Spanish A1–B2 flashcards
36 decks · 2,785 cards · built into Willys · free samples below
Written against: CEFR levels A1–B2; neutral Latin-American Spanish with Spain variants noted. Updated 2026-10-10.
In the app every card is read aloud: the Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Spanish or other language side in its own native voice and the English side in yours, with a hands-free Listen mode for whole decks.
What's in it
Every deck follows the course outline, with tags you can study or suspend topic by topic. Open a deck to study its free sample right here.
Learn · 27 decks · 2,065 cards
Concepts, mechanisms and the questions a course or exam asks about them.
Drills · 8 decks · 660 cards
Short answers and cloze blanks for the facts you simply have to know cold.
Practice · 1 deck · 60 questions
Multiple-choice practice questions, one best answer each, with the reasoning.
Cloze decks have one or more blanks per sentence; the app makes one card per blank.
Study guide
Topics covered
The decks follow the order of the course outline. Numbers are cards per topic.
- Essentials 15
- Knowing & thinking 11
- Communication 10
- Movement & travel 11
- Daily routine 15
- Work · shopping & tasks 16
- Leisure & feelings 7
- Family & people 8
- Home 9
- Food & drink 13
- City & places 8
- Time & calendar 19
- Body 7
- Clothing 6
- School & work 20
- Adjectives 23
- Food · shops & money 5
- Places & nature 42
- Getting around 14
- Directions & position 12
- Numbers & amounts 13
- Ideas & situations 14
- Life & society 4
- Describing words 26
- People 51
- Family & relationships 8
- Body & health 42
- Home & things 6
- Talking & messages 8
- Free time 7
- Daily life & problems 8
- Describing people & things 5
- Verbs of feeling 6
- Verbs of thinking 6
- Verbs of saying & getting along 6
- Verbs of happening & change 8
- Verbs of doing 9
- Qualities · true & right 9
- Qualities · how things seem 10
- Qualities · size & state 9
- Adverbs of manner & degree 10
- Greetings & goodbyes 7
- Courtesy 8
- Getting by 6
- Directions 6
- Ordering & shopping 9
- Numbers & time 7
- Question words 7
- Connectors 19
- Key patterns 9
- Expressions with tener 6
- Regular -ar 6
- Regular -er 6
- Regular -ir 6
- Ser · estar & ir 11
- Go-verbs 15
- Irregular yo 4
- Stem change e→ie 3
- Stem change o→ue 7
- Stem change e→i 4
- People & family 11
- Home & daily routine 8
- Food & shopping 10
- Town & getting around 14
- Time & numbers 7
- Free time & feelings 9
- Adverbs & how things work 7
- Travel 12
- Health 18
- Work 18
- Feelings 28
- Opinions 8
- Weather 8
- Environment 17
- Technology 8
- Time expressions 14
- People & relationships 38
- Feelings & communication 10
- Work & society 11
- Things & nature 10
- Place & position 5
- Everyday verbs 14
- Accidents & crime 10
- People and Titles 10
- Home and Celebrations 7
- Body and Feelings 10
- The World Around You 9
- Describing Things 12
- Thinking and Talking 11
- Everyday Actions 9
- Crime and Conflict 10
- Ideas and Amounts 5
- Body and Health 7
- Home and Places 9
- Nature 6
- Celebrations and Free Time 11
- School and Work 15
- Society and Government 9
- Stories and Conflict 13
- Describing People and Things 10
- Home and Daily Life 13
- Going Out and Culture 15
- Work and Study 24
- Law and Justice 7
- Nature and Science 4
- Time and Place Words 6
- Travel and getting around 10
- Health and the body 7
- Home and daily life 12
- People and relationships 12
- Feelings and opinions 10
- Work and study 11
- Weather and nature 10
- Going out and free time 10
- Time and telling stories 8
- Por vs para 16
- Ser vs estar 15
- Verbs with prepositions 10
- Changes of state 5
- News & media 8
- False friends 22
- Home & daily life 23
- Places & directions 8
- Feelings & reactions 19
- Describing things 30
- Talking & thinking 12
- Work & records 8
- Conflict & danger 9
- Body & senses 6
- Home & objects 36
- Nature & weather 4
- Daily life & leisure 24
- Work & study 31
- Society & ideas 7
- Crime & security 11
- Adverbs & attitudes 5
- People & roles 28
- School & society 16
- Everyday actions 11
- Describing 8
- Amount & manner 5
- Society & law 10
- Travel & movement 8
- Ideas & feelings 12
- Adjectives & adverbs 15
- Useful verbs 11
- People & character 11
- Time & daily life 7
- Work & money 20
- Leisure & learning 13
- Nature & places 15
- Technology & connections 6
