An Understandable Spanish-First Dictionary
Coming August 2026 for Kindle and iOS. Android and web versions available late 2026. Email patrick@holameanshola.com if you want more info or if you want to be one of the early testers!
Hola Means Hola is built for Spanish learners who want to stay in Spanish. English hints are available with a press, but the dictionary is designed to be fully usable without them.
After the top 1,000 words, every entry is defined using only words more common than itself, and every definition is written to avoid circular explanations.
The result is a frequency-ordered dictionary that you can literally read front to back and understand.
There are 25,000 entries in this scrollable dictionary, while search covers more than 75,000 words and 450,000 forms, so conjugations, plurals, and inflected forms still lead you back to the word you need.
Listen Up
All 500 pages of the readable dictionary are also available in two listening modes: Spanish-only and bilingual.
(note that there's an option to skip obvious English cognates like 'animal' if you'd prefer to not listen to them.)
Spanish mode
Reads the word, definition, and example sentence in Spanish.
Page 5 (Words 201 - 250)
Page 150 (Words 7,451 - 7,500)
Page 400 (Words 19,951 - 20,000)
Bilingual mode
Reads the word, example sentence, and English translation of the example sentence.