Everyday Spoken Spanish
Unlock real interactions in Spanish from your very first day. Learn the essential conversational phrases, requests, and recovery moves to navigate cafes, markets, and streets with confidence.
Like Duolingo, but for Everyday Spoken Spanish. Tomo turns the whole topic into a game you play five minutes a day, until it actually sticks.
A short one: 12 levels across 2 sections, about 24 minutes end to end, roughly 5 days at five minutes a day. It moves through Making Contact and Getting Around and Ordering and Navigating Daily Moments. It starts from scratch.
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Key ideas in Everyday Spoken Spanish
- Buenos días applies from morning until around noon or lunchtime
- Buenas tardes takes over for the afternoon until dark
- Buenas noches serves as both an evening greeting upon entering and a way to say goodnight upon leaving
- Por favor softens direct requests and makes fragmented phrases sound respectful
- Native speakers overlook broken grammar much more readily when framed with courtesy phrases
- Gracias closes interactions respectfully regardless of language errors
- ¿Qué tal? is a natural, low-pressure greeting meaning roughly 'how's it going?'
- It functions at any hour without needing to track morning, afternoon, or evening boundaries
- It invites a casual, friendly exchange rather than requiring a rigid formal response
- Disculpe translates to 'excuse me' for capturing attention or asking for assistance
- Lo siento literally means 'I feel it' and is reserved for genuine regret, apologies, or empathy
- Using lo siento to flag someone down sounds like you did something wrong rather than just politely asking
- A verbal greeting acknowledging the person is culturally expected before stating any business
- Jumping straight into a question or demand without greeting reads as abruptly rude
- The standard sequence is: greeting, polite attention cue, then the actual request
- When to choose ¿qué tal? over rigid time-of-day greetings
You've tried the other tabs
Thirty open tabs. Four facts you actually kept.
You watched. You nodded. By Sunday it was gone.
One answer, then back to scrolling.
Eight weeks. You meant to finish. You didn't.
Tomo gives Everyday Spoken Spanish the Duolingo treatment: levels, streaks, and quick quizzes that test what you just learned. That game loop is what the tabs above never had, so it's the one you actually finish.
Here's what playing it feels like
A real question from this course. Take your best guess.
Which greeting should you switch to in the afternoon until it gets dark?
Get it right to open this lesson and 11 more in the app.
Where Everyday Spoken Spanish takes you
- 1
Making Contact and Getting Around
- First Words and Instant Courtesies
- Pointing, Asking, and Finding
- 2
Ordering and Navigating Daily Moments
- Ordering at the Counter
- Conversational Repair and Survival Phrases
2 sections · 4 units · 12 levels. Built to play, not to enroll.
Tomo is in ChatGPT
Tomo is also a ChatGPT plugin: the same playable courses, built and played inside your chat.
Add Tomo to ChatGPT- What to ask
- “Make me a Tomo course on black holes.” “Turn this chat into a Tomo course.”
- What you get
- Quick questions with instant feedback, hearts and stars, ready to play in about a minute.
- Where it goes
- No sign-up to start. Connect your Tomo account and your streak carries on in the app.
You pick the voice
Everyday Spoken Spanish is taught in the Professor style: clear, structured, thorough. Want a different feel? In the app you can spin up the same topic in any of Tomo's teaching styles. Same facts, totally different vibe.
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Start Everyday Spoken Spanish today.
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