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Learn Spanish
by ear

Hear a native speaker. Type what you hear. Immediate character-level feedback. Spaced repetition brings back what you missed β€” at exactly the moment your brain needs it.

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Works on a plane. Works anywhere.


How it works

Not vocabulary. Not grammar.
Just listening and reproducing.

The bottleneck in Spanish fluency for most learners isn't knowledge β€” it's the ear. Native speakers talk fast, run words together, swallow syllables. No amount of vocabulary study fixes that. Active listening does.

01

Listen

A sentence from a native Spanish speaker plays. No text shown. You listen.

02

Type

Reproduce what you heard. A character-level diff shows exactly where you went wrong.

03

Repeat

The algorithm schedules each sentence to return at the exact interval your brain needs.

04

The ear sharpens

Over thousands of repetitions, the sounds you once missed become automatic.


Why this method

Spanish is spoken fast.
You need to train for that.

Classroom Spanish is clean, slow, and phonetically exaggerated. Real Spanish β€” on the street, in Mexico City, in Buenos Aires β€” is not. The gap between what you studied and what you actually hear is a perceptual gap, not a knowledge gap.

Intensive dictation closes it. Every sentence you hear and write is one active repetition of your auditory system against real native speech. Not passive consumption β€” active processing, with immediate consequences for every error. That's what builds the perceptual habit.

The developer of this app used this exact method to reach C1 in Romanian β€” a language with no relationship to Spanish or English. The method transfers. The language doesn't matter.

Like Anki, but for your ear. Spaced repetition is the best-proven method for long-term retention β€” but Anki requires you to build your own flashcard decks, and it doesn't have real native audio. SiteDictation gives you pre-built spaced repetition with native Spanish speakers. No card creation. No setup. Just practice.

Download

Free. No account.
Works offline.

Native speaker audio and English translations are bundled in the app. No internet needed to practice.

Free

macOS (Apple Silicon)

1,000 sentences from native Spanish speakers. English translations included. M1, M2, M3, M4 Macs.

Download for macOS
Free

Windows

Same 1,000 sentences. Windows 10 and later.

Download for Windows
Free

Linux x86_64

Same 1,000 sentences. Ubuntu, Fedora, Debian and other distributions.

Download for Linux

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