- The DELE tests recall, and reading on its own mostly builds recognition.
- School & exams makes the swaps lean toward academic vocabulary.
- A steady pace beats cramming, and ten words a day suits a fixed date.
Why DELE vocabulary needs recall
Most of your DELE vocabulary has to come from somewhere other than class time, and reading is the obvious source. The catch is what reading gives you. In one study, learners who met words ten or more times in a novel recognised 84% of them, yet they could recall the meaning of only 55%.
After 10+ encounters in a novel. Pellicer-Sánchez & Schmitt, 2010.
Exams like the DELE ask you to write and speak, so they rely on that second, smaller number rather than the first one.
Set it up for the exam
Pick Spanish and choose School & exams as your reason, and NativeLingo will give a small boost to academic, exam-style words.
Then take the level test or set the level you are studying for, because words far above it stay off your pages.
A routine that fits a busy week
After that, keep reading whatever you read now. NativeLingo swaps about one word in a hundred, so your pages stay easy to follow.
Do the review once a day. Since you type each word, it trains recall, which is exactly the skill the exam checks.
Pick a pace you can hold
With a fixed exam date, ten new words a day is a good pace, and after a year it settles at 13–20 minutes of review a day.
If reviews pile up, new words pause until you catch up, so the schedule stays honest even in exam season.
What it won’t do
NativeLingo teaches vocabulary and nothing else. It has no grammar lessons, and it offers no listening or speaking practice either.
That is why it works best next to your course, where it covers the part that usually eats your evenings: learning enough words.
Questions
No. It leans toward academic vocabulary, but it doesn’t follow an official list.
A1 to C1, and you can either set your level or take the three-minute test.
Yes. School & exams works the same way for Goethe, DELF and other exams in all eight languages.