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Learn Spanish Now · 2026!

Bienvenido
al Pueblo

A space to practice, listen, read, write, and speak — and, above all, share — as we all learn Spanish together. El pueblo means "the village" — a place where everyone knows your name and learns together.

¿Por qué se llaman "Lucas"?

The coins you earn here are called Lucas for a reason. In Peru, una luca is everyday slang for a buck — money itself, not necessarily a thousand of anything (a few lucas is just "a few bucks"). The slang travels: in Chile, Argentina, and the rest of the Southern Cone, una luca sharpens to mean mil — a thousand of the local currency. Either way, every Luca you rack up is named after the real slang Spanish speakers use for cash. — «¿Cuánto cuesta?» «Como diez lucas.»

From your teacher

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La Racha · daily challenge
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La Racha

🔥 Daily challenge

Smart repaso

🧠 Spaced repetition

El abecedario

🔤 Letras y sonidos

The Spanish alphabet has 27 letters. Tap any letter to hear its name and an example word out loud. Start with the five vowels — they're the foundation of every Spanish word.

Living vocabulary

Vocabulario
Noun · Feminine 01 / 12
madrugada
mah-droo-GAH-dah
Tap to flip
English 01 / 12
dawn / early hours
"Volvió a casa de madrugada."
He came home in the early hours.
Tap to flip

Learn without pressure.

Each card is a small window into the language — pronunciation, context, and an example phrase to help you remember. Tap the card to see the translation.

Current deck: Everyday
Progress: 1 of 12
🧠 Smart Repaso — review with spaced repetition

Verb drill

Verbos

Twenty random verbs. Fill in every blank, then hit Submit drill for instant feedback and your score. Earn Lucas based on accuracy — but you only get one shot per drill.

Choose your tense:
Verb group:
Include vosotros form:
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Grammar lessons

★ / Lecciones

Foundational Spanish grammar, broken into bite-sized lessons. Each lesson has a short explanation, examples, and a quick check at the end. Read at your own pace — they don't disappear.

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La lingüística

★ / Language science

Language isn't just words to memorize — it's a system you can take apart. A short, plain-language tour of how Spanish actually works: its sounds, how its words and sentences are built, where it came from, how it varies, and how we learn it. Each lesson is quick, with a 3-question check.

Student resources

★ / Recursos

Quick links to the tools you use at school. These open in a new tab so you don't lose your place here.

Translator · Traductor

Type below — direction auto-detects
SPANISH auto-detected
ENGLISH
Look up in WordReference Opens the full dictionary entry — conjugations, examples, forum discussions.

School tools

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ProgressBook
Check your grades, attendance, and assignments.
pbaccess.hccanet.org
🎯
IXL Learning
Personalized practice in Spanish, math, English, and more.
ixl.com
📚
Google Classroom
Assignments, announcements, and submissions for class.
classroom.google.com

In-class games — join with the code from the board

🎮
Kahoot!
Join with a PIN from the board.
kahoot.it
💰
Gimkit
Earn in-game money for correct answers.
gimkit.com/join
🐸
Blooket
Join the game mode the teacher picked.
play.blooket.com
Quizlet Live
Team-based vocabulary races.
quizlet.com/live
🍐
Pear Deck
Join a slide presentation with a code.
joinpd.com

Spanish helpers

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WordReference
The best Spanish dictionary online. Way better than Google Translate for single words.
wordreference.com
🔤
SpanishDict
Dictionary, verb conjugator, and grammar guides all in one place.
spanishdict.com
⏱️
Conjuguemos
Timed verb conjugation practice in every tense.
conjuguemos.com
📝
StudySpanish.com
Free grammar lessons, pronunciation tutorials, and vocabulary.
studyspanish.com

Watch & listen

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Dreaming Spanish
Comprehensible-input videos for all levels. Listening practice with native speakers.
youtube.com
📻
News in Slow Spanish
Weekly news, spoken at a learner-friendly pace. Free episodes available.
newsinslowspanish.com
🎙️
Spanish Podcast
Free podcasts from Spain with full transcripts. Great for intermediate learners.
spanishpodcast.org

Standards · ACTFL

This course follows the ACTFL World-Readiness Standards — the 5 C's (Communication, Cultures, Connections, Comparisons, Communities) and the 3 modes of communication (Interpretive, Interpersonal, Presentational). Most activity pages show a small ★ Standards badge noting which of these the activity builds.

