How it works
Every day, every language gets two new sentences: one Normal, one Hard. You listen, type what you hear, and see your accuracy word by word.
A new sentence every day
Each daily challenge is an everyday sentence on a topic like food, work, travel or plans. Normal sentences are comfortable; Hard ones are longer and faster.
The sentences are read by natural-sounding text-to-speech voices, with several different voices and playback conditions so your ear doesn't get used to just one.
Your result
After you check, every word is marked: green if you got it, red if you missed it. You see the full sentence, your accuracy, and can translate it into your own language with one tap.
Missed words are collected in a review list, where you can listen to them again.
Streaks and history
Each language and difficulty keeps its own streak and history, so a second language never breaks the first. A daily reminder arrives at the time you choose.
No account needed
Open the app and start. There's no sign-up, and no ads.
Fair scoring in every language
You're scored on what can be heard, not on what a keyboard makes hard to type.
Accents are optional
"cafe" counts for "café" in Spanish, French, Italian and Portuguese, and the correct spelling is shown underlined so you still learn it. German umlauts can be typed as ae, oe, ue.
Japanese: kana is enough
Type in hiragana or katakana; kanji is never required. A kanji word counts as much as its reading.
Korean: spacing ignored
Answers are scored by Hangul syllable. Spacing (띄어쓰기) can't be heard, so it isn't scored.
Capitals and punctuation ignored
In every language. English contractions count either way: "don't" or "do not".
Why dictation
Dictation is one of the oldest exercises in language teaching, because it makes listening visible: what you write down is exactly what you heard.
Research supports it. In a controlled study of elementary-level EFL learners, the group that added dictation to its usual listening exercises made significantly larger gains in listening comprehension than the control group (Kiany & Shiramiry, 2002, TESL Canada Journal).
It's also efficient. One sentence exercises listening, vocabulary and spelling together, which is why a minute a day is enough to keep a habit alive.
Kiany, G. R. & Shiramiry, E. (2002). The Effect of Frequent Dictation on the Listening Comprehension Ability of Elementary EFL Learners. TESL Canada Journal, 20(1).PDF
