HOW MUCH SPANISH DO I SPEAK?

The average number of words a person know can vary a lot, but according to dictionary experts, a native speaker knows and uses about 20,000 words. The number could be double if also considered those words that we know but do not use. People with an advanced knowledge of the language and with fluently communication with native speakers in any situation, know about 10,000 words.

However, if we look, for example, a newspaper, we see that there are words that are repeated often and others, however, are not as frequent. Thus 3,000 words constitute about 80% of the language that a speaker hears or see daily.

To increase the number of words learned, it is necessary not only to acquire new vocabulary, but also save in memory those words learned by repetition periodically, so you do not fall into oblivion, which is what usually occur when the vocabulary learned one day does not refresh.

This application contains a dictionary of the 5000 words most used in Spanish, with its equivalent in English, as well as a systematic method of learning. Besides, the app displays the number of the words we have really learned, so we can be aware of our level of Spanish.

Learning these 5000 words will allow us to manage fluently in both languages.

And you? How many words do you want to learn?

TRY YOURSELF

In this section random words are asked in Spanish/English and the number of words learned is shown.

In this respect, a word is not considered learned until be correctly answered with two days difference at least.

If a learned word fails, this word will be considered not learned.

SISTEMATIC

This section is about a methodical learning of vocabulary.

First, words in Spanish/English which are not learned from previous mistakes, are asked.

Then, new words are asked to increase our vocabulary progressively.

Randomly with these new words, other words already learned are asked (lower percentage), to review and fix; in a learned word, the greater the ratio wrong/asked times, the more likely to be asked.

Remember that a word is not considered learned until is rightly answered two times with al least two days of difference.

If a learned word fails, this word will be considered not learned.

The screen shows for every asked word the number of times was asked and the number of times was incorrectly answered.

The screen also shows the number of learned words: the words you know.

DICTIONARY

Here you can search for a word in Spanish/English to show its equivalence in English/Spanish.

You can edit, remove and add new dictionary entrances, and to restore the app original dictionary.