¡Hola!
Hi!
HEADPHONES ON. A FRIENDLY BEGINNING.
Free Spanish audio lesson for beginners
Hear a short Spanish conversation, understand its English meaning and practise at your own pace. Start with a free five-minute lesson—no account, microphone or subscription required.
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Listen: First words
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FOLLOW THE CONVERSATION
Your first exchange in Spanish
¡Hola! ¡Buenos días!
Hi! Good morning!
¡Adiós!
Goodbye!
Understand the words
¡Hola!
Hi!
The h is silent. Hola is a friendly greeting in most everyday situations.
¡Buenos días!
Good morning!
Buenos días literally uses the plural, but the whole expression means good morning.
Gracias.
Thank you.
Gracias is useful with anyone. In most of Spain, c before i has the sound in English thin.
¡Adiós!
Goodbye!
Adiós is a general farewell. With someone you will see soon, hasta luego is also common.
Spanish spelling is fairly regular, but h is silent: hola begins with a vowel sound. Buenos días is a morning greeting. Gracias works with strangers and friends; adiós is a general farewell.
Build everyday Spanish, one conversation at a time
The course has 30 teaching lessons and ten mini-tests. Three lessons introduce useful words and sentences, then a short test helps you see what you understood. Answers and corrections appear at the end. You can try again without a penalty, and no lesson requires typing.
- First words — Learn to use first words in a practical conversation and understand a natural reply.
- How are you? — Learn to use how are you? in a practical conversation and understand a natural reply.
- Nice to meet you — Learn to use nice to meet you in a practical conversation and understand a natural reply.
- A little politeness — Learn to use a little politeness in a practical conversation and understand a natural reply.
- Where are you from? — Learn to use where are you from? in a practical conversation and understand a natural reply.
- When you do not understand — Learn to use when you do not understand in a practical conversation and understand a natural reply.
Later topics include food, shopping, travel, family, directions and making plans. Animated rooms, pictures and Little Town games bring the same useful language into a different setting. A saved Text mode gives you a calmer screen.
Choose 5, 10, 15, 20 or 30 minutes
A five-minute session plays one chapter. Ten minutes plays two different chapters; fifteen plays three, twenty plays four and thirty plays six. Longer sessions continue to the next topics instead of looping the opening five minutes. Starting near the end of the library wraps to the beginning. Short phrase repetitions inside each chapter are deliberate practice.
Each new exchange is followed by English meanings and a practical breakdown. Familiar words return lightly in later lessons alongside new material. The full library has 38 five-minute chapters, including eight longer everyday conversations.
What can I use free?
The opening six teaching lessons and their mini-tests, every place and level in Binx’s Little Town, and the first five-minute audio chapter are free. A free account saves your progress across devices. The rest requires full account access; checkout is currently closed. Complimentary upgrade codes can be redeemed in the app. There are no subscriptions.
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The scripts are original beginner teaching content. Prepared voices are generated locally using free licensed voice models, then assembled with English guidance, slow repeats and processing pauses. These are synthetic voices, not recordings of a teacher or a licensed podcast. Source credits and licences are available on the Credits page. No paid audio API is needed while you learn.
The material supports everyday practice; it does not certify fluency or pronunciation. An independent native-speaker certification is not claimed.
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