EWA: Learn English & Spanish

I really like content. Love the books and video snippets. Basically Duolingo on steroids, without the owl. Never liked the 'competition' aspect. It's bad enough having 'streaks.' I would much prefer just moving through the content. Also, the necessity of yet another "subscription". I would much rather buy a set of content and purchase additional as necessary. Then it's mine to go back and re-use, or add to, just like any library. Affordability is a 'thing.'

This app had good reviews for learning and having AI features to have real conversations with, so I paid quite a lot considering, for a subscription. To begin with it's pretty basic and doesn't really challenge you enough and practically gives you the answers. I went to use the AI tutor and found that it's at least an extra £100 on top, which I assumed was included for the price I paid. I'm trying my best to stay engaged with it but I'm finding it boring so looking for a better app now.

Very disappointed. I'm intermediate in Spanish and thought this'd be a fun way to keep up some skills. Unfortunately, while the majority of the spoken words are clearly by native Spanish speakers, there are multiple times they use someone who has absolutely no clue how to pronounce words in Spanish. someone literally says "hu-oy" for hoy (pronounced oy). I played it several times because I thought I had to be wrong. Also examples where the vowel sounds are just butchered. Just very poorly done

Sadly, games are only available for Spanish... I'm trying to learn French. I think this app has a lot of potential. I wish there was more listening content beyond the books and a prompted journal section for writing practice that aligns with where you're at in the course. They cancelled my subscription and reinstated it when I emailed them but couldn't explain why it was revoked. I'm glad it's working again but I really wish there were vocab games for the other available languages.

I am waiting to be refunded. I installed and paid for the 3 month subscription just yesterday. there is a 14 day trial. I am not happy with the service. I contacted the "bot" and I am still waiting for confirmation of the refund. It cleverly canceled my subscription in 3 months as opposed to a refund. I do not want this service. when I did the placement I answered all of the simple questions correctly which would for sure place me in an intermediate level, however my first lesson was greetings.

I really like the language learning aspects and definitely think it's worth the money for that. However, there are ten million gameification pop-ups about streak freezes and setting goals and earning badges that make it difficult to actually use the app. I wish I could turn all that garbage off and just practice the language. I'm not interested in being celebrated for every little thing I do or having to swipe through five pop ups every time I want to navigate to a new book.

Great for beginner Spanish, but it has several problems. The app is inefficient (one lesson every 24 hours) unless you pay for premium, which is a pretty steep price for what it's worth. I'm only sticking with it for a year because I got a good deal but I'd have to pay a ridiculous price once it renews. Sometimes translations are inaccurate, and some words in the word match game are so similar that it's more of a lucky guess than actual vocab memorization. (ex- usted and tú are both "you")

Won't allow me to progress past A2. After testing out of everything and then completely all the lessons, I messaged support about the issue and they just keep saying next levels will open up when they are ready. They won't even admit to a technical issue. Wasted my money and I couldn't learn anything. It could have been a good opportunity to learn if it worked correctly.

Translations are often incorrect with respect to gender. English pronunciations of Spanish words is not helpful. Some words have completely wrong translations compared to the text. Some words aren't even clickable to see the translation. It would be nice to see parallel text instead of clicking the translate bubble for each line. Maybe allow a toggle for that. When words have been "learned" (practiced twice), they disappear from my review list. I'd like to decide when to do that. MORE...

I took a quiz prior to starting the lessons. It seems that no matter how many words you know, you still start with "hola" and the very basics. It feels like a waste of the free 7 day trial. I do like the visual and audio lessons, but I am still completing lessons for words/phrases that I already have learned. That's a little disappointing, especially since there was an assessment.

Seems like a cute app to help you learn languages, especially if you're into gifs and memes. I'm glad it gives you a three-day trial because it just wasn't the app for me. You go through a quick quiz to determine your language level and even though I'm intermediate, I was started off on Hola and Cómo está. I went through and did a vocabulary test and was given the level of intermediate but still couldn't find an easy way to jump past all the introductory content. Maybe better for beginners...

Do not download unless you plan to pay for a subscription 12$ plus ( the one month subscription) This app does have some free content you can use but in terms of lessons, you basically can blow through the free lessons in 2 mins and then it wants you to buy premium to keep going. Seems like fun but honestly I just don't have the $$$ it costs.

Unless you are an absolute beginner, this app is a waste of time and money. I downloaded this after learning Spanish for over two years, interacting with Latinos on a daily basis for work. EWA did the typical quiz to test how much I knew. Despite me getting over 90% of the translations correct, they put me at beginner where my first lesson had me translate "hola" ten times. So I decided instead to check out their audiobooks, but the audio doesn't work. I want my money back.

Same as others, it asked me what level I am, I said int, it tested me, then started me on hola. Then it stopped letting me do lessons unless I pay for a year. Figured I'd keep the app so I could read the very very very small selection of books they offer for free. It would be an amazing app it there was a free version. And more books for free. Or you could buy individual books that aren't free with some inapp currency that you could earn thru games? Wish it was better. Uninstalling.

It starts out kind of slowly, but you end up getting hooked into more and more by the clever clips you listen to. Somebody spent a lot of time and care to find those clips from movies, TV shows, podcasts and other media. This forces me to practice the listening part of my learning, which, after all, is critical to using the language. The lessons are short enough I can log on between things and complete a quick lesson, master a concept

It's a great program for learning a language. My issue is it requires a subscription. I would rather deal with ads or one time fee. Subscriptions are money sieves and marketing trickery. I changed my rati g from 2 to 4 just because the developers are actually listening which is far more than most app developers. I would rather be in a place of encouragement than discouragement when they earnestly want to do a good job. Even if I don't like the payment system. Good luck developers.

On the advertisement you can go over every word and swipe up when you want a definition. In the actual app you have a finite amount of words you are able to swipe up to find the definition. So, for example, in a sentence they may have the verbs available for translation but not the nouns, etcetera. So I have to open Google translate to find the meaning of the words they don't translate. Thus, making the ease of reading arduous, which was the main appeal in downloading this app....for me.

The concept of how the app is teaching a language is interesting, I can see myself using this a good bit. I only wish the test at the beginning to gauge level of understanding was actually used to put me at an appropriate starting point. after 2 lessons I wasnt allowed to progress forward unless I paid for the subscription, now I feel as if I'm wasting my money by having to spend time within my paid subscription rushing through these beginning lessons of words/phrases I already know.

I made the mistake of signing up for a subscription before trying it out since it was a good offer. I wanted to use the app to improve my Spanish by reading books in Spanish and being able to see the translation when needed. I was very disappointed to find two mistakes in translation and two words not even translated in the first two paragraphs of the first book I tried to read. I don't feel like any of them were super uncommon and one was a simple pronoun. I want to trust what I learn from.

Really awesome app. Unfortunately it will be kept out of a lot of people's hands due to a subscription fee. Wish the pricing was a little more affordable. Or the trial period longer... 3 days seems very short for someone who works full time and can only spare 10 mins a day or so. I don't want to commit that much money to something I've barely gotten to use.