Foreign Languages

Want to start speaking a foreign language with the words you would actually use first? These vocabulary quizzes cover Spanish, French, Italian, and Portuguese, building a real beginner foundation one everyday topic at a time.

French, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish Vocabulary

Each subject works the same friendly way, matching words to their English meanings and building topic by topic. You start with the basics everyone needs: greetings like bonjour (hello) in French or mucho gusto (nice to meet you) in Spanish, then colors, numbers, household items, travel words, and the question words that keep a conversation going.

From there the sets stretch into describing people, jobs, school, shopping, and telling time, so you steadily build a wide beginner vocabulary in whichever language you pick. Many quizzes go beyond plain matching, dropping a word into a full sentence or playing it aloud with no text on screen, which makes it sink in from more than one direction.

Foreign Language Vocabulary with Audio

Spelling rarely tells you how a word sounds, so every quiz includes audio of the term spoken aloud. Hearing the Italian frigorifero (refrigerator) or the Portuguese obrigado (thank you) makes its rhythm far easier to copy, and you start to recognize the word the moment a native speaker uses it at full speed.

The False Friends and Quirks to Watch

Every language hides a few traps, and the quizzes point them out as you go. In Italian, camera means a room, not a photo camera, and in Portuguese a livraria is a bookstore, not a library. Spanish leans on tiny accents, where cómo (how) asks a question but como (I eat) does not.

Little patterns help just as much as the warnings. Portuguese builds its weekday names from numbers, so Monday is segunda-feira (literally "second day"), and once you spot that kind of logic, a whole group of words falls into place at once.

Pick the language that is calling you, whether that is French, Spanish, or another language, and start with these interactive vocabulary quizzes.

Spanish Vocabulary

You're standing in a market in a Spanish-speaking city, you want to ask the price, and the right words need to be ready. These Spanish vocabulary quizzes give you exactly those words, building a beginner's foundation topic by topic with audio throughout. Essential Spanish Vocabulary for Beginners Each quiz matches Spanish words to their English meanings, with later sets adding listening, spelling, and full sentences. You will learn question words like dónde (where), greetings such as mucho gusto (nice to meet you), home words like cocina (kitchen), colors, numbers, and the travel and business terms a trip or a job calls for. The sets stretch into describing people, jobs, school, nature, entertainment, and the tricky business of cognates and false friends. Earlier words spiral back in harder formats, so nothing you learn quietly slips away. Spanish Vocabulary with Audio Pronunciation Many quizzes include audio, so you hear each word spoken and match the sound to its spelling. Hearing a word like buenos días (good morning) said aloud helps you catch it when a native speaker uses it at full speed. Where a Single Accent Changes Everything A written accent does a lot of work in Spanish. Cómo (how) with an accent asks a question, while como (I eat, or like) without one does not, and the same goes for qué versus que. One word can stretch too, since techo covers both a ceiling inside and a roof on top. A handful of well-placed phrases changes how a trip feels, since people warm up fast when you make the effort, and because the sets cover the situations travelers meet first, you get an outsized payoff for a small amount of study. Watch for the false friends too, like estufa, which means stove across most of Latin America but a space heater in Spain, so the same word can point to two very different things depending on where you are. Start with the situation you will meet first, whether that is the market or the introductions, and try these interactive Spanish quizzes.

20 topics

Spanish Conversations

A single trip hands you a dozen short conversations you never planned for, at a counter, in the back of a taxi, at a fruit stand two blocks from your hotel. Spanish Conversations teaches you the language of those exchanges, the words two people actually use when one of them needs something from the other. The topics in Spanish Conversations cover travel and getting around, from the check-in counter and the security line to platforms, rental desks and street directions measured in cuadras. Others deal with shopping and money, where you learn to ask what something costs, order by weight, pay by card or cash, and understand what the person behind the counter tells you in return. Food and drink gets its own share, from ordering at a café to booking a table by phone and asking for la cuenta at the end of a meal. Everything is Latin American Spanish, and almost all of it stays in the formal register you would use with someone you have just met, usted rather than tú. This is the Spanish that turns a stressful errand into a short one. Most people learn Spanish for exactly these moments: explaining at the bank that a machine kept your card, filling out a customs form for a package, getting a new phone line to find a signal, describing a missing wallet to someone at the front desk, or asking a stranger on the street which way the museum is. None of it is dramatic, and all of it goes badly without the words. By the end, the aim is simple. You understand a question the first time you hear it, you reply without rehearsing the sentence first, and you ask for what you need instead of hoping someone guesses. That is what Spanish Conversations is built for, and it is the point where a hotel lobby, a ticket window and a busy market stop feeling like tests you might fail.

