Spanish · learn by reading
Learn Spanish from texts you want to finish.
taihaa is a reading loop for Spanish, alongside Mandarin, Cantonese, German, and French. Bring an article, a story, or a class text. Tap a word for an English translation, save the useful ones with the sentence still attached, and review them later.
Por la mañana bebo café.
In the morning I drink coffee. Each of these is its own word. The accent in café stays on the word you tap.
Por
in
la
the
mañana
morning
bebo
I drink
café
coffee
Reading, then a small review queue
Bring a text you can finish
A news paragraph, a class handout, a short story, or an EPUB chapter. A starter from the library works too. taihaa does not open on a stack of unrelated example sentences.
Tap the whole word
Spanish uses the same Latin reader as German and French. Accents stay inside the word, so café and autobús are one tap. ¿ and ¡ are punctuation, not part of the word.
Review the sentence
Saved words come back with the line they came from. Again, Learning, Known, and Easy set a simple spaced schedule. Ignore drops a word from review.
What Spanish reading needs from a reader
A word list can introduce vocabulary. It cannot show you how mañana sits in a sentence you already care about. taihaa keeps the practice attached to a text: the reader for the first meeting, the saved sentence for the next ones.
Accents belong to the word
café, día, and autobús stay one token. The reader does not split them into a base word plus a mark. A dictionary line can still match after case-folding, so Café and café look up the same headword.
Opening punctuation is not a word
¿ and ¡ mark a question or an exclamation. They are punctuation, the same way a period is. The word you tap is the one after the mark.
No conjugation table
bebo and bebe are different shapes of a verb. taihaa does not turn the reader into a grammar chart. If a form has its own dictionary line, you will see a translation. If it does not, type the one that fits this sentence.
Level tags are estimates
Lessons can show an automatic CEFR tag, the same kind of estimate used for German and French. It helps you pick a text. It is not an exam result, and a short passage can be tagged with low confidence.
A practical first session
- Register and set the target language to Spanish.
- Open a sample lesson, a library starter, or paste a short paragraph you already wanted to read.
- Read one page. Save three to eight words, and edit any translation that does not fit the sentence.
- Come back for review. The card should still show the sentence from that page.
URL import works best on public articles. If a page is paywalled or mostly scripts, paste the text instead. English is the base language for meanings. News in the library can pull public Spanish feeds from BBC Mundo, DW, and RFI.
Start with one Spanish text.
You do not need a full course loaded in advance. One article is enough to see whether reading-first practice fits how you study.