I Ranked ＊EVERY＊ Resource to Learn Spanish (Tier List) ｜ From WORST to BEST

This is not just another ranking. This is going to be a masterclass on how your brain works when you learn Spanish and how to choose the best resources to improve your Spanish fast and effectively. After learning to speak six languages, I have learned a thing or two about what works and what doesn't when it comes to learning a new language. So before we even dive into the ranking, there's something you need to understand. When you work in a new language, when you're trying to learn a new language, your brain performs in two different pathways, the learning and the practicing. The difference between learning and practicing is the direction of the information. I'm going to say that again because you will never hear this from any other teacher, any other course. This is brand new. You have never heard it before. All my students who take classes with me, they master this concept because it's extremely important. The difference between learning a language and practicing a language is the direction of the information. Now, when you learn a new language, what you do is you get something that is not in your brain and you put it, you add it inside your brain. I want you to imagine that your brain is like an empty box and you get something that was not on the box and you put it. That's when you learn. Now you've got something in the box that before it was not there. And that's, for example, when you can say that today I have learned that house equals casa in Spanish or that I have learned how to use por y para. Practicing is the opposite, is when the information goes from the inside to the outside. What does that mean? That means that when you practice, right now I'm practicing my English. And as you can see, I'm not adding new stuff to my brain. What I'm doing is getting everything that I already have learned in my brain, putting it in order so I can vomit it. I can expulse it. Expulse? Expel? I can expel it from my brain so I can talk to you. So the differentiation must be absolutely clear in your head. And I'm sure it is not. Even though you understand it, I'm sure that you understand it, but it's not clear in your head. And I'm gonna prove it in just a second. Question time. When you watch a show on Netflix, for example, you watch La Casa de Papel in Spanish, La Casa de las Flores, you watch Elite, whatever show you like in Spanish, what are you doing? Are you learning or are you practicing? I bet my ass that 99% of you guys said learning. I am learning Spanish. I'm learning with the show. You're not learning. You're just practicing. What? Yes, you're just practicing. Let me prove it to you. When was the last time that after watching a whole episode of La Casa de Papel, Elite, you probably, you watched it with subtitles. When was the last time that after watching a whole episode with subtitles, you went like, oh, thanks to this episode, now I know this word, this word, this expression, and this grammar rule. Now I know how to conjugate the present tense of verbo ser, and I know how to use por y para. That has never happened. If you're lucky, and I'm saying if you're lucky, you may have learned one word or two words, and usually that's very, very interesting words like insults or swear words like, I cannot say this because then my video gets banned, but you know the kind of words that I mean, right? Something like, cabrón, things like this, right? Those words have the power of being interesting by themselves, so just by watching a show, you may learn those words, but what about the rest? Understanding Spanish is not the same as speaking Spanish. So you may understand a whole show, but that doesn't mean that you can use it in your daily life. I'm not gonna go into the difference between the recognize bucket and the create bucket, that's a topic for another video, but what I'm trying to make you understand is that most of the times, you've been practicing while thinking that you were learning. Basically, you've been exposing information from your head thinking that you were adding information to your head. Let's do the same with a book. What was the last book in Spanish that you read, if you have read any? Have you ever gone like that? Have you ever gotten your book and went like, oh, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, oh, thanks to this book, I have learned this, and this, and this, and this, and this. Never, never, why? Because when you're reading a book, your goal is just to practice, is to understand, is putting in order everything you've got here so you can understand it. Right now, I've been talking in English for you for the last six, seven minutes, right? English is not my native language, it's a second language for me. Have I learned something in English? Do you think that my English is now any better than six minutes ago? I'm telling you, it is not. In fact, I use English every day with my students, my beginner students, I teach them in English because, of course, we need to communicate, right? And