Listening · Ring 2 · Comprehension

· 40+ languages

Nothing.
But the audio.

No subtitles. No transcript. No safety net. One question, asked once, after the audio ends. Comprehension is binary — and HEXI knows the difference.

Listening · Québécois French · B1 · Track 14

Ça t'a pris combien de temps pour apprendre?

1.0×

Listening speed

natural pace

61

Ring 2 score

comprehension

24

Tracks done

this week

The design decision

"No subtitles" is not a feature gap.
It's the training stimulus.

Subtitles create a reading comprehension task disguised as a listening task. Your brain routes to the text. The auditory pathway doesn't adapt. Listening without text forces true auditory processing — which is what comprehension actually requires.

Nation & Newton (2009): "Pure listening practice — without orthographic support — is the only training condition that develops auditory processing speed."

Calibrated difficulty

HEXI only assigns tracks where 85–92% of words are known — hard enough to train, comprehensible enough to acquire.

Speed progression

1.0× → 1.1× → 1.2×. Once comprehension locks at 1.0×, HEXI increases playback speed. Native speakers don't slow down.

One question. Precisely placed.

HEXI targets the most information-dense segment — a specific inferential test of what you actually understood.

Just listen.

Everything else is distraction.

Calibrate your ear →