Spanish Beginner: Musical Instruments

Música: vocabulario básico

Spanish	English
batería	drums
gaita	bagpipes
guitarra	guitar
flauta	flute
pandereta	tambourine
piano	piano
trompeta	trumpet
violín	violin

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The verb “tocar” in different tenses

Spanish	English
toco	I play (present)
tocaba	I used to play (imperfect)
tocaría	I would play (conditional)
toqué	I played (preterite)
voy a tocar	I’m going to play (near future)

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🧪 Mini Quiz: Test your Spanish musical instruments and tense formation with the verb tocar

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🎧 Action for Further Learning

• 🎤 Translate: “I used to play the flute.”
• 🎹 Write a sentence using “voy a tocar” + any instrument.

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Spanish Beginner: Adjectives for describing clothes

Spanish clothing adjectives

Tip: Icons are friendly memory hooks, not translations.

Clothes can say a lot...

Whether they’re baggy 👖, floral 🌸, or striped 📶! This table introduces common Spanish adjectives for describing clothing styles. Notice how endings change for masculine/feminine forms. Icons help you remember each word with a smile.

Spanish Vocabulary – Clothing Adjectives

Spanish	English
amplio, plia 👖	baggy
corto, ta ✂️	short
de cuadros 🟥⬛	checked
estampado, da 🎨	patterned
estrecho, cha 🧦	tight
de flores 🌸	floral
hortera 🤪	tacky
largo, ga 📏	long
liso, sa ➖	plain
de lunares ⚪	spotted
de rayas 📶	striped

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Do it now

Task 1: Use the Cover & Discover buttons below the table to cover the English column and recall meanings from Spanish. Or flip it: cover Spanish and say the adjectives in Spanish.
Task 2: Use the prompts below to create your own sentences or test your understanding.
Task 3: match each emoji to its word!

• Prompt: Say a full phrase using an adjective, e.g., “una camiseta de rayas”.
• Prompt: Which adjective fits a picture of dotted fabric? Say it in Spanish.
• Prompt: Change gender/number: “amplio” → “amplia” → “amplios” → “amplias”.

Action for further learning

• Create fashion flashcards: Draw or paste clothing pictures and label them with these adjectives in Spanish.
• Spot adjectives in real life: Describe clothes you see online or in magazines — “una camiseta de rayas”, “unos pantalones amplios”.
• Expand your wardrobe: Add three new adjectives.

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Spanish Beginner: Pets

🐶🐱 Mascotas / Pets

Here you’ll find the essential Spanish pets vocabulary presented in a simple Cover & Discover table, followed by a fun illustrated quiz and a printable PDF for extra practice. The activities are designed to feel achievable for beginners while building strong retrieval..

Spanish	English
caballo	horse
cobaya	guinea pig
conejo	rabbit
gato	cat
hámster	hamster
loro	parrot
pájaro	bird
perro	dog
pez	fish
serpiente	snake
tortuga	turtle

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Think you know your mascotas? Try the pets quiz and found out!

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📘 Practice simple sentences offline too! Download the printable PDF and keep learning 🐶🐱🐰

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Spanish Beginner: Days and Months

📅 Días de la semana y meses del año

🔍 Did you know that Monday to Friday were named after visible celestial bodies such as the moon and planets visible to the naked eye? When learning, see if you can guess which ones!

Días de la semana	Days of the week
lunes	Monday
martes	Tuesday
miércoles	Wednesday
jueves	Thursday
viernes	Friday
sábado	Saturday
domingo	Sunday

Meses del año	Months of the year
enero	January
febrero	February
marzo	March
abril	April
mayo	May
junio	June
julio	July
agosto	August
septiembre	September
octubre	October
noviembre	November
diciembre	December

🧪 Quiz: Ready to test your Spanish calendar vocab?

Click below to match the Spanish days and months with their English meanings. Can you get full marks without peeking?

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Spanish Beginner: Shops and Stores

🛍️ Spanish Vocabulary: Shops & Stores

If you cannot remember how to name most shops in Spanish, here's a quick refresher before you dive into the quiz!

🧠 Fun fact: Most of these shop names are feminine nouns in Spanish.

Spanish	English
carnicería	butcher’s
chocolatería	chocolate shop
joyería	jewellery shop
panadería	baker’s
papelería	stationery shop
perfumería	perfume shop
pescadería	fishmonger’s
tienda de disfraces	fancy dress shop
tienda de ropa	clothes shop
zapatería	shoe shop

🧪 Quiz: Test your Spanish shops Vocabulary

Click below to match the Spanish shops and/or stores names with their English meanings. ¡Buena suerte!

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Spanish Beginner: Hair Colour

✨ Physical Descriptions in Spanish: Hair Color

🧠 What will you practice?

