🇪🇸 Best Spanish websites for beginners

A collaborative, Creative Commons-licensed corpus you can search for real usage of a word or download in bulk to build your own decks. It is the raw material behind Clozemaster and countless Anki decks rather than a study tool in itself. Sentences are contributed by volunteers, so quality and naturalness vary — prefer sentences from native contributors and cross-check anything surprising.

Over 100 language editions; the English edition alone has millions of entries covering hundreds of languages, with IPA, declension and conjugation tables, etymologies and usage notes that commercial apps usually paywall. The etymology sections are quietly one of the best vocabulary-retention tools available. Being crowd-sourced, coverage is uneven and rare entries can be wrong — cross-check anything unusual against a native-language dictionary.

The reference implementation of the comprehensible-input method: nine native teachers from different countries make videos graded from Superbeginner to Advanced, with a roadmap measured in hours watched rather than lessons finished. Premium is about $8/month, but hundreds of hours sit free on the YouTube channel, so you can test the method before paying. It deliberately delays speaking and teaches no explicit grammar — pair it with a tutor or a grammar reference if you need to produce Spanish soon. Note the site moved from dreamingspanish.com to dreaming.com/spanish when they added French.

A detailed staged roadmap for acquiring a language through massive comprehensible input — what to do at each stage, when to start output, how to mine sentences — with a free tracker, starter courses and an active Discord. The roadmap and community are free; vocabulary decks, advanced courses and coaching are paid. It is opinionated to the point of dogma about avoiding early output and translation, so take the framework and ignore the purity rules if they do not fit your goals.

Every entry gives multiple translations with example sentences, regional labels and audio from both Spain and Latin America, and the conjugator covers every tense of any verb you type. The free tier is genuinely enough for daily lookups; Premium mostly adds ad removal and extra lessons. Its own grammar articles are clear but shallow — fine for a quick answer, not a substitute for a real course.

An old-school site with a full grammar tutorial, a 50-lesson pronunciation tutorial and verb drills, all free and all with tests you can record grades on with a free account. The design is dated and there is nothing gamified about it, which is exactly why it is still useful — you can look up ser vs estar or the subjunctive and get a straight answer. The paid audio course is optional and not the reason to come here.