my English gets no better, even though I use English every single day, usually like two, three, four hours of English every single day. If I could learn English, check this out, if I could learn English by speaking, I would be freaking Shakespeare. And you can tell that I'm not Shakespeare. Why? Because right now, I'm not adding new stuff to my brain, I'm not improving my pronunciation, I'm not improving new words, I'm not learning new expressions, I'm not learning new grammar, I'm just putting all the dots in order so I can talk to you. Hopefully, you're starting to see what I'm going through. Every time you talk to your friends in Spanish, every time you watch shows in Spanish, every time you read books in Spanish, every time you get immersed in Spanish, you're not learning. Your Spanish is no better. Your Spanish is more fluent, more comfortable, you feel better with your Spanish, but that's not improving, that's not learning. Now, why am I making so much emphasis on the practicing versus learning? First, because it's something that nobody will tell you ever, it's something that it's crucial to understand if you want to improve your Spanish or any other language, and because all my students who take private classes with me, they master because it's extremely important. And also because in this ranking, I'm gonna be talking all the time about the learning and the practicing part because any resource can be used to practice and to learn. And depending on how you use it, you're gonna get one thing or another thing. So enough chitchat, let's start with the ranking. So we're gonna start with Duolingo. By Duolingo, I don't only mean Duolingo. Basically, I'm talking about all the learning, language learning apps out there. There's Duolingo, there's Bebable, there's Drops, there's Memrise, there's many options out there. Where are we going to place all these apps? Whack! A failure, a complete failure, why? Because think, now that you start to understand the difference between learning and practicing, think about your experience with Duolingo. Probably, I bet my ass that you've got experience with Duolingo because everyone in this world has played Duolingo song anytime in the past. What were you doing? Where were you actually learning? Well, yes, you kind of learned a couple of words just by simple repetition, right? You learned probably mamá, papá, mesa. Then you learned some stupid words that you will never use. For example, one of the very first things that you learn in Duolingo, I don't know why, it's bufanda, scarf. Okay, and funny enough, you've got sentences like, el oso tiene una bufanda amarilla. The bear has a yellow scarf. And you're like, yeah, that's the kind of sentence that I need, yeah. Anyway, try to remember how Duolingo works and all the apps work. Basically, you get a sentence in Spanish and you need to translate it into English. Or you get a sentence in English and you need to translate it into Spanish. Or you get a sentence disorganized and you need to put it in order. Or you've got a Spanish sentence by audio and you need to write it down. That isn't that practicing. The listening exercise is like when you're listening to a show on Netflix. The writing exercise, when you need to translate the sentence, that's exactly the same as when you're writing a journal in Spanish. So yes, there's a certain amount of learning with this kind of apps. But that kind of learning is only useful for absolute beginners. And you can learn how many? Like, I don't know, 50, 60 words maximum. You don't know how to conjugate verbs. You don't know how difficult grammar rules work. You don't know anything. So the learning on this kind of apps is just for basic vocabulary. That's it. Every year I go to the Polyglot Gathering, which is probably the most important gathering for polyglots, people who speak languages. There you can find people speaking 15 languages, 20 languages, insane people, amazing people. And you know what? There's no one in that kind of gatherings who learn many, many languages. There's no one ever who has told me that they went from absolute beginner to advanced with any of those apps. Why? Because it's absolutely impossible. You may go from absolute beginner, like A0, I know nothing, to A1, I know something, I can introduce myself, I know the colors, I know this and that, that's it. That's as maximum as you can get. Let's keep going. Music! Let's sing in Spanish. D. What? Yes. We all know songs in Spanish. Songs are a beautiful way to learn Spanish or any other language. I bet my ass, I'm saying I bet my ass many times today. I bet my ass that you know how to sing despacito, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na. Or maybe you can sing bailando, bailando. Right? Enrique Iglesias. Or maybe na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na. Now, you know all these songs, but do you really know them? Have you ever learned anything with these songs? Absolutely not. In fact, most of you probably know bailando. And you don't even know what bailando means. So