Doña Pilar lleva cuarenta años detrás del mismo mostrador, entre cajones de botones y madejas que ya casi nadie compra. El barrio se ha llenado de escaparates idénticos y de turistas que fotografían la fachada sin entrar. Ella no se queja: dice que el género aguanta y que la clientela, la de verdad, vuelve.
Read Spanish at exactly the level you are.
Texts written like a Sunday supplement, not a textbook. Mark what you don’t know, answer four questions, and the next text adjusts to what you just showed.
You’ll start with a two-minute vocabulary test. It’s how we get your first text right.
reportage
B2
La mercería de la esquina resiste
Three words marked as unknown — tapped while reading, glossed afterwards.
Nothing is translated while you read. Working a word out from the sentence around it is what makes it stick; a gloss that appears the instant you tap does the work for you and you learn nothing. The words you marked are waiting at the end.
- 1ReadAbout 900 words, written to be worth reading. Tap anything you don’t know.
- 2AnswerFour questions, in Spanish, typed or spoken. Two of them need inference, not recall.
- 3AdjustYour level moves on what you understood. The next text is chosen to sit just above it.
Real writing
Prose that could run as it stands. No glossaries, no sentences shortened to help you.
Measured difficulty
Every text is scored against 189,000 Spanish word forms. The level is a measurement, not a label.
Corrections that teach
You answer in Spanish and get your grammar corrected, not just marked right or wrong.