Peninsular Spanish · for adults

You understand far more Spanish than you can use.

The plateau where most learners quietly quit — often with a 400-day streak still running. Suelto is built for what comes after — the grammar you avoid, the words you were never taught, the listening that still feels too fast. We find the gaps and make them usable.

A1–C1 curriculum 866 things checked 30 min / day
suelto.es/app YOUR SPANISH, IN TWO LINES What you understand 1,240 items What comes out when you need it 620 items gap: 620 items you know but can't use CAPTURED TODAY · 18:12 “I couldn't say receta at the pharmacy today.” avoidance logged tomorrow: pharmacy scenario receta · la farmacia THIS WEEK — THE HONEST REPORT 12 new items usable 3 still wobbling PREP PACK · TOMORROW 10:00 Gestoría appointment Renewing your residencia 01 what you'll say 02 what they'll ask back 03 4 rescue phrases DUE TODAY · FSRS 23 items scheduled, ~11 minutes streak: 4 days +50 xp · level up! No streaks. No badges. Just what you can use.
Why you still plateau

You don't need more lessons.
You need to fix what you avoid.

A tutor gives you the best hour of the week, then six days of nothing structured. The apps score what they ask. On the days between, nobody was measuring what you avoid. Suelto does: it finds the Spanish you understand but can't produce under pressure, and turns it into usable Spanish.

It catches what you quietly dodge

That moment you choose the safe phrase because the right one won't come — a native hears it. Suelto logs the dodge and it becomes tomorrow's lesson. What you avoided today is what you practise tomorrow, before the workaround hardens.

It finds gaps no course ever tested

866 checks across grammar and real life. Not what you got wrong — what you were simply never asked. Nine seconds of hesitation counts as shaky, even when you answered correctly.

It only counts what you can actually use

Recognising is not fluency. Suelto tracks five stages — from spotting it to saying it live, unprompted, under pressure. Only the last one earns the checkmark.

Conversations with memory

8 people who remember you

The vendor, the clerk, the neighbour — they pick up where you left off and speak at real speed.

  • No more scripted chatbot chats — stories that continue and get more demanding as you improve
  • Every mistake corrected in context — so you hear why it matters, not just that it was wrong
  • When "correct" isn't natural, you get the version a Spaniard would actually use — and it becomes your practice for tomorrow
  • You write it today, you speak it aloud tomorrow: your own lines, native audio, instant transcription
TODAY'S CONVERSATION · EL MERCADO
Carmen · El Mercado fruit stall · your 3rd conversation remembers: your move to Lavapiés “¿Qué tal la mudanza? ¿Ya te has instalado?” “Sí, pero todavía tengo muchos cajas que deshacer.” → muchas cajas · agreement_gender · low a Spaniard would say «me quedan cajas por deshacer» filed as a learning object · due tomorrow re-spoken · matched ✓ 8 RECURRING CHARACTERS · PERSISTENT MEMORY next: Andrés at the gestoría — the storyline continues Thursday
  • Carmen
    Mercado · 58
  • Jorge
    Coworker · 34
  • Pilar
    Neighbour · 61
  • Andrés
    Gestoría · 42
  • Lucía
    Friend · 29
  • Marcos
    Bar · 38
  • Sara
    Flatmate · 26
  • Dani
    Shop · 31
While you hesitate

You won't freeze mid-sentence anymore.

Pause for a second and you get a more natural way to say it, a few words to keep you moving when you stall, and a quiet underline before you trust a false friend.

Use a suggestion and Suelto makes it stick — it becomes tomorrow's practice. Always consistent with what you're learning, so you're never pulled in two directions.

THE COMPOSER · AS YOU TYPE Actualmente no puedo ir a la oficina porque me ahorro el desplazamiento actually ≠ actualmente for “actually”: en realidad · de hecho UPGRADE a Spaniard would put it: «La verdad es que no puedo ir…» adopt → becomes a learning object · scheduled like everything else FIRES 1.5S AFTER YOU PAUSE · NEVER MID-WORD
Your life is the curriculum

"I couldn't say receta at the pharmacy today."

