@joelrendall
Thanx Joel for such an option:
creating MY OWN frases portugês would be great.
I would be very happy to work that way 
I support the active playlist idea. I’ve actually tried something similar on my own and have been having some success with it.
After three listenings (one with no support, one with the transcript, and one with the transcript and translation), I take the quiz, bookmark new vocab and expressions, and then mark the Shorty as Complete. At this point, I consider it “processed for meaning.”
I then download the audio file and add it to a personal app I created, which plays the Shorties in a continuous, non-repeating cycle. This setup allows me to listen attentively while walking the dog or running errands without needing to manage playback.
These re-listenings not only reinforce the features I noted during the initial processing but also provide opportunities to make out new details as my proficiency grows. I conjecture this approach supports listening skills development while giving me additional, contextualized exposures to useful language that will help me acquire it.
One key advantage of the hands-free approach is that it removes the friction of deciding which Shorty to revisit or remembering what I’ve already heard. I just press play, and it seamlessly cycles through my corpus of meaning-processed Shorties. When I’ve gone through them all, I delete the history and start over.
I think a playlist feature in the Practice Portuguese app that did the same sort of thing would quickly prove very popular.
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@ProfessorCaloiro
Sounds very interesting
Would be nice, if you describe how you created your own playerApp.
Thanks for more informations about that.
Thanks for your interest! To start with, my programming skills are pretty minimal, so I partnered with ChatGPT and Google Gemini to write the code in JavaScript, HTML, and CSS, and to help me solve many challenges along the way. The operational app is based in Amazon Web Services (AWS), which I discovered is a very convenient one-stop shop for creating and hosting projects like this—a world of difference from the way things were when I built my first website 15 years ago and had to piece together different tools and services from various sources. I used: (1) AWS S3, a scalable cloud storage service, to store the audio and transcript files; (2) AWS Elastic Beanstalk to deploy and host the web application; (3) AWS Route 53 to register the domain name and manage DNS settings to ensure the app is accessible online; and (4) AWS Certificate Manager to get SSL certified and serve everything securely over HTTPS. I also used Git and a GitHub repository to keep track of all the work and do version control. You can see a screenshot below (I’ve hidden the app name and URL because, as I said, it’s just for my private use).
Super simple, and yet it took a couple of weeks to develop because, as I said, I’m not a programmer. The process made me appreciate even more how well-designed and amazingly full-featured Practice Portuguese is.
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@ProfessorCaloiro
Thanx a lot
Wow, quite a journey …
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To better understand your creation process,
I just signed into AWS and started playing around.
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I’m wondering if a result created within AWS could be used afterwards outside of AWS and the amazonWorld.
Since I have my own servers and domains already running.
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