Train your ear and your mouth. Explore the sounds of English, spot the pairs Spanish speakers mix up, and drill stress and endings — all with real spoken audio.
Click any tile to hear it in a real word. Sounds marked ★ TRICKY don't exist in Spanish, or are easy to confuse with a Spanish sound.
12 minimal-pair questions covering the contrasts that trip up Spanish speakers most. Two minutes, then we tell you exactly what to practise.
You'll hear one word at a time and pick which of two options it was. At the end you get a personal top-3 list, and every game on this page starts paying extra attention to it.
One word plays. Two look almost the same in Spanish ears — pick the one you actually heard.
English words have one strong syllable. Listen, then pick the pattern that matches what you heard.
Every regular past tense ends in -ed — but it's pronounced three different ways. Listen and choose the right one.
English is stress-timed: content words (the meaning) stand out, function words (the grammar) shrink into a quick /ə/. Spanish gives every syllable roughly equal weight — that's the accent giveaway. Play a sentence and watch the stressed words light up.
Native speakers don't say words one by one — they link, drop and blend them. This is why fluent English sounds so different from the textbook. Filter by feature and listen to the real phrase.
The contrasts that cause the most misunderstandings — with the reason why, in plain English.
Every wrong answer anywhere on this page gets logged here. Practise your worst contrasts in one mixed session, spaced-repetition style.