Languages posters
LearnPosters has 100 free printable languages posters, grouped into 4 topics: Spanish, French, German, How languages work. The tables you cannot learn by immersion alone. They are made for any age — a nine-year-old and a forty-year-old reach for the same chart. Every one downloads as a vector PDF that prints sharp on US Letter, A4 or a copy-shop A1.
Conjugations, gender and the handful of rules that unlock a language's grammar. Authored natively per language rather than translated — a Spanish verb chart is not an English one in Spanish. Non-Latin scripts arrive with the Phase 2 font work.
100 free printable posters · 4 topics · vector PDF
Spanish
Verbs, ser vs estar, and the accent rules.
Ser vs Estar
Two verbs meaning 'to be', and the rule that decides between them.
Spanish Present Tense
All three regular conjugations side by side, endings picked out.
Spanish Accents
Where the stress falls by default, and why a written accent appears.
Por vs Para
The other pair that maps onto one English word — and where the line sits.
Preterite vs Imperfect
Two past tenses, and the question that decides between them.
The Subjunctive
When Spanish switches mood, and the acronym that covers the triggers.
Spanish Pronouns
Subject, direct, indirect and reflexive — all four sets in one grid.
Future & Conditional
Two tenses with one set of endings, added to the whole infinitive.
Gustar & Friends
The backwards verbs, and why the grammar feels inverted.
Spanish Numbers
One to a million, with the joins that are irregular.
Time & Dates
Telling the time and writing the date, including the traps.
False Friends
Words that look English and are not, ranked by how often they cause trouble.
Commands
The imperative forms, and where the pronouns attach.
Reflexive Verbs
When subject and object are the same, and the verbs that change meaning.
Por & Para at a Glance
One quick test for each case, when the full rule is too slow.
Adjective Agreement
How adjectives change, and where they go relative to the noun.
Question Words
All of them, with accents — and why the accent is not optional.
Perfect Tenses
Haber plus a participle — and how the participle is formed.
Spanish Pronunciation
The rules, and why Spanish spelling is so much easier than English.
Greetings & Courtesy
What to say when, and the formality that decides between tú and usted.
The Near Future
The easiest future tense, and why learners use it more than the real one.
Connectors
The linking words that make speech sound fluent rather than assembled.
Diminutives
The -ito ending, and the four things it actually signals.
Regional Spanish
How Spain and Latin America differ, and whether it actually matters.
The Many Uses of Se
Six different jobs done by one two-letter word.
Understanding Fast Spanish
Why native speech sounds faster than the textbook, and what to train.
French
Gender, pronunciation and the verbs that refuse to behave.
French Noun Gender
The word endings that reliably predict masculine or feminine.
Avoir & Être
The two verbs everything else is built on, in the present tense.
French Pronunciation
The rules that explain why the spelling and the sound disagree.
Passé Composé
The everyday past tense, and the rule for choosing avoir or être.
The Être Verbs
Sixteen verbs take être in compound tenses — the house that holds them.
L'Imparfait
The other past tense, and the one ending set that covers every verb.
Passé Composé vs Imparfait
Choosing between the two past tenses, with the test that decides it.
The Future
Both futures — the simple one and the near one — and when to use each.
Le Subjonctif
When French switches mood, and the phrases that force it.
Negation
The two-part negative, and where each half goes.
Articles
Definite, indefinite and partitive — and the one English does not have.
Adjective Placement
Most adjectives follow the noun. A short list goes before it.
French Pronouns
Subject, object, y and en — and the order they appear in.
Asking Questions
Three ways to form a question, ranked by formality.
French Numbers
One to a million, including the notorious seventies and nineties.
Time & Dates
Telling time on a 24-hour clock, and writing the date.
False Friends
Words that look English and mean something else.
Liaison
When to link words together, when not to, and why it matters.
The Imperative
Giving instructions, and the small spelling change in the tu form.
Qui, Que, Dont, Où
The four relative pronouns, and the test that picks the right one.
The Conditional
Would, could, should — and the si clause rules.
Politeness & Register
Tu and vous, and the formulas that are genuinely expected.
Y and En
Two tiny words that replace whole phrases.
French Accents
The five accent marks, what each does, and when it changes meaning.
The Verbs You Need First
The twelve highest-frequency verbs, in the present tense.
German
Cases, gender and the word order that trips everyone.
The Four Cases
Every article form in one grid — the table German keeps referring to.
German Word Order
Where the verb goes — the rule that governs every German sentence.
German Plurals
Five plural patterns, and which nouns take which.
Present Tense
Regular endings, and the stem-changing verbs that break them.
Sein, Haben, Werden
The three auxiliaries, fully conjugated, and what each one builds.