now that we understand the difference between practicing and learning, it is clear to see that when you sing a song, you're just practicing. Now, how could you learn with songs? You get the lyrics, you get the audio, and you listen to the song. Na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, and you analyze that. You see what words have been used, what grammar tenses, why they have used it like that. You translate it into English. You understand what's written there. So anytime in the future, you will be able to use it. For example, bailando. You understand bailando. Oh, bailando is the gerund, dancing. Okay, and that is used for actions that are happening with the verb to be. I am dancing. In Spanish, oh, it's the same with verbo estar. Yo estoy bailando. I am dancing. Okay, now you're starting to learn new stuff thanks to the song. Can you see the difference between bailando and then really analyzing the song, analyzing the words and learning from that? You see? Now, probably you can already see that this does not only apply to language learning because everything works this way. For example, those ones of you who are singers, now that we're talking about music, you guys, you know that it's not the same as just singing, I don't know, and out there living, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na. That's one thing. That's the karaoke. That's the practicing. Everyone can do that, right? What's really to learn how to sing? You get the freaking music sheet and you start. Out there, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na. And you start to analyze page by page all the notes, all the riffs, all the everything. So when you sing, you actually know what you're singing. You see? Those of you who play piano, happens the same, right? Playing piano, practicing piano, ta, ta, ta, ta, ta, ta, ta, ta, ta, ta. Learning how to play piano. Bing, bing, bing, bing. It's the same thing. Let's keep going. If not, this video will last forever. Online courses. Here you've got Babbel, but there's Babbel, Pinsler, Rosetta Stone, and there's a million of online courses. Online courses were very, very popular years ago. Nowadays, they are not that popular, and I'm glad because they are useless. They are not good. Surprise, surprise. Why? Because, well, you can imagine so far, right? You get a decent amount of learning. Decent. But then you've got just practice, and practice, and practice, and practice. Honestly, it could be a B. It could be a little bit higher. The reason why I put it in a C is because learning a language is already too difficult. If they tell you what you need to use in order to learn, that is super boring. We will talk about this when we get to the grammar books, which is here, and courses have the same problem as the grammar books, which is they tell you what you need to learn. For example, the typical section on the online courses is parts of the body, and you learn words like elbow. Is this elbow? I don't even know. I mean, I speak fluent English, and I don't know how to call this. I don't even know in Spanish. I mean, I have never taught. When was the last time, you, in your life, that you've been talking about this part of the body? Freaking never. What about this? I don't even know how to say this in English, and I don't need it. I mean, I don't even know the Spanish name for that, right? So it makes no sense that they tell you what to learn. You should be learning what you care about, what you want to use, what you're interested about. If you like football, for example, soccer or American football, whatever you like, learn that vocabulary because that's what you're gonna be talking about that. You're not going to be talking about the knee or the elbow or whatever. You're gonna be talking about the football ball, the field, the football field, the, I don't know, the referee, the whatever, the players, all those words is what you're gonna be using because you like that topic. You're gonna be talking about that topic. So yes, online courses, you've got practicing, you've got learning, but everything's very guided. And I don't like that. Language should be customized. Next one. This beautiful symbol here is learning while you sleep. What is this? I don't, I'm surprised the amount of people who know about this. This is horrible. This is the worst thing ever created. In fact, before I describe it, I'm gonna already put it on an F because it's horrible. Do this for me. Go to YouTube and write learn Spanish while you sleep. Do it. Don't pause this video. Just open a new window. And I want you to see the insane amount of videos that you will find that teach you Spanish while you sleep. And I want you to focus on the amount of views. Some of them have millions of views. This is not hundreds. This is not thousands. We're talking about millions of views. It is absolutely ridiculous that people believe that you can learn any language by sleeping. It is an insult to people who love languages like I do. First rule that I tell my students, and you guys, you should start