This interactive quiz will help you learn how to describe hair colour in Spanish. Each question features a cartoon-style image and asks learners to choose the correct description. It’s a fun way to reinforce vocabulary like pelo castaño, pelo rubio, pelo negro, and pelo rojo.

🎯 Learning Goals

• Recognize Spanish vocabulary for hair colour
• Match images with accurate descriptions
• Build confidence using descriptive phrases

📸 Activity: ¿Cómo es la chica?

Click through each image and choose the correct hair description. Great for beginners and you, if you like using visuals to support your learning.

💡 Action for Further Learning

• 💬 Speaking practice: Describe classmates or celebrities using the new vocabulary.
• 🎨 Creative task: Draw your own character and write a short physical description in Spanish.
• 🔁 Repetition: Repeat the quiz to reinforce vocabulary and improve recall.

🧩 Key Vocabulary

Spanish Sentence	English Translation
Tiene el pelo castaño.	She has brown hair.
Tiene el pelo rubio.	She has blonde hair.
Tiene el pelo negro.	She has black hair.
Tiene el pelo rojo.	She has red hair.

🔍 Why this activity works

It boosts retention and makes learning more engaging. Not sure where I got that information from but I live by it. It’s ideal for beginner Spanish learners who are starting to build descriptive sentences.

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Spanish Beginner: Family

Los miembros de la familia

Here are the most popular words to identify members of a family in Spanish. The examples use common adjectives to help you describe your own family. Once you are confident, try the quiz below to test your memory and your spelling. Attempt the action for further learning as well.

Spanish Family vocabulary with English translations

Spanish	English	Example
madre feminine noun	mother	Mi madre es simpática.
padre masculine noun	father	Mi padre es trabajador.
hermano masculine noun	brother	Mi hermano es calmo.
hermana feminine noun	sister	Mi hermana es traviesa.
tío masculine noun	uncle	Mi tío es muy alto.
tía feminine noun	aunt	Mi tía es profesora.
primo masculine noun	cousin	Mi primo es divertido.
prima feminine noun	cousin	Mi prima es graciosa.
abuelo masculine noun	grandfather	Mi abuelo es mexicano.
abuela feminine noun	grandmother	Mi abuela es animada.

When you’re ready, test your Spanish Vocabulary with the quiz below. Attention to your spelling.

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🎯 Action for Further Learning:
Try describing some members of your family!

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Spanish Beginner: Digital Generation

SOME COMMON NEGATIVE EXPRESSIONS IN SPANISH

Spanish	English
casi nunca	hardly, ever, almost never
jamás	never
nunca jamás	never ever, never again
tampoco	nor, either, neither

HOW TO CHANGE A SENTENCE FROM THE INFINITIVE TO THE PRESENT TENSE IN THE FIRST PERSON OF THE SINGULAR (I)

If the verb is regular, remove the ending of the infinitive (-AR, -ER, -IR) and add -o
Pay attention to the occasional irregular verb, for example: hacer and ver.
Those might look they are regular because they end in -o, but their stem is irregular.
Here are some examples of how to change the verb in the infinitive to a conjugated verb in the present tense of ‘I’.

Verb in the infinitive	Verb in the present tense
descargar música	Descargo música.
gastar batería	Gasto batería.
hacer la compra en línea	Hago la compra en línea.
llamar por videollamada	Llamo por videollamada.
sacar fotos	Saco fotos.
subir fotos	Subo fotos.
ver vídeos	Veo vídeos.

Now have a go at the quiz on ‘Generación Digital’

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Test your Spanish

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¿Dónde está mi bicicleta nueva?

Where is my new bicycle?

Where is my old bicycle?

Where is my new car?

El teléfono está en la bolsa blanca.

The phone is in the white bag.

The phone is in the black bag.

The phone is in the white box.

Necesito usar el bolígrafo y el papel.

I need to use the pen and the paper.

I want to buy the pen and the paper.

I need to read the pen and the paper.

¿Cómo se dice “gato” en inglés?

How do you say “cat” in English?

How do you say “dog” in English?

How do you write “cat” in Spanish?

Tengo una revista y una botella.

I have a magazine and a bottle.

I have a newspaper and a bottle.

I need a magazine and a bottle.

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Spanish Beginner: The weather

📚 Here’s the Spanish weather vocabulary you need to know before attempting the quiz about el tiempo.⛅☀️🌧️

Spanish	English
hace calor	It’s hot
hace frío	It’s cold
hace sol	It’s sunny
hace viento	It’s windy
hay niebla	It’s foggy
hay tormenta	It’s stormy
llueve	It rains
nieva	It snows

🌧️ Rain forms

Examples:

llover (to rain) — Me encanta cuando empieza a llover.

llueve (it rains) — Llueve mucho en verano.

está lloviendo (it's raining) — Está lloviendo ahora.

