Welcome to the Lengualytics Handbook
What is Lengualytics?
Lengualytics is a language learning platform that helps you find and track comprehensible input content. It does not teach you a language, instead it gives you all the necessary tools you need to reach fluency using the input based method.
How does it work?
Users add content from platforms like YouTube and Spotify by pasting a URL when logging input time. This content is automatically aggregated into a shared library of comprehensible resources on the resources page. Users rate each resource’s difficulty, and those ratings are averaged to produce a single difficulty score. So the platform grows automatically as users enter and track their time watching content!
Who is it for?
Lengualytics is for learners who believe that languages are not consciously memorized, but acquired through exposure to large amounts of authentic content in their target language at a level they can understand. Our users believe that the key to language learning is input, and that fluency is a product of consistent exposure to the language.
What Is ‘comprehensible input’?
Comprehensible input is content in the language you are learning that you can mostly understand, even if you don’t know every word or grammatical rule. The message is clear enough that your brain can follow what’s happening without needing to consciously translate or analyze what you’re watching or listening to.
When input is at the right level, your brain naturally picks up patterns in vocabulary, grammar, and usage over time. As your understanding improves, more difficult content becomes comprehensible, allowing you to progress naturally toward fluency through continued exposure.
What Lengualytics does not do
Lengualytics does not teach grammar, give lesson plans, or test your conscious understanding of the language you’re learning. It does not promise shortcuts. Its goal is to support long-term, input-driven language acquisition. It will not teach you the language. It will help you find compelling, comprehensible content at your level as well as provide analytics and insights to show you a visual representation of your progress.
We also offer tons of resources to help you learn about how the input based method works here in this handbook!
How is progress measured?
Progress in Lengualytics is measured in one way: hours of input. The platform tracks and plots your hours of input over time, giving you insights into how your comprehension is improving. We also use gamification elements like levels, badges, and leaderboards to help you stay motivated and engaged.
How can I get started?
Sign up here for free and start tracking your input time! You’ll be onboarded with a few simple questions like your native language and the language you’re learning. Then you’ll be shown some of our most popular resources for your level to get you started.
If you still aren’t sure you’re ready to start and want to learn more about the theory behind the input method, see the this section to for my video series on how the method works!