Study Stats and Streaks

What This Solves

Learning a language is something that shows no results in the short term and only improves noticeably over the long term. That rhythm makes it very easy to doubt yourself — “am I actually improving?”, “did I waste another week?” Aelano quantifies your daily study activity automatically: how many minutes you studied each day, how many days in a row you hit your goal, how many hours you have accumulated this month, and how much time went into listening / watching / shadowing / review each day. You do not have to log anything by hand — the app calculates all of it. When you can see it, it is easier to keep going.

Good for situations like:

You want to know how long you actually study each day
You are chasing a streak and need to see where it stands
You want to check whether you slacked off during a particular week
You want to know which stage of Practice takes up the most time

Where to Find Your Study Stats

Open Aelano and you will see the study stats card on the home page or under “Me” in the bottom bar — it shows today’s study time, your streak, and how many days you hit your goal this month. Tap it to open the full stats panel.

What Is in the Stats Panel

Overview Numbers

Total study time: how much you have studied since you started using Aelano
Study time this month: the running total so far this month
Days you hit your goal this month: how many days this month reached the daily goal you set (shown as X/Y days)
Current streak: how many days in a row you have hit your goal (past 99 days it shows “99+”)

Daily Study Time Chart

A bar chart by day, with two views:

7 days: the past week
This month: study time for each day this month

The chart has a goal line marking the daily goal you set. The color of each bar tells you:

Goal time: the part of that day that met the goal
Extra time: the part beyond the goal
Shortfall: the part you did not complete (shown in a lighter color, so you can see how much was missing)

Putting your mouse or finger on a day’s bar shows a tooltip:

“Total study time X”
“X to go” / “X over goal” / “Nothing yet today”

Practice Time Breakdown

If you use Practice (LS100), the panel also shows how your time splits across each stage:

How long you spent on word review
How long you spent on blind listening
How long you spent on focused listening
How long you spent on shadowing

This makes it clear which kind of activity your time goes into — you might find that 80% of your time is focused listening with subtitles and your shadowing time is close to zero, which is exactly where you have room to improve.

Setting a Daily Goal

The core of study stats is the daily goal — a number you set yourself for how long you want to study today.

There is a suggested default (usually 15–30 minutes)
You can change it under Set Daily Goal to whatever suits you: 5 minutes, 10 minutes, 30 minutes, 1 hour
Pick a number you can reach with a little effort — a goal that is too high makes it easier to give up. 15 minutes is a good starting point

Once it is set, any day you reach that amount counts as hitting your goal: your streak goes up by one, and so does your monthly count.

Streak Repair Cards

If you forget to study one day and break your streak, Aelano gives you streak repair cards to fill it back in:

Each successful transcription earns you 1 streak repair card
A card can fill in a day you missed, so your streak stays unbroken
The study stats screen shows how many cards you currently have (“Streak repair cards x N”)

The thinking behind repair cards: make the rhythm more forgiving, so one or two accidents do not break a long-term habit. But the cards are limited — you cannot patch things forever, and the rest of the time you still have to actually study.

What Counts Toward Study Time?

Aelano defines study time fairly broadly — basically, anything you do inside Aelano that involves interacting with learning content counts:

Listening to content in the player
Every stage of Practice (including shadowing and preview)
Reviewing word cards

Passive listening time also counts toward your total study time (passive input is still learning).

A Few Practical Tips

Start with a small goal: 10–15 minutes a day is what most people can sustain. Consider raising it after you have kept it up for 30 days.
The streak matters more than any single day: research shows that 10 minutes a day for 30 days works far better than one 5-hour session followed by two weeks off. Study stats are designed to help you see exactly that.
Do not try to make up a gap all at once: if you missed 3 days, do not try to study 3 hours in one day to catch up. Go back to your goal the next day and let the rhythm recover on its own.
Watch the Practice breakdown: if your shadowing time is close to zero, you are only “watching” and not “practicing”. Deliberately spend more time on shadowing next time.
Do not turn it into number anxiety: study stats exist to show you that you are progressing, not to serve as a KPI. A slower week is fine as long as the long-term trend goes up.

Common Questions

How is study time calculated?

It only counts the time you are actually interacting with learning content — the player is playing, you are going through Practice, you are doing review. Time with the app in the background does not count, and sitting on a screen without doing anything will not keep accumulating either.

Does passive listening count as study time?

Yes. Passive input is still learning. But it is not quite the same as active, focused study, and the breakdown makes that visible.

I definitely studied today, so why did my time not go up?

Usually a sync delay. When you switch between devices, study data accumulates locally first and then syncs to the cloud. Check again in a bit, or restart the app to trigger a sync.

How is the streak counted?

By the daily goal you set. Only a day that reaches the goal counts toward the streak. If your goal is 15 minutes and you only studied 10 minutes that day, it does not count.

Does missing one day reset the streak to zero?

Yes. But you can fill it back in with a streak repair card.

Do streak repair cards expire?

Cards you hold do not expire, but they can only fill in gaps from the last few days — a break from long ago cannot be repaired.

Can I change the daily goal at any time?

You can change it whenever you want. After you change it, that day and every day after are counted against the new goal. Past days are judged against whatever goal was in effect at the time.

Does this sync across devices?

Yes. Study time, streaks, and your goal setting all sync with your account.

Want to study a piece of content closely and grow your Practice time? See Practice (LS100)
Want passive listening to grow your study time steadily? See Passive listening
Want to stay consistent with review and keep the streak alive? See Review