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Learn the Spanish you actually need 🎯🇪🇸

I'm Sam, a Spanish teacher. My new app builds lessons around your own words, with games, quizzes and memory tricks that make them stick. It's out now and it's free to start 🎉

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📍 IN PERSON · BASILDON

Spanish lessons in Basildon that actually feel fun 🎉

Real Spain Spanish 🇪🇸, face to face. No boring textbook drills, no awkward silences. Well, fewer.

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Pico the parrot

30-second Spain Spanish quiz 🇪🇸

Can you survive a day in Spain?

🎉 Any 4 digital packs for £9.99, or any 8 for £18.99

Mix and match any 4 (or 8) printable flashcard packs, each with a phone (swipe) version. Spanish from Spain 🇪🇸. The discount is applied automatically at checkout, no code needed.

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My app is here! 📱✨

  • Pico the pencil mascot using a phone

    📝 Add your own words

    Type in the words you want to learn, or let Pico add them for you.

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    🎮 Games that stick

    Flashcards, matching, spot the error and sentence builder.

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    🧠 Memory tricks built in

    Anchor sentences and mnemonics, the way I teach my students.
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Sam, your Spanish teacher in BasildonPico, my sidekick ✏️ Pico, the Fun Learning Spanish pencil
MEET YOUR TEACHER 👋

Hola, I'm Sam. Tu profe.

I teach Spanish in person, right here in Basildon 📍. I learnt mine in Spain 🇪🇸, mostly by ordering the wrong thing and smiling anyway. Now you don't have to.

Most people forget words because nothing anchors them. I give every word a sentence or a trick so it stays 🧠. That's the method behind my lessons, my app and my blog.

📍 In person, Basildon only😄 Fun first, grammar sneaks in🇪🇸 Spain Spanish: tú and vosotros
🎁 Your first lesson is a free trial: book it here → 👋 More about me →

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My calm face 😌 You'll see it right before your first full sentence.

LESSONS 📚

What a lesson actually looks like

Relaxed, in person in Basildon, and built around the Spanish you'll really use.

1. We chat ☕

Tea, a catch up, a bit of Spanish. You'll talk more than you think. Nobody gets marked.

2. We learn your Spanish 🎯

Holiday, family, work, the in-laws. We learn what you need, not page 47 of a book.

3. You leave saying something new 💬

Every lesson ends with one line you can use tomorrow. Tested on real waiters.

Sam pointing at the book a lesson button
This button 👉 Yes, this one. Go on.

Book your free trial lesson 🎁
Enquiry form on my Basildon lessons page
REAL SPAIN 🇪🇸

Learnt in Spain, taught in Basildon.

My Spanish didn't come from a textbook. It came from here 👇

Sam in front of an old wooden door in Catalonia
Ascó, Catalonia. Where my Spanish got its real-life homework 📚
View over a Catalan town and the Ebro river from the castle
The view from the castle 🏰 Worth the climb. Could really do with a stair lift 😂
Medieval stone tower in Catalonia
10th-century roots, later a Templar commandery. Our big landmark back home is a Wetherspoons 🍺
LESSON FROM SPAIN #1 🍽️

Dinner is at 10pm. That's not a typo.

A small ferry boat on the Ebro river
Crossing el Ebro ⛴️ Calmer than the Dartford Crossing at 5pm.
The Ebro valley in Catalonia
El valle del Ebro ☀️ Me: "Lovely weather!" Locals: "Bit chilly today."
LESSON FROM SPAIN #2 ⏰

"Ahora" can mean now, later or never.

Old Templar castle ruins in Catalonia
Built by Templars and Hospitallers. I can't build a flat-pack shelf 🔧
Sam from Fun Learning Spanish on a beach in Spain
HOLIDAY SPANISH ✈️

Order, chat and get by on holiday 🏖️

A few lessons in Basildon before you fly and you'll do more than point at the menu.

¿Me pones una caña? 🍺 Can I get a small beer?
¿Dónde está la playa? 🏝️ Where's the beach?
La cuenta, por favor. 🧾 The bill, please.
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Me, after ordering una caña without pointing 😎

Spanish tips from my lessons 💡

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Watch and learn 🎬

Quick Spain Spanish videos. Turn the sound on!

POV: you order "a coffee" in Madrid ☕Solo, con leche or cortado? Learn it before the waiter comes back.More videos in the app, free
How do you say OK in Spain? ¡Vale!Say "okay" and you are outed as a guiri. Here is how Spain really says it.More videos in the app, free
Why does Spain's Spanish sound like THAT?3 reasons. None of them is a lisp.More videos in the app, free
THE APP 📱

Practise between lessons. Your words, nobody else's.

Tell Pico what you need, a trip to Seville or chatting with your partner's family, and Pico makes you a pack of 25 words ✨ Or add your own.


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BOOK 🗓️

Ready? Let's get you talking 🗣️

Lessons are in person in Basildon 📍, and your first one is a free trial 🎁. Book through the enquiry form on my lessons page, or call or text 07899 536549.


Book a lesson ✍️

✉️ info@funlearningspanish.com

My "you've just booked" face 😁 Yes, I practised it in the mirror.
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Discover the Catalan language, written over the Catalan flag with the Barcelona skyline

Heading to Barcelona or Valencia? ☀️🏖️

Catalan is spoken in Catalonia, Valencia and the Balearic Islands. Locals love it when you have a go. I've made cards for that too.

See the Catalan cards 🃏