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.
26 levels across 3 sections, about 52 minutes end to end, roughly 10 days at five minutes a day. It moves through Unlocking Real Conversational Flow; Mastering Mood, Cause, and Perspective; and Nuance, Register, and Real-World Polish. It assumes you already know the basics.
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Key ideas in Spanish Beyond the Basics
- 'A ver' signals you are pausing to consult your thoughts or inspect details.
- 'O sea' acts as 'that is to say' to clarify or rephrase an earlier point.
- 'Bueno' buys time to acknowledge a prompt before shifting your angle.
- '¡No me digas!' signals engaged surprise rather than flat agreement.
- Passive affirmations like 'sí' or 'vale' stall energetic storytelling.
- '¡Qué barbaridad!' reacts intensely to outrageous news or shocking scale.
- 'Por cierto' inserts a spontaneous, related aside without derailing flow.
- 'Sin embargo' introduces an explicit contrast or restriction between clauses.
- Discourse connectors link thoughts mid-sentence without restarting speech.
- 'Yo diría que' cushions a counter-opinion to avoid sounding overly blunt.
- Framing opinions with 'me parece que' is a standard marker of social tact.
- Direct unhedged claims in Spanish can come across as aggressive or abrupt.
- '¿Verdad?' tags the end of a statement to prompt confirmation from the listener.
- '¿A que sí?' is a colloquial tag expecting enthusiastic agreement.
- Standard question words like '¿cuándo?' ask for new data rather than validating rapport.
- Imperfect sets static scene conditions like weather and ambient states
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.
What are you doing when you begin a Spanish sentence with 'A ver'?
Get it right to open this lesson and 25 more in the app.
Where Spanish Beyond the Basics takes you
Move beyond rigid translations into fluid, expressive Spanish. Learn how to tell vivid stories in the past, command the subjunctive mood, and navigate conversational subtleties with natural confidence.
- 1
Unlocking Real Conversational Flow
- Conversational Fillers and Reaction Strategies
- Narrating Stories: Preterite Versus Imperfect
- Pronoun Placement and Double Clitic Stacking
- 2
Mastering Mood, Cause, and Perspective
- The Subjunctive for Doubt, Emotion, and Influence
- Untangling 'Por' and 'Para'
- The Versatile 'Se' and Accidental Framing
- 3
Nuance, Register, and Real-World Polish
- Verbs of Becoming and State Changes
- Conversational Tact, Register, and Pragmatics
3 sections · 8 units · 26 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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