Jiveworld — Language Learning

I learn a lot from this app, especially the way natives say certain things. I also use it as a form of intensive listening to improve listening comprehension. That being said, I wish this app had the option to keep replayable sections looped. If I want to replay a section continuously, I have to keep pressing the button; this impedes the flow of my dictation sessions, making an already cognitively taxing activity more cumbersome. Besides the aforementioned, I like this app; but there are other apps that do what I’d like JiveWorld to do, so hopefully they can implement that change.

This app is unbelievably good. It is perfect; effective beyond description in getting to fluency in Spanish comprehension, especially from oral conversation. I think that is the most difficult part of becoming fluent. And Jiveworld is the most helpful program by far for achieving that of anything that I have encountered in my years of involvement with Spanish. Not just the best app: the best program of any kind. The design of it, the technology, the features, the content, everything about it is absolutely superb. I have seen such improvement in my comprehension abilities in a modest amount of time by working with this app over and over. I am better each new week than I was the week before. You really will be amazed by the results you’ll see from using this app regularly. From regularly using this,I have now begun conducting business meetings with Spanish- speaking clients without an interpreter. All the grammar and vocabulary in the world could not, alone, facilitate that; not without the listening and comprehension skills that Jiveworld provides. If, like me, you don’t have the ability to go live in a Spanish speaking country, this is by far the best way to obtain the benefits of doing that. And when I have needed technological or other assistance, the support staff have been amazingly prompt and helpful and nice.This is a top-shelf app and a top-shelf operation. For the things it focuses on, nothing anywhere in the market even approaches it.

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

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.

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.

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!

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.

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!

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.

improved my spanish so much, great customer service too