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Use to help get to the next level
I have used a mixture of other apps to help learn a second language. I think that this app primarily with the ability to read books and inspect words, helped me to continue learning when I felt stuck with other apps. I hope in future updates they allow the inspection of conjugated words exactly as they appear and not show only the base of the word when inspecting in a book or article. I also hope they add more modern content. Classic literature is great but as a beginner the classic language usage is old and so trying to understand the translation from old English to modern usage adds another layer of complexity. Kudos to the developers.Show lessNickname4Review?
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Dear EWA, I APPRECIATE the pop culture video visuals, (truly, I do), but as a newly paying customer, and a linguist, I would say that the literal interpretation and impression is more important than ONLY USING A General idea translation. I have yet to see that “Au revoir” technically means “Until I see you again” for example. (For the record, when you see an all-caps word from me, it is not indicating anger, but passion and emphasis). Also, one important way that those who see AND hear naturally learn is by listening AND a certain, natural, undeniable amount of lip-reading. If the video used is only a dubbed version and not using native speakers, the lip movements will not be accurate, so please shorten the gap between dubbed movies vs. native movies. It would make the most sense. French cinema is replete with options, since it is pretty vast. Mind you it ought to be kept family friendly… Also, (?) we need to be able to disagree with an “incorrect” answer when your questions and answers are a little faulty. Duolingo has that capability. Please improve these things. God bless, and Merry Christmas. Also, I personally don’t appreciate the woke video indicating two mothers for one child. Mismatched dubs are particularly noticeable and disturbingly distracting when I am trying to have a seamless learning experience. Again, thank you for everything!
Also, you need more languages here.Show lessmiguelbiblia
Developer Response
Hello! Thank you for your feedback. We’ll send your review to our specialists to discuss🙌🏻We’d like to assure you that we’re working so hard on EWA everything and doing our best to improve its quality🙏🏻 If you have any questions, kindly contacts us directly from EWA’s settings!Important Trajectory Corrections
Dear EWA,
I APPRECIATE the pop culture video visuals, (truly, I do), but as a newly paying customer, and a linguist, I would say that the literal interpretation and impression is more important than ONLY USING A General idea translation. I have yet to see that “Au revoir” technically means “Until I see you again” for example.
(For the record, when you see an all-caps word from me, it is not indicating anger, but passion and emphasis).
Also, one important way that those who see AND hear naturally learn is by listening AND a certain, natural, undeniable amount of lip-reading. If the video used is only a dubbed version and not using native speakers, the lip movements will not be accurate, so please shorten the gap between dubbed movies vs. native movies. It would make the most sense. French cinema is replete with options, since it is pretty vast. Mind you it ought to be kept family friendly…
Also, (?) we need to be able to disagree with an “incorrect” answer when your questions and answers are a little faulty. Duolingo has that capability. Please improve these things.
God bless, and Merry Christmas.
Also, I personally don’t appreciate the woke video indicating two mothers for one child.
Mismatched dubs are particularly noticeable and disturbingly distracting when I am trying to have a seamless learning experience.
Again, thank you for everything!Show lessDeveloper Response
Hello! Thank you for your feedback. We’ll send your review to our specialists to discuss🙌🏻We’d like to assure you that we’re working so hard on EWA everything and doing our best to improve its quality🙏🏻 If you have any questions, kindly contacts us directly from EWA’s settings!3 points to improve the site
It's good that there are games with real people!
It is good that I have access to my previously learned words so I can see it and repeat!
It is bad that: 1. There is no proper work with new learned words - there are no examples with them : phrases and sentences with them. Therefore, after a few days, the learned words are easily forgotten 2. The indicator of learned words (there are also another two indicates: the lessons learned, pages read), does not work correctly. -always I see "0" , although I learned a lot of new words. 3. Crossword puzzles often use the same words, their set is really small; it is necessary to add more different words in crossword puzzles, because interest is lost. Thank you for Good work!Show lessNikki 227789
Developer Response
Hello! Thank you for your feedback. We’ll send your review to our specialists to discuss🙌🏻We’d like to assure you that we’re working so hard on EWA everything and doing our best to improve its quality🙏🏻 If you have any questions, kindly contacts us directly from EWA’s settings!Terrible app, good library
I tried the app free, and was extremely disappointed with the quality of the lessons. The “lessons” are pretty much just a single word repeated a several times, and each lesson takes “energy” to unlock. The catch is that the energy takes several hours to accumulate, and unlike duolingo, these points can’t be unlocked by practicing, which makes the app practically impossible to learn from without the paid version. I can pretty much only do two, maybe three lessons a day, and even if I instantly retained the information in each lesson, it would take me 18 years to learn 20,000 words, the active vocabulary of the average English speaker. The only thing salvagable in this app is the library, which has several books in each target language. Even still, however, the translations are often very inaccurate, forcing me to use a dictionary from a different app to understand new words. It also irritated me that even though it asks for your language level, the lessons don’t actually change if you select intermediate/advanced, meaning that more experienced language learners have to trudge through the greetings and beginner phrases before being able to get into the good stuff. All and all, the app was a pretty good idea, but very poorly executed.Show lessUnicat059
Developer Response
Hello! Thank you for your feedback. We’ll send your review to our specialists to discuss🙌🏻We’d like to assure you that we’re working so hard on EWA everything and doing our best to improve its quality🙏🏻 If you have any questions, kindly contacts us directly from EWA’s settings!Introduction is time walled, images are unhelpful, learning concept is flawed.
