Last-minute Spanish before moving? Stretch the seven days.

Six weeks left, and the plan says seven days.

You open the free plan, count the days, and it says seven. Two thoughts arrive together: that is too short to matter, and I have already left it too late. So the tab stays open and nothing starts.

Seven days is not a deadline. It is a cycle you can run six times before you fly, with one new everyday scene each week and one fifteen-minute speaking task a day. The shape stays the same, so you never wonder what to do today. The words change, so it never becomes a chant.

One week is a cycle. Repeat it; do not restart from zero.

The free plan already has the right shape: greetings, rescue phrases, your own details, a dialogue, one question you will really ask, recall, role plays. Keep that order every week and change only the scene.

An illustrative order, not a syllabus. Move the scenes to match what your first fortnight will actually contain.

Short of scenes? Our ten everyday scenarios add more dialogues with audio, so week 4 does not have to be invented from nothing.

What fifteen minutes a day looks like.

One task a day. If a day collapses, do the first five minutes and stop; tomorrow is a new day, not a debt.

Week 1 in full: Day 1 is greetings (Hola. Me llamo Ana. ¿Cómo te llamas? Mucho gusto.), Day 4 is the café dialogue, Day 5 is ¿Dónde está la estación? Day 6 is the one people skip. Cover the English and say the phrase from the Spanish. A phrase you can only read is a phrase that will not come out at a counter.

A US Institute of Education Sciences practice guide recommends spacing learning over time and using quizzes to re-expose learners to key content. The weekly cycle borrows both ideas in a small way: the same phrases return on days 2 and 6, and the scene changes. It is a planning suggestion, not a claim about how quickly you will learn.

Day 1 in full, so you can start in ten minutes.

Say each line aloud twice, then read the dialogue and take both parts.

Watch the register. ¿Cómo te llamas? is familiar, for someone your own age or a new colleague. With an older neighbour or a landlord, use ¿Cómo se llama usted? If you are unsure, the polite form is never wrong.

On Day 3, swap in your own details and add one sentence you will really need: Soy de Leeds. (I am from Leeds.) Trabajo en informática. (I work in IT.) Keep it to one new sentence, or Day 3 becomes homework.

Day 2 never changes. That is the whole point.

Every cycle, Day 2 is the same five phrases. They keep you in a conversation when the other person speeds up.

¿Puede repetir? uses the polite usted form, so it is safe with a stranger, a shop assistant or a landlord. The familiar version is ¿Puedes repetir, por favor? — keep that one for people you know.

Accents are part of the phrase. Más (more) is written with an accent, and tú (you) is a different word from tu (your); the Diccionario panhispánico de dudas sets out these pairs.

Build a week without buying anything.

Use both speeds properly.

The slower track is a stepping stone, not the goal. Listen once slowly to catch the shape, twice at normal speed, then say it aloud three times in your own voice. Normal speed is what you will meet in Mexico City.

No microphone, no account, no streak, and nothing records you. Speaking practice here means sound leaving your mouth, not a score on a screen — and a kitchen is a perfectly good café for a role play.

Straight answer: is this another app that teases you?

You have used apps that gave you points and a streak and left you unable to order a coffee. Fair. Here is exactly what this is.

• No points, no streaks, no feed. You get seven tasks and a scene. When the fifteen minutes are up, the page has nothing else to give you, and that is deliberate.
• The plan is on the web. All seven days are readable without an account, with a dialogue a day at normal and slower speed. Only the downloadable files open a short form: first name and email, then a short email from us, then a reply with VERIFY, then the file. Every email has an unsubscribe link.
• The free material stands on its own. The Conversation Rescue Card and the 10 Minute Practice Planner are extras, not the missing half.
• We do sell things. Three phrase packs cost $9 each, or $19 for all three, and the self-paced course Spanish Conversation Foundations costs $49 with no live sessions. Both are one-time payments with a 30-day refund. This six-week cycle needs neither; if you ever look, read pricing and the refund policy first.
• No teacher review. The Spanish here is checked with automated checks, not by a teacher. Our Editorial Policy says how that works.

The honest promise is small: fifteen minutes a day, one scene a week, out loud. No page can promise how you will speak on arrival, because that depends on far too much. What you control is how many times you have said these six scenes aloud before you land.

How you know a cycle worked.

On Day 7, mark each phrase in one of three ways: from memory, with a prompt, not yet. Move the “not yet” phrases into next week’s Day 2 and Day 6. Two minutes of honest marking beats any badge.

A recall prompt for the end of week 1: cover this page, say the five greetings, then the five rescue phrases, then order a coffee and answer yourself as the waiter. Whatever sticks halfway is tomorrow’s first minute.

Write the stubborn phrases in one place. The free 10 Minute Practice Planner has a seven-day log with from memory, with a prompt and not yet ticks, plus a phrases-to-revisit list. It is a static file; nothing you type into it reaches us.

Common questions.