Lingtastic

Most vocabulary apps show you a picture of the thing. A photo of a house next to casa tells you nothing about how to say it. Lingtastic does something else: each word is drawn as an English word that sounds like the Spanish one — a house that IS an enormous casserole dish. Casserole carries CA-sa, and the picture is absurd enough to stay put. The hook is the sound, not the meaning. - The colour behind every picture is the word's gender: coral for feminine, teal for masculine, so the thing learners get wrong for years is built into the one part of the card you can't help seeing. - You decide when a word comes back. There's no algorithm choosing your intervals — after each card you say when you want to see it again, and that's when it does. - Free to use, with the built-in word list and a few of your own words. Optional paid plans on the website unlock making your own pictures.