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Spanish for Your First Trip

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.

For the part of you with thirty open tabs that never became anything.

26 bite-size levelsAbout 5 minutes each

Free during early access · No credit card · iPhone & Android

Paco the Parrot
Spanish for Your First Trip
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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.

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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.

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Where Spanish for Your First Trip takes you

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.

  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.

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