Twilingua
Learn Spanish through the news you already follow.
Two hosts, two languages, one daily conversation. Fletcher scaffolds in English. Octavio delivers in Spanish. Tap any word to translate — it’s saved to your vocabulary.
Free to start — no credit card needed.
Three steps. No textbooks. No grammar drills.
Pick today’s news
Real stories from the last 24 hours — tech, culture, politics. Choose the kind you’d read anyway.
Listen with the transcript
Fletcher scaffolds in English. Octavio delivers in Spanish. You follow along, line by line.
Tap words to translate
Any Spanish word becomes a translation on tap, saved to your vocabulary. Spaced, not spammed.
Tap any word. Keep the meaning.
Fletcher Take us through the announcement — who does this actually affect first?
Octavio La entra en vigor el . Los productores de y verán el impacto casi inmediato.
Try it — tap any underlined Spanish word. In the app, every line works this way.
Fresh episodes, every day.
Journalism, not a lesson plan.
Today’s news, not yesterday’s textbook
Every episode covers stories from the last 24 hours. You learn the vocabulary the world is actually using.
Hosts that meet your level
Fletcher and Octavio adapt the conversation to your level. Episodes calibrate from A2 to C1.
Learn without a lesson plan
No schedules. No guilt. Press play during your commute and let real conversations do the teaching.
Built-in vocabulary & flashcards
Every word you tap is saved. Review with flashcards when you want, skip when you don’t. Your vocabulary grows naturally.
Two journalists. Two languages. One conversation.
Fletcher Haines
25 years as a foreign correspondent. Beirut, Jakarta, Buenos Aires, Afghanistan. Now semi-retired in Austin, relearning Spanish after his daughter married a Madrileño. He asks the questions you’d ask, gets things wrong with good humor, and makes it safe to not be perfect.
I’ve interviewed prime ministers and warlords. None of them made me as nervous as trying to use the subjunctive in front of Octavio’s mother.
Octavio Solana
Former deputy editor at one of Spain’s largest national newspapers. Now writes books and a weekly column in a major Barcelona-based daily. Opinionated, charming, and a born storyteller. He speaks Spanish on the show and refuses to switch, because someone has to actually speak the language.
The subjunctive is not optional. It is how Spanish thinks. You cannot just ignore an entire mood of a language because it is inconvenient for you.
They met eight years ago when Fletcher flew to Madrid to write about press freedom. The interview ran three hours. They ended up at a bar in Malasaña and haven’t stopped arguing since. Fletcher still puts ice in his wine. Octavio considers this a character flaw.
Fletcher and Octavio are fictional characters with AI-generated voices and portraits. Every episode is built by AI from real news stories, matched to your level and interests. The characters aren’t real, but the Spanish is.
The fastest way to learn Spanish is to forget you’re learning it.
Bilingual episodes on real news, culture, and ideas. In the Spanish you’re ready for.
Put your headphones on. Tomorrow’s news will teach you Spanish.
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