Eppika: Read & Learn Languages

I am a teacher and am excited to try this app to further my Spanish that I use for my home life and work. However, I wanted to say that the reason I chose to download is due to the thoughtful responses of the developer to others. Thank you for caring about your customers. After using the app for a few days: I love that I could just jump to my intermediate level and begin learning! I have never found a language program that allowed this; and I have searched for years! The books are interesting and entertaining. I am enjoying reading in a way I did not expect. I love that I can practice the tenses in Spanish in real time! (Especially past tense!) I love the feature that will allow me to save words I do not understand. I have two suggestions: 1. After I practice the vocabulary word. I would like to use the “hard/ easy” tool. Could you make it sort my words so that I can just review the words I marked “hard” for me? Also, I would love a highlight tool. So that I could highlight phrases to review. This would help me to review the hard words together in the context of the story.

I’ve been using this app for about a month now and I really enjoy the selection of stories at my level. I actually look forward to my daily Spanish reading. But there are a couple things I think could be better. I wish I could save phrases and not just single words. I think a library of common phrases would be helpful for the user. The biggest issue for me is when I cannot finish a story in the hours allotted, it just disappears! A new story appears the next day with seemingly no way back to unfinished reading. I was engrossed by some stories I didn’t get to finish (life happens). And while I can see all my completed books, I can’t find my incomplete reading! Am I missing something? Also, while the story selection is wonderful in simplified Spanish, I found at least one that was very inaccurate (like it was written by AI). I believe the “Hero” of Eppika’s translation of the La Camisa de Margarita is actually the “bad” guy. Am I wrong? Because I enjoy the reading, I often look up the stories after reading them in the app so I was surprised by such an inaccuracy. Of course, many details of the original stories are left out for simplicity but some details actually drive the story and without those details, the story doesn’t really make sense (so far only one story was really confusing because of missing details). I suspect AI to be the culprit. So, I do hope the Spanish pronunciation and phrasing I am learning on Eppika isn’t mangled by AI, as I read a review where someone mentioned the pronunciation is sometimes incorrect.

I have been a lifelong Spanish learner struggling to go from intermediate to fluent and it has been a struggle. I have seen the ads for so many Spanish immersion apps but until I started using Eppika, I can tell you that I have never been so encouraged like I am today. The stories are simple and interesting. They use the words I know and the new words I can guess what they mean by context. It is so important that I can fill in the blanks myself and not have to teach for a dictionary or look it up online. I feel like a match made in heaven for myself and this app as I can enjoy the free stories everyday and come back for the next day. I write out my translations and learn by contextual clues. I have a notebook already where I can notice my progress as I pick out more new words everyday. Thank you Eppika for your great app!