About Pokito · un poquito al día
po·ki·to /poˈki.to/ n. colloq. From Spanish poquito, ‘a little bit’.
A little bit, every day.
«Un poquito de español al día».
A little Spanish a day.
An iPhone app that teaches Spanish to adults, from English or Ukrainian, A1 to B1, in fifteen minutes a day.
iPhone · iOS 17 or later
/paˈla.βɾa/ f. word
A word you meet once and then keep. Pokito has 699 of them in 32 themed decks, from el café to la sobremesa.
Practised four ways: flashcards, quizzes, writing and conjugation.
Back just before it would slip your mind. Spaced repetition (FSRS) does the timing; you only say Again, Hard or Got it.
«La sobremesa duró más que la comida».
The after-lunch talk lasted longer than the lunch.
la sobremesa
/so.βɾeˈme.sa/
the lingering talk at the table after a meal
/ɡɾaˈma.ti.ka/ f. grammar
A road of 51 short rule pages from A1 to B1, walked one stop at a time.
Every stop ends in practice: about a dozen questions, so the rule sticks.
ser
what something is: identity, origin, job, character, time
estar
how or where it is: a state, a mood, a place
Same adjective, different story: es aburrido (boring) vs está aburrido (bored).
/es.kuˈtʃaɾ/ v. to listen
To train your ear: 20 dialogues, stories, news pieces and dictations, from Spain and from Latin America.
With a live transcript that follows the audio. Tap a word to save it.
Dictation, line by line, slowed to 0.8× if you like.
Dialogue · B1 · España
En el mercado
Read here by your browser. In the app, each speaker has a voice of their own.
¿Qué le pongo, señorita?
What can I get you, miss?
Un kilo de tomates, por favor. Que estén maduros.
A kilo of tomatoes, please. Nice ripe ones.
+ kilo+ tomate+ por favor+ maduro
Estos son de Almería, dulcísimos. ¿Y un melón para el postre?
These are from Almería — lovely and sweet. And a melon for dessert?
/eˈroɾ/ m. mistake
Something you get wrong today and right tomorrow. Every miss comes back until it stops being one.
Accents count (you can relax that), and spelling traps are explained, not just marked wrong:
| llegar | llegué | g → gu before e |
| buscar | busqué | c → qu before e |
| empezar | empecé | z → c before e |
/niˈβel/ m. level
Where you start. A placement test of up to 50 questions, A1 to B2, stops as soon as it finds your level, so it takes 5 to 15 minutes.
Or skip the test and pick your level yourself.
Your level
Empieza en B1.
You know the basics below it. You can change the level any time.
/baˈɾjan.te/ f. variant
Spain or Latin America, picked once. It changes the pronouns you’re taught, the words and examples you see, the pronunciation shown and what you listen to.
| Meaning | España | Latinoamérica |
|---|---|---|
| you all (informal) | vosotros | ustedes |
| car | el coche | el carroel auto in Argentina and Chile |
| computer | el ordenador | la computadora |
| mobile phone | el móvil | el celular |
| beer | cerveza/θeɾˈβe.θa/ | cerveza/seɾˈβe.sa/ |
/iˈðjo.ma/ m. language
The language you learn from: English or Ukrainian. Every gloss, translation and explanation comes in it.
«Hablo inglés y ucraniano».
I speak English and Ukrainian.
From B1, the app itself can switch to Spanish. Explanations stay in your language.
/sin ko.nekˈsjon/ adv. phr. offline
No account and no sign-up: open the app and start.
Works offline. Words, grammar and listening are all on the phone.
Your progress stays on your iPhone, and the Spanish voice runs on the phone itself.
/ˈra.tʃa/ f. streak, run
Days in a row. A day counts once you’ve done half your daily goal: 5, 15 or 30 minutes, your choice.
One free freeze a week. Nobody gets scolded.
On your Lock Screen: the streak and the word of the day.
«Llevo una racha de doce días».
I’m on a twelve-day streak.
Sunday 1 November
8:15