applying this as well. If you want to make it fast, if you want to make it easy, don't do it because learning a language is not fast, it's not easy, period. Of course, if you get a good method, it will be faster. If you get a good teacher, it will be more effective. But fast and easy, it is not. Language learning is like any other skill. Playing piano, learning how to sing, dancing, you name it. You cannot be a Broadway dancer in one month. You cannot speak a language in one month, period. Anything that makes it easier, anything that makes that journey easier, that's not good for you. Careful, I'm not saying that language learning should be like a road of pain and suffering. I'm not saying that, okay? And if you're one of my students, you know that my classes are very entertaining and they are delightful. But what I'm saying is that there's a huge difference between something being entertaining and fun and something being easy. Something easy is something that does not force your brain to work. If you don't work your brain, you will not get better, period. This sentence should be there on your office, huge, okay? Like the gym, there's no way you can grow muscle if you don't stress the muscle, period. There's no way you're gonna improve your Spanish if you don't force and stress your brain, period. Let's keep going, flashcard apps. Probably most of you, you don't know what a flashcard app is. And this goes to the top. Basically, you know what a flashcard is, right? A flashcard is just a piece of paper, like a post-it, where you put on one face, you put casa, and on the other face, you put house, and that's it. And then when you review it, you need to look at one, you're like, house, ah, I knew that one, I knew that one. Casa, yes, that's a flashcard. Nowadays, now I just throw the post-it to the garbage. Nowadays, we've got flashcard apps that do that, okay? Now, flashcards by themselves are good, are just simple repetition. I'm not gonna say that they are bad, but they are not perfect. Around like 70, 80 years ago, there was a German guy called Sebastian Lehner who discovered a theory which revolutionized the way we understand learning. It was the forget-to-learn theory. Basically, I'm not gonna go into technical stuff, but basically, this theory is telling us that in order to reinforce a connection in our head, in order to make something more memorable and remember something for longer, we need to let it forget first. So this knowledge, that sounds a little bit complicated, but it is actually, it is not, derived to something that is extremely valuable for language learning, which is the spaced repetition system. Basically, the spaced repetition system is an algorithm, a mathematical algorithm that is going to calculate how much time you need to not see a given word for you to forget it. And then you will be presented with that word, so you force your brain, I knew that one, house, casa. And that effort that you're making to remember, that's going to strengthen the connection in your head. And then that word will be hidden again until the algorithm calculates that it's the proper time for you to see it again. Now, not all the flashcard apps out there have the spaced repetition system. My recommendation to you is start using, if you don't do it already, start using a flashcard app from today, right now. Extremely recommended. But use only a flashcard app that uses the spaced repetition system. There are many flashcard apps out there. Most of them do not use the spaced repetition system. And out of the ones that use it, my best recommendations are, one, Anki, most of you know about Anki. It's a very simple one, not complicated, beautiful for beginners. Or RemNote, RemNote, R-E-M-N-O-T-E, RemNote. RemNote is way more advanced. You need to know how to use it. You need to learn. You need to spend like two, three weeks learning how to use it. But once you know how to use it, it's beautiful. So basically everything you learn, you want to put it in the flashcard app and play with the app every day. Anki and RemNote will show you every day only the words that you need to review that day. You may have a million flashcards on the app, but maybe today you only need to review, I don't know, 25, because that's what the app believes that you need to review today. So extremely recommended. Let's keep going. Netflix. Again, Netflix is not only Netflix. We're talking about all video streaming platforms like Amazon Prime, Netflix, Disney+, et cetera, et cetera. And that is B. It's not good. Medium, I would say. Why? I think you can guess the answer already. What is Netflix? Is it learning or practicing? Don't say learning, please. It is practicing. When you watch a show in Spanish, nevermind if you do it with subtitles or not, you're just practicing. You're not learning. You're not adding new stuff in the brain. What should you do if you want to learn through watching Netflix, Amazon Prime, Disney+, HBO, et cetera, et cetera? What you should do is watch the show and every time you find something that you