Sorted by type, and inside each type from A1 upwards. Long topics are split into parts you can take one at a time.
Three sets of endings, one for each verb type. Drop the -ar, -er or -ir and add the ending for the person.
Gustar does not work like to like. The thing you like is the subject, and you appear as an indirect object: me gusta el pollo is literally the chicken is pleasing to me. So the verb agrees with the thing, not with you.
The everyday future. Conjugate ir, add a, then the infinitive. This is how most people talk about tomorrow.
Most irregular verbs in the present break in one of four predictable ways, and the nosotros form usually stays regular.
Ser for what something is: identity, origin, material, time. Estar for how or where it is right now: location, state, mood.
Giving instructions. The affirmative tú form is its own thing; every other form borrows from the subjunctive.
A pronoun that matches the subject. Sometimes it turns the action back on the doer, and sometimes it makes a different verb entirely.
Would. Same stems as the future, different endings. Used for politeness, hypotheses, advice, and the future seen from the past.
One set of endings on the whole infinitive. Used for predictions, promises, and guessing about the present.
He comido. A past that is still connected to now: today, this week, ever, never, already.
The indefinido tells what happened: single, finished events that move the story forward. The imperfecto tells how things were around those events: background, repeated habits, descriptions, unfinished actions.
A second set of verb endings, used when the sentence is not stating a fact but reacting to one: wanting it, doubting it, or hoping for it.
Wanting, feeling, doubting, denying, and impersonal opinions all push the second verb into the subjunctive.
The past version of the subjunctive, built from the ellos form of the indefinido. Two endings exist and both are correct.
Three kinds of if-sentence, each with a fixed pair of tenses. The unreal ones are where the imperfect subjunctive earns its keep.
Reporting what someone says right now. Only the person and the pointing words change; the tense stays put.
When the reporting verb is in the past, every tense inside takes one step back.
Object pronouns go before the conjugated verb, not after it. Lo and la replace the thing acted on; le replaces the person something is done to or for.
Se habla español. A way of saying what is done without saying who does it — the standard voice of signs, recipes and instructions.
Spanish often presents an accident as something that happened by itself, with se plus an indirect object pronoun. It removes the blame: the bus left on me rather than I missed the bus.
Pedir asks for a thing or an action. Preguntar asks for information. English uses ask for both.
Saber is information and skills; conocer is familiarity with people, places and things you have experienced.
Spanish anchors movement to where the listener is, not to where the speaker imagines being. That is why voy is correct where English says I am coming.
One of the busiest verbs in Spanish. With se it means to stay; without it, to arrange, to be located, to be left, or to suit.
Adjectives copy the gender and number of the noun they describe. Some change for both, some only for number.
Every noun is masculine or feminine, and the article in front of it has to match. Most endings are predictable.
Muy goes in front of adjectives and adverbs and never changes. Mucho goes with nouns and agrees with them, or follows a verb to say a lot.
Mi, tu, su and este, ese, aquel. They agree with the thing owned or pointed at, not with the owner.
More than, less than, as as, and the best of all. Four patterns and four irregular forms.
a + el becomes al, de + el becomes del. Two contractions, and Spanish has no others.
Por looks backwards: cause, reason, duration, movement through, parts of the day. Para looks forwards: purpose, destination, deadline, who something is for.
Weather uses hacer with a noun: hace sol, hace frío. Rain and snow are verbs instead: llueve, nieva.
Spanish has hunger, cold and twenty years rather than being them. Tener covers a whole family of states English builds with to be.
Hay says that something exists. Está says where a specific thing is. The article in front of the noun decides which one you need.
No goes before the verb. And unlike English, Spanish stacks negatives on purpose: no vi nada.
Qué, cuál, quién, cómo, dónde, cuándo, cuánto, por qué. All carry a written accent when they ask something.
Counting, telling the time with ser, and writing dates day first.
Which you to use, and what it signals. In Peru the choice is mostly tú and usted; vos belongs to other countries.