Advanced Spanish
Master the 10,000 words that stand between you and C1
Hit the wall after B1?
Most classroom curricula run out of road past B1. Past 5,000 words, repetition drops below what incidental learning needs — and the 5k-to-10k stretch is where DELE and SIELE C1 vocabulary lives. Capuchino is built for that stretch.
Find out exactly where your vocabulary runs out: rate about 25 words and see how far you reach among the 10,000 most frequent. The range narrows with every answer. Then get a personal list of the words worth learning next, ready for Anki or any spreadsheet.
Take the free assessmentNo account needed. About 3 minutes.
Example: after 25 answers, the estimated range narrowed to about 1,400 to 6,200 of the most frequent words, with medium confidence: solid up to about 4,200, patchy to about 6,000.
- Questions answered
- 25
- Your range
- 1,400–6,200
- Rough level*
- ≈ B1–B2
- Confidence
- medium
You solidly know roughly the 1,400 to 6,200 most frequent words.
* A rough guide, based on studies of learners of English, French and Spanish, not on the DELE.
Your pattern: Solid up to about 4,200 · patchy from there to about 6,000 · mostly new after that.
- Solid 1–4,200
- Patchy 4,201–6,000
- Mostly new 6,001–10,000
What you can do today
Your gaps, into Anki or any spreadsheet
Capuchino estimates which of the 10,000 most frequent words you probably don’t know yet. Pick the ones you want and download a file Anki imports in one step: the word, its meaning and an example sentence. Export again any time; your cards update, they don’t duplicate. Prefer another app or your own system? Download the same words as a spreadsheet (CSV).
Find your gaps →El faro se alza al borde del acantilado.The lighthouse stands at the edge of the cliff.
Study by topic
Cooking this week? Learning anatomy? Pick a topic, keep only the words you don’t know yet, and send them to Anki or a spreadsheet. Thirty lists are live, from the human body to politics, science and the arts.
Browse topics →The human body
511 words
Food and drink
364 words
Around the kitchen
118 words
Check any Spanish text
Paste an article or a chapter, and see which words in it are beyond your current range, before they trip you up.
Analyze a text →From a recent editorial
El periodista descubrió que el acantilado no era simplemente metafórico. Su prosa fluía, pero ciertas palabras resbalaban sin arraigar.
Master the connectorsEarly access
Train the connectors that separate B2 from C1 writing: habida cuenta de que, si bien, de ahí que. Practice about 245 of them in real sentences, from A2 to C1: recognize them first, then type them yourself, with spaced review until they stick.
Practice connectors →Las redes prometían mejorar la sociedad. (gap), han creado más conflictos.
- sin embargo
- por eso
- además
- es decir
Correct: sin embargo means “however”.
Study with your teacherNew
Invite your teacher or tutor. They see your progress and can comment; you choose what’s shared. Drill here, and spend your lesson on what needs a person.
Invite your teacher →Assessment · 1,800–4,300 · ≈ B1–B2
Connectors · Produce · 8 of 10
Exported 40 words to Anki: work and careers
Marta, your teacher: ¡Muy bien! Mañana practicamos «si bien» en conversación.
Start with three minutes
See where your Spanish vocabulary runs out. Then turn your gaps into flashcards, in Anki or your own system, topic by topic.
Coming soon
What we’re building next.
- Coming soon
Feedback on your writing
Write a paragraph, and get corrections that separate real errors from style, and track the mistakes you keep making.
- Coming soon
Say it in Spanish
Test whether you can produce a word, not just recognize it: half of the DELE C1 is writing and speaking.
- Coming soon
Review my guesses
Quickly confirm or correct the words we’ve only inferred you know, so your list gets sharper every week.
- Coming soon
Progress over time
See your range move as you learn, answer by answer and week by week.
- Coming soon
More topic lists
False friends, words for argument, regional Spanish, and more.
- Coming soon
Hear every word
Native pronunciation for the words on your list.
Build in public
A word from the founders
Capuchino is an early prototype, built in public. Today you can measure how far your vocabulary reaches, see your likely gaps, study thirty topic lists, and export to Anki without duplicates or to a spreadsheet. Plenty is still thin: no audio yet, one frequency list, self-rating only. We’re sharing it now to learn from real learners.
“If you are not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you’ve launched too late.”
If you’re past B1 and tired of apps that teach you to introduce yourself again — you are exactly who Capuchino is for.