Practice controls stay in place while recording, scoring and trying again, with changing feedback below them. Saved recordings are more resilient, with clearer storage warnings and smaller replay files when beneficial. Existing recordings are preserved. In Listen, hold a word pair to repeat it continuously, then tap Stop. Playing indicators no longer move the results. Update without uninstalling to keep your practice history.

Tap a listening word pair to hear its two words back to back. Practice arrows now move directly to the next word while keeping your selected L or N sound; the L/N buttons still switch between partners. The studio model ignores repeat taps until both pronunciations finish. Changing words or tabs stops the old example, and playback errors recover cleanly. Corrects playback of bundled listening clips on Apple devices. Improves recovery when pair audio is interrupted: repeat taps and returning to a previous pair no longer have to wait indefinitely for a stalled player. Failed playback can be retried without restarting the app. Also includes progressive recording history and optional update reminders. Update in place to keep device-local recordings; previously deleted recordings cannot be recovered. Includes the watchOS companion.

Chinese practice hears you properly. Mandarin and Cantonese attempts are judged by the syllable you said, so a homophone written with another character still counts, romanized transcripts are understood, and an attempt is always scored. Cantonese on iPhone now uses Apple's Cantonese dictation.

Listen tab: two buttons under the answers play each word of the pair on its own. Also includes the 28 new Mandarin and Cantonese pairs (59 in total).

28 new listening pairs: every Mandarin and Cantonese final that takes both l- and n- now has a same-tone minimal pair with verified studio audio (59 pairs in total).

Your own takes: every scored attempt is now kept on your device. Replay it from the score card or the Progress history, or hear the studio model followed by your take, so you can learn from the ones that landed. Takes stay on the device and are removed when you clear the app's data.

Ear training: a Listen tab plays a random run of one minimal pair (for example "light night light light night") in rounds of 3, 5 or 7 words; you tap what you heard in order and get scored per position. 18 more minimal pairs across English, Mandarin and Cantonese (31 in total), with coaching cues in every interface language. Studio examples now say the word twice with no sentence around it, re-recorded with native voices and verified. Recording stops by itself when the word is over, and scoring is anchored on what the recognizer heard.

• A trained on-device sound detector now judges whether your word started with L or N, replacing the old rule-based cues. • The recognized word decides the result: if the app hears the paired word, it says so instead of showing a high score. • Recording stops automatically when your word ends, so scores appear sooner. • Practice-language tabs, coaching cues, and word meanings now follow your interface language.