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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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...

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.

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.

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...

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.