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World-Readiness Standards
The 5 C's framework that guides what and why we learn — the backbone of the course.
actfl.org
NCSSFL-ACTFL Can-Do Statements
"I can…" goals by mode and level — a checklist to see what you're able to do in Spanish.
actfl.org
📈
ACTFL Proficiency Guidelines
How proficiency grows from Novice to Advanced — where you are and where you're headed.
actfl.org

Can-Do Statements — download (PDF)

The full NCSSFL-ACTFL document set. Tap any title to open the PDF.

Need something added here? Tell your teacher and they can update this page.

Practice games

★ / Juegos

Vocab, numbers, dates, grammar — most games run both directions (Spanish→English and English→Spanish). Each game is 10 rounds. Score-based Lucas: the better you do, the more you earn.

🃏

Match it

Pick any vocab deck and race the clock to match Spanish to English. New every time.

Any of 55+ decks · beat your best time
🌳

Family tree

Read the family tree, then answer "¿Quién es la abuela de la prima de…?" Names change every round.

10 rounds · up to 40 Lucas
🏷️

El · la · los · las

Tap the right article for each noun. Choose your level — from el/la up to un/una/unos/unas.

4 levels · 10 rounds · up to 30 Lucas
🔁

Articles translate

"a ball" → "una pelota". Translate the phrase with its article. Pick your level.

4 levels · 10 rounds · up to 40 Lucas
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Articles → English

The reverse: "una pelota" → "a ball". Read the Spanish, translate into English. Pick your level.

4 levels · 10 rounds · up to 40 Lucas
⌨️

Type it

Same decks, no tiles: we show a word, you type the translation — answer in Spanish, English, or mixed.

10 rounds · up to 30 Lucas

Pick it

Multiple choice vocab: four answers, one is right. The friendly way into a new deck.

10 rounds · up to 20 Lucas
🔁

Singular ↔ plural

Los lápices → el lápiz, la canción → las canciones. Both directions, accents and all.

10 rounds · up to 35 Lucas
📅

Days of the week

Lunes, martes, miércoles… both directions: Spanish→English and back.

10 rounds · up to 25 Lucas
🗓️

Speaking dates

"March 15" → el quince de marzo — and Spanish dates back into English.

10 rounds · up to 35 Lucas
🔢

Numbers 1–30

Uno, dos, tres… write the Spanish, or read the Spanish and type the digits.

10 rounds · up to 25 Lucas
🔠

Numbers 30–100

Treinta y cinco… the "y" pattern, both directions: words ↔ digits.

10 rounds · up to 35 Lucas
💯

Numbers 100–9999

Trescientos cuarenta y siete… big numbers, words ↔ digits.

10 rounds · up to 50 Lucas
🕐

Telling time

¿Qué hora es? Write the Spanish — or read "son las tres y media" and type 3:30.

10 rounds · up to 40 Lucas
🌤️

The weather

Hace sol, llueve, está nublado — describe scenes in Spanish, translate back to English.

10 rounds · up to 30 Lucas
🗣️

Tú vs. Usted

Pick the right formality for each social situation.

10 rounds · up to 30 Lucas
✍️

Adjective agreement

Type the right form, or fix the wrong one. Gender & number agreement.

10 rounds · up to 35 Lucas
🚿

Daily routine reflexives

Me levanto, te duchas, se acuestan — conjugate with the right pronoun.

10 rounds · up to 35 Lucas
🎯

Object pronouns

Lo, la, le, les — pick the right pronoun to replace each noun.

10 rounds · up to 35 Lucas

Your best scores

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Dibuja la palabra

Vocabulario visual

Get a vocab word and draw what it means — no translating, just thinking in pictures. Pick your tools, colors, and shapes and go. Or load a coloring page and color it in. You can copy your drawing to paste into a doc, or paste an image in to start from. Mark it Done to earn a couple of Lucas.

Draw this word
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Reading library

Lectura

Stories and poems for every level — from beginner sketches to classic verse by Lorca, Machado, and Martí. Earn Lucas based on difficulty: harder texts pay more.

