Most people who learn Spanish with YouTube and podcasts do the same thing. They press play, understand about half, feel good about it, and a week later cannot say what a single video was about. Listening is useful. Listening with nothing to do afterwards is mostly entertainment.
Fluenvo adds the missing part. You bring a video or a podcast episode, and the app builds exercises from what is actually said in it. You answer, it checks, and it remembers where you slip.
Try Fluenvo with your own video →Not sure what to watch? The Video section has a selection of channels and shows sorted by level, from A1 to C2, and by type: interviews, podcasts, stories, conversations and explanations. A beginner can start with slow stories and simple dialogues. An intermediate learner can take street interviews or a podcast about everyday life. An advanced learner can go for fast, unscripted conversation and humor.
You do not have to use the selection. Paste any link you like, and the exercises come from that video.
When you watch a video, your brain fills the gaps with context, faces and gestures. You feel you understood. When you work from the transcript, the words are in front of you, and the exercises ask you to use them: translate this phrase, fill this gap, answer this question in a full sentence.
That is the difference between recognizing a word and being able to produce it. It also shows you honestly which parts you missed. Questions with a "not mentioned" option are especially good for this, because they check whether the video said something or only sounded like it did.
Fluenvo keeps track of the topics where you make the most mistakes and shows them on a separate screen. If the past tenses keep tripping you up in interviews, they will come back in the next exercises from the next video. New words can be saved to your personal dictionary and reviewed later, so a good phrase from a podcast does not disappear after the episode ends.
Pick one video or episode per session, around ten minutes. Watch or listen once without stopping. Then open the exercises and work through them without looking back. Check where you were wrong and read the sentence again. Next time, choose something at the same level or a notch higher. After a few weeks you will see your accuracy rise on the weak topics screen, and the videos will feel easier without you changing anything about how you watch.
Learners at B1 and above who already enjoy YouTube and podcasts and want to get more out of the time. People who live in a Spanish-speaking environment and want to turn everyday listening into practice. Students who work with a tutor and want to bring their own videos.
It is not a closed course with lessons in a fixed order. You choose the video, and the practice follows it.
Do I need a video from your selection? No. Paste any link, or pick one from the selection.
Does it work with podcasts? Yes. The Video section accepts a video or a podcast by link.
Do the exercises come from the real transcript? Yes. The exercises are built from the text of what is said in the video.
Is it good for beginners? There are stories for A1 and A2 in the selection. A short, slow video is a good place to start.
Can I save new words? Yes, to your personal dictionary.