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Spanish for Your First Trip, a free language course on Tomo

Spanish for Your First Trip

Get ready for your next adventure by learning the essentials of Spanish. You will learn how to greet locals, order delicious food, and find your way around a new city with confidence.

Like Duolingo, but for Spanish for Your First Trip. Tomo turns the whole topic into a game you play five minutes a day, until it actually sticks.

A short one: 26 levels across 3 sections, about 52 minutes end to end, roughly 10 days at five minutes a day. It moves through Making New Friends, Eating and Exploring, and Shopping and Emergencies. It starts from scratch.

26 bite-size levelsAbout 5 minutes each

Free forever · No credit card · iPhone & Android

Paco the Parrot, the guide who teaches the Spanish for Your First Trip course
Spanish for Your First Trip
with Paco the Parrot
26
Levels
3
Sections
5
Min/day
What you'll learn

Key ideas in Spanish for Your First Trip

  • Días is used for morning greetings
  • Chao and Nos vemos are informal ways to say goodbye
  • Tardes is used for afternoon and early evening
  • Hasta luego is a versatile farewell used in casual settings
  • Noches is used for late night greetings
  • Días, Tardes, and Noches are time-based greetings
  • Formal situations require specific time-of-day greetings
  • Choosing the correct greeting based on the time of day
  • Hola is generally too casual for a first-time professional meeting
  • Identifying common casual farewells
  • The reflexive verb 'llamarse' is used for names
  • The first-person singular form is 'me llamo'
  • The question '¿Cómo te llamas?' asks for a name
  • The phrase 'Mucho gusto' is a greeting that requires a polite response like 'Igualmente'
  • Matching introductory questions with their appropriate responses
  • The word 'gusto' completes the idiomatic expression for 'pleasure'
Why not just Google it

You've tried the other tabs

Wikipedia

Thirty open tabs. Four facts you actually kept.

YouTube

You watched. You nodded. By Sunday it was gone.

ChatGPT

One answer, then back to scrolling.

Online courses

Eight weeks. You meant to finish. You didn't.

Tomo gives Spanish for Your First Trip 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.

Try a question

Here's what playing it feels like

A real question from this course. Take your best guess.

Sun and Stars Greetings

Which of these is a friendly, casual way to say goodbye to a playmate?

Get it right to open this lesson and 25 more in the app.

Course map

How to learn Spanish for Your First Trip, step by step

Go in order. 26 short levels across 3 sections, about 52 minutes in all, five minutes a day.

  1. 1

    Making New Friends

    • Saying Hello and Goodbye
    • Introducing Yourself
    • Polite Words Everyone Should Know
    • Numbers for Counting Things
  2. 2

    Eating and Exploring

    • How to Order at a Restaurant
    • Common Foods and Drinks
    • Asking for the Bill
    • Finding the Bathroom
    • Asking for Directions
    • Taking a Bus or Taxi
  3. 3

    Shopping and Emergencies

    • Asking How Much Something Costs
    • Colors and Sizes
    • Getting Help When You Need It

3 sections · 13 units · 26 levels. Built to play, not to enroll.

Questions

Questions about Spanish for Your First Trip

  1. How do I learn Spanish for Your First Trip?

    Go in order: start with Making New Friends, then Eating and Exploring, then Shopping and Emergencies. On Tomo that's 26 short levels, about 52 minutes in all, played five minutes a day. Start free and play the first level in under a minute.

  2. Is there a Duolingo-style app for Spanish for Your First Trip?

    Yes. Tomo works like Duolingo: short daily lessons, streaks and quick quizzes. Spanish for Your First Trip is one of its free courses, and you can type any other topic to get a course of your own.

  3. Is the Spanish for Your First Trip course free?

    Yes. Spanish for Your First Trip is playable on Tomo's free plan, which doesn't expire. No credit card, no waitlist. Download the app and start your first lesson.

  4. How long does it take to learn Spanish for Your First Trip?

    26 levels across 3 sections, about 52 minutes of play in total. It's built for five minutes a day, so you finish it a little at a time instead of all at once.

  5. Do I need any background to start Spanish for Your First Trip?

    No. It's pitched at a beginner level, so it starts where you are and builds up. If you can tap a phone, you can start.

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