You've built the Duolingo habit.
Now understand real people.
Real conversations. Real accents. Real situations —
including the people who aren't having their best day.
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Duolingo taught you the basics.
But real life doesn't wait for you to conjugate.
The Wall
Most learners hit the same point — you can read a menu, pass a quiz, keep a streak going. But the moment a native speaker talks at normal speed, with a real accent, in a real situation, something breaks. That's not a vocabulary problem. It's a listening comprehension problem. If Duolingo got you here, read this →
What's Missing
No app has focused on listening comprehension specifically — until now. Comprehenzo is built for learners who've embraced Comprehensible Input and are ready to push past the listening plateau. Structured practice, real regional accents, CEFR-calibrated audio. How we apply CI to listening →
The Habit Fact
Two weeks of daily practice is where the listening habit forms. Your free trial is exactly that long — designed that way on purpose.
Real scenarios. Real speech. Real life.
Comprehenzo puts you in real situations — navigating the busy airport, attending the IT project meeting, bartering at a local market, communicating in an emergency — with natural speech, regional accents, and yes, occasionally someone who's clearly not in the mood to help. Because that's what real life sounds like.
Real situations
Choose the scenarios that matter most to you: understand what is going on in the business meeting before it gets interpreted; navigate the airport without Google Translate; meet interesting native speakers without them switching to English.
Real conversations
Audio generated in natural, flowing speech — not the slow, over-enunciated voice of a textbook recording.
Real accents
Train your ear for Mexican, Argentine, and Castilian Spanish — or Parisian and Quebec French... Your destination has an accent. (A2 Castilian released, more on the way)
Simple pricing. No surprises.
- Full access for 14 days
- All languages and accents (as they are released)
- Explorer mode
- No card required
- One session per day after trial
- Unlimited sessions
- All languages and accents (as they are released)
- Explorer mode
- Streak freeze tokens
- Cancel anytime
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- Input on future features, accents, scenarios
Start understanding real Spanish and French.
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From beta testers
“Finally something that lets me practice listening and vocabulary around specific scenarios with specific accents. Scenarios and vocabulary that are actually useful to me for my upcoming trip.”
— Anne M., Beginning Spanish learner
“The flirting with a handsome man scenario made me laugh, and the grumpy old storekeeper scenario might prove helpful in Paris when I finally get there.”
— Emma A., A2 French learner
“I have a 1673 day streak on Duolingo and can read Spanish pretty well, but when a native speaker starts talking I often get lost. Duolingo seems random, with Comprehenzo I can focus on specific situations. Plus the scenarios with rude or impatient speakers are gold”
— Brandon B., B1 Spanish