Practice speaking Spanish with AI

What Spanish conversation practice looks like here

You choose a game and a difficulty, then talk into your microphone or type, whichever suits you that day. It all happens in a 3D world in your browser, where you walk up to whoever you need and say what you want to say, in your own words.

Take the dungeon game. You're locked in with an old prisoner, a nervous merchant, a ghost with a flair for drama and a guard who could not care less about you. You can get out by bribing the guard, by flattering the ghost into helping, or by working out a three-number combination. Each of those means talking to somebody in Spanish.

How the characters adapt when you stumble

On beginner, the characters keep their Spanish simple, speak slowly and lead the conversation. Freeze for a few seconds and they'll offer a hint without being asked. If you get a sentence wrong, they repeat what you meant, correctly, and carry on.

Say you're in the bomb game trying to buy wire-cutters, and what comes out is something like "yo necesito cortar... cables?" The seller doesn't mark it wrong. He answers with the word you were missing, used in a normal sentence, and the game keeps moving.

Gestures, props and the other two levels

The characters gesture, pull faces and hold things up while they talk. When the guard means no, for instance, he shakes his head. When someone mentions an object, it's often right there in their hand, which helps a lot when you only caught half the sentence.

Intermediate uses more natural Spanish and only gives hints when you ask for them. Advanced has no hints and no corrections, and everyone talks at full native speed. The levels are just defaults, since every setting can be changed on its own, even halfway through a game.

Tú or usted when you're bribing a guard

Spanish asks you to decide how formal to be every time you say "you". Textbooks give tidy rules for it, and those rules get shaky once there's an actual person in front of you. The dungeon gives you people to try it on. When you slide a coin towards a bored guard, do you go with a casual tú, or keep a careful usted? If you're buttering up a dramatic ghost, usted and a polite conditional such as "¿Sería usted tan amable de ayudarme?" will probably land better than a blunt "ayúdame".

The game won't stop you for picking the less fitting one. Since the AI judges what you meant, a clumsy sentence that gets the point across still counts. You just get to make that choice out loud, many times, and after a while you stop having to think about it.

Hearing Spanish at real speed

Spanish sounds fast to most learners because the words run into each other, and "¿qué es eso?" can come out as a single breath. Beginner mode spares you most of that. Move up a level and the characters sound more natural, and on advanced you hear Spanish the way a native speaker talks when they aren't making allowances for you.

Any line can be replayed, and you control the pace, so the sentence that flew past can be heard again. The bomb game also has a timer, so you get used to answering before you feel ready.

When you run out of Spanish

On beginner and intermediate you can answer in English. The character understands and replies in Spanish, so you keep going and hear how they'd have said it. You can also switch on an interpreter panel, response suggestions or hints, each one separately.

Lines you want to keep can be saved to your notes, and every playthrough ends up there when you finish. If one construction keeps tripping you, the site's free Spanish grammar walkthrough goes through it properly.

New accounts get enough free credits for one full game. After that there's a monthly plan or a credit pack that never expires, and a game uses about one credit per minute of play.