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📑 Reference manual

What everything on the screen means, and where each thing lives.

The colours

Colour	Means
Blue	English. Always.
Red	Spanish. Always.
Highlighted	The one new word this step is teaching.

The top line

What you click	What happens
Left half	The whole website is written in English.
Right half	The whole website is written in Spanish.
The gear, far right	Settings, the manuals, and the voice test.
The name under it	Takes you back to the start page.

Where each thing lives

Page	What it holds
The method	Why one new word per step works.
Lessons	Every topic, and every lesson inside it.
All words	Every word taught on the site, in one list.
Dictionary	Look up any word in either language.
Pronunciation key	Every English sound written in Spanish letters.
Vowel sounds	The eighteen English vowel sounds.
Word families	Change the first letter, get a new word.
Super words	The hundred words with the most meanings.
Time words	Days, months, the clock, how often.
Keywords	Up, down, in, out, and the phrases built on them.
Word parts	Prefixes and endings, ranked by how often they appear.
Kids	Big buttons, sound before reading.

The buttons inside a lesson

Button	What it does
Either half of the sentence	Reads that half out loud in its own language.
The microphone	Listens to you say it and scores you out of 100.
Look up	Opens the new word in the dictionary.
Next and Back	Move one step at a time through the lesson.

The voice

English is read by an English voice and Spanish by a Mexican Spanish voice. The website never uses the browser voice, because on many computers it has no Spanish and reads Spanish as if it were English.

Setting	What it does
Volume	0 to 100. At 0 nothing is read out loud at all. Set it under the gear.
How long the voice waits	A separate wait, in milliseconds, after each mark of punctuation, plus one between every word for slow practice. Set them under the gear.
Word by word	Raises the between-word wait so the sentence is read one word at a time.