Name: EWA: Learn English & Spanish
Rating: 4.75 (6625 reviews)

Katia Deg

2 years ago

Fluent Eng/Rus speaker looking for a good English app for my family. Visually, this app is lovely and modern. Unfortunately, there's just not a lot of capabilities unless you subscribe. From the brief view I did have, my only concern is if it's trying to "meme" too much - but honestly, it was effective in identifying words and phrases. Wish there was a slimmer free option to experience it more!

D Deane

2 years ago

So far, I just use the free options. Two things I like a lot are the daily (polite) nagging to keep practicing and the use of video so that one gets used to hearing native usage of the words or phrases. There's a lot of repetition and sometimes it feels like too much, but I know from my own experience that the multiple repetitions are a good idea.

Krystle Poirier

1 year ago

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.

Crad Info

3 years ago

Contents are good, the app is very slow. The app only works on my mobile data network. It stops working whenever I switch to my home wifi. I've reached out to support several times but they have no clue what's going on. Update: to support, in US there's cellphone network and there's home network( at home, uses cable network). I don't know how else to explain these things to you. Your app does not work over any cable network (any home internet), atleast for me.

Mike A.

3 years ago

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.

Becca Mcguire

2 years ago

Very glitchy and frustrating at least on Android. The movie clips are too simple even though it claimed it would send me to the right level and then started with absolute beginner. The reading keeps sending me to a random place in the book when I am listening. So I am trying to follow along but have to scroll backwards constantly to be where things are actually being read. I have found Duolingo to be better I had just wanted to try something new since the new format of duo is not my taste

Andrew Butler

1 year ago

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.

Steven Torres

2 years ago

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.

Skyler P

1 year ago

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.

Cristal D

2 years ago

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...

Deanna Perez

2 years ago

This app is great in idea but execution leaves much to be desired. I'm a beginner level and I had a few instances where simple greeting were mixed up (text reads "good afternoon" but audio pronunciation reads "good morning") if such basic mix-ups happen at low levels idk what kind of mistakes get through at more complicated levels. Also the library assortment is lacking for newbies. On a last note you will not be able to make adjustments to your subscription/cancel through the app.

Mitishi

3 years ago

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.

David Pitts

1 year ago

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.

Jackie Maass

3 years ago

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.

sandykelliott

2 years ago

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

Paul Nagy

1 year ago

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.

Debbie Rodman

1 year ago

I was interested in improving my Spanish, which is at the intermediate level. This app says for all levels. It has you take a test to see where you are at. It then proceeded to teach me very basic words by repeating the word like 'hello' 9 or more times. I completed what they had to offer in the course in 6 short weeks! I only spent about 10 minutes a day on it. It never went past the very basic beginner level. On top of that, they charged me twice for the program; several emails with no replie

George Pearson

1 year ago

Honestly. I love the idea for this app. Using movie clips and actual stories brings the language to life. But it's very slow to load. Often takes longer validating my answer than I do typing it out. And when the task is repeatedly clicking "oh" then "cho", it taking four to five seconds each time to check I pressed them in the right order is incredibly frustrating. I unsubsribed after two days annoyed with it freezing on validation and overly repetitive tasks.

Keri W.

1 year ago

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.

Arkylie (Kilyle)

1 year ago

Freebie Mode kinda hidden but I did get in. App seems useful, especially for rank beginners. Less useful if you already know some words: I can see no way to skip forward to more appropriate lessons -- I don't need several videos interspersed with mini quizzes to "learn" basic greetings. Now reading Don Quijote in the library; lets you mark words to learn. Wish I could browse all free books at once, instead of feeling like an afterthought. Like how ads for premium have "never show again" option.