The Perfect Tense
The spoken past tense, and choosing between haben and sein.
Separable Verbs
Verbs that split in half, where each half goes, and how to spot them.
Modal Verbs
The six modals, and where the second verb goes.
Adjective Endings
The endings that follow from case, gender and which article precedes.
Prepositions & Case
Which case each preposition takes, grouped so they can be learnt as sets.
Noun Gender
The endings that reliably predict der, die or das.
Forming Plurals
The five plural patterns, with the gender each tends to follow.
Question Words
The w-words, and the case some of them change with.
Time Expressions
Telling the time, and the halb that catches everyone out.
German Numbers
One to a million, and the units-before-tens order.
Konjunktiv II
The polite and hypothetical mood, and the würde shortcut.
The Passive
Formed with werden, and how it differs from a description with sein.
Relative Clauses
The relative pronouns, and the word order they force.
Compound Nouns
How German builds long nouns, and how to read one.
Da- & Wo- Compounds
Replacing a preposition plus a thing with a single word.
False Friends
German words that look English and mean something else.
The Imperative
Three command forms, and where the pronoun goes.
The Genitive
Possession, the endings it adds, and why it is receding from speech.
German Pronunciation
The letters that do not say what an English speaker expects.
The Verbs You Need First
The most frequent verbs, present tense, in one place.
How languages work
Scripts, sounds and the patterns shared across all of them.
The IPA
Why one alphabet for all sounds, and how to read the symbols.
How Consonants Are Made
Place, manner and voicing — three questions that identify any consonant.
The Vowel Space
How vowels are described, and why they resist neat letters.
Morphology
How words are built from smaller meaningful pieces.
Word Order
How the world's languages order subject, verb and object.
Writing Systems
The four ways writing can encode a language.
Language Families
The largest families, and what family membership actually means.
Cognates & Loanwords
Two ways words in different languages come to resemble each other.
Grammatical Gender
What gender is in grammar, and why it usually has nothing to do with sex.
Tense, Aspect & Mood
Three separate things English bundles together, and how to tell them apart.
Grammatical Case
What case marking does, and why English mostly lost it.
Phonemes & Allophones
Sounds that change meaning, and sounds that merely vary.
Etymology
How word meanings drift over time, in recognisable patterns.
Dialect & Accent
Two words often confused, and what separates a language from a dialect.
Learning a Second Language
What the research supports about how adults actually acquire a language.
False Cognates
Words that look related and are not, and why they are so persistent.
Pragmatics
How meaning depends on context, and what politeness actually encodes.
Code-Switching
Alternating between languages, and why it is a skill rather than a lapse.
Sign Languages
Full natural languages, and the myths that persist about them.
First Language Acquisition
The stages every child passes through, and roughly when.
Register
Fitting language to the situation, and the levels languages distinguish.
How Languages Change
The forces that change every living language, whatever anyone prefers.
What Resists Translation
The kinds of meaning that do not transfer cleanly between languages.
Bilingualism
What speaking two languages does and does not do, as the evidence stands.
Questions about the Languages posters
- What is the Languages section of LearnPosters?
- The tables you cannot learn by immersion alone. Conjugations, gender and the handful of rules that unlock a language's grammar. Authored natively per language rather than translated — a Spanish verb chart is not an English one in Spanish. Non-Latin scripts arrive with the Phase 2 font work.
- What topics do the Languages posters cover?
- 100 posters across 4 topics. Spanish — Verbs, ser vs estar, and the accent rules. French — Gender, pronunciation and the verbs that refuse to behave. German — Cases, gender and the word order that trips everyone. How languages work — Scripts, sounds and the patterns shared across all of them.
- Who are the Languages posters for?
- The languages charts are for any age; a nine-year-old and a forty-year-old reach for the same one. Nothing here is tied to a school year, so a curious beginner and someone revising the same material for an exam are looking at the same languages chart.
- Which Languages poster should I print first?
- Ser vs Estar, Spanish Present Tense and Spanish Accents are the ones people reach for first — they are the references the rest of the languages set assumes you already have on the wall.Ser vs EstarSpanish Present TenseSpanish Accents
- Are the Languages posters free to print?
- Yes — all 100 of them. Each languages poster is a free vector PDF that needs no account, prints on US Letter or A4, and enlarges to A1 without softening. Home, classroom, library and tutoring use are all covered by the licence.Read the licence
Where the languages charts come from
These posters summarise. When you need the full account — or the normative text a chart is compressing — start here.
- Common European Framework of Reference for Languages — Council of Europe. The A1–C2 scale the vocabulary and grammar sets are pitched against.
- International Phonetic Alphabet — International Phonetic Association. The official chart behind every pronunciation symbol used here.