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Spanish for Work
Small talk at the coffee machine, calls, emails, meetings and the occasional vent. Six lessons covering the Spanish your working week actually runs on.
intermediate → advanced · 6 steps · 6 scenes
After this course you can
- Break the ice with colleagues and keep the corridor chat alive without running dry
- Navigate contracts, deadlines, days off and the sacred office coffee break like a local hire
- Sound natural on work calls and decode the team group-chat
- Write emails that land in the right register, from 'Hola Marisa' to 'Estimados señores'
- Chair a meeting, negotiate a budget and disagree with your boss — politely
- Vent about a bad day at exactly the right strength for the room
Working in Spanish is its own language. The grammar you studied shows up, but so do fichar, el curro, los asuntos propios and a meeting culture where the real decisions happen over coffee. This course walks the arc of a working week: the small talk that opens doors, the vocabulary of contracts and deadlines, the calls and group-chats, the emails that need the right register, the meetings where you have to push back — and the moment you finally get to vent about all of it.
Each step pairs a lesson with a short practice session built from its real sentences. Read the lesson, do the practice, and the next step unlocks. Start with the talk that makes colleagues into allies, end with the frustration phrases that keep you sane — used at the right strength, in front of the right people.
What's inside
Counted from the course itself. Nothing here is rounded up.
- 6 steps
- A lesson, a drill built from it, and a scene — in the order real life hands them to you.
- 6 scenes
- Branching conversations with no undo. Where you end up is wherever your replies took you, and you can always play it again.
- 48 drills
- Built from the sentences in the step they belong to: multiple choice, gap-fills, word order, matching.
- 128 native-speaker notes
- On the replies: what gives you away, and what somebody local would have said instead.
- 6 audio sessions
- Hands-free, and not a read-through: you get the prompt, then a silence to answer out loud in, then the answer. For the walk or the washing-up.
- A journal, and its review
- Phrases you earn in a scene are kept. Later the course hands them back and asks you to write them out from memory.
A map of the whole thing- Every place the course takes you, on one board, opening as you get to it.
This is what a scene feels like
The opening of La máquina de café, the first scene of Spanish for Work. You walk into it once step 1 is done.
La sala de descanso de una oficina junto a la ronda, a media mañanaWith: Merche, de contabilidad, Ignacio, de la otra sede
You hear
Merche, de contabilidad
¡Buenos días! ¿Qué, cómo llevas el lunes?
Morning! So, how's Monday treating you?
Your reply — pick one
- 1Pues aquí andamos, tirando. ¿Y tú qué? ¿Qué tal el finde?Oh, you know, getting by. What about you? How was the weekend?
- 2Bien, bien. Con mucho trabajo.Fine, fine. Lots of work on.
- 3Me encuentro muy bien, gracias por su interés.I find myself very well, thank you for your interest.
What you find out after you choose
Understood, but clumsy
You said: Me encuentro muy bien, gracias por su interés.
Every word is right and it puts a desk between you. 'Gracias por su interés' belongs at the bottom of a written reply, and the 'su' aims the formal you at a colleague who just said 'qué, cómo llevas el lunes'. Usted is for somebody you have never met; for the person you pass every morning it reads as keeping your distance on purpose.
128 notes like that one sit behind the replies in this course — not whether you were right, but what you sounded like.
Who these are for
You have the basics of Spanish and they run out fast in real rooms. This course starts where that happens.
Who they are not for
- Anyone who needs a certificate. Nothing here maps to CEFR, nothing is examined, and no one is watching.
- Anyone who wants grammar tables. The grammar is inside the sentences, explained where it actually bites.
The pathway
Every step, in order. Your own progress lives on the page you play from.
Step 1 of 6 · intermediate
Small Talk in Spanish: Keep the Conversation AliveReact like a native, buy thinking time with the right fillers, half-agree politely, and exit a chat without killing the mood.
Step 2 of 6 · intermediate
Spanish at Work — From Contracts to Coffee BreaksMaster workplace Spanish — contracts, meetings, emails, asking for time off, and the colloquial expressions your colleagues really use.
Step 3 of 6 · intermediate
Phone Calls and Texting Like a NativeAnswer the phone, survive a bad connection, and decode WhatsApp abbreviations — sound natural on the phone and in Spanish group chats.
Step 4 of 6 · intermediate
Writing Emails in Spanish Like a NativeWrite natural emails in Spanish, from casual notes to friends to formal messages at work, plus how to dictate your email address like a native.
Step 5 of 6 · advanced
Business Spanish: Meetings, Negotiation and Saying No PolitelyRun a meeting, haggle over budgets, and disagree with your boss in Spanish — armed with the hedging phrases that keep everyone smiling.
Step 6 of 6 · advanced
Fed Up in Spanish — Frustration Like a NativeLearn how Spaniards really vent — estar harto, me fastidia, sacar de quicio, and which exclamations are safe in front of your suegra.
Before you start
Do I need an account?
No. There is nothing to sign up for. Your progress is kept in this browser, which means it is waiting when you come back — on this device, in this browser, and not on your phone as well.
What does it cost?
Nothing. Every course, every scene and every drill is free while we grow.
Where do I start?
At step one of whichever course matches where you are now. Everything after it stays shut until you have done the one before, so there is no order to get wrong.
Do I have to play the scenes?
Where a step has one, yes — playing it is part of what opens the next step. It is also the only place you have to produce the language with somebody waiting, which is the whole point of it.
Can I get it wrong?
In a scene, constantly: every reply gets an answer and the conversation carries on, because what opens the next step is having turned up, not how well it went. Drills are stricter — three lives, and running out means taking that step again. Either way nothing is lost but the run.
Start where you actually are.
Free while we grow. Your progress stays in this browser.