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Listening practice

Escucha

Train your ear with three kinds of exercises: dictation, comprehension, and fill-in-the-blank.

Note: Audio uses your device's built-in Spanish voice. It can sound robotic — that's normal. Use the speed controls to slow it down when needed.
Speed

Writing topics

Escritura

Pick a topic and write your response in Spanish. Your work is saved to your device — you can come back to it later. Long responses (200+ words) earn extra Lucas.

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Speaking topics

Voces

Pick a topic and record your response in Spanish. Speak naturally — the goal is fluency, not perfection. Recordings 30+ seconds long earn more Lucas.

New to speaking? Start with the Read-aloud topics — they give you a script so you can focus only on pronunciation. Then move up to Guided, then Open.
Level
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Mundo

Cultura y geografía

Twenty-one countries, hundreds of millions of speakers. Each with its own flavor, rhythm, and unique words. Tap a flag to discover its capital, typical food, and important cultural figures.

Explore deeper

Six mini-pages

Mini-games

Earn Lucas while you learn
Jump to a game ▾
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Flag Quiz
Identify the flag · 2 Lucas
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Place Quiz
Identify the landmark · 3 Lucas
🎭
Person Quiz
Guess the figure · 3 Lucas
📜
Historia Trivia
Historical events · 3 Lucas
🌮
Dish Quiz
Identify the dish · 3 Lucas
Which came first?
Chronology · 3 Lucas
🎨
Art Quiz
Identify paintings · 3 Lucas
🗺
Map Quiz
Find countries on a map · 3 Lucas
🏛️
Capitals Quiz
Find the capital dot · 3 Lucas
📍
Where are they from?
Match person to country · 3 Lucas
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Flag quiz

Mini-game
Mini game · 2 Lucas per correct flag

Guess the flag.

Which country does this flag belong to? Get it right to earn Lucas. Streaks of 5 give a bonus.

Correct: 0 · Attempts: 0
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Site quiz

Mini-game
Mini game · 3 Lucas per correct site

Identify the place.

Which Spanish-speaking country is this landmark in?

Correct: 0 · Attempts: 0
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Person quiz

Mini-game
Mini game · 3 Lucas per correct person

Guess the person.

Read the clues. Who is being described? Try to recognize famous writers, artists, musicians, athletes, and leaders from across the Spanish-speaking world.

Correct: 0 · Attempts: 0
Clues:
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    Historia trivia

    Mini-game
    Mini game · 3 Lucas per correct answer

    Historia trivia.

    Test what you know about the histories of the Spanish-speaking world. Questions pull from the Historia pages. Wrong answers tell you which event to read about.

    Correct: 0 · Attempts: 0
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    Dish quiz

    Mini-game
    Mini game · 3 Lucas per correct dish

    Guess the dish.

    Read the description. Which country is this dish from? Cuisine reveals culture — every dish has a story.

    Correct: 0 · Attempts: 0
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    Which came first?

    Mini-game
    Mini game · 3 Lucas per correct answer

    Which came first?

    Four historical events. Pick the one that happened first. Chronology is the spine of history.

    Correct: 0 · Attempts: 0
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    Art quiz

    Mini-game
    Mini game · 3 Lucas per correct answer

    ¿Quién pintó esta obra?

    Correct: 0 · Attempts: 0
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    Map quiz

    Mini-game · Find the country

    Find the country

    Click the country on the map
    Country: 1/21 · Correct: 0 · Best round:
    (no a escala) (no a escala) El mundo hispanohablante 21 COUNTRIES · CLICK TO ANSWER
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    Capitals quiz

    Mini-game · Click the capital on the map

    Find the capital

    Click the country on the map
    Capital: 1/22 · Correct: 0 · Best round:
    (no a escala) (no a escala) El mundo hispanohablante 21 COUNTRIES · CLICK TO ANSWER
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    Where are they from?

    Mini-game
    Mini game · 3 Lucas per correct answer

    Where are they from?

    Famous people from across the Spanish-speaking world. Their face, their name, their role — but where were they born? Pick the right country.

    Correct: 0 · Attempts: 0
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    Known for…

    07 · Cultural identity

    A quick snapshot of what each country is famous for around the world — its food, music, traditions, and exports. These are the things you'd hear about if you mentioned the country to someone who'd never been.