15 topics

French Vocabulary

Here is a phrase that surprises new learners: s'il vous plaît is not a single word for "please" but literally means "if it pleases you." French vocabulary is full of little courtesies and quirks like that, and these quizzes cover the everyday words a beginner needs most. Essential French Vocabulary for Beginners Each quiz matches French words to their English meanings, building topic by topic. You will learn the rooms of a home like the salon (living room), greetings such as bonjour (hello), colors like rouge (red), travel words including gare (train station), and numbers from un (one) up to cent (one hundred). The sets reach into describing people, jobs, school, shopping, nature, and telling time too, so you steadily build a full beginner vocabulary. One quiz even drops you into a real ticket-counter conversation at a Paris station to test how much you follow when French comes at you naturally. French Words with Audio Pronunciation French spelling rarely matches how a word sounds, so every quiz includes audio of each term. Hearing a word like armoire (wardrobe) said aloud helps you say it correctly and recognize it the moment a French speaker uses it. Words With a Double Life Some French words quietly do two jobs. Papillon (butterfly) is also the word for a bow tie, because the shape of the tie looks just like a butterfly's wings, and feuille (leaf) is also the everyday word for a sheet of paper. The sets run from beginner to intermediate and mix question styles, so you read the French and find the meaning, then flip it to recall the French from the English, which makes the words sink in from both directions. Some quizzes even drop the text and play a word aloud, and earlier words keep returning in later sets, so nothing you learn quietly slips away. Pick the corner of French you want first, whether that is the home, the road, or the calendar, and try these interactive French quizzes.

12 topics

French Conversations

Ordering a coffee in France is easy right up until the person behind the counter answers with a question. French Conversations is built for that moment, when understanding the reply matters as much as saying your own line. The topics in French Conversations follow the situations travelers and newcomers actually walk into. One group covers travel and getting around, from l'aéroport and the train platform to taxis, rental cars and stopping a stranger to ask which way the museum is. Another covers food and drink, from a full restaurant meal to a quick espresso standing at the counter. A third gathers the everyday errands and money situations, the kind of French words you reach for at a bank window, a post office counter, a phone shop or a fitting room. This is where the vocabulary earns its keep. You arrive at a hotel and want to ask whether breakfast is included. Your suitcase never appears on the belt and you have to describe it to someone at a lost property desk. You call a restaurant to book a table for Friday evening and the person on the line speaks faster than you expected. Knowing how to say Je voudrais réserver une table, and understanding what comes back, turns those moments from stressful into ordinary. By the end, French Conversations should leave you able to follow these exchanges at natural speed, catch the question you are being asked and answer with sentences that sound like something a French speaker would really say. Travel, meals, shopping, paperwork: the situations stop feeling like obstacles and start feeling like the ordinary business of a day spent in French.

