To up your Spanish game, you need to learn basic Spanish vocabulary. If you learn just a few critical words in Spanish, it can easily increase your comprehension of most texts by 50 to 70 percent. This is essential because reading texts you understand is the easiest, fastest way to drive your acquisition of the language.

In this lesson, you will learn 18 high-frequency Spanish words that will repeat themselves over and over. You will see one of these words on every single page of Spanish text you ever read. In fact, you'll probably see one or more of them in every single paragraph. Let's get started.

Click or tap the photo below to see a new word.