Never ask “did you practise?” again.
You see your student once a week. Most of what you taught on Monday is gone by Thursday. Chuleta puts it back — three short bursts of speaking and listening practice, built from exactly what you covered.
Apply for the founding 10 →I'm a Spanish tutor. I got stuck.
I've taught Spanish for years — absolute beginners through to A-level. Along the way I built up a mountain of my own resources: worksheets, question banks, role-play cards, the lot. Tried and tested on real students who told me, fairly bluntly, which bits were rubbish.
Earlier this year I hit a wall. My GCSE students needed speaking practice before their exams, and I was completely stumped. Speaking is the one thing you cannot do alone, and it's the one thing I couldn't scale. Thirty students. One of me. Everyone needing individual attention on their pronunciation, and no honest way to give it to them.
So I built a rough demo — an app that would listen to them practise and tell them what to fix. It was held together with tape. It worked. The results were good enough that I stopped thinking of it as a stopgap.
I've spent this summer going back through fifteen years of notes, throwing out what didn't work, and turning the rest into something other tutors can use. That's Chuleta.
— Guillermo
You set the boundary. It does the rest.
After your lesson, three clicks: topic, tenses you covered, how many times this week. That's the whole boundary — nothing outside it ever gets served.
Inside it, every student gets different material based on what they keep getting wrong. Same assignment, two students, two different sets.
Press play. Sara Martin, a real Spanish voice — not a synthesiser.
What is Sara’s favourite subject?
That was one of six tasks built from that single sentence — and the only one you just did. Your student meets música six different ways, which is why it sticks.
The other five, from the same sentence:
What is Sara’s favourite subject?
Why?
The second half of the sentence — the part students stop listening to.
Played whole, then in sections, then whole again.
Mi asignatura favorita es la música.
Scored on the sound–symbol pairs the mark scheme names.
They answer out loud. Same vocabulary, now coming out of them.
Meeting a word six different ways beats meeting it six times the same way. It's why this works better than a flashcard app.
Open Monday's lesson already knowing.
Who practised
And who didn't, before you're sitting in front of them.
What broke
The words they keep missing — and the ones they got right but slowly, which is different.
Which sounds slip
“Ana's ge/gi is costing her marks.” Named by the sound, the way the examiner marks it.
Something to show parents
A monthly report. Proof they're getting what they pay for.
What it is, and isn't.
I'm looking for ten tutors.
Not a hundred. Ten — people I can actually talk to, who'll tell me what's annoying and what's missing, and who'll shape this while it's still soft enough to change.
You get: everything, free, permanently. Up to 15 students.
I get: twenty minutes on the phone once a month, and permission to quote you.
Thanks — I'll be in touch personally, not by autoresponder.
You cannot cram a language.
Every other subject rewards a hard fortnight in May. History dates, physics equations, quote banks — all of it can be loaded late and still score. A parent has watched an older sibling do exactly that and pass.
Languages don't work that way, and it isn't a matter of effort. Speaking and listening are automatic skills. In the exam a student has seconds to retrieve a word, inflect it, and say it out loud to an examiner. Something you revised last week is not yet automatic — it's still being looked up. Under pressure, the lookup fails.
hours to basic fluency in Spanish, on the standard estimate
hours a weekly tutor gives across a whole year
The gap isn't a failing on anyone's part. It's the shape of the subject. Which is why what happens in the other six days decides the grade.
So the honest thing to tell a parent is: starting starts now. Not in March, when there's a mock result to react to. A student who meets a word in September and again in November and again in February owns it by June. A student who meets it three times in April has revised it, which is a different thing, and the examiner can tell.
Chuleta doesn't add teaching hours — you do that. It stops what you taught leaking away before the next lesson, and it gives you something to show for it: “Ana has met 23 of the 41 words the board can test on Free time.” That's a sentence a parent understands and can see progress in.
No streaks, no leaderboards, no notifications competing for your student's evening. The deadline is real — 9 June 2027 — so nothing here needs to invent urgency.
Home educators
If you're teaching GCSE Spanish at home, the speaking paper is the hardest part to prepare for — there's nobody to practise with, and finding a centre that will take a private candidate for the speaking assessment is its own headache.
Chuleta wasn't built for home ed, but it might fit it better than anything else. Same form above — say so in the last box and I'll get in touch.