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How to Use Phonics Training: Sharpen Your Ears with Minimal Pairs
Do rice and lice, berry and very sound exactly the same? Many English sounds are nearly impossible for Asian learners to tell apart—if your ears can't hear the difference, your mouth will keep making the same mistakes. This article teaches you how to use Loopy's Phonics Training to hone your sound-distinguishing skills step-by-step, starting simply by choosing the correct word from two very similar options.
How to Use Word Formation Training: Piece Together Prefixes, Roots, and Suffixes to Decipher Unfamiliar Words on the Spot
Memorizing words one by one and feel like you'll never finish even after an eternity? English words are actually put together from parts. This article teaches you how to use Loopy's word formation training to combine prefixes, roots, and suffixes, unlocking a whole string of words with a single part—so you can break down and guess the meaning of even unfamiliar words on the spot.
How to Take Online Listening Tests: Practice Full Exams for CAP and High School English Listening
Do you always practice listening with a few scattered questions at a time, only to realize the actual exam pace is completely different when you enter the test center? Loopy features actual public past exam papers from the Junior High School CAP and High School English Listening Exams. It plays the entire exam with the official original audio, allows you to answer online and check your answers automatically, and even saves your progress history. This article will teach you how to practice listening by 'taking full exams under official test specifications.'
Full-Lesson Review: Connect Everything You've Learned with the Full-Text Review Player
After breaking down a whole lesson to practice vocabulary, sentence meaning, dictation, and shadowing, it can often feel fragmented, lacking a sense of cohesion. This article will teach you how to use Loopy's Full-Text Review Player to listen to the entire lesson again from start to finish. With Chinese-English bilingual display and sentence-by-sentence playback, you can reconnect all the individual points you've practiced back into a complete, unified lesson.
Scan and Auto-Grade Exam Papers: AI Grades Your Work and Explains Your Mistakes in Chinese
After finishing an English test, the hardest part is often having no one to grade it. This article teaches you how to use Loopy's exam grading feature: just take a photo to upload and auto-grade, complete with detailed explanations in your native language. Incorrect questions are also scheduled for review, turning an ordinary test paper into valuable learning feedback.
How to Use Loopy Dictionary: Look Up Words, Listen to Pronunciations, and Save to Your Word List with One Click
The biggest frustration of looking up words is forgetting them immediately. Ordinary dictionaries only give you a single translation, which you close and forget, still failing to recognize the word the next time you see it. This article teaches you how to use Loopy Dictionary to make word lookup a seamless, all-in-one process—view multilingual definitions, listen to real human pronunciations, and save words to your vocabulary list with a single click, so the words you look up actually stick.
How to Use Dictation: Train Your Listening and Spelling Together, One Sentence at a Time
Recognizing a word in print but failing to hear it, or hearing it but spelling it wrong—these are two entirely different challenges. Loopy's dictation mode separates 'auditory recognition' and 'spelling' so you can practice them step-by-step. Listen to a sentence, spell it out, and instantly see which words you got wrong or which sounds you missed. This guide shows you how to use it.
How to Use the Daily Study List: Just Open It and Follow Along, the System Plans Your Day
Open the app every day but don't know what to practice first? The Daily Study List organizes "what you need to do today" into a single checklist—due reviews are sorted by the forgetting curve, combined with suggestions for new progress, allowing you to start with one click and auto-play. This article teaches you how to use it. Leave the decision-making to the system—all you need to do is follow along.
Look Up as You Read: Tap Any Word to See the Definition, Examples, and Pronunciation
When you come across an unfamiliar word while reading, having to switch to a dictionary app—and then losing your place when you come back—makes looking up words such a hassle that you might just give up entirely. Loopy lets you tap any English word directly in the text to instantly bring up its definition, example sentences, and pronunciation, without ever leaving the page. This article will show you how to use this feature, making looking up new words completely effortless.