16 free Google Sheets
Free Resources
Study plans, word lists, flashcards, and guides we'd hand a friend who's learning Spanish. Every one is a Google Sheet: open it in your browser, or make your own copy to track your progress.
Start here
- Best App to Learn Spanish: 13 Spanish apps compared on price, speaking practice, and real native content, with honest scores.
- Best Way to Learn Spanish: A 12-week plan with daily routines for 20, 45, or 90 minutes a day, plus a progress tracker.
- Spanish Learning Resources: 31 hand-picked podcasts, YouTube channels, readers, and tools, sorted by level and cost.
- Spanish Lessons: A free 30-day beginner course: 10 words, 3 phrases, and one grammar bit a day.
Words and grammar
- 100 Easy Spanish Words: The 100 words you'll use in almost every conversation, with pronunciation and examples.
- Spanish Flashcards: The 500 most useful Spanish words in learning order, ready to import into Anki or Quizlet.
- Basic Verbs in Spanish: The 50 verbs you need most, with present, past, and future forms and an endings cheat sheet.
- Easy Phrases in Spanish: 118 phrases for greetings, restaurants, directions, shopping, and emergencies, tagged casual or polite.
- Spanish Grammar: A one-page cheat sheet: 25 core rules, the mistakes everyone makes, and every major tense.
- Alphabet in Spanish: All 27 letters, how to say them, and the sounds English speakers get wrong.
Practice
- Spanish Stories for Beginners: 10 short, funny stories in easy Spanish, with translations, key words, and questions.
- Conversational Spanish: 50 questions people actually ask, with natural model answers and 25 filler words.
Travel and exams
- Spanish Travel Guide: Mexico: Travel phrases, how to order every kind of taco, typical prices in pesos, culture tips, and slang.
- AP Spanish Language and Culture Exam Study Guide: The exam format, a playbook for every free-response task, phrase banks, and all 32 comparison topics.
Which language?
- Hardest Languages to Learn: The hardest languages for English speakers, ranked by U.S. Foreign Service Institute class hours.
- Easiest Language to Learn: The 15 easiest languages for English speakers, and why Spanish is the smartest pick.