Type it or say it — Suelto turns what tripped you today into tomorrow's lesson. A pharmacy scenario, with a pharmacist who doesn't slow down, built around exactly that moment.

No generic exercises. What defeated you today is what you master tomorrow.

YOU · TODAY 18:12 · SPOKEN, 4 SECONDS “No sabía decir receta en la farmacia.” PARSED IN SECONDS 01 Avoidance logged receta (f.) — you reached for “papel del médico” 02 Learning object created la farmacia · pedir una receta · el farmacéutico 03 Tomorrow's conversation a pharmacist who doesn't slow down scheduled · 08:00
Progress while you sleep · 04:00

You sleep. Your Spanish gets an honest update.

Every night Suelto checks whether phrases you learned showed up in your real speech — unprompted. When they do, they're marked as truly yours. Your level moves one careful step at a time, and tomorrow's review queue is set to about eleven minutes.

Miss a week? No guilt pile. Everything is gently respread so you can just start again.

NIGHTLY ENGINE · LAST NIGHT, 04:00 UTC Done while you slept 04:02 Spontaneous use scan 48h of speech & diary · inflections counted «lo suyo» → mastered 04:05 Level estimate recomputed lessons 40% · sweep 30% · quiz 30% B1.2 → B1.3 · clamped 04:06 Review queue spread FSRS-6 · 90% retention target 23 items · ~11 min 04:07 Tomorrow materialised today's lesson woven into tonight's scenario ready when you wake EVERY NIGHT · WHETHER YOU OPEN THE APP OR NOT
Daily input

Spain comes to you. Every day, at your level.

Not textbook Spanish — the Spanish you actually need on the street, tuned to what you're learning right now.

Read what you'll actually read

A real WhatsApp, a notice on a door, a neighbourhood group chat — fresh from Spain, at your level. The grammar you're working on is already inside. Tap any word to understand it, tap again to make it yours.

Hear what you're learning

Dictation built from your own recent sentences, read by Spanish voices that match the character you spoke to. You don't hear random audio — you hear your Spanish, coming back stronger.

Discover and shadow authentic Spanish

Daily vocal shadowing studio to train native speech cadence, paired with hand-picked videos, podcasts and articles. Chosen for your exact level and today's grammar. Never doom-scrolling.

The Writing Lab · not a blank page

Write your first Spanish story, this week.

The Lab writes the scene. You continue it. Guided at your exact level, with a card of choices every other scene that moves the plot where you decide: every sentence you write is corrected in context, and the corrections feed the same diagnostic engine as everything else.

No quota, no card: your first story runs free, end to end.

first story free, end to end never a blank page corrections feed the engine
Conjugation, finally honest

One verb. One tense. Until it's yours.

Not a table to memorise. Each day Suelto gives you one verb × one tense — 60 seconds on when to use it, how it forms and what it isn't (vs. indefinido when you mean imperfecto). Then you type the six forms under time, use it in a real sentence, and bring it back tomorrow. Three clean runs + speed — then it's mastered.

  • Micro-lesson first — usage, signal words, formation, contrast and a mnemonic. Not just a conjugation table.
  • Paradigm drilled under time — accent matters (tenia → tenía is wrong) and speed counts toward mastery.
  • Joker verbs taught with meanings first — tener isn't one "to have", it's four different jobs.
  • Today's verb quietly biases your reading, listening and next conversation — so you meet it again the same day.
12 tenses, 350 verbs A1→C1 gated by your course 3× clean + speed = mastered
TODAY · VERB MASTERY · DAY 47 1 VERB × 1 TENSE FOCUS tener · imperfecto B1 60-SEC MICRO-LESSON ongoing past, no clear end · vs. indefinido signals: cuando era niño · siempre · cada día PARADIGM DRILL · 6 FORMS · TIMED avg 1.2s yo tenía tenías él tenía nos. teníamos vos. teníais ellos tenían Streak 2 / 3 to mastered 3× clean + speed = mastered IN CONTEXT · FILL THE BLANK "Cuando era niño, tenía miedo a la oscuridad." ✓ context ok
For real life tomorrow

Tomorrow you have an appointment.

