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They open a lesson
Five steps on one page, in order, with the slides at the top. They can read every instruction themselves.
For parents
Your child does the lessons. You do about five minutes a week.
Every lesson is built to be followed by a 7–11 year old on their own: watch, listen, play, try it, check. No printing, no prep, and nothing that needs you to speak Spanish. Your job is to ask one question now and then — and to know when an hour with a teacher is worth £35.
Sign in to see your children's progress
This is the part only you should see — what each child has done, and the buttons that rename or remove them. No password: we email you a link that works once.
Not subscribed yet? See the plans — or try a free unit first, no account needed.
Your children
One subscription covers every child in the house, and each one keeps their own progress. Add as many as you have — up to ten. Stored in this browser only: no account, nothing uploaded, and we only ever ask for a first name.
Your lessons
Every 1-2-1 booked from this device, and what happened in it.
Where they're up to
This updates as they work.
Nothing here yet. It fills in as soon as they finish a lesson or take a quiz — start with a free unit.
How a week looks
Fifteen minutes, three times a week
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They play
Flashcards, a match-up game against the clock, and an eight-question quiz. The games are the practice.
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You ask one thing
Every unit has a single at-home idea — count the stairs, name the car colours. Ten seconds, no Spanish needed from you.
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You check the dashboard
If a quiz stays under 75%, it appears above with a link to book an hour on that exact unit.
What you get without paying
Try it before you decide anything
Four free units
The first unit of every year is fully open — all six lessons, all the games. No card, no account, no email.
Free 15-minute call
Not sure they need a lesson? Talk to me first. If a game would fix it faster than I would, I'll say so.
Siblings share free
Two children within a couple of years of each other can do the same 1-2-1 at no extra cost.
Printable fridge cards
Five words per unit, big enough to read across the kitchen. One click from any unit page.
Note after every session
What we covered, what went well, and the one thing to practise. Written for you, not for a file.
First session, or it's free
If the first 1-2-1 isn't useful, tell me within a week and I'll refund it. I'd rather that than a bad fit.
Being straight with you
When a £35 hour is worth it — and when it isn't
Most children who use this never need a 1-2-1. The lessons are designed so they don't.
- Worth it: the same unit quiz keeps coming out under 75% after two or three goes
- Worth it: they know the words but freeze when they have to speak
- Worth it: Year 6 and worried about secondary school Spanish
- Not worth it: one word they can't remember — play the match-up game again
- Not worth it: they finished a unit and got 90% — move to the next one
If you're not sure which of those you're looking at, email me the quiz score and I'll tell you honestly.
You don't need any Spanish
Genuinely none. Every at-home idea is built so a parent with zero Spanish can run it:
Ask, don't teach
"How do you say twenty in Spanish?" is a complete contribution.
Be the audience
Let them perform the weather forecast at you. Children learn far more presenting than reciting.
Get it wrong on purpose
Mispronounce something. Being corrected by a nine-year-old is the most powerful revision there is.
If learning is harder
Built to be adjusted, not to be endured
Roughly one child in six has some form of special educational need. This isn't a separate version of the site for them — it's settings any child can turn on, because a child who needs the timer off shouldn't have to go somewhere lesser to get it.
The settings button
Bottom right of every page, on every screen, including mid-game. It changes reading spacing and typeface, text size, movement, timers, contrast, and adds a reading line that follows the cursor. Set once, stays set.
Show your child where it is and let them change it themselves. Choosing how you learn is the point.
Dyslexia
Turn on: Easier reading, Large text, Reading line.
Spacing helps more than the typeface does. The audio matters most here — every word can be heard, so nothing depends on decoding text alone. Reading Spanish is the last skill we ask for, never the first.
ADHD
Turn on: Timers off, Calm movement.
Lessons are about fifteen minutes and split into five short steps, so stopping halfway still finishes something. Streaks show progress; they are never used to pressure anyone into staying longer.
Autism
Turn on: Calm movement, Timers off.
Every lesson is the same five steps in the same order, all 144 of them — the predictability is deliberate. No surprises, no sounds that start on their own, no time pressure, and nothing social.
Away from a screen
Every lesson has a printable worksheet — trace and copy, match up, fill the gaps, and an optional challenge. Prints in black and white — one side for most lessons, two for the revision ones.
An easier way in
Every one of the five steps has a "Stuck on this bit?" link with a gentler route — listen without speaking, do two words instead of ten, keep the word list open during the quiz.
Speech and confidence
Nothing is ever recorded, scored on pronunciation, or listened to. A child can say the words in their head, whisper them, or not say them today. That still counts.
What we can't do from here
We don't know your child, and a website can't assess anyone. If something specific isn't working — a particular sound, letters swapping, losing the thread halfway through — tell us. Nellie is a qualified teacher and will say honestly whether it's something we can adjust, or something worth raising with their school.
In a 1-2-1, say what helps before the lesson rather than after. It changes how the teacher plans it.
Parent questions
How much screen time is this?
A lesson takes about fifteen minutes. Three a week is a comfortable pace and finishes a unit a month. Doing more in one sitting doesn't help — spacing is what makes vocabulary stick.
Can they really do it without me?
That's the design brief. Every instruction is written to be read by the child, the audio plays on tap, and nothing needs printing or setting up. From Year 3 up, most children run it alone after you've sat with them for the first lesson.
Where is their progress stored?
In your browser, on that device. There's no account and nothing is sent anywhere. The trade-off is that it won't follow them to a different device — and clearing your browser data clears it.
My child already does Spanish at school. Does this clash?
No. The order here follows the usual primary sequence, so it either runs slightly ahead or fills the gaps. If they're on a specific topic at school, use the filters to jump straight to it.
My child has a learning difficulty — will this work?
Very possibly, and there are settings to help. The button at the bottom right of every page changes reading spacing, text size, movement and timers, and every step has a "Stuck on this bit?" route that's gentler. See the section above. If something specific isn't working, email us and we'll tell you honestly whether we can adjust it.
What if they're older or younger than Year 3–6?
A keen Year 2 can do the Year 3 units with someone alongside. A Year 7 finding secondary Spanish hard usually wants the Year 6 units, which are written as transition preparation.