Spanish Travel Phrases: 200 Lines You Will Actually Use

Showing a 30-card sample of 200.

Phrasebooks fail on the same two counts. They give you the phrase but not the moment — nobody tells you that in Spain the bill never arrives unless you ask for it, that a shop assistant expects solo estoy mirando, or that hasta luego is the normal goodbye even to a stranger you will never see again. And they are a book, so at the moment you need the line you are flipping pages instead of speaking. This deck covers 200 phrases across seven situations: greetings and small talk, airports and transport, hotels, restaurants, shops and money, directions and sights, and problems and health. Every card gives the Spanish, the English, and one line on when to use it or what will come back at you. Import it and the deck joins your spaced-repetition schedule, so the phrases you can already produce stretch out and vanish while the ones that still need a pause keep coming back. By the time you fly, what is left in rotation is a short list, not two hundred cards.

Frequently asked

Does importing this deck use AI credits?

No. Importing uses the saved deck as published; it does not run AI generation or use AI credits. The complete deck can therefore be imported on the free plan.

What happens if I import the deck twice?

Nothing is duplicated. Cards you already have are skipped and only newly added cards come across. Including re-imports after deleting, each official deck can be imported three times per account.

Can I use it on the web app and the phone app?

Yes. The deck is added to your account, so the same cards and the same progress are available in the web app, the iOS app and the Android app.

Can I edit the cards after importing?

Yes. Imported cards are yours: you can edit both sides, delete cards you do not need, change tags, and move cards to another deck.

What is in the deck?

47 greetings and small talk, 28 airport and transport, 19 hotel, 28 restaurant, 23 shopping and money, 27 directions and sights and 28 problems and health, 200 in total. One phrase per card, so no phrase appears twice.

Do I need to know grammar first?

No. Every card is a complete line you can say as it stands. Where a phrase has a slot you will want to fill — a place name, a food, a body part — the note tells you what goes in it, so one card gives you a family of sentences rather than a single fixed sentence.

Which Spanish is this?

Peninsular Spanish, because that is where most of these situations are named differently. Where a word changes across the Atlantic — billete and boleto, servicios and baño, coger and tomar — the note gives the Latin American form so the card works on either side.

How long before a trip should I start?

Two to three weeks is enough for 200 phrases at a relaxed pace, because spaced repetition stops showing you what you already produce. Starting the night before still helps, but you will be recognising the phrases rather than saying them.