don't understand, you stop the show and you check that information and you memorize it, you make it interesting. Every time that I say this, there's a student who have like a heart attack, like, I'm stopping a show. You need to understand that when you learn a language, you need to have very clear in your head your goal. Is your goal to watch the show? Is your goal to see who is the good guy and the bad guy? Is your goal to get to the end of the episode? Is your goal to see who is going to kill the woman? No. That is called entertaining. If you want to know all those things, you want to be entertained. And if you want that, watch the show in English. Why you want to do that in Spanish if you just want to be entertained? Now, is my goal to learn Spanish through the show? Yes, then I'm gonna learn. Oh, but if I stop, it's going to take me forever to watch a single episode. And, and what's the problem, right? You want to be entertained or you want to learn? Every time I share this concept, many, many students fight against me. They tell me, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, and they give me a million arguments why that's not true. And you know what? After one month, one month and a half in class using my method, they apologize to me. They tell me, Jose, freak. Wow, now I see it. Now I see the point here. Now I see, now it's clear to me that just by watching a show, my Spanish does not get any better. And in fact, I'm gonna tell you the same challenge that I tell to my students. If you don't believe me, that's okay. You may not believe me. This is a free world, right? But please do this. Test yourself. Get an episode of whatever show you want, La Casa de Papel, Elite, whatever you want, in Spanish with Spanish subtitles. And that's it. Just watch it. That's it. And at the end of the episode, 20 minutes later, you send me an email. And you say, Jose, thanks for this episode. I have learned, dot, dot, dot. And you tell me what you have learned. You tell me what you know now that you didn't know before the episode. Do that. And I will be waiting for your answer. Next one. Online classes. We've got italki here, but italki is just one of them. Italki is probably the most famous one. You've got Verbling, Busuu, you've got Amazing Talker, you've got Pripla, you've got many, many options here. And online classes, I'm gonna say a B. The reason why I say a B is because it all comes down to the kind of teacher that you find, okay? 98% of online teachers would be here, okay? Now I'm gonna give you certain ideas that you should avoid when you find, when you look for a teacher on these kind of platforms. Then there's like two, 3% of teachers who are here. I'm one of them, ha, ha, ha, ha. So the average would be a B. What should you be looking for when you search the list of Spanish teachers on italki or any other platform? You should avoid, at all times, you should avoid the conversational method. The conversational method is nothing more, nothing less than an euphemism to say, we're gonna talk, and that's it. You're gonna pay me to talk, okay? Yes, you could do it for free. There's Tandem, there's language apps, there's Facebook groups, there's communities on wherever you live, there's Spanish communities, you can do that for free, but I'm gonna charge you 10, 15, $20 for that, but I need to give it a name, and the name is the conversational method. Run away from the conversational method. Avoid any teacher that uses grammar books. Oh, we're gonna follow the grammar book. You need to buy the book. If you need to buy the book, run away. No, no, I'm gonna give you the PDF of the book. You don't want to follow, why do you want to follow a book? I'm paying for you, I'm not paying for the freaking book. If I want to learn with a book, I'm gonna go to the library and buy the freaking grammar book. I want you to tell me things. You are a human being, I want you to use your expertise and your personality to frame information in a way that I can understand it better, because the book, I can get it by my own. On the other hand, what kind of teachers you should be looking, you should be looking for teachers who have a method, or they say that they've got a method, not the conversational method, but they've got a personal method. Most importantly, biggest advice that I can give you, find a teacher that learns languages or has learned languages. Never, never, never, there's a musical, there's the producers, never, never, never. Never choose a teacher who only speaks the native language. If you're looking for a Spanish teacher, never pick a guy who only speaks Spanish. Never. If you're learning German, don't pick a German guy who speaks German. If you're learning French, don't pick a French guy who speaks French. There's an absurd obsession that I will never be able to understand about looking for native teachers. You probably, I'm going to assume that you're English, okay, probably you're French or Italian or I don't know, from any part of the world, but I'm gonna pretend that you're American or British