- Verbs of action & change 12
- Law & crime 8
- Description 28
- Everyday objects 12
- Faith & death 6
- Key verbs 89
- Time & school 6
- Regular preterite 5
- Spelling changes 5
- Irregular preterite 17
- Stem-changing -ir 5
- Imperfect 18
- Preterite vs imperfect 16
- Meaning changes 10
- Subjunctive formation 7
- Irregular subjunctive 7
- Subjunctive triggers 13
- Belief vs doubt 4
- Adverbial clauses 10
- Relative clauses 3
- Commands 13
- Pronouns with commands 5
- Conditional 12
- Future 12
- Si-clauses 13
- Linking ideas 10
- Feelings & attitudes 13
- Travel & free time 7
- In the news 8
- Crime & danger 6
- Law & work 12
- Leisure & culture 7
- Travel & nature 7
- Feelings & ideas 20
- Present regular 10
- Present stem-changing 12
- Present irregular yo 10
- Preterite regular 10
- Preterite irregular 14
- Present subjunctive 12
- Abstract nouns 27
- Opinion verbs 13
- Argument verbs 13
- Idioms 22
- Fixed expressions 10
- Character & feelings 12
- Body & belongings 10
- Study & work 7
- Society & events 10
- Actions 13
- Qualities & manner 9
- Politics & society 13
- Money & business 10
- Body & mind 6
- Home & culture 12
- Travel & transport 6
- Law & politics 8
- Health & sport 6
- Media & communication 8
- Everyday life 10
- Qualities & attitudes 13
- Society & news 12
- Nature & the world 9
- Everyday things 11
- Judgement & tone 8
- Adverbs 5
- News & society 11
- Law & conflict 8
- Feelings & character 13
- Food & home 7
- Science & objects 6
- Time & nature 6
- Home & everyday life 14
- Transport & technology 7
- Culture & customs 11
- Work & institutions 11
- Character & attitudes 10
- Conflict & the news 10
- Imperfect subjunctive 10
- Pluperfect subjunctive 5
- Sequence of tenses 7
- Relative pronouns 8
- Passive & impersonal se 7
- Subjunctive conjunctions 6
- Reported speech 6
- Verbal periphrases 6
- People & society 5
- Law & the news 9
- Culture & media 4
- Description & adverbs 17
A study plan
- 100 new cards a day covers everything in a month, leaving the last weeks for review.
- 50 new cards a day covers everything in two months, leaving the last weeks for review.
- 34 new cards a day covers everything in three months, leaving the last weeks for review.
Willys schedules reviews for you (FSRS spaced repetition), so the daily number above is only for new cards; reviews of what you have learned come back on their own. Study a topic's cards right after you meet it in class, suspend topics you have not reached yet, and use the app's quiz mode in the final two weeks.
How to get these decks
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- Study. The exam comes in as its own collapsible folder, every card scheduled by FSRS spaced repetition. Nothing you already have is changed.
Every deck is built into Willys
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About these cards
Review status: Second-reader reviewed, with corrections applied.
Checked against:
- Checked against the Real Academia Española, Diccionario de la lengua española (dle.rae.es) and the Instituto Cervantes Plan Curricular del Instituto Cervantes A1–A2 inventories for level placement (reference only; no text copied). All example sentences are original.
- Usage notes were also checked against the RAE/ASALE Diccionario panhispánico de dudas and the Diccionario de americanismos, glosses against the Cambridge Spanish–English Dictionary and SpanishDict, and verb frequency against a Spanish word-frequency list (OpenSubtitles 2018 via hermitdave/FrequencyWords: word lists CC BY-SA 4.0, code MIT; lemmas by simplemma) (reference only; no text copied).
- Usage notes were also checked against the RAE/ASALE Diccionario panhispánico de dudas, the Nueva gramática de la lengua española and the Diccionario de americanismos, and glosses against the Cambridge Spanish–English Dictionary, SpanishDict and WordReference (reference only; no text copied).
- Word selection follows a frequency list of Spanish content words (OpenSubtitles 2018 via hermitdave/FrequencyWords: word lists CC BY-SA 4.0, code MIT; lemmas by simplemma), banded to A1 by rank and checked against the Instituto Cervantes Plan Curricular (PCIC) A1 inventories as a reference; meanings and gender checked against the Real Academia Española, Diccionario de la lengua española (dle.rae.es). Reference only; all example sentences are original.
