Listen
Listening Feature – Improve Your Listening Skills Effortlessly
The Listening feature offers two modes: Listen Words and Listen Sentences. These tools help you reinforce your vocabulary and listening skills without requiring extra time or effort. You can use them while multitasking—whether you're jogging in the morning, cooking breakfast, commuting, or running errands—allowing you to stay productive throughout the day.
How Does It Work?
Listen Words
In this mode, words from your vocabulary are categorized into four levels based on your familiarity: Seen, Starting, Good, and Know—with Seen being the least familiar and Know the most familiar. You can choose to review all your words or focus only on the ones you are struggling to remember. Since reviewing words you already know well (Good and Know) might feel repetitive, it's often more effective to concentrate on newer or more challenging vocabulary.
By default, you will first hear the translation in your native or interface language, followed by the word in the language you’re learning. However, you can customize this order based on your preference. Additionally, you can adjust playback speed and set a delay between the translation and the target word, allowing time to recall the word before hearing it.
Listen Sentences
The Listen Sentences mode works similarly to Listen Words but focuses on full sentences instead of single words. This feature is especially useful for improving grammar and sentence composition speed. During the silent pause, you can challenge yourself to form the sentence before hearing the correct version, helping reinforce proper sentence structure naturally.
Why Use This Feature?
If you're short on time but still want to stay engaged with your language learning, the Listening feature allows you to reinforce vocabulary and sentence structure effortlessly. By listening to words and sentences along with their translations, you can strengthen your memory and improve recall without dedicating extra study time.
This page has two screens: one for setup and another for listening.
Here, we focus on the Listen Words, but the same process and explanation apply to the Listen Sentences as well.
This is the setup screen:
There are four rows representing different word familiarity categories: Seen, Starting, Good, and Know. In this example, the first two rows are selected.
Below these rows, you’ll find the total count of words available in each category: 84 in Seen, 104 in Starting, 107 in Good, and 720 in Know, giving a total of 1,015 words for listening practice. However, since only the first two categories are selected, the total number of words for practice here is 188.
The first two groups are selected by default, as you likely don’t need to review words you already know.
By clicking on the “Advanced options” accordion, you can access additional settings:
By default, you will hear both audios: one in your interface language and one in the learning language. The default order has the interface language audio playing first. It’s best to leave this setting as is, as hearing the word in your language first allows you to recall its equivalent in the learning language.
The “Number of audios in loop” setting lets you control how many words you will listen to on repeat. For example, if you’ve selected 188 words (as shown in the previous image), you can choose to listen to just 100 words at a time or all 188 words by selecting 500.
With the “Audio playback speed” option, you can adjust the audio to play slower or faster, depending on your preference.
The “Silence length” option is helpful if you need more time to recall words. This is especially useful for beginners, as increasing the silence length gives you enough time to recall the word in the learning language before it plays.
The default options are generally recommended for use (except for “Silence length,” which depends heavily on your skill level).
After clicking “Save” (if you’ve made changes in the advanced options) and then “Start Listening,” the audio will begin playing, and you’ll see the following interface:
This interface is minimal, as you typically won’t need to interact with it during the practice. However, if needed, you can use the player to pause or resume the audio. When the word in your interface language is played, only the content in your language will be displayed. When the learning language part is played, the word will appear in the learning language.
The navigation buttons can be useful if you want to replay the previous word. However, you will rarely need to skip ahead to the next word.
When one word finishes playing (including its translation), the next word will automatically play. Once you reach the end of the list, the words will loop and start playing from the beginning until you pause the player or leave the page.