Gestoría at ten. You need to renew your residencia. Tell Suelto tonight — by morning you have what to say, what they'll say back, and the four phrases that rescue you when it breaks down. Because it will break down.

Most apps make you better someday. This one makes you ready tomorrow morning.

See how it works
PREP PACK · GENERATED 21:40 Gestoría — renewing your residencia Tomorrow · 10:00 · Calle de Alcalá WHAT THEY'LL SAY “¿Tiene cita previa?” “Necesito el empadronamiento actualizado.” YOUR LINE — REHEARSED 3× “Sí, a las diez. Aquí tiene la documentación.” WHEN IT BREAKS DOWN ¿Me lo repite, por favor? Más despacio, ¿vale? ¿Cómo se dice “form”?
Hear yourself improve

You'll hear it before you see it. Then you'll see it too.

How fast you speak, how long you pause, how far you get before you need to stop — tracked week after week from your real conversations, against natural conversational speed.

Reading aloud doesn't count. Your numbers only move when your free speech does — so they never flatter you.

SPOKEN SPANISH · LAST 12 WEEKS conversational ≈ 4.0 syl/s now: 2.7 syl/s wk 1 wk 6 wk 12 pauses 31% → 22% mean run 6.2 words read-aloud excluded
English Advantage

Already speak English?
You have a head start.

English and Spanish share thousands of words with predictable spelling changes. Suelto teaches you the patterns — and weaves them through your entire curriculum so every grammar lesson feels less foreign.

500+ recognisable words. 200+ verbs. 3 sentence structures. All from English you already know.

Try the English Advantage
Built for adults

No streaks. No badges. Just the truth about your Spanish.

A clear report of what moved forward this week and what's still shaky. No tricks to keep you tapping — just respect for your time. You've outgrown the games.

  • streak freezes
  • XP, leagues & leaderboards
  • celebration animations
  • an owl guilt-tripping you at midnight

This isn't a missing feature — it's a promise.

Spain, not neutral Spanish

The Spanish you'll actually hear outside your door.

Vosotros is obligatory. Coger is normal. Quedar means to meet up. Every mainstream app teaches Latin American Spanish — fine for Mexico City, foreign in Madrid.

And register matters: "No, gracias" is grammatically perfect and still wrong for turning down a friend. Suelto teaches the Spanish that fits the moment — and the city you live in.

MADRID · REGISTER “quedar” = to meet up, not to stay EVERYWHERE “coger” el bus — normal OBLIGATORY, NOT OPTIONAL vosotros — how friends actually talk distinción · ustedes sólo formal
Why it actually works

Not magic. Just what research says works.

You remember what you have to recall — not what you re-read. You keep it by seeing it again right before you'd forget it. You get fluent by repeating the task, not the sentence.

Retrieval practice, spacing, the lexical approach — names you can look up (Roediger & Karpicke, Ebbinghaus, Lewis). "Science-backed" is easy to claim. We show the sources.

RETENTION DAYS 0 7 21 60 review 1 review 3 without review with spaced retrieval

MEMORY DECAYS ON A CURVE — RETRIEVAL RESETS IT

506.

real-life functions checked — refusing, persuading, apologising: the moments no course ever tests

5

stages from "I recognise it" to "I used it without thinking"

15

ways your speech is corrected — gently, in context, as you go

8

people you keep meeting — they remember what you told them

30 min

a day of real work: the full loop, start to finish

04:00.

your progress, re-scored overnight — whether you opened the app or not

Ten minutes

The gap won't close itself.

Ten minutes with the gap test shows you more about your Spanish than a year of streaks. Twelve prompts, no signup.