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v2.6.0August 7, 2026
New Features
- Playback speed, right on the learn page: A ▼ 1x ▲ control now sits next to the hide-video and CC buttons. Tap the triangles to step from 0.25x to 2x, or tap the number in the middle to pick a speed directly. The current rate is always visible and turns coloured when it isn't 1x, so you never practise slowed down without realising. When a sentence flies past, slow it until you can hear the words.
Playback speed — slow it down until you hear it - Speed shortcuts:
[slows down,]speeds up,\goes back to 1x. Your hands never leave the keyboard, and it works in Focus mode too. Keep typing, keep control. - Make the shortcuts yours: The shortcut panel on the learn page is now clickable. Tap any row to open the settings, pick the shortcut you want, then press the new combo. The panel, the button tooltips, the focus-mode hint line and the guided tour all update straight away. If a shortcut clashes with your input method, change it.
Custom shortcuts — change a key, everywhere follows - Shortcuts are saved to your account: Your keys live in your account, not in the browser. Sign in on another computer and they are already there; clearing your browser data won't lose them. Set them once, use them anywhere.
- Word lookups in your native language: Click a word while practising and its meaning appears in the language you picked in your settings — more than 20 of them, from Japanese, Korean and Chinese to Russian and Arabic, instead of Vietnamese only. Languages without a translation show clear English definitions instead. Meanings are for signed-in accounts; guests still hear the pronunciation. Look words up in your own language.
- Word lookups in the full sentence: Practising in short chunks, you only see the whole sentence at the last one, under "Full sentence". Every word in that line is now clickable — tap it to open the dictionary and add it to your vocabulary on the spot. The example saved with the word is the complete sentence, not the chunk you were typing. Built from a learner's request on the feedback board. Spot a good word anywhere in the sentence? Tap it right there.
Full-sentence word lookup — save words with their whole sentence
Improvements
- Your speed is remembered: Pick 0.75x today and tomorrow's video opens at 0.75x, no re-selecting every time. Set it once.
- Settings in one place: The settings dialog now has two tabs, General and Shortcuts. One place to adjust things.
- The report feature is gone: Over eight months only 2.6% of learners ever tried it, and most made exactly one. Removing it keeps the menu short. Old report links no longer open. Less clutter around the part you actually use.
Fixes
- Coming back to a lesson no longer loses your work: Open the Vocabulary Book mid-practice, come back, and progress could drop to 0% with finished sentences masked again. The page was loading your saved work before it knew whether you were signed in, so it loaded an empty record — and the next sentence you typed saved that emptiness over the real thing. It now waits until it knows, and writes nothing until your work has loaded. What you dictated stays dictated.
- Word notes show up in the Vocabulary Book: Saving a word lets you write a note, but the book never showed it. The note was always saved — the book just didn't display it. It now sits right under the example sentence. What you write is what you see.