- Usage notes were also checked against the RAE/ASALE Diccionario panhispánico de dudas and the Diccionario de americanismos, and glosses against the Cambridge Spanish–English Dictionary and SpanishDict (reference only; no text copied).
- Word selection follows a frequency list of Spanish content words (OpenSubtitles 2018 via hermitdave/FrequencyWords: word lists CC BY-SA 4.0, code MIT; lemmas by simplemma), banded to A1 by rank and checked against the Instituto Cervantes Plan Curricular (PCIC) A1 inventories as a reference; meanings and verb forms checked against the Real Academia Española, Diccionario de la lengua española (dle.rae.es). Reference only; all example sentences are original.
- Checked against the Real Academia Española, Diccionario de la lengua española (dle.rae.es), the RAE/ASALE Diccionario panhispánico de dudas for regional usage, and the Instituto Cervantes Plan Curricular A1–A2 functional inventories (reference only; no text copied). All example sentences are original.
- Glosses and usage notes were also checked against the RAE/ASALE Diccionario de americanismos, the Cambridge Spanish–English Dictionary, SpanishDict and WordReference (reference only; no text copied).
- Checked against the Real Academia Española conjugation tables (dle.rae.es) and the RAE/ASALE Nueva gramática de la lengua española, Manual (reference only; no text copied).
- The vos note on the vivir card was also checked against the RAE/ASALE Diccionario panhispánico de dudas (s.v. voseo) and the Instituto Cervantes Plan Curricular A1–A2 grammar inventory (reference only; no text copied).
- Sentences reuse or follow the folder's A1 vocabulary decks; word selection follows a frequency list of Spanish content words (OpenSubtitles 2018 via hermitdave/FrequencyWords: word lists CC BY-SA 4.0, code MIT) checked against the Instituto Cervantes PCIC A1 inventories as a reference. All sentences are original.
- Each sentence, gloss and blank was also checked against the Real Academia Española, Diccionario de la lengua española (dle.rae.es) and the Cambridge Spanish–English Dictionary (reference only; no text copied).
- Checked against the Real Academia Española, Diccionario de la lengua española (dle.rae.es), the RAE/ASALE Diccionario panhispánico de dudas and Nueva gramática de la lengua española, the RAE/ASALE Diccionario de americanismos for regional labels, and the Instituto Cervantes Plan Curricular A2 inventories for level placement (reference only; no text copied). All example sentences are original.
- Tense notes were also checked against the RAE/ASALE Glosario de términos gramaticales, and glosses against the Cambridge Spanish–English Dictionary and SpanishDict (reference only; no text copied).
- Word selection follows a frequency list of Spanish content words (OpenSubtitles 2018 via hermitdave/FrequencyWords: word lists CC BY-SA 4.0, code MIT; lemmas by simplemma), banded to A2 by rank and checked against the Instituto Cervantes Plan Curricular (PCIC) A2 inventories as a reference; meanings and gender checked against the Real Academia Española, Diccionario de la lengua española (dle.rae.es). Reference only; all example sentences are original.
- Usage notes were also checked against the RAE/ASALE Diccionario panhispánico de dudas, the ASALE Diccionario de americanismos and FundéuRAE, and glosses against the Cambridge Spanish–English Dictionary, SpanishDict and WordReference (reference only; no text copied).
- Usage notes were also checked against the RAE/ASALE Diccionario panhispánico de dudas, the Diccionario de americanismos and El Colegio de México's Diccionario del español de México, and glosses against the Cambridge Spanish–English Dictionary, SpanishDict and WordReference (reference only; no text copied).
- Sentences reuse or follow the folder's A2 vocabulary decks; word selection follows a frequency list of Spanish content words (OpenSubtitles 2018 via hermitdave/FrequencyWords: word lists CC BY-SA 4.0, code MIT) checked against the Instituto Cervantes PCIC A2 inventories as a reference; meanings and regional labels checked against the Real Academia Española, Diccionario de la lengua española (dle.rae.es), and the RAE/ASALE Diccionario panhispánico de dudas and Diccionario de americanismos, and glosses against the Cambridge Spanish–English Dictionary, SpanishDict and WordReference (reference only; no text copied). All sentences are original.
- Checked against the Real Academia Española, Diccionario de la lengua española (dle.rae.es), the Diccionario panhispánico de dudas, the RAE/ASALE Nueva gramática de la lengua española (online edition) for por/para, ser/estar and verbs of change, the RAE/ASALE Diccionario de americanismos and the SpanishDict and WordReference Spanish–English dictionaries for regional labels (reference only; no text copied). All example sentences are original.
