Spanish Vocabulary A2: Learn 300 Everyday Words from Subtitles (and Fix the Deck)

Deck MT6773 — "Spanish Vocabulary A2 — Everyday" (300 cards) sits between the A1 and B1 decks of the same Flip It series, and it shares their DNA: it is a frequency list pulled from film and TV subtitles, not an A2 textbook syllabus. There are exactly two numbers in it (cinco, cuatro), no days, no colours, and the only food-and-drink item is agua. What you do get is the core of spoken Spanish — and it is worth learning, as long as you study it in the right shape.

Real cards from the deck

What the 300 cards cover

Discourse glue: pues, vaya, venga, quizá/quizás, aunque, mientras, siquiera, todavía, casi, pronto, luego, bastante, cualquier, hacia, durante, contra. Everyday nouns: familia, hermano, hija, esposa, cabeza, ojos, manos, corazón, puerta, ciudad, semana, escuela, teléfono, fiesta, equipo. Subtitle register: policía, muerto, muerte, sangre, guerra, culpa, miedo, capitán. And a lot of verb forms — which is where the deck needs work.

Three structural problems to fix before card 1

1. The deck has three blocks. Cards 1-215 are the frequency list. Cards 216-276 are a separate block of function words (un, una, los, las, su, hay, soy, eres, estar). Cards 277-300 replay the opening: entre (6/277), ustedes (12/280), esos (14/281), chicos (15/282), cuenta (16/283), vaya (20/285), cariño (28/288), pues (46/293), rápido (60/295), cuál (61/296), iba (64/297), dentro (68/298), hacia (76/299). Suspend cards 277-299 and study block 216-276 first — the articles and pronouns there hold the rest together.

2. One verb, nine cards. haber alone appears as hay, he, has, han, hemos, había, haber, haya, hubiera; deber as debo, debes, debe, debemos, debería, deberías; hacer as hago, haces, hace, hice, hiciste, haré. Replace each cluster with one conjugation-table card per verb (haber, deber, hacer, decir, ser, ver): six cards instead of forty.

3. Fragments and wrong glosses. The extractor cut idioms down to one token — supuesto is por supuesto, gustaría is me gustaría, siquiera is ni siquiera. Rewrite those backs with the full phrase. Card 156 merges two words: más (more) and mas (literary "but") are different — nobody says mas for "but" in speech; use pero. Card 92 gives os as "you (plural informal)", but os is the object pronoun; the subject is vosotros.

Study tips specific to this deck

• Pick a variety. coche, venga, tío, vosotros/os are Spain; ustedes for all plural "you" is Latin America. Tag the Spain-only cards so you know what to swap if you learn with Mexican or Colombian material.
• Double-duty words are the exam traps: poder (power / to be able), hecho (fact / done), solo (alone / only), ve (sees / go! / see!). Add the second meaning to the hint field — all 300 hints are empty.

Find the deck in the Flip It library by its code MT6773 at flip-it.app. Next step up, same generator and same fixes: Spanish Vocabulary B1 — 360 flashcards. For the practical side the frequency list skips, pair it with Spanish for Travel & Daily Life.