Now that you've set up your language course, it's time to personalize your Glossika experience. This guide will explain:
How to personalize your Glossika experience on the Glossika website
How to personalize your Glossika experience on the iOS app/ Android app
How to personalize your Glossika Experience on the Glossika Website
Pick your learning mode
Currently, we offer two study modes:
Full-practice Mode: Train with a mix of typing, dictation, listening, recording, and recall exercises for an intense training session
Listening-only Mode: Train with listening exercises that can be done hands-free or even in the background, with an option to also do recording exercises
Each of the modes is useful, but they're best suited for different things.
The full-practice mode gives you a more diverse array of tasks to solve, which is better for your memory and our algorithms' efficiency, but you can only do it when you have time to sit down and focus.
Listening-only mode is much less intense, but it's an excellent way to mobilize little pockets of downtime throughout the day: you can now make progress while commuting, doing housework, walking the dog, and so forth
To switch between learning modes, flip the "switch" in the top right corner of your session. The lightning icon means you're in full-practice mode; the headphones icon means you're in listening-only mode.
Tweak your in-session settings
If you're not satisfied with the default settings, you can play around with how Glossika presents your learning content to find settings that suit you better.
1. Click the "gear" icon located in the top-right region of your screen (if you don't see the icon, click on the "triple-dot" icon and select "settings" from the drop-down menu)
2. A settings tab will open up from the right side of your screen, letting you adjust things like:
Interval:
the size of the pause between the audio clips
short = the minimum time interval, longer = the maximum time interval
Speed:
0.5x = slow-mo audio, 1.25x=sped up audio
Repeat:
Whether the target audio clip plays once or twice
Recording:
Whether Glossika prompts you to record your own voice
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.
Set or adjust daily goals
About 6,000 sentences and 100,000 repetitions stand between you and total mastery of the course. That's a lot. Daily goals let you break your journey into more manageable bites.
1. Click on the "Edit" button located near the green or blue ribbon
2. Select how many reps you want to do each day (we strongly recommend doing 2-3x more review reps than new reps)
3. You can modify your goal at any time
How to adjust session settings on the Glossika iOS app/Android app
Users can adjust the speed of audio recordings and the time interval between recordings for both the ''Learn new items'' and ''Review'' modes.
If you'd like to have the same settings for both "learn new items" and "review" sessions, you'll have to adjust both sets of settings. Hope this information helps you to get more out of Glossika’s iOS/Android app!
To switch your session mode & tweak your in-session settings
1. Start a new session or a review session
2. Click the gear icon located in the top right corner to access the settings menu
3. Select the training mode(full practice mode or listening-only mode) that you prefer
*Keep in mind that new sessions and review sessions do not share a settings menu; you will need to adjust each settings menu separately.
[Learn New Items] mode
1. Please click the ‘’Learn New Items’’ button located at the bottom of the Course page.
2. Please click the ‘’wheel’’ icon located in the upper-right corner of this page.
3. Adjust the settings of the Base language, Target language, and General audio recordings as you wish.
A settings tab will open up from the right side of your screen, letting you adjust things like:
Interval:
the size of the pause between the audio clips
short = the minimum time interval, longer = the maximum time interval
Speed:
0.5x = slow-mo audio, 1.25x=sped up audio
Repeat:
Whether the target audio clip plays once or twice
Recording:
Whether Glossika prompts you to record your own voice
[Review] mode
1. Please click the ‘’Review’’ button located at the bottom of the Course page.
2. Please click the ‘’wheel’’ icon located in the upper-right corner of this page.
3. Adjust the settings of the Base language, Target language, and General audio recordings as you wish.
A settings tab will open up from the right side of your screen, letting you adjust things like:
Interval:
the size of the pause between the audio clips
Speed:
0.5x = slow-mo audio, 1.25x=sped up audio
Repeat:
Whether the target audio clip plays once or twice
Recording:
Whether Glossika prompts you to record your own voice
Note:
Any changes you make to your "learn new items" session settings will not affect the settings of your "review" session settings. This distinction makes it possible to, for example, have the audio of new items play more slowly and the audio of review items play more quickly.