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Italian Vocabulary

You might expect "why" and "because" to be two separate words, the way they are in English. In Italian they are the same word, perché, and that kind of small surprise runs all through Italian vocabulary, which these quizzes cover topic by topic. Essential Italian Vocabulary for Beginners Each quiz works five words three ways, through matching, a fill-in-the-blank sentence, and a full translation. You will learn question words like dove (where), home words such as the frigorifero (refrigerator), colors like rosso (red), travel words including treno (train), and numbers from uno (one) to cento (one hundred). The sets stretch into describing people, jobs, school, shopping, business, nature, entertainment, and telling time, so you build a wide beginner vocabulary. Using each word in a sentence, not just matching it, is what helps it truly stick. Italian Words with Audio Pronunciation Italian is famously musical, and hearing it helps, so every quiz includes audio of each term. Listening to a word like frigorifero (refrigerator) makes its rhythm and stress far easier to copy, and it is almost always shortened to frigo in everyday speech anyway. The False Friends to Watch A few words look like English but mean something else. Camera (room) is a room, such as a hotel room, not a photo camera, and rivista (magazine) looks like "review" but simply means a magazine. A few of these words wear their history on their sleeve. Scrivania (desk) comes from scrivere (to write), so it literally means a writing surface, unlike a plain tavolo (table), and lavagna (board) borrows its name from an Italian town once famous for dark slate. Learning each topic in a small group keeps a wide vocabulary from piling up too fast, so by the end you can move from the kitchen to the train station to the office without reaching for English. Start with whichever slice of Italian life you want first, from the home to the train station, and try these interactive Italian quizzes.

14 topics

Italian Conversations

You can recognize a hundred Italian words on the page and still go blank when a receptionist asks you something at full speed. Italian Conversations is where you practice the exchanges themselves, in order, the way they actually happen. Italian Conversations covers the situations that fill an ordinary trip. There is travel and getting around, where you check in for a flight, buy a ticket at a station window and give a driver an address. There is finding your way, where you stop someone in the street and then have to make sense of the answer. And there is the everyday business of eating, drinking and having somewhere to sleep, from ordering at a counter to sorting out a room at a front desk. The vocabulary builds along with it: greetings and polite requests, numbers, times and prices, the words for streets and platforms and floors, and the Lei forms Italians use with people they have not met. This is the Italian that starts earning its keep the moment you land. Saying how many bags you are checking, asking which platform your train leaves from, or finding out what a ride will cost before the car pulls away are the small moments that decide whether a day goes smoothly. The same phrases keep paying off long after the trip, because scusi and quanto costa? are as useful in a shop or a ticket office as they are anywhere else. By the end you should be able to hear an Italian question at normal speed, catch what is being asked, and answer without building the sentence in your head first. That is the point where the language stops being something you translate and becomes something you use, at a counter, in a taxi, or across a hotel desk with your luggage still at your feet.

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Portuguese Vocabulary

Here is a fact that reorders the whole week: most Portuguese weekday names are built from numbers, so Monday is segunda-feira (literally "second day"). Quirks like that run through Portuguese vocabulary, and these quizzes cover the everyday words a beginner reaches for first. Essential Brazilian Portuguese Vocabulary Each quiz matches Portuguese words to their English meanings, topic by topic. You will pick up greetings like muito prazer (nice to meet you), colors such as azul (blue), household items like janela (window), travel words including aeroporto (airport), and numbers from zero (zero) up past cem (one hundred). The sets reach into describing people, jobs, school, shopping, telling time, and the question words that keep a conversation moving. Because these are things you say and see every day, the vocabulary tends to stick quickly. Brazilian Portuguese with Audio Pronunciation Reading a word is one thing; saying it well is another. Each quiz includes audio of the Portuguese, so you can copy the rhythm of a word like obrigado (thank you) instead of guessing how it should roll off your tongue. The Slips That Trip Up Beginners One classic false friend is livraria, which is a bookstore, not a library; the place you borrow books is a biblioteca. Numbers hold a small surprise too, since one hundred is cem on its own but shifts to cento the moment you add more, so one hundred ten is cento e dez. The sets stay close to the situations you actually meet, from checking into a hotel to finding the right platform or making small talk about the weather. Because the phrases come grouped by topic, you can focus on one slice of the language at a time instead of facing a long, jumbled list. One small reward of the numbers is spotting patterns, since Portuguese builds bigger figures by joining smaller words you already know with e (and). Brazilians warm up fast when you make the effort, so start with the phrases or numbers you will use most and try these interactive Portuguese quizzes.

12 topics