and where are you? Meaning first, speaking after.
Spanish and English on screen. Slower and meaning are always one tap away.
The model is covered. One tap brings it back — using help is not failing.
The same line in the corner shop, then at the counter, with a different person answering.
Days later that phrase comes back on its own, in review, fed by what you actually practised — not by what you clicked.
Feedback
¿Cuánto cuesta la chaqueta?
One thing to fix: la did not come through. Say it again.
The route
One month abroad, in order. Each stretch reuses the phrases of the one before.
Put it together in six short missions: meet someone, order a drink, ask them to repeat, find a place, buy something and check in.
Built for the first turns of a conversation. Start with a 5–10 minute goal, repeat at your own pace, and return to the phrases you want to strengthen.
Inside the app
Every reply follows the same three steps, and your learning progress is saved to your account, so you can pick up where you left off on another device.
A short guided café scene: you hear the barista, hear the model reply, see what it means, repeat it — and only then say the three replies with the Spanish hidden.
Your first complete voice check becomes your reference, kept exactly as it happened, with its date. Say the same three replies another day and you see both, side by side. Replies you did not check stay marked as pending — never as a zero.
Phrases you already worked on that needed help, missed words, or had no voice check yet, gathered in one short session. Extra practice never moves your review dates.
Speaking out loud is optional. If your browser cannot listen, you can record one short try instead. It checks words — not accent, pronunciation or fluency.
Example
First check (15 Mar): 1 of 3 replies accepted without help → 22 Mar: 3 of 3.
An illustration of the screen, not a student result. Same three replies, same scene.
You know some words, you have done an app or two, and the moment someone answers in Spanish your head goes blank. You want to speak before the trip, not after.
You already hold conversations comfortably, or you want grammar drills and verb tables. This is about talking.
Who made it
Colombian Spanish teacher and founder of Spanish But Real. Spanish for Real follows her beginner approach: everyday situations in Colombia — the ride home, the family lunch, the corner shop — practised out loud, one turn at a time.
One payment
$39.99
USD, one-time. No subscription, no renewal.
No. Saying the phrases out loud is the point, and you can do that with no microphone at all — there is a "Practise without a voice check" option from the start. If your browser can listen, you also get a word-by-word check of what came through.
By default the check runs through your browser's own speech service. If your browser cannot do it — many iPhones cannot — you can choose to record one short try, which we send to our speech provider (ElevenLabs) only to recognise the words. We do not store the recording or the transcript in the app — we save your learning progress — and what ElevenLabs keeps is covered by their own privacy policy and plan. You can always practise without any voice check.
Each situation is a short conversation, around 5–10 minutes, and there are 18 of them plus a speaking challenge per module. You set the pace.
No. $39.99 once, and the course stays in your account.
Your purchase includes the 40-page illustrated Your Real-Life Spanish Pocket Guide — 16 everyday contexts, 128 essential phrase examples and 16 bilingual dialogues — and the 18-page fillable Speak, Remember, Repeat workbook. You can print them or use a compatible PDF reader; PDF entries do not sync to the app.
Colombian Spanish, spoken clearly and a little slowly, because it is built for beginners.
A phone or laptop and somewhere you can talk out loud.