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    Estrellas del deporte

    07 · Sports

    Every country has a sport it lives for — fútbol in most of Latin America and Spain, béisbol around the Caribbean, plus boxing, cycling, and more. For each nation: the all-time leyendas, the stars of today, and the rising talent to watch.

    💰
    The biggest contract in sports history

    Juan Soto 🇩🇴 — 15 years, $765 million with the New York Mets (December 2024), the largest contract any athlete in any sport has ever signed. Also in the club: Vladimir Guerrero Jr. 🇩🇴 ($500M with Toronto), and Lionel Messi 🇦🇷 — the highest-paid player in MLS history at Inter Miami.

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    People to know

    07 · Famous figures

    Writers, artists, athletes, musicians, and leaders from across the Spanish-speaking world. Click any person to learn more.

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    Slang & expressions

    07 · The untranslatables

    Spanish isn't one language — it's twenty-one of them. These are phrases native speakers use every day that you won't find in any textbook. Most translate weirdly into English (or not at all). Tap a card to flip and see what it really means and where it's used.

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    Iconic dishes

    07 · What to actually eat

    The Spanish-speaking world is a food paradise — and most students have only heard the names. Tap a card to learn what each dish actually is, where it comes from, and why people love it.

    ← Back to Mundo

    Arte

    Pinturas y artistas

    Los artistas más importantes del mundo hispanohablante y las obras por las que son recordados. Tap any work to read its story — when it was made, where it lives now, and the strange details most people don't know.

    Civilizaciones antiguas

    Three thousand years before the Aztecs and Incas, cities were already rising in the Americas. The timeline below shows when each civilization thrived — click any of them (or a colored region on the map) to see who they were, how they actually built their famous ruins, what the sites were for, and how each one came to an end.

    Colored areas are approximate heartlands drawn on today's borders — ancient territories shifted over centuries and had no fixed lines. The Inca outline traces the empire at its greatest extent (~1525).

    ¿Quién construyó las ruinas — y cómo?

    Was it slave labor? Mostly no — and this is one of the most common myths in ancient history. These societies did hold enslaved people (war captives, debt slaves like the Aztec tlacotin), but the great monuments were overwhelmingly built through labor-tax systems: the Inca mit'a (every household owed the state rotating turns of work, paid in food, chicha, and cloth from state storehouses), Mesoamerican tequitl/corvée owed by commoner wards and tribute towns, and Andean communal reciprocity (ayni, mink'a) repaid in feasts. Alongside them worked full-time specialists: architects, stonemasons, sculptors.

    With what tools? No wheels for transport, no iron, and no large draft animals (llamas carry only ~30 kg). The toolbox was stone hammers, copper and bronze chisels in the Andes, obsidian blades in Mesoamerica, fiber ropes, log rollers, sledges, ramps, rafts and canoes — and superb organization of human muscle.

    How long did it take? It depends what you're building: a Nazca geoglyph took an organized crew days or weeks; a temple enlargement, years; a great pyramid like Teotihuacán's Pyramid of the Sun, decades; a city like Tikal or Chan Chan, centuries — usually built layer upon layer over earlier versions. Machu Picchu occupied crews numbering in the low thousands for a few decades and was never quite finished.

    What were the sites for? Almost never just one thing: temples doubled as calendars and political theater, plazas as markets and cosmic stages, “fortresses” like Sacsayhuamán were also sanctuaries, and Machu Picchu was a royal estate. Around every monument stood the real machinery of daily life — terraces, canals, reservoirs, storehouses, and neighborhoods of ordinary builders.

    Historia of Spanish-Speaking Nations

     
    🏛️ Civilizaciones antiguas Mayas, incas, aztecas — y los que vinieron antes · color-coded map + timeline · how the ruins were really built

    To understand a Spanish-speaking country today, you have to understand its past. These timelines cover the historical events US Spanish classes typically don't teach — coups, revolutions, dictatorships, conquests, and the shadows they cast on present-day politics, culture, and identity.

    Some of this is difficult content. It's presented honestly because that's what history is. Skip what isn't useful. Talk to your teacher if anything is confusing or disturbing.

    Test your historia

    ← Back to Historia

    Lucas & shop

    ★ · Rewards · Achievements · Redemptions

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