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Step 1: Setting up your first course on Glossika
Step 1: Setting up your first course on Glossika

Adding a new course, taking the placement test, and getting started

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Written by Tess Yang
Updated over 4 months ago

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[Glossika web app]

If you've just signed up for Glossika, the system will automatically walk you through the process of choosing a target language and setting up a course.

And you're set! Our algorithms will guide your learning from here on out. 😉

If you've been using Glossika for a while and now would like to start learning another language, you'll have to add a new course manually.

Glossika curates and optimizes the language learning process; all you have to do is log in each day and work through the content we've prepared for you.

Currently, we offer two main study modes:

  • Full-practice Mode: typing, dictation, listening, recording, and recall exercises for an intense training session

  • Listening-only Mode: listening exercises that can be done hands-free or even in the background, with an option to also do recording exercises

We recommend:

  1. Use full-practice mode to have a more intense and active learning experience

  2. Work through your review items before going on to learn new content—reviews add up!

Note: Glossika separates new items from review items, and your settings are unique to each set of items. We think this separation of settings is important because we, as learners, approach new and old content differently. (Perhaps, for example, you would like the audio for old content to play at one speed and the audio for new content to play at another.) If you wish to have universal settings, you will have to make changes to both sets of settings.

Hope this helps with your future training! 😉

[iOS/Android app]

If you've just signed up for Glossika, the system will automatically walk you through the process of choosing a target language and setting up a course.

If you've been using Glossika for a while and now would like to start learning another language, you'll have to add a new course manually.

Glossika curates and optimizes the language learning process; all you have to do is log in each day and work through the content we've prepared for you.

Currently, we offer two main study modes:

  • Full-practice Mode: typing, dictation, listening, recording, and recall exercises for an intense training session

  • Listening-only Mode: listening exercises that can be done hands-free or even in the background, with an option to also do recording exercises

We recommend:

  1. Use full-practice mode to have a more intense and active learning experience

  2. Work through your review items before going on to learn new content—reviews add up!

Note: Glossika separates new items from review items, and your settings are unique to each set of items. We think this separation of settings is important because we, as learners, approach new and old content differently. (Perhaps, for example, you would like the audio for old content to play at one speed and the audio for new content to play at another.) If you wish to have universal settings, you will have to make changes to both sets of settings.

Hope this helps with your future training! 😉

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