Reto Español is a drill and reinforcement tool — not a teaching app. It's built for people who are already learning Spanish through a class, a tutor, another app, or on their own, and want a dedicated place to make what they're learning actually stick.
The difference between knowing a verb form and producing it in real conversation is repetition. Reto Español bridges that gap — and turns the repetition into a game. Points, streaks, and optional time pressure (turn the timer on or off depending on your mood) turn drilling into something you actually want to come back to. More fun means more time. More time means faster progress.
My Focus is the feature that makes this personal. Learning the subjunctive this week? Working through irregular preterites in class? Add exactly those verbs and tenses to My Focus and drill on just that — nothing else. Your focus list syncs across the whole app, so you can study the same verbs in Cheat Sheets, drill their conjugations in Verb Drill, and then put them to work in full sentences in Sentence Drill.
The app covers 550+ verbs across 10 tenses, with vocabulary drawn from 12 real-world contexts — restaurants, travel, home, work, family, and more. For learners in Panama, there's also a 🇵🇦 Panama Spanish option that layers in Panamanian colloquial expressions throughout. The core content is standard Latin American Spanish that works anywhere.
Conversation Starters is where solo drilling becomes real Spanish. Add people, generate questions built around the verbs and tenses you've been practicing, and suddenly you're not playing a game on your phone — you're speaking Spanish with other people, naturally, in a real conversation.
Every section feeds into the others. You study in Cheat Sheets, drill in Verb and Sentence Drill, and then walk into a real conversation with actual confidence.
You don't have to follow this order every time — but it's a useful sequence when you're learning something new.
My Focus is a personal list of verbs you want to concentrate on. It syncs across the whole app — add verbs in Cheat Sheets, drill them in Verb Drill, review them after a session.
Both drills have a Timer toggle in the Difficulty section. By default the timer is on — questions expire if you take too long. Turn it off for a more relaxed experience.
Timer off is great for beginners working through new material, or for classroom use where a teacher projects the screen and students answer one at a time without time pressure.
Points are your motivation system — compete against yourself from session to session.
The Verb Drill tests conjugation in isolation — subject, tense, and verb form. It's the fastest way to get verb forms into muscle memory.
▶ Open Verb DrillIf you're new to Spanish, start at Beginner. If you're comfortable with present and past tense and want to expand, switch to Full Library.
You can select one or more tenses. The recommended progression:
The Timer toggle below the difficulty cards turns the timer on or off. Timer Off = Learning/Teaching Mode — questions stay up indefinitely, points are halved.
After finishing, the results screen shows your score, accuracy, and every missed question. If you missed any conjugation questions, a 📌 Add missed verbs to My Focus section appears:
The Sentence Drill puts language in context. Instead of just conjugating a verb, you're working with complete sentences — replacing nouns with pronouns, filling in connectors, giving commands. This is where drilled knowledge becomes usable Spanish.
▶ Open Sentence DrillA sentence is shown with one verb blank. Fill in the correct conjugated form for the subject and tense given.
Conjugation type options (Intermediate/Advanced only):
This layer has three sub-types you can mix or select individually:
Direct Object (DO): Replace the highlighted noun with the correct pronoun (lo/la/los/las).
Indirect Object (IO): Replace the highlighted person with the correct pronoun (me/te/le/nos/les).
Combined DO + IO (two steps): This is the most advanced pronoun drill. You replace both the direct and indirect object nouns with pronouns — in two steps.
Imperative drills test command forms across four conjugations: tú, usted, nosotros, and ustedes — both affirmative and negative.
Fill in the blank with the right connector, adverb, or discourse marker. 83 connectors across 15 categories including Time, Sequence, Cause, Contrast, Concession, Hedging, and 🇵🇦 Panama expressions.
The hint (when shown on Easy/Medium) gives the English meaning of the connector.
▶ Try a connector drillDrills polite requests, hypotheticals, and advice using the conditional tense. Three sub-types selectable individually or together:
Selecting this layer automatically switches the tense selector to Conditional only (if no other layers are active), and auto-enables the 8 domains that have modal sentence templates.
Fill in the correct preposition from: a · de · en · con · por · para · sin · entre.
Enable "Focus on para & por" in the config panel to drill just those two — the most commonly confused prepositions in Spanish. This also auto-selects all 12 domains since para/por appear across all real-world contexts.
Fill in the missing question word in a Spanish sentence. Four sub-groups, each selectable individually:
Question Words uses its own built-in bank — domain selection and tense selection have no effect on this layer.
Some drill layers — Connectors, Prepositions, and Question Words — use their own built-in word banks rather than the domain template system. When only these layers are active, the Tenses and Domains sections dim automatically with a note explaining they don't apply.
As soon as you add a layer that does use templates (Verb Conjugation, Object Pronouns, or Would/Could/Should), both sections become active again.
Domains filter the vocabulary and sentences used in the drill to a specific life context. The 12 domains are: Restaurant, Grocery, Doctor's Office, Kitchen, Travel, Home/Routine, Work/School, Shopping, Family/Social, Nature/Animals, Sports/Exercise, City/Getting Around.
Some drill layers auto-select domains — Imperatives selects Kitchen and/or Sports, Reflexive verbs auto-selects Home, Family, and Work, and Para/Por selects all domains. You can always manually adjust after.
For object pronoun questions, a Highlights on/off checkbox appears on the question card. When on, the noun to replace is highlighted in the sentence — making it easier to spot. Turn it off to make the drill harder: you must identify the direct or indirect object yourself without visual help.
Conversation Starters is designed for real social use — not drilling. Generate questions tailored to your group and use them to spark genuine Spanish conversations at dinner, game night, or with friends.
▶ Open Conversation StartersBelow the level selector, a row of tense pills lets you choose which tenses the questions will use. Pills that aren't available at your current level are grayed out.
The selected tenses are passed directly to the AI — which is instructed to distribute questions across all of them, not just cluster on present tense. Offline mode uses the same filter.
Cheat Sheets is your study reference — the cheat sheet you're allowed to use. Five tabs: Verb Tables, Domain Vocabulary, Connectors, Imperatives, and Special Patterns.
▶ Open Cheat SheetsOver 1,100 Spanish words organized across 12 real-life domains: Restaurant, Grocery, Doctor's Office, Kitchen, Travel, Home/Routine, Work/School, Shopping, Family/Social, Nature/Animals, Sports/Exercise, City/Getting Around.
Each word shows its Spanish form, English meaning, gender (feminine/masculine), and singular/plural marker. Use the domain filter pills and search box to find what you need.
83 connector words and expressions organized by category: Time, Sequence, Cause & Result, Contrast, Concession, Connector, Frequency, Degree, Order, Hedging, Purpose, Condition, Discourse, Conversation, and 🇵🇦 Panama.
Each entry shows the Spanish word, English meaning, and an example sentence with the connector highlighted. The 🇵🇦 Panama category includes colloquial Panamanian expressions — ya mismo, de una vez, pues, chévere and many more.
All 38 imperative verbs (20 Kitchen + 18 Exercise) in a full reference table: infinitive, English, tú ✓, tú ✗, usted ✓, usted ✗, nosotros, ustedes, and notes.
Negative forms are shown in red. Stem changes are highlighted. Filter by Kitchen, Exercise, or show All commands. Use search to find a specific verb.
A grammar reference for intermediate learners — focused on the patterns that are hardest to get right in real conversation. Seven sections:
Each section includes a Practice this block with direct links to the Sentence Drill and Verb Drill pre-configured for that concept.