Spanish & French Listening Comprehension

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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.

Brandon and Anne at a tapas bar in Madrid, surrounded by framed press clippings — Brandon and his wife Anne enjoying their first tapas in Madrid.

Brandon and Anne in Ronda, Spain, with the Puente Nuevo bridge spanning the gorge behind them — We rented a car and were able to explore Andalucia. Here we are below the Puente Nuevo in Ronda, Andalucía.

From the founder

I built Comprehenzo because I'd still only get a couple words....

I'm not a polyglot, and I'm not a language teacher. I'm an intermediate Spanish learner — and oftentimes a frustrated one.

I could read Spanish fine. I passed the quizzes, finished the lessons, kept the streak alive. Then someone would actually speak to me — normal speed, real accent — and I'd freeze. Only a few words would land. All those hours, and it was still a struggle.

The problem wasn't me. Almost nothing I'd used trained the skill that matters most in a real conversation: listening. And the few tools that did teach it used one tidy, textbook voice — nothing like the Spanish you meet in the world.

So I built the thing I needed. Comprehenzo is listening practice built on comprehensible input — hours of audio pitched just above your level, in everyday situations and the regional accents you'll actually encounter (Castilian now, more coming soon...), for Spanish and French. It's the tool I wished existed when I started, made by someone still on the journey.

If understanding spoken Spanish or French is the wall you keep hitting, I built this for you. Try all its capabilities out for two weeks for free.

— Brandon

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.

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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.

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Real conversations

Audio generated in natural, flowing speech — not the slow, over-enunciated voice of a textbook recording.

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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)

Start understanding real Spanish and French.

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Built with responsible AI practices. 10% of the founder's annual compensation goes to environmental and ELL/social-justice non-profits.

You've built the Duolingo habit.Now understand real people.

Duolingo taught you the basics.But real life doesn't wait for you to conjugate.