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Spanish, with a hook on every word.
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gato
cat
sounds like gateau
A cat sits in the middle of a birthday gateau, licking icing off its paws. The candles set the whole cake alight, so the word is masculine.
Sample hooks
What the first words look like
gato
cat
sounds like gateau
A cat sits in the middle of a birthday gateau, licking icing off its paws. The candles set the whole cake alight, so the word is masculine.
perro
dog
sounds like pear
A dog with a pear wedged on its nose, barking through the fruit. The pear is burning, so it is masculine.
casa
house, home
sounds like cashew
A house built entirely out of cashew nuts, sitting on the sea floor. Underwater means feminine.
mesa
table
sounds like mess
A table piled with such a mess that nothing else fits, and the whole thing is submerged in a fish tank. Feminine.
silla
chair
sounds like seal
A seal balances on a kitchen chair and claps. The tank it is in makes it feminine.
puerta
door
sounds like porter
A hotel porter stands so still in the doorway that guests push him open instead of the door. He is treading water, so feminine.
ventana
window
sounds like vent
Anna crawls out through the window vent and drops into the swimming pool below. Feminine.
cama
bed
sounds like camel
A camel is asleep in your bed, hump under the duvet, and the whole room has flooded. Feminine.
calle
street
sounds like collie
A collie runs down the middle of the street stopping traffic, and it is doing it underwater. Feminine.
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Spanish, specifically
Why is Spanish the deepest?
Because doing one language properly beats doing ten thinly, and Spanish is where most learners and most classrooms start. It is the first to a thousand words and thirty stories.
How many words are loaded for Spanish?
151 to start, chosen by frequency, each with a gloss, a part of speech, an example sentence and a hook. You can import your own list on top at any point.
Is the audio real Spanish?
The audio uses the voices installed on your own device, picked for Spanish and set per sentence. On a modern phone that is good. On some desktops it is only adequate, and recorded native audio is the next content investment.
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