Downloaded this app on the hopes it might be any use. Tried a vocabulary lesson. Straight into spelling words. Here is a news flash for all the big brains that decided how to teach a language. No child acquired a language by knowing how to spell in it. The images provided for nouns being pronounced did not include the actual subject, what are you trying to teach? Here is another obvious but ignored fact about language learning: While the alphabet is the same in western languages many of the letters and the letter combinations representing word sounds in one language are not the same in another. So maybe you bright guys could focus on teaching comprehension and pronunciation before trying to get an overloaded brain to decipher several levels of symbolism that does not match 8 years reading training in persons native language.
This system of teaching is just as bad as any I have seen and you will probably not learn to speak your language or even make any real progress. But it is hard to tell because when I tried the book read along and tried to go back to translate a few words it left the book and time blocked me before I got anywhere.Show lessAreNGee
Developer Response
Hello, sorry for any inconveniences! Contact our support team support@appewa.com, please! We’ll check the problem and find solution as soon as possible :)Great app.. for a little while
I was having a great time using this app and I was using it everyday and I got to level 7 (for reference, I was learning French) and I was like ok cool next and the app prompted me to use 30 energy which was strange because the other levels I could just use and whatnot, but I shrugged it off until I got to the next level which also prompted me to use 30 energy which was kind of frustrating but again whatever, until I left the lesson to go check out the books, and when I left, the lessons I just completed were grey meaning I couldn’t click on them without subscribing for about $27 a month which yea it’s not that much but I’m a student at a university and I don’t have extra money to just throw down for an app that wont let me progress to a certain level. I wish that the levels I used energy for would at least stay so I could go back to them. But sadly no. In the next update PLEASE let users keep the levels they are on so they can go back without having to repeat the same lesson over and over again. And if you can’t do that at least lower the monthly price or have a lower price for students.Show lessH3rd1
Developer Response
Hello! Sorry for any inconveniences! Contact our support team support@appewa.com, please! We’ll check the problem and find solution as soon as possible🙌🏻My first couple days with the app…
I have used a good bit of language learning apps to continue learning Spanish. I speak Spanish pretty well, but there’s always more to learn!
This app…within days…has been a game changer. The games are fun. The lessons are actually really in depth and informative despite only sharing a small amount of content at a time. And the catalogue of books available is just insane.
I’ve been looking far and wide for a language learning app that can really help improve my reading, and this one answers all my prayers lol
Use it! Pay for it! It’s worth it!Show lessDisney Fan 1234
Almost there
The app is cool because it allows you to read stories in different languages while being able to tap on different words that you don’t know to get their meanings.
One of the issues I have with the app, however, is that the flashcards feature which allows you to save words from your reading that you would like to learn. The saving words part works fine. The problem lies in the fact when you open the card it pronounces the word using text-to-speech. The problem is that the app didn’t pronounce the words correctly for me. (I tried this using French).Show lessAndy Se
Apparently only basic levels of Spanish are offered.
I finished the basic level for the Spanish course and was very disappointed to discover that the VERY basics is as far as it goes. Thinking I must be mistaken, I reached out to support several times over the course of the past week. I have received no reply. It's a shame - I was actually enjoying the app for the most part. Visually speaking it is very well designed and interface is intuitive. That said, the beginner level is actually less extensive that what you get from Duolingo for free. I know this because I have completed the entire Duolingo Spanish course. The library feature is pretty cool but it alone is not worth the cost, imo. I can't speak about the other language offerings but if you are wanting to learn Spanish beyond beginner level, maybe pass on this app. I hate leaving negative reviews and rarely do. If it were a $10 app, I would have just moved on. But a hundo is a hundo and this is not a hundo level offering. I'll will of course revise this review should it turn out that I have been mistaken and the issue can be fixed with the help of support. Otherwise I would recommend Spanish learners take a hard pass on this one until the course is more robust and meaningful. Sorry.Show lessTonyMiller