- Word selection follows a frequency list of Spanish content words (OpenSubtitles 2018 via hermitdave/FrequencyWords: word lists CC BY-SA 4.0, code MIT; lemmas by simplemma), banded to B1 by rank and checked against the Instituto Cervantes Plan Curricular (PCIC) B1 inventories as a reference; meanings and gender checked against the Real Academia Española, Diccionario de la lengua española (dle.rae.es). Reference only; all example sentences are original.
- Usage notes were also checked against the RAE/ASALE Diccionario panhispánico de dudas, Nueva gramática de la lengua española, Ortografía de la lengua española and Diccionario de americanismos, and glosses and regional labels against SpanishDict, WordReference and the Cambridge Spanish–English Dictionary (reference only; no text copied).
- Meanings, forms and regional labels were also checked against the RAE and ASALE Diccionario panhispánico de dudas (rae.es/dpd) and Diccionario de americanismos (asale.org/damer), and the SpanishDict, WordReference and Cambridge Spanish–English dictionaries (reference only; no text copied).
- Meanings, forms and regional labels were also checked against the RAE and ASALE Diccionario panhispánico de dudas (rae.es/dpd), Nueva gramática, the RAE's El buen uso del español and the Diccionario de americanismos (asale.org/damer), and the SpanishDict, WordReference and Cambridge Spanish–English dictionaries (reference only; no text copied).
- Glosses, forms and usage notes were also checked against the Diccionario panhispánico de dudas (rae.es/dpd) and the SpanishDict, WordReference and Cambridge Spanish–English dictionaries (reference only; no text copied).
- Word selection follows a frequency list of Spanish content words (OpenSubtitles 2018 via hermitdave/FrequencyWords: word lists CC BY-SA 4.0, code MIT; lemmas by simplemma), banded to B1 by rank and checked against the Instituto Cervantes Plan Curricular (PCIC) B1 inventories as a reference; meanings and gender checked against the Real Academia Española, Diccionario de la lengua española (dle.rae.es). Usage notes and regional labels checked against the Diccionario panhispánico de dudas (rae.es/dpd), the ASALE Diccionario de americanismos, SpanishDict and WordReference. Reference only; all example sentences are original.
- Meanings, forms and regional labels were also checked against the Real Academia Española/ASALE Diccionario panhispánico de dudas (rae.es/dpd) and the SpanishDict, WordReference and Cambridge Spanish–English dictionaries (reference only; no text copied).
- Checked against the Real Academia Española conjugation tables (dle.rae.es), the RAE/ASALE Nueva gramática de la lengua española (online edition) and its Manual, the Diccionario panhispánico de dudas (rae.es/dpd), the Ortografía de la lengua española (2010) and SpanishDict (reference only; no text copied). All example sentences are original.
- Checked against the Real Academia Española conjugation tables (dle.rae.es), the RAE/ASALE Nueva gramática de la lengua española (online edition and Manual), the Diccionario panhispánico de dudas and the Instituto Cervantes Plan Curricular (PCIC) B1–B2 grammar inventories (reference only; no text copied). All example sentences are original.
- Sentences reuse or follow the folder's B1 vocabulary decks; word selection follows a frequency list of Spanish content words (OpenSubtitles 2018 via hermitdave/FrequencyWords: word lists CC BY-SA 4.0, code MIT) checked against the Instituto Cervantes PCIC B1 inventories as a reference. All sentences are original.
- Each sentence, gloss and blank was also checked against the Real Academia Española, Diccionario de la lengua española (dle.rae.es) and Diccionario panhispánico de dudas (rae.es/dpd), and the SpanishDict, WordReference and Cambridge Spanish–English dictionaries (reference only; no text copied).
- Sentences reuse or follow the folder's B1 vocabulary decks; word selection follows a frequency list of Spanish content words (OpenSubtitles 2018 via hermitdave/FrequencyWords: word lists CC BY-SA 4.0, code MIT) checked against the Instituto Cervantes PCIC B1 inventories as a reference; meanings, forms and regional labels checked against the Real Academia Española, Diccionario de la lengua española (dle.rae.es) and the SpanishDict, WordReference and Cambridge Spanish–English dictionaries (reference only; no text copied). All sentences are original.
- Checked against the Real Academia Española conjugation tables (dle.rae.es), the RAE/ASALE Nueva gramática de la lengua española (rae.es/gramática) and its Manual, the Diccionario panhispánico de dudas and the Glosario de términos gramaticales (reference only; no text copied). All example sentences are original.
