WEBVTT - The Learning Lab — Mandarin Temple guide

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Hi, I’m Jason, Mandarin Temple’s AI tutor.

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This is the Learning Lab, shown on a demonstration
account with four months of practice behind it.

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The Lab reads the practice you were doing anyway,
and turns it into evidence of what you have actually learned.

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A progress bar counts what you have finished.

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The Lab asks something harder:
what you can still recall, and how well.

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Each answer becomes one record.

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Records add up for every word, and a figure
appears only when enough practice stands behind it.

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Knowing a word is really seven skills:
its meaning, its character, its pinyin and tone,

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hearing it, saying it and writing it.

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Each card names the practice that fills it,
so a thin facet tells you what to do next.

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On a free account, the Lab measures
meaning, character and pinyin.

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Pro measures all seven, and adds the gap
between recognising a word and producing it.

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Your profile starts with how you know
what you know: a bar for each facet,

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with the margin of error the Lab allows itself.

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On Pro, the seven draw a shape.

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This one is stronger at recognising
words than at saying or writing them.

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And where the evidence is thin, the Lab says so,
rather than showing a number it cannot support.

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Every word in the dictionary has its own
card as well: how you have done on that word,

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facet by facet.

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That’s the Learning Lab: seven ways of
knowing a word, read from your own practice.

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Open yours and see what it says.