I have been using Duolingo for years now wish a few years of Spanish in school before that. I liked Duolingo. However it has a very specific style of teaching and if you don’t understand as much that way, not teaching grammar rules hardly, it can be difficult. Also, it gets a bit repetitive. I recently discovered this app. Omg! You need a different name. Having such a generic name makes it blend into the crowd. I downloaded it long ago thinking it was just a dictionary and never opened it. I have been paying $75/year for years to get literally far less than I am getting with the free version of this. There is such a variety of different lessons. I am newly invigorated to learn Spanish. I’m having a blast. My only complaint is I don’t like how the next lesson automatically starts after the last. I think it should go back to the main page and let you can choose what to do next. If I can’t hit cancel in time, it won’t even let me back out of the lesson. The “x” button doesn’t do it. Other than that, I really hope you guys blow up! You deserve it! The most underrated app on the market! I’m telling you, it’s the name! I would love to see what even more could be added with a larger budget. You guys are doing it right. I’m still just scratching the surface with this app. Can’t wait to discover more! Can’t recommend it more!

Since this app is agragated from info by actual Spanish speakers who want to promote the best use of the language (as opposed to algorithms or data scientists), it consistently has the best translations (which will change dramatically as you input more of the sentence, and it understands what you’re ACTUALLY trying to say.) There are other translators that will give you words that technically work, but this seems to be the most intuitive as it pertains to true idioms of the language. It also gives the best explanations for language learners who need to better understand WHY one expression is better than the other (I use “X vs. Y” comparisons all the time to get a level of complexity similar to my native language.) Conjugation charts are thorough and concise (if you are a student, you could find yourself accessing them 100s of times per week- they are like ‘Quick Study Guides’ on steroids (which is why I finally searched for and downloaded the app, in order to have the most comprehensive ‘Quick Study Guide’ possible- although those are still useful, if you lose power or internet signal. ;-)..) This appears to have the full functionality of the website (simply cutting out the extra step of the browser.)

The app itself is amazing to use, and just like other dictionaries, it gives you the pronunciation and various definitions. Unlike other dictionaries, though, it allows you to listen to the differences in English and Spanish (when the words are exactly the same, like karaoke) and gives you multiple ways to conjugate and use the word, especially if it is featured in a common phrase. What would make it better would be if, like the website of this app, it included a short video of a native Spanish speaker repeating it and using it in a sentence, and more slang from other countries. You could make the argument that since it's a dictionary, it should only use real words from different Latino countries, but it would also be useful to know what someone else said when they speak informally. Plus, it would be interesting to know!I've been trying to better my Spanish for some time, and this app is extremely useful to me whenever I tend to forget something, not know something, or confuse one thing for something else. Would recommend it for anyone who wants to have anything to do with Spanish!Also a tip for other users: if you don't find something on the app, chances are it's on their website.

This is one of my favorite apps for practicing Spanish. It has so many different activities so you never get bored. One of the best things about this app is being able to look up a word and seeing examples of it being used and different Spanish words used in different regions. A few suggestions: during the lessons, sometimes it’s confusing when you are supposed to be addressing someone formally vs informally, or when you are addressing a group because there’s no indication but you have to use what it wants, it always just shows one random person, even if it wants me to talk about “you guys” or about “them”. It would be nice to show more context in the images or something to make it more clear. Another thing, in the vocab quizzes, it would be great to be able to filter by region and / or show the region of the word it’s asking for, because if it asks me for “car” there’s several words for car based on region but it’s only looking for one with no indication of which. I also want to make sure I use the appropriate vocab when I travel depending on where I go.