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Understanding Your Weekly Learning Report: Where You Improved This Week and What to Practice Next Week
Studying every day, but not sure if you're actually making progress? Every week, Loopy automatically generates a learning report for you, reviewing this week's efforts, highlighting your strengths and weaknesses, and giving you specific recommendations for next week—all in a warm, friendly teacher's tone. This article teaches you how to understand this report and turn scattered practice into visible progress.
Understanding Sentence Structure: Breaking Down Long Sentences into 'Backbone + Modifiers'
Struggling to understand English sentences once they get long? In fact, no matter how long a sentence is, it always has a single backbone, and the rest are just modifiers hanging off it. This article teaches you how to use Loopy's meaning mode to spot the skeleton of long sentences at a glance, shifting your approach from 'word-by-word deciphering' to 'reading by structure'.
Compare Waveforms: Spot the Difference Between Your Pronunciation and a Native Speaker's at a Glance
Do you ever finish shadowing and feel like your pronunciation sounds a bit "off," but you can't quite put your finger on why? Loopy's shadowing mode displays your voice waveform stacked vertically with the native speaker's model audio, turning abstract rhythm, stress, and pauses into visible shapes. This article will teach you how to read these two waveforms, spot the differences, and close the gap by re-recording.
How to Read the Knowledge Graph: See Your Strengths and Weaknesses on a Single Map
Have you learned tons of vocabulary, sentence structures, and grammar, yet still can't tell how much progress you've actually made? The Knowledge Graph visualizes your abilities as a map, with a six-dimensional radar chart showing your strengths and weaknesses at a glance, and your mastery of various knowledge points laid out clearly. This article will teach you how to read this chart, so you know exactly what to work on next.
How to Read Your Learning Dashboard: Grasp Your Streak, XP, and Today's Progress at a Glance
The hardest part of learning a language is often 'how to keep going,' while the content itself is secondary. Without immediate feedback, it's easy to lose momentum once life gets busy, and hard to restart once you stop. This article will help you understand Loopy's learning dashboard, turning your streak, XP level, and today's progress into your daily starting point and motivation.
Ask When You Don't Understand: Let AI Break Down a Specific Sentence for You in Chinese
Stuck on a particular sentence while reading, and even after looking up every word, you still can't piece together the meaning of the whole sentence, leaving you with no choice but to just skip it? Loopy's "Ask While Learning" feature lets you ask questions directly about that specific sentence, and AI will explain in your native language why it is written that way and what a word means in this context. This article will guide you through mastering this in three steps.
How to Use Shadowing Mode: Read Along with Native Speakers and Let AI Grade You
When practicing English speaking on your own, the biggest challenge is not knowing if your pronunciation is accurate. Loopy's Shadowing Mode lets you listen to native speaker demonstrations, record yourself, and get an AI breakdown of your performance across three scores: pronunciation, intonation, and fluency. You'll also receive real-time feedback and tips for improvement from Loopy the Duck. This article shows you how to use it.