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❄️ Snow forms

Examples:

nevar (to snow) — Me gusta cuando empieza a nevar.

nieva (it snows) — Nieva mucho en invierno.

está nevando (it's snowing) — Está nevando ahora.

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When you’re ready, test your Spanish Weather Vocabulary.

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Spanish Beginner: Clothes

👕 Spanish Clothes Vocabulary

What you’ll learn: Key items of clothing in Spanish, useful gender notes, and a quick quiz to test your understanding.

Spanish	English
ropa	clothes (fem.)
calcetines	socks (masc. pl.)
camisa	shirt (fem.)
camiseta	t-shirt (fem.)
chaqueta	jacket (fem.)
corbata	tie (fem.)
falda	skirt (fem.)
gorra	cap (fem.)
jersey	jumper (masc.)
pantalones	trousers (masc. pl.)
vaqueros	jeans (masc. pl.)
vestido	dress (masc.)
zapatillas	trainers (fem. pl.)
zapatos	shoes (masc. pl.)

👗 Categories of Clothes

• 👕 Tops: camisa, camiseta, jersey
• 👖 Bottoms: pantalones, vaqueros, falda
• 👟 Footwear: zapatos, zapatillas
• 🧢 Accessories: gorra, corbata

🗣️ Useful Phrases with the verb llevar (to wear)

• Llevo una camisa blanca. — I wear a white shirt.
• llevas una chaqueta azul. — You wear a blue jacket.
• Lleva unos pantalones grises — He/She wears grey trousers.

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Spanish vowels always sound the same:
A = ah, E = eh, I = ee, O = oh, U = oo.
Try saying:
camisa blanca — ropa de moda — vestido negro.

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Ready to test yourself? Try the quick quiz below.

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Spanish Beginner: colours and opinions

🎨 Spanish Colours Vocabulary

Here are the most important colour words you need in Spanish. Use the table to learn each colour, then read the example sentences to see how Spanish speakers talk about likes, dislikes, and preferences. When you feel confident, try creating your own sentences using your favourite colours.

Spanish	English
amarillo	yellow
azul	blue
blanco	white
gris	grey
marrón	brown
morado	purple
negro	black
rojo	red

🗣️ Example Sentences

Spanish	English
Me encanta el rojo.	I love red.
Me gusta el amarillo.	I like yellow.
No me gusta el marrón.	I don’t like brown.
No me gusta nada el gris.	I don’t like grey at all.
Odio el morado.	I hate purple.

Adjective agreement:
In Spanish, colours change depending on the noun they describe.

1. Masculine nouns → masculine colour
– el coche rojo
– el libro amarillo

2. Feminine nouns → feminine colour
– la casa roja
– la camiseta amarilla

3. Colours ending in -e or a consonant don’t change
– el coche azul
– la casa azul
– el libro gris
– la mesa gris

4. Plural nouns → add -s or -es
– los coches rojos
– las casas rojas
– los libros grises

Now that you’ve learned the colour words and seen them in action, it’s time to test your skills! This short quiz uses colourful faces to help you match the Spanish word to the colour you see. Look carefully and choose the correct answer — it’s a fun way to check your memory and spelling.

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Spanish Beginner: Greetings

👋 ¿Qué tal?

Before you can talk about your weekend or order a chocolate caliente, you need the basics: how to say hello, goodbye, and everything in between. Spanish greetings are short, friendly, and incredibly useful. Here you’ll find the essential ones used every day in Spanish-speaking countries. So, let's make them second nature.

• 👋 Buenos días Good morning
• 🌇 Buenas tardes Good afternoon
• 🌙 Buenas noches Good night / Good evening
• 😊 Bien well
• 🤩 Fantástico/a fantastic
• 😖 Fatal awful
• 😎 Fenomenal great
• 😕 Mal bad
• 😐 Regular OK
• 🙋‍♀️ Me llamo My name is
• 🙋‍♂️ Te llamas Your name is
• 👤 Se llama His name is / Her name is

Let’s put the greetings above into action. Here’s a fun little conversation between two people (and their dogs!). See how many phrases you recognise.

A: ¡Buenos días! ¿Qué tal?
B: Bien, gracias. ¿Y tú?
A: Muy bien. Me llamo Lara. ¿Cómo te llamas?
B: Me llamo Ivan y mi perro se llama Tito. ¿Cómo se llama tu perro?
A: Mi perro se llama Sushi.
B: ¿Sushi? ¡Vale!

Ready to test your greetings? Click below to match each Spanish phrase with its English meaning. Can you score 100% without peeking?

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