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Conversation Mile

Words That Stick

Frequency lists, sentence mining, how to write a card, cognates and false friends.

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Reference

Most Common Spanish Words in Tatoeba's Free Sentences

The 1,000 most counted Spanish, French and German word forms in Tatoeba's free sentences, names removed. Download each list as CSV. It reflects this corpus only.

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How-to

How to Use Anki With Sentence Cards You Say Aloud

Build Anki cards around whole sentences, say each one out loud before you show the answer, and add only a few new cards at a time. Layout and counts are House routine.

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How to Memorize Vocabulary You Can Say Later

Put each new word in a short sentence, then say it from memory the next day with nothing in front of you. The Cold Say-Back rules, as this site's House routine.

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Sentence Mining: Keep the Sentence, Not the Word

Sentence mining saves whole sentences, not single words. Where to find them, plus a five-question check and a way to say them aloud, both this site's House routine.

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Reference

Spanish Cognates and the False Friends Among Them

Many Spanish words look like English ones. Some mean the same, some drifted, and some are false friends, like actual, carpeta and embarazada. Each one is checked.