Learn Spanish With Games: 7 Free Games to Improve Your Spanish Skills

Spanish is one of the easiest languages to learn. Besides, there are many useful learning materials to learn both with Spanish tutors or on your own.

However, even though the language isn’t so difficult, the learning process and progress can be hard, especially when your goal is to achieve fluency at a particular time.

When you want to take your time to learn Spanish, you can try playing games. It’s fun and effective at the same time, and, even better, it won't feel like studying.

To keep you occupied, even in the leisure time, here are 7 entertaining games that can help you learn Spanish for free.

Charades

Language skill: Grammar, vocabulary

Best for: Intermediate students

Sometimes, classic is the best solution for practically everything. 

In our case, playing games to learn Spanish with charades isn’t only helpful, but fun, too. This is the game that never gets out of fashion.

But don’t forget that this is a team sport, so before starting to plan any charades game, you have to gather your Spanish friends or other Spanish students.

We suppose that you are already familiar with the rules, so we will suggest only a few modifications. 

For playing charades in Spanish, we suggest you write down the actions on pieces of paper and place them in a bowl. The demonstrator chooses the paper randomly and explains it to the others.

But, only in Spanish! Forget about English while playing Spanish charades.

Cycle Race

Language skill: Vocabulary

Best for: Beginners and intermediate students

This learning game is ideal to boost and improve your Spanish vocabulary.

If you like to compete with the clock then you should try this game.

By clicking the ‘Play Now’ button, a new window appears where you choose the difficulty level and your racer.

And then you start the game.

At the bottom of the screen, you will get questions with possible answers, where you have to choose the correct one. The more right answers you give, the faster your racer goes. In the end, you can win the race only if you’ve answered all the questions correctly.

The questions you usually get are some everyday words and phrases, such as number, months of the year, colors, or greetings.

Juguemos En El Bosque

Language skill: Vocabulary, grammar

Best for: Beginners and intermediate students

If you still haven’t heard, this is one of the most popular games Spanish like to play, especially kids.

This is a team game, so you can organize a game night with other Spanish students, make popcorn, get snacks and drinks, and have fun while playing it.

The game is simple. You gather around and one of you is a wolf. The wolf is in the middle of the circle and the others start to chant ‘Juguemos en el bosque mientras el lobo no está. ¿Lobo estás?’ (Let's play in the forest while the wolf is not there. Are you a wolf?) and the wolf responds by putting the clothes on himself, for example, ‘Me estoy poniendo los pantalones.’ (I’m dressing the pants.) Then the group continues chanting or asking the same questions and the wolf responses ‘Me estoy poniendo el sombrero.’ (I’m putting my sombrero on), and so on. The wolf doesn't have to dress only, but he can do any other action, such as brushing his teeth, preparing lunch, anything that can keep him busy. When the wolf is finished, he can answer ‘¡Sí! Y salgo para perseguirte / ¡Sí! Te voy a comer / ¡Sí! Corre’ (Yes! And I’m going out to chase you / Yes! I'm going to eat you / Yes! Run!)

Spanish Games.net

Language skill: Vocabulary

Best for: Beginners and intermediate students

This website is great for those who want to improve their Spanish thanks to different topics, such as numbers, colors, activity, people, places, school, etc.

It is especially useful because when you choose a particular topic, you get 9 different games that are all about the chosen topic.

There are different games, from the adventurous ones to the word games to help you boost your vocabulary.

Besides games and tests, you can also choose the ‘lessons’ part where you can learn about the particular topic first, and then practice memorizing related words and phrases.

Spanish In Flow

Language skill: Vocabulary

Best for: Beginners and intermediate students

The game is created mainly for beginners, but over time, it is upgraded so that intermediate Spanish learners can use it.

This game is perfect for entertainingly building vocabulary. The game is so fun and addictive that you will be playing it every day.

Before you start playing, you have to choose the game mode, that is, if you want to play in the slow version or the faster one.

After that, you then choose the category. There are plenty of different categories and by putting a mouse on the icon, you can see the list of the words from that category. 

For every word from the category, you have to write down the translation and then move forward to the next one. By clicking the words, you can hear the pronunciation. Then, you have to choose the picture that describes the word.

In this game time is important, so be careful to finish everything on time.

Spanish Scrabble

Language skill: Vocabulary, spelling

Best for: Intermediate and advanced students

Everyone likes playing scrabble. That’s perhaps one of the first entertaining games that are used as a language learning tool as well.

Even though it is fun, it isn’t recommended for beginners because of the words or expressions they have to know if they want to get points and win.

This is the Spanish version of the game. It is a little bit different than the classical game you are used to. You can’t actually play the game online but download and print Spanish letters. Get them ready, invite your Spanish friends over for an entertaining night with Spanish scrabble and snacks. Not only that the fun is guaranteed, but you will improve your vocabulary and spelling, too.

The Dialogue Game

Language skill: Grammar and vocabulary

Best for: Intermediate and advanced students

When you want to combine practicing several skills, in this case, grammar and vocabulary, you should bookmark this game because you will be fascinated.

When you start the game, first you have to choose between categories. After you’ve chosen the grammar area and topic, you will see different dialogues. Then, you can choose one of them. After you click the dialogue, you get the transcript of the dialogue first and when you press ‘Play’ you can listen to the dialogue. When you are finished with the listening part, you’ll get questions to have to answer. If your answer is wrong, the correct one will be shown.

The game is finished when you come to the end of the dialogue.

If you liked the idea of learning Spanish in a fun and entertaining way, you can try 1-on-1 lessons with Spanish tutors. It, perhaps, isn’t a game, but much better than that. Practicing the language with native speakers in a fun and informal way helps you improve some other skills that otherwise you couldn’t do by yourself.