Reviews for EWA: Learn English & Spanish

ETA: BEGINNER SPANISH ONLY. I didn't realize when I first wrote this how limited the lessons are. I thought I had to unlock an intermediate level, but the support staff confirmed this is all they have for now. Take note if you're looking for more than beginner stuff. Great concept and I definitely think I can learn a lot from this app, but sometimes the videos are a little slow to load. That makes sense and it sucks because we've been trained to get everything immediately, but it's also a fact.

Bueno! Buenas Tardes. I like it. For the money. I like being able to program it to learn so many words a day over a certain amount of time. The course lessons progress work for each day and 3 gold stars show for each completed mini course. So far so good. I think it will be a great complement to learning Spanish as I have a couple of other simple books like Spanish For Gringos.

Bummed out! Signed up for membership and was working my through my levels. Until I bought a new phone, redownloaded the app, and logged in, only to find out my account started all over and I was being asked to pay again. Not sure why my account didn't transfer to my new Android device. Sent an email to them over a month ago to help merge accounts or to solve the payment issue but no one responded. Cancelling my renewal and just lost the money I put in. Dang it!

Basically it links to a dictionary for you, but you still need a verb dictionary; with conjugations, pronunciation, and tenses; to get anything out of it. Not as advertised. Usefule though as a collection of books and audio-books; but you will still need what you would have needed, anyways, renting a book from the library.

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've been using the app for a few days and I'm so mixed in how I feel - I think the concept is really fun and entertaining, not to mention engaging with the books and movie clips. I see that the teaching style, at least with the movie/TV based lessons, is founded in repetition which I have no problem with, but for a Spanish speaker who is already familiar with the respective terms, it can get grating going through them with seemingly no way to test out. The year subscription discount is great.

The lessons are so-so. There are only 2 games, and they're not great. But I bought it for the books. They're all public domain, which is ok. My biggest problem with it is that it does a terrible job remembering my place. It usually picks me back up several pages before where I finished, but sometimes it entirely forgets that I was reading it and puts need back at the beginning of the whole book, which is really difficult and frustrating.

I really enjoy using the app and there's enough variation that I look forward to trying different things each day. I wish there were more games to play (currently only 2) and lessons or instructions specifically on conjugation. When playing one of the games or reading a text, you can select words "to learn" but I wish that option was available in the other game as well. I also wish more of the words were underlined (which brings up the translation) in the text.

I am a fairly advanced German speaker, around a B3 level. I took the placement test, but it doesn't seem to count for anything. There are only a handful of lessons. Made it through all in a short time. "Audiobooks" are a robotic computer voice, and I have noted several mispronunciations. I have seen several spelling errors in the lessons. Was looking forward to TV/movies, but it's just clips in the lessons. A nice idea for an app, but there isn't enough material. Some bugs. Support was helpful.

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.