or Australian. Your native language is English. Could you tell me about English subjunctive? Probably you have no freaking idea what subjunctive is, right? Could you tell me what is a phrasal verb? No idea what is a phrasal verb, right? If you guys, you don't know your own native language, how do you expect that me as a Spaniard, I know Spanish? I dare you to come to Spain, Mexico, Argentina, I don't care the country, and ask anyone in the street, what is a Spanish subjunctive? What is a Spanish pluquam perfect? What is, when to use por, when to use para? When to use ser y estar? When to use, I dare you to do that. Good luck, you will find no one. The reason is very simple, but yet nobody gets to think that way. We are born with languages. I was born with Spanish. I have no freaking idea about Spanish. Well, I had no freaking idea about Spanish until the moment that I started learning English. And then after learning English, I learned Italian. And then after learning Italian, I learned Esperanto. And then after learning Esperanto, I learned French. And by learning all those languages, guess what? I learned Spanish. And right now, I'm a freaking expert on anything that has to do with Spanish language, not because I was born Spanish, but because I have used all that knowledge to learn English, Italian, Esperanto, French, and many other languages. So never get a teacher that speaks the language natively. If you want to learn Spanish from a Dutch guy who speaks six languages, go ahead. If you want to learn French from a Spanish person who speaks four languages, go ahead. If you want to learn Tagalog from an American guy who speaks 17 languages, go ahead. Because those kind of teachers are going to teach you way better and way more efficiently than any native person. This video is going to last forever. Grammar books, we have already talked about grammar books. Grammar books go to the D here. They are ----, okay? Grammar books are useless, okay? I still remember when I was learning French the first time, I got a grammar book, a beginner's grammar book, and the grammar book for beginners was trying to tell me, was trying to teach me words like the fabric of the clothing, like silk, cotton, leather, but in French. And I was like, what? Like, what? Language learning should always be customizable and should always be entertaining. Books, grammar books are not entertaining and are not customizable. So, to the trash. Chachapiti, Chachapiti, or any other artificial intelligence. There's many, there's Gemini, there's Google Bar, there's Chachapiti, there's many, okay? And they go up here. It is obvious, it is obvious. Chachapiti nowadays, I've got a video on YouTube talking about this. And recently I was interviewed by a great doctor from the University of, was it Arkansas? The University of, I don't know. Very prestigious American university. They were making a study about using artificial intelligence to learn languages. And they interviewed me about my vision about how Chachapiti has changed the way we learn languages. It's amazing. It's the closest we can get to a Spanish teacher. Now, does that mean that artificial intelligence will substitute teachers? Absolutely not. They are machines, okay? And they learn from people. And people make mistakes, okay? Nowadays, Chachapiti, for example, still makes a lot of mistakes on verbal tenses, on grammatical rules, on poripada. Why? Because people re-make mistakes. And Chachapiti is fed with everything that we do online. So, Chachapiti makes a lot of mistakes. You should always have the last barrier, the last filter should always be a person, an in-person Spanish teacher. But Chachapiti can teach you so much stuff so you can keep self-learning. So, you only end up paying the Spanish teacher just for the absolutely necessary. Let's keep going. Podcast. What am I gonna tell you? Podcast is the same. Podcast is just practicing, right? When you listen to a podcast, you practice, practice, practice. There's no learning. How can you learn with a podcast? You know it. You listen to the podcast, and every time you don't know what they said, you stop, check it out, and make it interesting. You make that information be inserted into your head, into your brain. Next one, immersion. Immersion, immersion, immersion, immersion, immersion. Immersion, I'm gonna put it an A. Immersion, even though it's completely practice, because, I mean, when you travel to Spain or to Mexico, Argentina, you're going to speak, read, write, and listen all the time, so basically it's completely practicing, but there's a key point in language learning, which is something must be interesting. The brain only memorizes stuff that is interesting, and guess what? Living in Spain, living in Mexico, living in Argentina makes things interesting, okay? You're gonna make mistakes. You're gonna get in trouble. You're gonna need to send an email, an important email, and all that. The brain feels it's very, very interesting, so even though it's a lot of practice, it has a lot of learning as well, because