Spanish Beyond the Basics
Like Duolingo, but for Spanish Beyond the Basics. Tomo turns the whole topic into a game you play five minutes a day, until it actually sticks.
For the part of you with thirty open tabs that never became anything.
Free during early access · No credit card · iPhone & Android
Key ideas in Spanish Beyond the Basics
- 'Pues' acts as a natural bridge that signals you are still speaking
- 'O sea' allows you to rephrase or clarify a thought without stopping
- Silence or 'um' often signals the listener to interrupt or end the turn
- Using filler words to maintain conversational flow during a mental lapse
- 'Sin embargo' functions like 'however' to pivot your argument
- 'Por lo tanto' connects a cause to its inevitable effect
- Connectors move speech from simple lists to structured reasoning
- Selecting the correct logical connector to build a complex argument
- 'Que' is the most versatile pronoun for defining objects or people
- 'Primero' sets the scene and establishes the starting point
- Using filler words to maintain conversational flow
- Relative clauses allow you to describe a noun's function as a workaround
- 'Entonces' or 'luego' moves the action forward to the next event
- Using relative pronouns to describe an unknown noun
- 'Al final' signals to the listener that the story is concluding
- Selecting the correct logical connector
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 Spanish Beyond the Basics 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.
If you want to explain a thought in a different way without stopping, which phrase should you use?
Get it right to open this lesson and 10 more in the app.
Where Spanish Beyond the Basics takes you
Move past simple translation and start expressing complex thoughts, stories, and emotions with natural Spanish flow.
- 1
Finding Your Flow
- Connecting Your Thoughts
- Storytelling in the Past
- 2
Expressing Nuance and Influence
- The Mood of Uncertainty
- Sounding Like a Local
2 sections · 4 units · 11 levels. Built to play, not to enroll.
You pick the voice
Spanish Beyond the Basics is taught in the Explain Like I'm 5 style: no big words. promise.. 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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