Spanish, French and more

Linguistica360

About this app

Study Spanish, French, Italian and German on the go through current events!

Since 2009, we have been producing weekly podcasts with news stories, conversation and culture in intermediate Spanish, French, Italian and German. Hosted by native speakers, our programs present news and discussion at a slow pace to help you improve comprehension.

Recommended by The Guardian, The Economist and The Washington Post, this program helps you learn French, Spanish, Italian or German with stories you care about at a pace you can understand.

Give it a try with our free app, which offers a portion of our weekly program: Two news stories per language every week with no payment and no need to sign up. Just download and play!

Ratings and reviews

Massive battery drain when not in use. Anytime I'm done listening I close out the app and it just continues to suck battery down at a rate of 10% an hour. Uninstall the app battery works fine, use the app again battery disappears. This is when I am not using the app actively but used it earlier in the day. This is a major issue and needs to be fixed for this app to have any real usability. It's a shame because I really liked the "news in slow" app before they were combined to this.

It's good that news in a few languages (if you can understand them) are all included in the same app. Compared with news in slow french, there are no non-free contents included here. But there are less (free) contents included. Also, it doesn't allow selecting/copying text.

I did enjoy the app in general but there are 2 factors that forces me to give a low rating . 1) The slow speed cannot be changed which you can on many other apps. 2) There is no option to copy or paste words except the ones that the app itself has chosen to translate which makes it harder to comprehend the text.

What's new

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