¡ÓRALE!
Illuminated manuscript meets Mexican arcade.
A fully local, single-file HTML app that teaches conversational Mexican Spanish in 26 weeks. No server. No accounts. No dependencies. Open one file and go.
Most language apps want an account.
This one wants a double-click.
¡ÓRALE! is a single ~200 KB orale.html. It runs from your disk, from a USB stick, or from GitHub Pages — with the whole 26-week course, its spaced-repetition engine, audio, games and progress-saving living inside that one file. Nothing phones home. Everything works on a plane.
A whole course, densely packed.
Feature density that rivals multi-file, multi-team apps — all authored append-only inside one script.
Built around a daily ritual.
The app doesn't try to be your whole study plan — it's the practice layer around a proven free audio course. Sixty minutes, four moves.
≈ 170 hours to conversational B1. The month 7–12 extension reaches ~350 hours / B2.
Five zones. Five moods.
One obsidian shell.
A dark manuscript case whose accent color and typography shift as you move between zones — and flips to full parchment in the Códice. The contrast is the product: each room feels like a different room.
"¡Órale! You return, apprentice. The ink is fresh and the codex is open — let us conjugate a verb or two before the sun sets, ¿sí?"
Boringly robust, on purpose.
orale.html. No bundler, no framework, no npm at runtime. Edit it in any text editor.localStorage, with CSV / JSON export & import. No telemetry, ever.Everything a learner reaches for.
SRS Deck
968 cards — vocabulary, phrases, slang, idioms, trabajo — spoken in es-MX, four-grade honest self-rating.
Shadowing Booth
Record your voice, replay, and compare against the native line with speed control.
Listening Lab
20 two-voice dialogues with comprehension questions, unlocked week by week.
Story Mode
Six graded narratives — one per phase — narrated paragraph by paragraph.
Arena & Bosses
Six mini-games plus timed, mixed-skill boss battles that cap each phase.
Conjugation Trainer
12 core verbs across present, preterite, imperfect and ir-a future.
Skill Tree
A five-branch RPG character sheet that levels itself from what you've already done.
The Códice
26-week curriculum with spoken-only grammar, missions and curated free links.
La Cantina
Slang, idioms, false friends, cognates, fun facts and a full media library.
Memory, scheduled.
Every card carries an ease and an interval. Grade it honestly and the algorithm decides when you'll see it next — minutes if you stumbled, a month if it's yours for good.
Four grades
Otra vez — forgot, back in minutes. Difícil — barely, ~a day. Bien — the interval grows. Fácil — it grows faster.
Repair queue
Your mistakes are counted and re-served first, so study time flows toward exactly what you keep missing.
Memory Raids
Surprise checks on cards you thought were mastered — the antidote to false confidence.
Mastery = 21 days
When a card's interval crosses three weeks it counts as learned. Slowly, the deck teaches you it can be trusted.
"Poco, seguido, para siempre — a little, often, forever. That is how the ink sets in the mind, apprentice."
The grind, made a game.
A full arcade layer wraps the study loop — earned, not bought. No leaderboards to lose to; the only opponent is yesterday's you (and, in the final battle, your own Duda — your doubt).
XP & 12 ranks
From Peregrino upward — every review, game and story feeds the bar.
Streaks & pesos
Daily missions, a streak pill, and variable-reward chests to open.
Six themed bosses
El Trabalenguas, El Tragón, La Comadre… ending in La Duda herself.
Clone it. Fork it. Learn from it.
MIT licensed and self-contained. Read the whole app top to bottom in one sitting, or just open it and start studying. Built in the open by a human and a small crew of models.
app/orale.html the entire application app/manifest.webmanifest PWA manifest app/sw.js version-aware offline cache docs/DESIGN.md design system & data schemas docs/CHANGELOG.md version history tools/smoke-test.js headless runtime gate tools/validate-data.js data integrity linter LICENSE MIT
"Ándale pues — the codex is yours now. Study a little today, and a little tomorrow, and one morning you will dream in español. ¡Órale!"
¡ÓRALE! — The Mexican Spanish Codex · single-file PWA · MIT · made with cempasúchil, talavera & a lot of ink.