Learner sidecar
What will help me understand and answer on my own?
- Source text with translation directly beneath it
- A short cue, form or example when help is useful
- Saved phrases, corrections and active recall
- A personal learning history
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REAL-TIME TEACHER-LED ADAPTIVE LEARNING
Never lose the thread of your lesson again.
LingoSide sits beside your live lesson with the words, the translation and a little help — so you stay in the conversation instead of falling out of it.
The thing nobody warns you about
You can read it. You can follow the film. So why can’t you say it?
Many learners recognise the gap: reading and listening feel ahead of speaking. That does not mean anything has gone wrong. Understanding lets you take language in; speaking asks you to produce it in the moment, and a live lesson gives you somewhere to practise that.
Which is what a live lesson is for
A lesson with a real person is where you produce the language instead of receiving it, with someone actually waiting for your answer. LingoSide does not replace that hour. It stands beside it, so that the hour you paid for is spent talking rather than trying to work out what was just said.
Your sidecar
The lesson, in text, while it happens.
Live speech has no rewind button, and one missed word can cost the next three sentences. The sidecar keeps what was said on screen, with the translation directly beneath it, so catching up takes one glance.
Private by design
Your side of the lesson stays yours.
- Your cues, saved phrases and history are your private scaffolding
- The teacher works from the shared lesson, not from your private panel
- Help is a hint, not a script — the speaking stays yours
The freeze moment
When panic hits, you stop hearing. The words stay on screen.
Every learner knows it: one unknown word, a small wave of panic, and the next sentences blur past. With the transcript beside you, a lost word stays one lost word — you catch up and answer.
Losing the thread is normal
It is not a talent problem. Live speech is simply faster than a memory that is still learning the language, which is exactly why a live lesson deserves a safety net that never interrupts it.
More speaking, less nodding
Understand more, and you will say more.
The more of the lesson you actually catch, the more you dare to say — and saying things out loud is what a live lesson is for.
Stop nodding along
Everyone has nodded and hoped. With the words on screen, you can answer what was actually said, or ask a real question about it.
Fewer repeats, more practice
Asking for one more repetition stops being the only rescue, so the lesson spends its minutes on practice instead of replay.
Answer in your own words
When help is useful, it follows the task and stays short: a form, an unfinished hint, an example or a compact factual answer. Personal answers still have to come from you.
On your terms
Finish the thought. Revisit the words.
Some learners want corrections immediately; others prefer them after the exchange. The sidecar does not decide that you were wrong or correct you on its own. It keeps the lesson text visible so you and your teacher can return to the exact wording.
Finish the thought first
The sidecar shows text and translation without speaking over the conversation or issuing a correction while you talk.
The wording keeps its context
When you revisit a sentence, the words around it still show what you were trying to say. Your teacher works from the moment, not from an isolated error.
Your teacher decides what becomes practice
A teacher can turn that moment into an explanation, a saved phrase or later practice when it is useful — not because the sidecar has declared it wrong.
Adaptive learning, made personal
Your teacher is the adaptive engine.
Your teacher notices when more time, a different explanation or another try could help, then decides what to do next. That is what makes the lesson adapt to you. LingoSide is designed to keep those moments connected to later practice — without taking that decision away from your teacher.
Keep the real context
A phrase and the words around it stay together, so practice begins with what you were actually trying to understand or say.
Recall before reveal
Instead of only showing the note again, the loop gives you a small chance to retrieve the phrase yourself, then shows the feedback.
Return over time
Teacher-approved phrases and corrections can return across later practice. Your responses add context for the next attempt, not a label or score for you.
Three foundations. No magic model.
The adaptive loop is built on learning science we can name.
These studies do not prove outcomes for LingoSide. They guide the design choices we are building and testing.
222 studies · 48,478 learners
Retrieve, do not just reread
A classroom meta-analysis found that quizzing produced a medium improvement in learning achievement (g = 0.499).
Yang et al. · Psychological BulletinSource checked48 experiments · 3,411 learners
Return over time
A second-language meta-analysis found medium-to-large benefits from spacing; longer intervals helped more on delayed tests.
Kim & Webb · Language LearningSource checked15 studies · 827 learners
Prompt self-correction
A classroom meta-analysis found durable benefits from oral feedback, with prompts outperforming simply supplying the corrected form.
Lyster & Saito · SSLASource checkedThe honest question
Does reading along stop you from learning?
It is the right question to ask about any support. Research on captioned viewing gives an unusually clear answer: learners with text support understand more and learn more vocabulary, not less.
Scaffolding, not a shortcut
Learning happens in the gap between what you can do alone and what you can do with a little help. Support inside that gap is how people grow — long-standing learning science, not a workaround.
Reading along trains the ear
In a controlled study, learners who watched with subtitles in the language they were learning later understood spoken language better without any subtitles than learners who watched without them.
The support steps back
Studies also show reliance on captions fades as your level grows. Help you glance at when you need it does not become help you depend on.
Human on purpose
Your teacher stays the teacher.
You chose a lesson with a human in it, and LingoSide is built to keep it that way. The AI does not chat and does not take over the conversation — it helps you stay inside the one you came for.
For teachers and schoolsBetter for your teacher too
Human-led by designThe same lesson feeds the teacher sidecar: what was hard for you stays visible with its evidence, so the next lesson can start from what actually happened — decided by your teacher, not by a model.
Progress you can point at
The lesson does not evaporate when the call ends.
Losing the feeling of progress is one of the main reasons adults give up on a language. Saved phrases, corrections and active recall build a personal learning history — evidence of how far you have come, linked to the moments it came from.
Your own words, then and now
The middle of learning a language is where progress becomes hardest to feel: you notice everything you still cannot say, and nothing keeps a record of how you used to say it. A lesson history makes the comparison possible — not a score and not a level, just the way you put something in March next to the way you put it today.
REAL-TIME TEACHER-LED ADAPTIVE LEARNING
Carry the learning path forward without taking it away from the teacher.
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