United StatesJiveworld fills a crucial gap for intermediate-level and above language learners who've hit the "sound barrier" — where the language you've learned in the classroom doesn't resemble what you actually hear at street level. Jiveworld uses engaging and interesting stories from Radio Ambulante, an award winning podcast featuring stories from across Latin America. The stories are broken into chapters and paired with the patented Jiveworld player which provides help and guidance when you need it, and gets out of the way when you don't. Only have a few minutes a day? Try Soundbites. These mini lessons pose a question or challenge based on an audio excerpt from a full story. When you're done listening, tap reveal to check the answer and show deeper insights into the challenge. Soundbites go far beyond the dictionary, exploring the language and culture across eight dimensions: Idioms & Sayings, Speech & Accents, Useful Patterns, Vernacular & Slang, Strategies, Grammar, Vocabulary, and History & Culture. Jiveworld offers you help as you listen, with speed controls, vocabulary, and notes about language and the cultural context. But the real magic lies in some unique features: • Story Scaffolding — stories organized into chapters and passages, with succinct guides that help you follow the plot • X-Ray Script — follow the script while you listen, but only show the most difficult words • Smart Pause — ensures you always listen in complete sentences, without stop-start in unnatural places • Study Flow — after you complete a chapter in Study mode, re-listen in Natural Listen mode to reinforce the authentic sounds of the language • Deep Insights — many stories feature Soundbite challenges, focusing on an aspect of language or culture, presented before the chapter you're about to study • Idiom to Idiom — wherever you see a translation, you'll see the most natural expression in both languages, showing you how your target language really works. By studying regularly with Jiveworld, you'll be able to engage in real conversations with any Spanish speaker.
Amazing UX for Advanced Learners
Great UX and content for intermediate to advanced learners. Compared to other major learning apps, you can practice without any speaking requirement and download offline when commuting. Content is a more advanced level and offers both visual/audio learning
United StatesThe best intermediate/ advanced Spanish app
If you feel like you have been stuck at an intermediate level forever, this is the app for you. I bought a one year subscription and I’ve used the app everyday for 17 days! The app allows you to slow down the rate, look up vocabulary words, re-listen, and then listen in normal time. It tracks your progress daily and motivates you to keep going. The stories are engaging, heartfelt, and insightful. I also love how they feature accents from all Spanish-speaking countries. Best $100 I’ve ever spent.
United StatesPromising approach to language learning
The tools provided here for listening in Spanish seem—during my first day of trying them—ingenious and likely effective aids for facilitating language comprehension. And the stories themselves are interesting and various. Unfortunately, many or most of the stories include a constant backdrop of music during speech. For a low-intermediate Spanish learner like me, this is a bit distracting and makes it harder to focus on the language comprehension challenge. Musical overlay might not bother speakers with a better grasp of the language; and of course conversation often takes place in conditions of noise and random music. Still, imposing these non-language difficulties probably doesn’t promote language skills—and may be distracting for many. I suspect that the music is just the app’s concession to using material designed (by the NPR show) for other reasons … such as entertaining more fluent speakers, rather than training better listeners, and has no teaching rationale.
United StatesBest fluency app for Spanish
This app is so smart, so tuned to the learning needs of intermediate and advanced Spanish learners and so savvy about learning I can’t believe it’s FREE. The stories are great, really great, and the ability to slow, follow along via transcript and then listen again without prompts is genius!
United StatesA wonderful app for intermediate and advanced learners
This app is special because of the Soundbites I consider myself an advanced student and believe I have outgrown most apps. I take lessons with native speakers online a couple of times a week and generally go around listening to podcasts in Spanish including Radio Ambulate. I understand what the journalists are saying but often get lost with the interviewees. That’s where the Soundbites come in! They are carefully chosen snippets of the story featuring difficult pronunciation or interesting grammatical structure or a piece of cultural context. They are short and fun and motivating. You can listen at different speeds, reveal and hide the words and review a vocabulary list. You get explanation of patterns used with similar examples. They require little time commitment and I return to them every day. The Soundbites alone are worth the price but then you also get the whole stories if Radio Ambulante broken into segments, analyzes and explained. I highly recommend this app. It’s the one you will actually use and improve your Spanish while learning interesting things and having fun.
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This app (along with the amazing Radio Ambulante podcast it is connected to) is the main reason my comprehension of spoken Spanish has improved so quickly. The stories are fascinating, the adaptable learning method is great for reinforcement, and the producers do an amazing job explaining patterns, quirks, colloquialisms, etc. Best method I’ve ever encountered for improving oral comprehension!
United StatesThe best!
Jiveworld is an amazing application to improve your language acquisition skills! The application allows you to learn by interacting with world-class podcast content. I have appreciated the recent addition of Soundbites, which are a great way to start my morning learning Spanish.
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• New Study Flow with integrated pre-listening mini lessons (Soundbite challenges) • New filters and quick links to find new and completed Soundbites easier • Improved study player behavior when pausing just after the end of a sentence • Your saved vocabulary list can be accessed from the player screen • Many visual and functional improvements throughout
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