# Vocabulary review

> Practise your words with spaced repetition and speaking practice.

**Vocabulary** holds your words. Your teacher adds words after a lesson, and you can add your own, one at a time or several at once as `word = meaning` lines. Words already on your list are skipped. You can remove only the words you added yourself.

The page shows how many words you have, how many are due now, how many are settling in, and your review streak.

## A review session [#a-review-session]

Choose **Review words** to start a session of up to 20 due words.

<Steps>
  <Step title="Think of the meaning">
    You see a word. Say or write the meaning to yourself.
  </Step>
  <Step title="Reveal it">
    Choose **Show the meaning**, or press Space.
  </Step>
  <Step title="Grade yourself">
    Choose **Again**, **Hard**, **Good** or **Easy**, or press 1 to 4. The time under each grade is when the word comes back.
  </Step>
</Steps>

Words you know well come back less often and the ones you miss come back sooner. A word marked **Again** returns in 10 minutes, so a second session later in the day helps. Each answer is saved straight away, so you can stop at any time.

## Hearing a word [#hearing-a-word]

To hear your words, pick their language under **Read words aloud in** on the word list or in a review. A speaker button then appears next to each word, and pressing it reads the word with your device's own voice. The choice is kept on that device only; if a language is missing, your device has no voice for it.

## Speaking practice [#speaking-practice]

Your teacher can set you role plays: a short scene, such as ordering at a café, where an AI plays the other person in the language you are learning. They are listed under **Speaking practice** on the Vocabulary page. The list does not appear while your teacher has set none, or when the site's plan has no AI.

<Steps>
  <Step title="Open a role play">
    The page shows who you play, who you talk to, the language and any words your teacher wants you to use. Choose **Start practice**.
  </Step>
  <Step title="Talk">
    Your partner opens the conversation. Type a reply of up to 500 characters and choose **Send**, or choose **Speak** to say it. Each role play gives you a set number of replies, and the page counts down the ones left. Tick **Read replies aloud** to hear your partner.
  </Step>
  <Step title="Get feedback">
    After your last reply, or whenever you want to stop, choose **Finish and get feedback**. You see what went well, a tip, and better ways to say some of your sentences. **Practise again** starts a new conversation.
  </Step>
</Steps>

You can start up to 6 practices in 24 hours. Your teacher can read your conversations, and they are deleted after 180 days. **Speak** appears only where your browser can recognise speech, and that recognition may send your voice to the browser's maker; Aula never receives the audio.

## Streak [#streak]

Your streak counts consecutive days with at least one review, ending today or yesterday, in your time zone.