Dicho español · Spanish proverb
«De los errores se aprende.»
Word for word
From errors one learns.
What it really means
The closest English equivalent: You learn from your mistakes.
A common phrase to encourage someone after a failure. It emphasizes that mistakes are valuable lessons rather than reasons to give up.
Hear it in a sentence
Perdiste la partida, pero de los errores se aprende.
You lost the game, but you learn from your mistakes.
Why learn dichos?
Proverbs like this one are everywhere in spoken Spanish — dropped mid-conversation, usually just the first half, with the rest left for you to complete. Recognizing them is one of the fastest ways to sound less like a textbook and follow real speech. Every Lingocito edition signs off with the dicho del día, so you meet one a day next to news written at your exact level.