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Looks and works really, really nicely. I am currently in the midst of cramming Spanish (trip to Barcelona in two weeks, trip to Cuba in four months, woo hoo!) and I've been using these two trips as a motivation to finally learn the Spanish I've always wanted to know.

I've been using Duolingo a lot, as well as Memrise. Memrise has been quite good so far, but it is certainly not very polished, whereas this seems extremely well-done.

Congratulations on the launch, this looks like a superb product and if it works for me I'd be happy to pay for it. That's a clever idea for in-app purchases too, by the way.



Hey, I lived in Barcelona throughout March this year and Catalan is the dominant language. I felt (and perhaps I was too self conscious) that when I spoke Spanish they worked out pretty quickly I was English and defaulted back to that.

Either way, learning Spanish is definitely an advantage as there's crossover to Catalan. Hope you have a wicked time :)


Well hey now. I can't believe I never came across that piece of advice before, but you're right! I knew that Catalan was spoken but did not realize it was the dominant language.

I guess I better learn some basics...as if I didn't have enough to learn already. ;)


Thank you. That means a lot to me.




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