Vocabulary
How to add words to your vocabulary, translate them, and practice with the Cards game.
Your Vocabularies
You can create multiple vocabularies per language. This lets you organize words by topic, course, or however you prefer.
When adding words, you choose which vocabulary to save them into. Translations are automatically created into the language you set as your native language in your Profile settings.
Adding Words to Your Vocabulary
There are several ways to add words to your collection:
From the Words Page
Navigate to Words (or go to /platform/vocabulary) and click + Add words to open an in-app slide-over sheet. You can add single words or multi-word phrases and collocations of up to 4 words per entry (such as take care of or give it a shot).
If any entry has formatting issues, the sheet highlights the exact line with a jump button rather than flagging the whole text. You can select which vocabulary list to save into and edit translations before saving.
Vocabulary Capacity (1,000 Active Words): Each student account has an active vocabulary limit of 1,000 words. When you reach 1,000 active words, the Add Words sheet displays: "You have reached your vocabulary limit. Review your saved words in flashcards to make room for new ones." Reviewing words in flashcards moves mastered words to your Learned bucket, freeing active slots (or you can delete words you no longer need). This ensures your spaced repetition sessions remain focused and efficient.
From a Lesson
While working through a lesson, you can add words directly:
- Word List widgets — click the bookmark icon on any term in an interactive vocabulary list to add it to your collection
- Translator tool — open the dedicated translator panel and add words from there
- Inline translation — select any word or phrase in the lesson text, and use the "Translate selected" option to see the translation and add it to your vocabulary
In all cases, you can define your own translation for the word before adding it. You can also edit translation pairs directly inline in your vocabulary table at any time.
Words Shared Live by Your Teacher
During a live video lesson, your teacher can share vocabulary terms in real time:
- When your teacher shares a word using "For students" without typing a custom teacher translation, the platform automatically looks up the dictionary translation in your own native language and adds it to your personal Vocabulary!
- If the teacher writes a custom translation, that translation is displayed on your card and saved to your vocabulary.
- An animated "New word" card appears at the top of your screen showing the word, native-language translation, pronunciation audio button, and Pinyin (for Chinese).
- Tapping the audio button plays the native pronunciation immediately.
- The word is automatically added to your personal vocabulary list and increments the vocabulary counter in your live lesson dock.
Words Your Teacher Assigns
Your teacher can also attach a word list to a course lesson. When that lesson becomes available to you, those words appear in your vocabulary automatically — you do not need to add them yourself.
Audio and translations for those words are prepared in the background. Word list audio playback is completely free and ready to play.
Words added this way sit alongside the words you added yourself, and you practice them the same way. They are yours once delivered: you can edit a translation or delete a word exactly as you would with one you added, which removes it from your own list only — your teacher's word list for the lesson is unchanged.
Practicing with the Flashcards Trainer & Cards Sponsorship
From your Words page (/platform/vocabulary):
- Click Review on your active deck card to launch the Flashcards Trainer in an interactive in-app drawer.
- Click Open full word list to view and manage your complete dictionary table, search terms, and edit translations.
School Sponsorship (Unlimited Practice)
- Educator Paid School Sponsorship: If you are enrolled in a school with an active Educator Paid plan, your school automatically sponsors unlimited vocabulary training across all Locuto websites and apps using your account (including your school domain,
locuto.pro, andcards.locuto.pro). - Free Accounts: Independent free users without a school sponsorship receive 2 free practice sessions per day, or can upgrade with a Season Pass.
How Spaced Repetition Works
The Flashcards trainer uses spaced repetition — words you struggle with appear more often, while mastered words are reviewed less frequently. Pronunciation audio for words is ready to play instantly at no extra cost. Each word has a status:
| Status | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Learning | You're actively studying this word |
| Learned | You've correctly recalled it multiple times |
| Skipped | You marked it as already known |
Related pages
- Learning in Classes for live classroom tools and new word alerts
- Lessons & Homework for completing exercises and viewing feedback