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Do you understand more Spanish than you feel able to say? Maybe you’re a comprehensible input learner who’s spent hours listening and watching, grew up hearing Spanish, or studied it in school—but putting your own sentences together still feels hard.

Spanish, Personally gives you a place to slow down and work out what you want to say. You can look up a missing word, follow a hint, and try again. The focus is on connecting the Spanish you already recognize into sentences of your own.

You don’t need to feel ready for a conversation to start. This is a space to practice alongside listening, reading, and talking with people, at your own pace.

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.

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.

You can leave whenever you like—your draft saves as you type. When you return on a new day, you’ll see a recap of your last practice day across all your visits. Choose “Start today’s practice” to continue, including any unfinished sentence. You can also open “View today’s recap” in Progress whenever you want a look back.

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.

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:

• A1 — First steps: “I want a coffee.”
• A2 — Everyday basics: “I want a coffee because I’m tired.”
• B1 — Getting conversational: “I was going to make coffee, but I realized we had run out.”
• B2 — Express yourself: “Although making coffee at home costs less, I enjoy the chance to chat at the café.”
• C1 — Nuance & detail: “Much as I appreciate the convenience, I’m reluctant to make takeaway coffee a daily habit.”
• C2 — Precision & subtlety: “Calling it a coffee habit rather understates the ritual it has become.”

Open the practice menu, expand Practice settings, and change Practice level 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.

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

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 my ideas, edit the suggestion to suit you, and choose Use this. You can keep editing before choosing Save ideas.

Your next prompts can draw on your saved ideas. To start over, choose Clear text and write something new, then Save ideas. Undo changes brings back what you last saved. 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, open Practice settings in the menu and choose a Practice topic. Sign in to unlock your own conversation ideas.

If you’re signed in, open the practice menu and choose Account settings, then Daily goals and reminders. During guest practice, choose Daily goal & reminders in the practice menu. Choose 5, 10, 20, or your own number of sentences, then choose Save goal. Five is a gentle place to start. This is an optional guide for your day, and you can change it or turn it off whenever you like.

A sentence counts once you finish it after making an attempt, whether you get it right straight away or need help. Retries count as part of the same sentence. Skipping or only revealing an answer doesn’t add to your goal. Your day follows the time zone saved with your goal.

If you’re signed in, you can choose a time under Reminder time and choose Enable notifications on each device where you want a reminder. We send one around that time if your goal is still unfinished. Delivery depends on your browser and device settings. On iPhone and iPad, open the site from your Home Screen first. You can turn reminders off in the same settings.

AI helps in three main ways:

• Exploring what you want to say. When you choose “Expand my ideas,” AI expands related themes and possibilities while preserving the kind of practice you asked for. You can edit those suggestions before saving.
• Creating practice prompts. AI generates English sentences for you to express in Spanish. We also reuse AI-generated prompts from our checked library when they fit your practice.
• Helping you work through an answer. AI reviews your Spanish and provides hints, feedback, vocabulary help, and explanations.

AI can make mistakes, and there’s often more than one natural way to say something. Its feedback is there to help you practice—not to give a final verdict on your Spanish.

We want to give you a chance to work out the change yourself. Your first hints identify which words need to work together or which meaning needs reconsidering. Later hints explain the deciding feature, then give a concrete instruction for applying the rule. You get up to four attempts, and you can ask for the answer sooner. 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 “Reveal answer” whenever you need it. Getting an explanation is part of learning, too.

Sometimes you know what you want to say, but a word is missing. That’s okay—use I need a word to look it up.

Our focus is on how you put a sentence together. Word help gives you a starting point, such as a verb’s dictionary form, while leaving you to choose its form and connect the sentence yourself. You don’t need to know every word to practice expressing yourself.

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

• Skip sentence: move on without a scored attempt for that sentence. In guest practice, a skipped prompt still counts toward your 20.
• A hint and retry: you have up to four attempts, with increasingly clear guidance. You can ask for the answer at any time.
• I need a word: asking for vocabulary alone doesn’t automatically make your grammar assisted. If the help supplies a grammatical form, the affected pattern is marked as assisted.
• Explain it / show the answer: you can see a correction and explanation. Assessed patterns may be recorded as needing explanation or assistance; patterns you demonstrated independently before revealing the answer can keep that result.

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.

Of course. Read about a pattern you’re curious about, or revisit one you’d like to feel more comfortable with. You can explore without signing in or starting an exercise.

Choose Mini lessons in the practice menu, or start here:

• Choosing el or la
• Choosing a past event or its background
• Choosing ser or estar

You’ll revisit language patterns in fresh sentences, mixed into your other practice. Clear first attempts help us decide when to bring a pattern back. A correct alternative always keeps its credit, even when it uses a different pattern.

If something gives you trouble, you may get a related example to practice with support. A later fresh check is spaced at least a day from that practice. Hints, retries, and revealed answers help you learn; they don’t count as new independent recall.

Review intervals adapt as we get more evidence. They are practice suggestions, not a measure of mastery. Come back when you can—there’s no penalty for a late review.

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

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 Progress.
2. Select All patterns, then choose a pattern you’d like to revisit.
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 concern & reassess. 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.

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.

In Account settings, opt in to yesterday’s daily recap and choose a delivery time and time zone. The default is 8:00 AM. Your first recap starts the next day; quiet days get a gentle check-in. Delivery is approximate.

Recap emails may include a sentence you wrote, vocabulary, and practice counts. They are sent through our email provider, Resend. Turn them off in account settings or use the unsubscribe link in any recap. Clearing your saved practice also turns recaps off and removes pending recap content from the app; it does not remove messages already delivered or held by the email provider. Sign-in and essential account emails continue.

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.

Eligible account learners can choose to share the English prompts AI generates for their 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. Prompt sharing, optional learning evaluation and Terms acceptance are separate choices.

If you send feedback, your message and its category are saved in the app owner’s private inbox. We don’t attach your account, email, or practice history, and no email follow-up is sent. Feedback is kept separately from account data; please leave out personal details.

If you enable reminders, we save your choices and this browser’s push subscription. Optional return reminders include your daily-goal counts in the notification preview, but never your answers or personal practice topics. Manage reminders under Daily goals and reminders in Account settings.

Privacy settings is the place to download or permanently delete saved practice, manage your separate optional choices, or request help with account closure.

Deleting saved practice removes saved sentences, drafts, practice settings and reviews. It does not close your account or remove separately submitted reports. The confirmation explains the full scope, including evaluation copies, prompt contributions, reminders and backup limitations.

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