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A little help, whenever you need it.

Can I practice without an account?

You can try 20 sentences, with hints, feedback, and explanations along the way. Take your time—there’s no deadline. Skipping a sentence still counts toward your 20.

Ready for a break? Come back in the same browser to pick up where you left off. Your browser’s cookies connect you to your guest history, so keep them until you sign in.

If you sign in from this browser, your practice history and drafts come with you. If you already have an account, your existing settings stay as they are.

We choose your prompts from our checked practice library when we can, and use AI to create a new one when needed.

How will I review what I’ve learned?

Review helps you get comfortable using the same language patterns in new situations. You’ll practice those patterns with fresh sentences, so you can build confidence beyond one familiar example.

If a pattern gives you trouble, you may see it again after 5 minutes. If you get it on your retry, we wait 20 minutes; if you get it on your first try, we wait 2 hours.

As you get more comfortable, reviews spread out to 1, 3, 7, 14, and 30 days. We mix them into your other practice. Come back when you can—there’s no penalty for a late review.

Your scorecard can help you choose what to work on next. When you’ve used your 20 guest sentences, sign in to keep going.

How does practice work?

Try saying the English prompt naturally in Spanish. There’s more than one right way! If something needs a little work, we’ll give you a focused hint and another try. You can also ask for a word or see an explanation whenever you need help.

If you understand more Spanish than you feel ready to say, you’re in the right place. Start wherever you are, however you’ve learned so far.

Choose a level that gives you a comfortable challenge. It sets how difficult your practice is; it isn’t a grade or a test of your ability. If you tell us how a sentence felt, we can adjust the challenge within that level.

Choose Everyday for realistic situations, Playful for a little humor, or Wonderfully weird when you’d like to let your imagination wander. Weird situations still use familiar words.

What level should I choose?

Start where you can put together an answer with a little thought and occasional help. It’s fine to choose a level below what you can read or understand—forming your own sentences is a different kind of practice.

These examples give you a feel for the challenge, rather than a test you need to pass:

Open the practice menu and change CEFR-aligned exercise difficulty whenever you like. Your choice applies to your next sentence. If practice feels overwhelming, step down; if it feels too familiar, try stepping up. There’s no need to earn your way into a level.

What happens if I skip or ask for help?

You’re welcome to ask for help. The scorecard keeps track of how you used each language pattern so you can see what feels comfortable and what could use another visit.

These labels describe the support you used, not your ability or effort. A skipped or unassessed pattern isn’t evidence that you got it wrong.

How do I make practice about my life?

When you’re signed in, open the practice menu, turn on Personalize sentences, and expand Things I want to say. Add a few conversations, interests, or everyday moments you’d like to practice, then choose Save.

For example: “Catching up with friends, talking about my garden, and making weekend plans.” You can write in English and keep it simple. If you’d like more ideas, try Expand ideas, edit the suggestions to suit you, and save the ones you want to use.

Your next prompts can draw on these ideas. Come back and change them whenever your interests or plans change. Turning personalization off lets you practice general topics while keeping your ideas saved.

You don’t need to share identifying details. General descriptions such as “my friend” or “a café near home” are plenty; leave out full names, addresses, contact details, and anything sensitive.

As a guest, you can choose a Practice topic from the menu. Sign in to unlock your own conversation ideas.

Can I browse the mini lessons?

Of course. Pick something you’re curious about, or revisit a pattern you’d like to feel more comfortable with. You can read these anytime, without signing in or starting an exercise.

If you believe in comprehensible input, why did you make a grammar tool?

I started out trying to follow a pretty purist approach to comprehensible input. But I wasn’t starting from zero: I’m a heritage learner, I’d had exposure to Spanish, and I’d taken classes in school. That was already part of my learning history.

Around 600 hours of input, I started preparing for a CLEP exam to earn college credit. That meant studying grammar—and I passed! It also got me curious about how to support the next step: expressing my own thoughts in Spanish.

I began reading about feedback, self-correction, and writing as preparation for speaking. What appealed to me was having a chance to notice a mistake, get a little help, and try again myself. Writing gave me room to slow down and work through what I wanted to say.

That became a little practice game with AI, then eventually Spanish, Personally.

I know explicit grammar study and deliberate output can be controversial in comprehensible-input communities. You don’t have to follow my approach. This app grew out of my own needs and curiosity, and it offers practice for people who want that extra support alongside listening and reading.

The research informs how the practice works; it doesn’t prove this app is the best route to speaking. My aim is simply to give you a welcoming place to try putting your Spanish into words.

Why do I get a hint before the answer?

We want to give you a chance to work out the change yourself. A focused hint points you toward something to revisit, then you get another try at expressing your idea. The aim is to help you practice finding and using the language, with enough support to keep going.

This is called prompted self-correction. Direct correction gives you the corrected answer straight away; a recast rephrases what you said in a corrected form. We start with a hint so you have a turn to do the thinking before seeing the answer.

Our hint-first approach is informed by research on language learning. In a review of 15 classroom studies, prompts that encouraged learners to repair their own answers had larger learning effects than recasts, especially when learners had to form their own responses. Lyster & Saito (2010).

The evidence also leaves room for other kinds of help. A broader review found that the effects of implicit feedback were better maintained over time than those of explicit feedback. Li (2010). These findings don’t establish that self-correction always leads to better retention. The classroom speaking research informs our design; it hasn’t tested this app’s written AI-guided practice.

You don’t have to stay stuck. You can choose “Explain it / show the answer” whenever you need it. Getting an explanation is part of learning, too.

What if an assessment doesn’t seem right?

AI can make mistakes, too. When you’re signed in, you can revisit a completed sentence and ask for another assessment or change its saved outcome.

  1. Open the practice menu and choose Scorecard.
  2. Select All practice, then tap a grammar category in the chart.
  3. Scroll to Sentence history and open the sentence you want to revisit.
  4. Open Flag or correct this assessment.

To ask for another look, write what seems inaccurate and choose Save flag first. Then choose Request reassessment. The AI will evaluate your saved answers again and consider your concern.

You can also use Saved outcome to change the result for that grammar category yourself: independent first attempt, corrected after a hint, explanation / assistance needed, or not assessed. This changes the saved assessment, not the words you originally wrote.

What happens to my data?

For email sign-in, Supabase checks your code and Resend delivers it. We keep your email and a secure sign-in session connected to your profile. When you’re signed in, your practice is saved to your account so you can continue on another device. As a guest, your practice is connected to this browser. Clearing its cookies can mean losing access to your guest history.

We send your practice context, prompts, and answers to OpenAI to create practice and give you feedback. We turn off API response storage, and we don’t record audio.

If you create an account, you can choose to share the English prompts AI generates for your practice with our library. This starts off. Contributions are AI-generated prompts, never your Spanish translations or answer drafts. Only generic prompts that pass two separate privacy and quality checks can be shared.

Sign in to choose whether to contribute prompts, download your progress, or delete your saved account data.

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