Stop hunting for listening materials.
Start teaching.
1,000+ real-world dictation exercises, auto-leveled for your students. From podcasts to news to music. Ready to assign in seconds.
Make listening work fun and easy for you, and effective for your students.
Easily Find the Right Fit Audio
Discover hundreds of clips on the site. Browse by topic, level, grammar, and speed (word per minute pace). All from real life Spanish audio – like podcasts, advertisements, the news, music. Each clip is cut to less than 1 minute in length.
Create Classroom Practice
Find the right clip and level, then broadcast it to your students. If your students have devices (BYOD) they can play along. Listening practice happens in real time in two gamified modes: collaborating to complete a clip as the class or racing to be first.
Assign Individual Practice
Have students work independently by assigning clips or letting them choose. They select their level, can practice multiple levels (starting at easy and progressing to advanced), and you see their results in your teacher dashboard.
Loads of content, customizable levels, and interactive accent tooltips. Listening practice that’s perfect for any level: intro to advanced.
Upload anything. We’ll turn it into a leveled lesson by tomorrow.
Upload ANY Spanish language audio
Podcasts, songs, news clips, TikToks, Youtube. If it’s in Spanish, we can process it. Upload any file up to 30 minutes in length, then you’re done. Behind the scenes, our system processes the audio and levels it for you. Your custom exercises will be live on site within 24 hours, perfectly formatted and ready to assign.
No more busy work finding the perfect time to start and stop the audio track for your students, no dealing with ads when you had the video queued up to the right spot.
Upload today, teach tomorrow.
Built by an Educator Who Gets It
Most language students can’t understand real speech after years of study. I built SpanishIRL after experiencing this myself across 4 languages. This tool handles the busy work of creating immersive listening exercises so you can focus on teaching.
For your classroom, this means you can easily incorporate immersive listening practice with hundreds of comprehensible inputs from real life Spanish media.
Focus On The Ears, Not The Eyes
Short form video is the rage: reels, tik toks, and other short form are all ubiquitous. However, for listening work we believe in audio only. Video gives students “cheat codes”: body language cues help show meaning and context clues that exist in any video allow students to understand by guesswork rather than listening.
Our goal is to force students to actively listen and focus only on improving their ears. Visual cues still exist in the transcription quiz as textboxes and anchor words (depending on level). These reinforce listening skills. This better prepares students for advanced AP work, watching TV and movies, and future use of the language in real life.
By removing video, you are building pure listening stamina.
We Make Listening Practice Easy
Auto-Leveled for Every Student
Our tool analyzes every clip for its transcript, then sets the estimated CEFR level for each word in the clip, then ranks those words by difficulty. This means that at each clip’s easiest level, your students are tested on words at the easiest level, and at more challenging levels, the blank words also include more challenging words.
Built-in Scaffolding
The transcription quiz offers anchors for beginners to start to pick up words in context. And advanced learners get even more challenge. In classroom sessions you control the audio playback. For individual learning on each quiz, the audio is set to loop, automatically repeating at the end of each clip. The loop lets learners improve their accent and feel of the language by hearing the same words again and again and connecting it to what’s actually said.
Stop Hunting. Start Teaching.
- Find the perfect clip in seconds: Filter 1,000+ authentic resources by grammar point, vocabulary theme, or CEFR level.
- Bite-sized for focus: Every clip is under 60 seconds. Perfect for “Bell Ringers” or targeted practice without losing student attention.
- Auto-Leveled Scaffolding: From slow, clear Spanish 1 basics to rapid-fire AP-level news and podcasts. We handle the difficulty scaling so you don’t have to.
Take The Mystery Out Of Listening Work
Whether using classroom sessions or having your students work independently, you will see all student results logged in your Teacher Dashboard.
Spot the struggle before the unit test. There’s no more hiding in the back of the class.
Identify themes across the whole class. See patterns, words, and problem areas by each student or by each class.
Eliminate guesswork with real-time data. No more mystery, no more guessing: see exactly where to focus for future work.
Trusted & Compliant
We are an approved vendor for handling student data in 15 states via the Student Data Privacy Alliance.
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We adhere to COPPA and FERPA guidelines and never sell user data.
For other states, we’ll work with your tech department to complete a Data Protection Agreement (DPA) or School Agreement.
Frequently Asked Questions
How long does setup take?
SpanishIRL is the possibility of fun and ease. We set up your account. You email us your students (name, email, and class). We will link them to your account. We do not need to email students, you’ll receive their password and can see them on your Teacher Dashboard. Creating in class lessons takes a few clicks on your Teacher Dashboard. The Explore page lets you discover the next clip for your students easily.
What if my students don’t have devices?
Not every classroom is BYOD, we get it. You can still run classroom sessions where you control playback from your device and students can participate with paper and pencil. The tool works great for individual homework for your students, their results and progress are tracked in your Teacher Dashboard.
Can I use this with my existing curriculum?
Absolutely. Filter clips by grammar point, vocabulary theme, or level to match your current units. Or upload your own audio materials for instant processing.
What happens after the pilot ends?
You decide. If you love it, continue for $156/year. If not, no obligation. Your pilot gives you 3 full months to test with your students. If it isn’t making your life easier and teaching listening more fun, we want to know. And if it is, we want to know, too.
Do you integrate with my LMS?
We’re working on LTI integrations. For now, students log in directly through our platform. Please let us know specific requests for your specific LMS.
Need multiple teacher licenses?
Contact us at teachers@spanishirl.com for volume pricing and department-wide implementation.
Simple Pricing
Teacher Access
Up to 40 students • Full platform access • 12 months
/ year
Billed quarterly: just $39 every 3 months
No credit card required. No obligation to purchase.
Need licenses for multiple teachers?
Contact us at teachers@spanishirl.com for volume pricing.
Try Free with a SpanishIRL Pilot for 3 months
Ready to test this out? Sign up below to explore a pilot program with your school. We’ll be in touch within 2 business days to coordinate setting up your full access and helping you get started.
Empower your students with more listening practice, collaborative classroom sessions, and results tracking. No obligation to purchase. Length of your pilot is 3 months.
Completely free: $0, no credit card, no PO required.