¿Algo más? The question no vocabulary list prepares you for
You know the menu words. You can order a café con leche and ask for the check. Then the waiter clears your plate and asks “¿Algo más?” at normal speed, and he isn't going to say it again slower. Recognising más on a flashcard is a different skill from answering a real question from a real person. Most learners never practise that second skill, because almost nothing they study with ever asks them anything.
Spanish rewards speaking early
Spanish spelling is unusually predictable. Learn a short set of rules, like how c and g change before e and i, that every vowel has one sound, and that the written accent tells you where the stress falls. After that you can read a word you've never seen and say it correctly. Few widely spoken languages are this forgiving, so you don't need months of silent study before you open your mouth. What's left is repetition: hearing real sentences at real speed and answering until it stops feeling like translation.
The one place spelling can't help is gender. Every noun is masculine or feminine, el vaso and la mesa, and it changes the words around it: el vaso frío but la mesa fría. Nothing in a word's meaning predicts it. You get it by hearing and producing the right pairing often enough that it stops needing thought.
Practise by talking
In Sayelle you speak or type to a tutor that answers in Spanish, the way a person would. Scenarios drop you into a situation with no script, like ordering food or shopping, and you have to produce the sentence you need. Lessons teach grammar through conversation, and Study turns your own past chats into flashcards and listening practice, so you drill the things you actually got wrong.
What you'll learn
There are more than 170 lessons, starting from zero, with more on the way. The units cover:
- The sounds and spelling of Spanish
- Greetings and first conversations
- Nouns, gender and number
- Numbers, time and dates
- Ser, estar and identity
- The present tense and the irregular verbs you need early
- Food, home and city life
- Gustar, object pronouns, reflexives, the preterite and the imperfect
Practise on the metro
The tutor, speech recognition and voice models download once over Wi-Fi (about 4 GB), then run on your phone. A full spoken conversation works with no signal, on a flight to Madrid or in a tunnel, and your raw microphone audio never leaves the device. You'll need iOS 18 or later, or Android 8.0 or later. Read more about how the offline AI works and what phone you need.
Common questions
Do I need to know any Spanish first?
No. The course starts with the sounds and spelling of Spanish and builds from there.
Which Spanish does Sayelle teach?
A Spain-based standard Spanish, with regular notes on Latin American differences, such as vosotros and ustedes, or vocabulary like zumo and jugo.
Does it cover grammatical gender, ser and estar?
Yes. There are units on nouns, gender and number, and on ser, estar and identity, plus a lot of speaking so the right pairings start to feel automatic.
Does it work offline?
Yes. After a one-time download of about 4 GB, the tutor, speech recognition and voice all run on your phone. Signing in, purchases, syncing and new content downloads still need a connection.
Is it free?
Free to start. Conversations with your tutor are free and unlimited. Lessons and scenarios use practice energy that recharges over time, and Sayelle Plus is an optional subscription that removes that limit and unlocks more content.
Start with your first sounds
Sayelle is free to start. See the other eight languages it teaches, or download it now.
