Course apps
Course apps teach a set curriculum
Lessons, streaks and the same exercises for everyone. Great for the first steps; less so once you read and write real Spanish and your mistakes are your own.
Spanish learning app
A Spanish learning app that teaches from what you read and write.
Course apps give everyone the same lessons. YabLab works on top of your real Spanish: words you save from articles become flashcards, your writing gets checked with explanations in English, and your own mistakes become short drills.
- Works in Chrome
- Explanations in English
- Spaced repetition built in
Lessons for everyone vs practice built from you
YabLab
YabLab builds on your Spanish
It starts from the words you meet and the mistakes you make — ser and estar, the past tenses, the subjunctive — and turns them into cards and drills scheduled with spaced repetition.
What each approach gives you
Course apps and YabLab solve different problems.
For your Spanish… Course apps YabLab
Where the material comes from A fixed course Pages you choose to read
New words Words from the lessons Any word from any page, saved to flashcards
Checking your writing Answers to exercises Anything you write in the browser
Explaining mistakes Right or wrong The rule, explained in English
Review Lesson by lesson Spaced repetition of your words and weak rules
Course for complete beginners Yes — their strength No — best once you read simple Spanish
Which one fits you
Stay with a course app if…
- You are starting from zero and need the basics
- You want a fixed lesson plan every day
Choose YabLab if…
- You already read some Spanish
- You keep mixing up ser and estar or the past tenses
- You want words from real content to become flashcards
- You want explanations in English, not just right or wrong
What YabLab does
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Write without mistakes
Underlines a slip, explains it in your language and fixes it — in the browser and on a Mac.
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Understand everything
Select a word on any website for its translation, meaning and examples. Works on a Mac too: ⇧⌘Y in any app.
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Remember it
Words come back as flashcards just as you start to forget them.
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One-click flashcards
Translate it, and it’s a card.
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Dual subtitles
YouTube in two languages.
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Ask YabLab right where you are
No chatbot tab, no lost context.
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Simpler text
Any paragraph, at your level.
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Your words, highlighted everywhere
On any site — even on your Mac.
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Drills from your mistakes
Practice what you get wrong.
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See your progress
Fewer mistakes every week.
Learning Spanish with YabLab — FAQ
Is YabLab good for complete beginners?
It works best once you can read simple Spanish. For your first words a course app is a better start; YabLab takes over when you begin reading and writing.
Which Spanish mistakes does it explain?
Ser vs estar, preterite vs imperfect, por vs para, the subjunctive, agreement, object pronouns, accents and spelling. The full list is in the Spanish mistake catalogue.
Where does it work?
YabLab checks what you type in Chrome and lets you save words from any page. Your cards and drills live in the web app.
Is it free?
Yes — the free plan includes writing checks and practice. Pro removes the limits when you want more.