01 / 09

Tostada con tomate

A2, Spain. Breakfast is often light: toast with oil and tomato, and a café con leche.

Marta pide un café con leche y una tostada con tomate.

02 / 09

Tianguis

A2, Mexico. An open-air street market that sets up on certain days. The word comes from Nahuatl.

Don Luis es su marchante: a regular customer.

03 / 09

Sobremesa

B1, Spain. The time spent at the table after a meal, often with coffee.

Cuando terminamos el postre, nadie se levantó de la mesa.

04 / 09

Colectivo

B1, Argentina. The word for a bus in Argentina, Bolivia, Ecuador, Paraguay and Peru.

To get off, press the timbre near the door before your stop.

05 / 09

Las mañanitas

B2, Mexico. The birthday song, often sung early in the morning to wake the birthday person.

Families often swap mi bien (my dear) for the person's name.

06 / 09

Ninot

B2, Spain. One of the figures in a falla, the monuments burnt around midnight on 19 March.

Falla means torch. One ninot, chosen by public vote, is saved.

07 / 09

Frases

Sentence length is the clearest change between levels.

Our A2 sentences average 8.7 words. At B2 they average 12.9.

08 / 09

Tres lecturas

Read once for the story. Read again with the glossary. Read it out loud the next day.

Each text ends with 2 questions and their answers.

09 / 09

Toca y aprende

On the full page, you can tap 43 words to see what they mean.

Pick the text that feels a little hard, but not so hard that you stop.

Tap for all 6 texts, with glossaries and questions.