Guides

How to practise listening

Dictation trains your ears because you cannot skip a word you did not hear. A few calm minutes every day work better than one long session.

1. Pick a short lesson at your level or a little below. The library filters by level, length, topic and accent.
2. Listen to the whole sentence before you type. Press Tab to replay it and Shift+Tab to replay it slowly.
3. Replay two or three times before you take a hint. The first hint shows the first letter, the next one shows the whole word.
4. After checking, read the correction line, then the meaning of the sentence. Tap any word you did not know to hear it and save it.
5. Come back to the lesson a few days later and listen again. On Pro, the sentences you found hard come back on a review schedule.

• Start with a practice mode that blanks only some words, and move to every word when it feels easy.
• Hide the video when you want to train your ears only.
• Say a finished sentence aloud with Repeat after the sentence, then compare your voice with the original.
• Set a daily goal on the Goals page so you keep a steady rhythm.

How to learn words that stay

A word sticks when you meet it in a real sentence, recall it again and again, and hear it said aloud.

1. Save words from the sentences you hear, so each word keeps a real example.
2. Review a little every day. Flashcards bring each word back just before you are likely to forget it.
3. Type what you hear in reviews instead of only flipping cards. Recalling a word is harder, and that is why it stays.
4. Use word packs to learn five words at a time, from choosing the meaning to hearing the word in a real video sentence.
5. Play a word game when you want a lighter review.

• Ten words a day that you really review beat fifty words that you only save.
• Check your often-wrong words each week and practise just those.

Guide for teachers

Set listening homework from real videos, and see who did it and which sentences were hard.

Get lessons

• Use any lesson in the public library, or paste a YouTube link on the Create page to make a lesson from a video with subtitles.
• You can fix the subtitles after publishing, and keep a lesson out of the public library.

Set lessons

• Create a class on the Classes page, then share its invite code or link with your students.
• Set a lesson with a deadline from the class page. You can change the deadline or remove the lesson later.
• Teachers need a Pro or Teacher plan to create classes. Students always join free.
• Class size: Pro 5 students, Teacher 40, Teacher Pro 60.

What students can do

• Students see the lessons you set and their deadlines on the class page and in the notification bell.
• They practise a set lesson like any other lesson, with hints, meanings and word lookup, and they can study word sets you share with the class.

Check their work

• See progress shows each student's status, sentences done, points, hints used and answers shown for every set lesson.
• Teacher plans add the sentences the class found hardest and one-tap reminders. Teacher Pro adds the class overview, the list of students who need attention, and a CSV download.
• You see students' display names and results, never their email or what they typed.