A bilingual Spanish podcast built from real news — one host in English, one in Spanish, a new story every day.
Twilingua is a daily bilingual podcast that helps adult learners build real Spanish comprehension through current events. Every episode takes a real news story and tells it twice — Fletcher introduces the story in English and explains the key vocabulary, Octavio tells the story in Spanish at your CEFR level, and Fletcher returns in English to recap what mattered most. The format gives listeners the context they need to follow native-paced Spanish without artificial slowdown.
Episodes are calibrated from A2 (elementary) to C1 (advanced), and every episode ships with a synchronized, tap-to-translate transcript inside the Twilingua app at twilingua.com. The catalogue grows daily, so listeners are always learning from stories that are still in the news.
Most "Spanish podcasts for learners" make the same trade-off: either the Spanish is slowed down to the point of being unrealistic, or it is real Spanish without enough scaffolding for the listener to follow it. Twilingua takes a third path. The English-language framing gives you the schema — what the story is about, what to listen for, which vocabulary matters — and the Spanish segment then becomes comprehensible, even at full speed, because you already know the shape of the story.
This is grounded in second-language acquisition research: comprehensible input works when learners encounter language slightly above their current level with enough context to infer the rest. Twilingua is built to deliver that, every day, on topics learners actually care about.
Each episode runs roughly 10 to 16 minutes and follows the same three-act structure:
In the app, you tap any word in the transcript to see its translation, save it for review, and hear it spoken in context. Episodes are personalised by topic and level, so the daily catalogue feels like a Spanish-language news feed built for you.
Fletcher Haines and Octavio Solana are fictional characters with AI-generated voices. They are not real people. We are explicit about this on every surface of the product — see our AI content disclosure for the full breakdown of what is AI-generated and what is not. Twilingua exists because AI makes it possible to ship a new episode every day, at your level, in two languages. The pedagogy is human; the production is machine.
You can find Twilingua on the major podcast platforms:
The full experience — the synchronized transcript, tap-to-translate, level personalisation, and saved-vocabulary review — lives in the iOS app, the Android app, and the web app at m.twilingua.com.
Twilingua is a bilingual Spanish-learning podcast and app. Each daily episode covers a real news story with two hosts — Fletcher in English, Octavio in Spanish — so learners build comprehension through stories at their CEFR level (A2 to C1).
Every Twilingua episode follows a sandwich structure. Fletcher opens in English, introducing the story and key vocabulary. Octavio tells the story in Spanish, calibrated to the listener's level. Fletcher closes in English to recap the most important phrases.
Twilingua is for adult learners at A2, B1, B2, and C1 who want to improve their Spanish through comprehensible input. The bilingual scaffolding makes real news accessible even when a fully Spanish podcast would be too hard.
Twilingua has a free tier with three new episodes per week, no credit card required. The full daily catalogue and interactive transcript features are part of a subscription.
Twilingua is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, and YouTube. The full interactive experience — tap-to-translate transcripts, level personalization, and saved vocabulary — runs in the Twilingua iOS and Android apps and on twilingua.com.
For press, partnerships, or feedback, reach out at hello@twilingua.com. For listener support — playback, billing, account issues — see our support page.
Last updated May 2026