Jiveworld

E-Learning ProvidersCalifornia, United States11-50 Employees

Jiveworld is an e-learning company based in Mill Valley, California, focused on helping learners improve listening comprehension in foreign languages. Its method aims to train the ear to understand language as it is spoken by natives, addressing the gap where reading, writing, and speaking skills don’t consistently translate to real-world listening. The founders, Daniel Raynaud and Joseph Elliott, launched Jiveworld in 2018 after their earlier venture Thumbjive. 

Initially, the company released Lupa in September 2019 as ear training for Spanish, developed in partnership with Radio Ambulante, a distributed NPR podcast featuring native voices from Latin America. Today, Jiveworld offers Jiveworld Español and Jiveworld English to support English-speaking learners of Spanish and Portuguese-speaking learners of English, respectively, focusing on listening fluency. In July 2023, it launched Soundbites, a free daily listening challenge for Spanish learners.

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