Project ESPAÑOL

Project ESPAÑOL is an interactive tool for Spanish learners to discover classical poetry suited to their current skill level. It indexes roughly 10,000 public-domain poems spanning five centuries and 200 authors, computationally analyzed by verb tense frequency and grouped into beginner through expert difficulty tiers. Users filter by grammatical features, time period, and author nationality, then explore individual poems with their full grammatical profiles.

The creator built the initial version by hand in late 2024, using large language models to construct a Plotly Dash application. A recent update rewrote the front-end in JavaScript and Plotly.js with Claude's help in under an hour. The tool answers specific queries like identifying which 19th-century poets favored particular verb forms.