- Checked against the Real Academia Española, Diccionario de la lengua española (dle.rae.es), the Diccionario panhispánico de dudas, and the Instituto Cervantes Plan Curricular B2 inventories for level placement (reference only; no text copied). All example sentences are original.
- Usage notes were also checked against the RAE/ASALE Nueva gramática de la lengua española and Diccionario de americanismos, glosses and regional labels against SpanishDict, WordReference and the Cambridge Spanish–English Dictionary, and frequency notes against the OpenSubtitles 2018 word list (hermitdave/FrequencyWords, CC BY-SA 4.0) (reference only; no text copied).
- Word selection follows a frequency list of Spanish content words (OpenSubtitles 2018 via hermitdave/FrequencyWords: word lists CC BY-SA 4.0, code MIT; lemmas by simplemma), banded to B2 by rank and checked against the Instituto Cervantes Plan Curricular (PCIC) B2 inventories as a reference; meanings and gender checked against the Real Academia Española, Diccionario de la lengua española (dle.rae.es). Reference only; all example sentences are original.
- Usage notes were also checked against the RAE/ASALE Diccionario panhispánico de dudas, Nueva gramática de la lengua española, Ortografía de la lengua española and Diccionario de americanismos, El Colegio de México's Diccionario del español de México, and glosses and regional labels against SpanishDict, WordReference and the Cambridge Spanish–English Dictionary (reference only; no text copied).
- Meanings, forms and regional labels were also checked against the RAE and ASALE Diccionario panhispánico de dudas (rae.es/dpd) and Diccionario de americanismos (asale.org/damer), the SpanishDict, WordReference and Cambridge Spanish–English dictionaries, Castellano Actual (Universidad de Piura), and, for migrant terminology, UN General Assembly resolution 3449 (1975) and the European Parliament resolution of 14 January 2009 (reference only; no text copied).
- Meanings, forms and regional labels were also checked against the Real Academia Española/ASALE Diccionario panhispánico de dudas (rae.es/dpd), the ASALE Diccionario de americanismos and the SpanishDict, WordReference and Cambridge Spanish–English dictionaries (reference only; no text copied).
- Meanings, forms and regional labels were also checked against the RAE and ASALE Diccionario panhispánico de dudas (rae.es/dpd), Ortografía de la lengua española and Diccionario de americanismos (asale.org/damer), the SpanishDict, WordReference and Cambridge Spanish–English dictionaries, FundéuRAE, and the official identity-document pages of Spain's Policía Nacional (dnielectronico.es), Argentina's RENAPER and Peru's RENIEC (reference only; no text copied).
- Meanings, forms, spelling and regional labels were also checked against the Real Academia Española/ASALE Diccionario panhispánico de dudas (rae.es/dpd) and Ortografía de la lengua española, the ASALE Diccionario de americanismos, El Colegio de México's Diccionario del español de México, and the SpanishDict, WordReference, Cambridge and Collins Spanish–English dictionaries (reference only; no text copied).
- Checked against the RAE/ASALE Nueva gramática de la lengua española (online edition and Manual), the Diccionario panhispánico de dudas and the Diccionario de la lengua española with its conjugation tables (dle.rae.es), with the Instituto Cervantes Plan Curricular B2 grammar inventory for level placement (reference only; no text copied). All example sentences are original.
- Sentences reuse or follow the folder's B2 vocabulary decks; word selection follows a frequency list of Spanish content words (OpenSubtitles 2018 via hermitdave/FrequencyWords: word lists CC BY-SA 4.0, code MIT) checked against the Instituto Cervantes PCIC B2 inventories as a reference. All sentences are original. Words, forms and agreement checked against the Diccionario de la lengua española (dle.rae.es) and the Diccionario panhispánico de dudas (rae.es/dpd), with SpanishDict, WordReference and Cambridge Spanish–English entries for glosses.
- Checked against the Real Academia Española, Diccionario de la lengua española (dle.rae.es) and conjugation tables, the RAE/ASALE Nueva gramática de la lengua española, Manual, the Diccionario panhispánico de dudas, and the Instituto Cervantes Plan Curricular A1–B2 inventories for level placement (reference only; no text copied).
- Grammar notes were also checked against the online edition of the RAE/ASALE Nueva gramática (rae.es/gramática), and glosses against the Cambridge Spanish–English Dictionary, SpanishDict and WordReference (reference only; no text copied).
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