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Best app I’ve used for learning Spanish
Not for absolute beginners, but once you have a grasp of the foundations, this is excellent. You can listen at whatever speed you like, target to individual sentences at a time, view full translations as well as key words and phrases, can listen with a transcript or without or even with part of one. Most importantly, you get to hear wonderful stories.
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Effective
I ditched Duo for JiveWorld because I needed something to boost my listening skills. The stories are real, represent multiple accents from around the world, and are engaging. Listening at .8 speed, being able to study at my pace, and chunking sound bites allows me to use the app in a way that is most effective for me. I consider JiveWorld the most effective part of my practice - which includes a tutor twice a week, listening to other sources, book reading, and studying. I would recommend for anyone who is serious about developing listening skills.
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Great!
Really awesome stories and great for listening, actually really enjoy getting to do this activity for learning Spanish
Listening comprehension for intermediate adult learners
At last. A program geared for intermediate learners who can read Spanish but can’t comprehend the spoken word. Fantastic, in-depth feature stories, carefully researched and crafted by NPR-sponsored journalists, kept me coming back EVERY DAY. Not only am I learning to listen, I’m also learning so much about multiple Latino countries and cultures. What a pleasure!!!
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Critical for comprehension practice
Although I’m a fluent Spanish speaker in my 40s who learned Spanish since age 6 via an immersion school, I am still not at native proficiency. Part of that is due to how difficult listening comprehension can be. But thanks to JiveWorld, I’ve been slowly chipping away at my comprehension obstacles for months now. This is such an incredibly important app for proficient and fluent speakers who want to take their Spanish to the ultimate level.
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An essential resource for learning Spanish
Once you become a more advanced Spanish speaker, there are limited resources to help you polish your skills. Jiveworld offer a solution by allowing you to listen to real voices from different countries with different levels of support.
Listening skills will be leveled up with this app!
This app will level up your listening skills immensely if you use it regularly and are an intermediate level learner. Would recommend to anyone who is a serious dedicated Spanish language learner.
Best Language Learning App I have found!
And I have looked into many over the last year of learning Spanish. This is by far the best. Very well thought out and structured with great stories with different methods of introducing and reinforcing. I have taught ESL for many years and I can see how they took great care in putting this together.
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I feel like I’m learning like an adult
Listening to immersive, real stories, with repetition, has re-captured my sense of pre-Internet wonder. Not only am I learning a new language, but my attention span is back, and my curiosity to really hear others’ experience is growing with each lesson.
Learn how native spanish speakers really speak!
Jiveworld will help you improve your understanding of Spanish as its really spoken by native speakers. I have listened to and studied all the spanish duolingo podcasts and this is the logical next step for me. Its more challenging for me to understand some of the spoken spanish, but its a great opportunity to improve my comprehension, as this is how people really talk! The app is set up so you can slow down what you are hearing, see the written spanish (or not), easily translate to english etc. And the tech support is so helpful and so responsive. Support these folks!
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Best language app I’ve ever used
I’ve tried many Spanish language apps over the years but this is the best. It allows you to read and listen to interesting stories from Latin America, learn new vocabulary while being able to keep track of words to study, and get exposed to a variety of speaking styles…as you’d hear in real life. Love this app and highly recommend it!!
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Almost perfect
This is a fantastic app that’s helped me a lot in my Spanish-learning journey. There app itself has a few frustrating bugs that I’m listing here to hopefully help improve the app, because I think it has the potential to be life changing for Spanish-learners everywhere!
1. When reviewing vocab words from a story, the audio is sometimes cut off at the beginning so you can’t actually hear the word or phrase you’re reviewing if it’s at the start of the sentence.
2. Sometimes the app goes nuts and dozens of voices start speaking at once. The only way to stop it is to kill the app, and you often lose your progress on a chapter or vocab review.
3. Sometimes the app forgets your progress in chapters or when you’re reviewing vocab. It’s frustrating to have to review 30+ words you’ve already got down.
1. When reviewing vocab words from a story, the audio is sometimes cut off at the beginning so you can’t actually hear the word or phrase you’re reviewing if it’s at the start of the sentence.
2. Sometimes the app goes nuts and dozens of voices start speaking at once. The only way to stop it is to kill the app, and you often lose your progress on a chapter or vocab review.
3. Sometimes the app forgets your progress in chapters or when you’re reviewing vocab. It’s frustrating to have to review 30+ words you’ve already got down.
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A must for Spanish learners
Hands down the best app I’ve found for improving one’s listening comprehension. The stories are very interesting as well and it’s a fun way to learn.
Real life stories in bite size pieces
I love how this app breaks episodes into chunks. It makes it less intimidating to dive in and study. I also really love the thoughtful pieces of context it provides of the country history, dialect, etc. I’m at a beginner-intermediate level so I go through chapters suuuper slow. But the stories themselves keep me motivated to keep going since they’re so well done. Thank you for this beautiful homage to the Latin stories!
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Increíble app
Me encanta conocer historias de Latinoamérica con el apoyo de traducciones y con la habilidad de bajar la velocidad. Me siento más conectada con este parte del mundo a través el app. Recomiendo este app a todas las personas que quieren aprender español y ser una persona más informada.
Impressed and grateful!
I'm an intermediate Spanish speaker who's found herself in Mexico City often these days. I've struggled to keep up with excited conversationalists. This app is just hit the spot for what I need. It's also a great refresher. It's obvious the team's spent countless hours curating and coding this beautiful collection. Radio Ambulante is also worth checking out. Mil gracias a todos!
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Highly Recommend
I had listened to Lupa and Radio Ambulante in the early days and love how this all morphed into Jiveworld. The multimodal method and user-friendly logistics are the best. It really covers much ground in it’s approach. Daniel Alarcón narrates with a clear, steady voice while native Spanish speakers with varied accents tells their stories.
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Supercharges Your Listening Comprehension
If you don’t understand Spanish on the phone, or if you can’t understand movies without subtitles, this app will help you SO MUCH. You get to listen to really interesting stories from across the globe with many different accents. My favorite part is that
you can toggle stories to show just some of the words, so you can kind of read along, but you cannot fully understand unless you are specifically listening. Then you can do another run through with the words hidden.
I was struggling to find an app that wasn’t geared just toward beginners, and this was such a pleasant surprise. I wish it had been around when I learning Spanish in high school—I would have loved and breathed this app. It is well worth the money in my opinion.
Teachers—this would be AWESOME for your classroom. It can be difficult to make primary source material accessible to students and Jiveworld does it so well.
you can toggle stories to show just some of the words, so you can kind of read along, but you cannot fully understand unless you are specifically listening. Then you can do another run through with the words hidden.
I was struggling to find an app that wasn’t geared just toward beginners, and this was such a pleasant surprise. I wish it had been around when I learning Spanish in high school—I would have loved and breathed this app. It is well worth the money in my opinion.
Teachers—this would be AWESOME for your classroom. It can be difficult to make primary source material accessible to students and Jiveworld does it so well.
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The best!
I’ve tried a bunch of different apps. So far, this is definitely one of my favourites. It is really effective in exposing you to real Spanish, enhancing fluency and understanding. The platform is well formatted and you can adapt it to a way that suits your level!