it's very interesting for the brain. Then there's Lingopi. Lingopi, basically Lingopi, as you probably know, is a, how can we call it? Well, a software of intelligent subtitles. You watch a Netflix show, and you've got the subtitles, but then you can click on the subtitles, and you get information. I'm gonna put here a B as well, because you probably know the answer. Lingopi is good for practicing, right? Can you learn? Yes, if you stop the show, you click the word, and you check it out. Well, so let's say that you're watching a show on Netflix with subtitles, with Lingopi, and you find the word, I don't know, subrayador, por ejemplo, marker, and you go like, oh, marker. You read it, you understand it, you memorize it, okay. But then, one month later, you're talking to your friend, and you're like, oh, check, aquí hay un, oh, crap, I forgot. How many times that has happened to you? Well, that is because when you memorized it, you moved that information to the short-term memory, not to the long-term memory. So what you want to do, anytime you use Lingopi, or any of these kind of softwares, is you want to make sure that everything you memorize, you move it to the long-term memory. So in one month, in one year time, you will still remember that information. Let's go for the second to last. Tandem, or language exchange, or any of those, basically, language exchange apps, okay. Tandem probably is the most famous one. That would be a C. Not very good, why? The reason is super simple. Most of those language exchange apps, they are not used for language exchange. They are used as a wild, uncovered Tinder. So with the excuse of learning languages and practicing languages, people want something else. I've been receiving not very appropriate messages from boys, girls, all kind of human beings in those kind of apps. And my only intention was to practice. I never get to practice. That doesn't mean that you cannot find nice people willing to practice the language, okay. But most of the people don't use it for that purpose. And if, like me, you're not interested on that kind of things, then you're gonna waste your time. And finally, dictionaries. Word reference here is the symbol for all the dictionaries out there. You've got Spanish Dict, you've got Word Reference, you've got Google Translator, you've got Lingue, you've got many, many dictionaries online. And I'm gonna put them up here. But I'm gonna put here only Word Reference. The rest is crap, okay. Please do not use Spanish Dict, please. If you know what I'm talking about, if you have ever used SpanishDict.com, please don't, okay. Spanish Dict, I don't know who is behind. I have nothing against the creators of Spanish Dict. I've got something against the way they have created it. That website, the amount of mistakes that website has, it is impossible to calculate. You know the P number that has infinite amount of digits? It's like three, comma, 14, 15, whatever, whatever, whatever. That number, okay, is shorter than the amount of mistakes that you can find on Spanish Dict. It is super funny because every single time that one of my students come to class and asks me, Jose, I have found this online, but I'm not sure if this is correct. I can instantly see if that's from Spanish Dict or not. I mean, the mistakes that that website gives you are so characteristic that it is insane. I don't know how they do it. So you don't want to use Spanish Dict. You want to use WordReference, okay, wordreference.com. WordReference is by far the best online dictionary there is, okay? Every polyglot in this world, every person that I meet on the Polyglot Gathering, they all say the same thing. WordReference is the best thing. Why? Because the amount of information that you get on WordReference is amazing, amazing. One of the worst things when you translate a word, one of the worst things you can do is just put it on Google and check the first translation. For example, to get, coger, wow, to get has like 3 million meanings, depending on the tiny emphasis that you're talking about that you want to give to the sentence. And each one of those emphasis is going to have a Spanish word attached to it. So WordReference is giving you that one by one, all the exact emphasis that you can give to the verb, to get, and the Spanish version. So guys, this is it. Hopefully, you have learned a couple of things in this video. Again, the ranking is not what's important here, because as you can see, the symbols do not represent the real resources, okay? This is just the categories. What's important is that you have learned a little bit about how your brain learns, how your brain memorizes, and you start using resources the right way. Always basing your decisions on the difference between practicing and learning. If you want a little bit more customized help, you can check my classes. You've got all the information on the description, or you can go to polyglotpanda.com and check all the information. Feel free to check everything that I've got for you here. That's all for now. Ciao, pandas!