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Practice (LS100)

What This Solves

For a lot of people, studying a piece of content in Aelano looks like this: open it → listen while reading the bilingual subtitles → reach the end → close it. You did listen once, but how much did you actually retain? Very little, in practice — because your brain was never forced to engage. Aelano’s Practice (LS100) is a focused listening routine applied to each piece of content. It splits long content into short segments, and each segment goes through four steps: look at the vocabulary first, then blind listening, then focused listening, then shadowing. By the time a segment is done, that material has passed through your head four times — that is what counts as having learned it, rather than having heard it.

“LS100” stands for understanding 100%.

Where to Find Practice

Open any content that has already been transcribed and enter the player. There are two tabs at the top of the player:

  • Transcript: the default tab, the normal listen-while-reading-subtitles mode
  • Practice: switch here to enter focused listening practice

When you switch to Practice, if the content has not been split into segments yet, Aelano walks you through creating segments — you choose how long each segment should be, then start the routine.

Step One: Split Long Content into Segments

If nothing has been split yet when you open Practice, you see a prompt to turn on segment study mode.

Why split it up?

  • Avoiding information overload: an hour of focused listening in one go leaves your brain worn out long before the end
  • Working up gradually: finishing each segment gives you feedback, which is a lighter mental load than facing 50 minutes still to go
  • Automatic pausing: playback stops at the end of each segment, giving you time to think and absorb

Choosing the segment length

Aelano asks you how long each segment should be:

  • 3 minutes per segment is recommended for beginners — less material, easier to get on top of
  • Longer once you are comfortable — 5 minutes, 10 minutes, whatever you like
  • Custom: type in your own value

Once it is split, the whole piece becomes a series of short segments you can work through in order.

If you are not happy with the result, you can split it again — the content is re-cut, but your sentence recordings and shadowing scores are kept (the scoring history is not lost); the practice progress for each segment (blind listening / focused listening / shadowing completion) is reset.

The Four Steps of Practice

For each segment, Practice takes you through the following order:

Step 1: Vocabulary review

When you enter a segment, you first look at the key vocabulary that Aelano’s AI automatically extracted from it.

  • It gives you a sense in advance of which possibly unfamiliar words are coming up in this segment
  • You can save them in My Words & Sentences on the spot, or mark them as mastered
  • You can skip this step if you do not want it

This step is a warm-up — it activates the semantic network in your head first.

Step 2: Watching without subtitles (blind listening)

Switch to blind listening mode: no subtitles on screen, just sound.

  • Goal: train your ears to actually recognize the sounds instead of relying on subtitles
  • For a sentence you cannot follow, tap Mark as not understood — it does not break your rhythm now, and you come back to it in the focused listening step
  • When you finish, you get a subtitle-free challenge complete message

What matters most in this step is not what percentage you understood, but that you actually listened. Even if you only catch 30%, you improve faster than if you lean on subtitles the whole time.

Step 3: Watching with subtitles (focused listening)

Switch to focused listening mode: subtitles and translation are both on.

  • Goal: verify what you heard during blind listening, understand each sentence, and build the link between sound and text
  • The sentences you marked as not understood in the previous step appear here — focus on those
  • For a sentence you still do not get, tap Help me understand with AI and let AI break it down
  • For a word you do not know, use Word Lookup and save it in My Words & Sentences

Step 4: Shadowing

Switch to shadowing mode: you read along with each sentence, and AI scores you word by word.

Scoring dimensions

  • Accuracy (pronunciation): whether each word is pronounced correctly
  • Fluency: rhythm, smoothness, and pauses
  • Per-word score: each word is scored individually

Score colors

After you shadow a sentence, each word is highlighted by color:

  • Correct: you read it right
  • Mispronounced: the pronunciation was off
  • Missed: you did not say it
  • Extra: you said something that was not there

You can use the colors to work out which sounds you did not land, listen to the original again, and read it again.

Times listened / times read

Each sentence records how many times you listened and how many times you read it — giving you a concrete sense that you are really practicing.

Adjusting how strict the scoring is

If you feel the AI scoring is too strict (marking you wrong when you clearly read it correctly), you can loosen it in the shadowing scoring settings.

Finishing a segment

Once all four steps are done, the segment is marked as complete.

You can then:

  • Continue to the next segment
  • Leave Practice and go back to the normal transcript mode
  • Do something else (review, or open My Words & Sentences)

A Few Practical Tips

  • Do not run all four steps on every segment: the full routine takes roughly 20-40 minutes per segment, and one segment of close study a day is enough. You do not need to cover every segment — out of the content you have passively listened to, pick only the few segments you most want to master.
  • Shadowing matters more than blind listening: many people get stuck on not understanding during blind listening and skip shadowing. But shadowing is active output, and it helps long-term memory far more than ten more rounds of passive listening.
  • Do not chase a perfect score when shadowing: all-green is satisfying, of course, but studying is not an exam. If you can shadow at around 70% accuracy, move on — what you need is repeated shadowing, not one perfect take.
  • Pair it with review: when you find a word you cannot pronounce during shadowing, save it in My Words & Sentences, and the SRS will bring it back at the right time to confirm.
  • The sentences you mark as not understood during blind listening are gold: those sentences are your real weak points. Chewing on them during the focused listening stage is where you improve fastest.
  • Start with 3-minute segments if you are new: going too long is discouraging. The sense of achievement from finishing one 3-minute segment carries you into the next.

Common Questions

How does Practice relate to the normal Transcript tab?

They are two ways of studying the same content. Transcript is the default listen-while-reading-subtitles mode, good for getting through a lot of material, passive listening, and light study. Practice is the close-study mode, for content you really want to master. You can switch back and forth at any time.

Does Practice require a membership?

You do not need a membership to use the full routine — the three steps of vocabulary preview / blind listening / focused listening are free forever and consume no points. Only step 4, shadowing, consumes points — because AI has to score your pronunciation word by word, which is a pay-per-use AI feature. Free users can use it too; each shadowing attempt simply deducts points. If you practice shadowing heavily, a membership is worth considering for the more generous monthly allowance.

There is no split button — why did Practice start straight away?

If this content was split into segments before, Practice starts right away using the existing segments. If you want to re-cut it, choose Split again.

Is the shadowing score accurate?

Scoring is relatively accurate for major languages (English, Japanese, Korean, Chinese, German, French, Spanish, and so on). Accuracy may be lower for less common languages. If the scoring feels off, you can adjust the strictness in the scoring settings.

Do I have to follow the 1 → 2 → 3 → 4 order in every segment?

It is not enforced. You can start from any step, and you can skip a step — but pairing at least blind listening and focused listening works best.

Why do some segments have no vocabulary review step?

If the AI did not identify any words worth reviewing in that segment (the content is too easy, or every word is one you have already mastered), the step may be skipped.

What about microphone permission for shadowing?

Shadowing requires Aelano to access the microphone — iOS and Android prompt for permission the first time you enter shadowing. If you declined, you can turn it back on in your system settings.

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