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/Android app
switch your session mode & tweak your in-session settings
set or adjust daily goals
Two quick FAQs:
Topics/Interests — Due to UX issues, we have temporarily disabled the ability to indicate your interests in order to personalize the sentences Glossika prepares for you. We are in the process of refactoring this feature and will add it back at a later date.
Gendered audio — For the time being, most courses only have one available speaker. Our sister project, Viva, will expand the amount of speakers available for each language. Eventually, you'll be able to choose a preferred speaker or hear a mix of all genders/demographics/etc.
How to personalize your Glossika experience on the Glossika website
I. 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. The exercises start easy and get harder as you encounter a sentence more times.
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. Do it when you have time to sit down and focus.
Listening-only mode is much less intense, but let's you make progress while commuting, doing housework, walking the dog, and so forth. Do it when you're on the go!
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.
II. 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 several settings.
Note: Your new item settings and your review item settings are separate. Changes made to new item settings won't affect review item settings.
III. Set or adjust daily goals
About 6,000 sentences and 100,000 repetitions stand between you and the ability to confidently navigate conversations in your target language. 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 4–5x more review reps than new reps)
3. You can modify your goal at any time
How to adjust session settings on the Glossika iOS/Android app
Note: Your new item settings and your review item settings are separate. Changes made to new item settings won't affect review item settings.
I. Switch your session mode & tweak your in-session settings
1. Click the ‘’Learn New Items’’ or ''Review'' button located at the bottom of the Course page.
2. Click the ''wheel/gear'' icon located in the top right corner to access the settings menu
3. Select the training mode that you prefer:
- the "full-practice" mode ("flash" icon)
- the "listening-only" mode ("headphone" icon)
4. An overview of the things you can adjust are below:
features | Notes / Instructions |
Training mode - Full-practice mode → "flash" icon - Listening-only mode → "headphone" icon
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Swap Order Choose whether you see the base language first or the target language first | |
Base / Target settings Control: - if text/audio is on/off - audio speed - if the sentences repeat |
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Recording Control: - if Glossika prompts you to record your voice - some aspects of the recording flow |
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General - whether sessions autoplay - turn sound effects on/off |
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Audio Spacing Adjust how many seconds are between: - Base → Target - Target audio repetitions (if enabled) - Target → Next Sentence |
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If you can not adjust your Audio Spacing settings, or if you see them as set to zero seconds, take the following steps:
Function | Function disabled if | To enable function |
Base → Target | -Base Language Audio: Off -Target Language Audio: Off | This setting requires that both base and target language audio be enabled. |
Target audio repetitions | Target Language Playback Count: 1 time | This setting requires that target language audio play more than once. |
Target → Next Sentence | Recording Practice: On | Turn off the "recording" feature, then you can adjust the time interval. |
Note: The above table shows what the settings look like if your "swap order" settings are set to "play the base language first, then the target language." If you choose to play target-language audio first, the function names will change accordingly.
II. Set or adjust daily goals
About 6,000 sentences and 100,000 repetitions stand between you and the ability to confidently navigate conversations in your target language. 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 4–5x more review reps than new reps
3. You can modify your goal at any time