Spanish vocabulary overview
LangOria's Spanish course is currently built around practical sentence pairs from the Tatoeba corpus — a crowdsourced database of translations by native Spanish speakers across Latin America and Spain. The vocabulary is organised by CEFR level: A1 covers survival Spanish, A2 covers everyday conversation, B1 covers working Spanish. Each entry pairs a Spanish sentence with its English translation so you can read, listen, and shadow the natural rhythm of native Spanish speech — useful whether you are aiming for Castilian, Mexican, or Argentinian Spanish. The Tatoeba corpus is geographically diverse — we sample from Spain, Mexico, Argentina, Colombia, Chile, Peru, and Venezuela — so you will see 'ustedes' as the plural of 'tú' (Latin American) and 'vosotros' (Iberian) both represented, and the pronoun map at the top of every level tells you which form a given entry uses. Sentence-level prosody is preserved through the audio shadowing loop: native speakers tend to drop final /s/ in Andalusia and the Caribbean, and aspirate /d/ between vowels in central Mexico — features that do not appear in textbook transcripts but matter when you are listening to a stranger at a market in Seville or a café in Mexico City. Each entry also shows the indicative verb mood by default and flags the subjunctive form when the same verb is used in a subordinate clause, so you internalise the indicative-vs-subjunctive split gradually rather than all at once. If a sentence uses the impersonal 'se' or the passive 'se', the gloss tells you which is which — the same construction means very different things depending on context.
Spanish vocabulary by level
Click any level to see the full list of words at that tier.
Why LangOria's Spanish vocabulary works
Real example sentences
Every word comes with a real example from the Tatoeba corpus — no synthetic textbook filler.
Spaced repetition
Reviews are scheduled at the moment you are about to forget, so you retain more in less time.
45–65-minute daily loop
A short focused daily session beats a long abandoned one — streaks keep you honest.
Spanish vocabulary FAQ
How is Spanish vocabulary organised on LangOria?
By recognised ability levels — CEFR for most languages, JLPT for Japanese, HSK for Chinese and TOPIK for Korean. Each level groups the vocabulary you need at that stage, ordered by frequency and difficulty.
How many Spanish words do I need per level?
It depends on the level and exam system: A1 covers roughly the 500 highest-frequency words and C2 the rarest academic and literary vocabulary; HSK 1 is 150 words and N5 around 800. Every deck pairs each word with a real example sentence from the Tatoeba corpus.
Where do the example sentences come from?
From Tatoeba, a community-built corpus of translations written by native speakers. Each example is designed for spaced-repetition review, so you meet words in the contexts native speakers actually use.
What is the best way to study Spanish vocabulary?
The 45–65-minute daily spaced-repetition loop: review each word just as you are about to forget it. Pick the level that matches your goal — survival (A1), everyday conversation (A2-B1) or professional/fluent (B2-C1) — and move up one level at a time.