NerLan vs PTE WFD

NerLan is a podcast player built for people learning a language by listening. Subscribe to any show by pasting an Apple Podcasts link or an RSS address, then play it with the controls a learner actually needs: variable speed from 0.5x to 2x, repeat one or repeat all, precise skip, and a lock screen and Control Center that move between episodes rather than nudging fifteen seconds at a time. Then study what you heard. TRANSCRIPTS THAT FOLLOW ALONG Generate a transcript of any episode and the sentence being spoken stays highlighted and centred as the audio plays. Tap a line to jump straight to it, or loop a single sentence until it sticks. TRANSLATION Render the transcript into your language, sentence by sentence, and read it alongside the original. Generated once and kept, so re-reading costs nothing. STUDY HANDOUTS Turn an episode into a review sheet - overview, grammar points, example sentences, and vocabulary - drawn from its own transcript. Examples stay in the language you are studying, glossed in the language you choose. SHADOWING PRACTICE Loop a sentence, record yourself reading it aloud, and play your version back against the original. LISTEN OFFLINE Download episodes for the commute, or let anything you stream to the end be kept automatically. Downloads are grouped by show and language, filterable, and available with no signal. WIDGETS Up Next, Latest Episode, My Shows, and a listening-streak widget for the Home and Lock Screen - all playable without opening the app. SIRI "Play [show] in NerLan", resume where you left off, change the speed, or ask how long you have listened this week. Give a show a nickname Siri can actually hear when its real title is in a script Siri does not speak. YOUR AI, YOUR CHOICE AI features are optional and run on credentials you provide - either an OpenAI API key billed to your own account, or your own OpenAI-compatible server, including one on your own machine. Your key is kept in the device keychain. PRIVATE BY CONSTRUCTION No account, no sign-up, no analytics, no advertising, no tracking, and no third-party SDKs. There is no NerLan server, so there is nowhere for your listening to be sent. Optional iCloud sync writes to your own account so your library survives a reinstall; audio is never synced. NerLan plays podcasts from their own public feeds. All audio content belongs to its publishers.

Every PTE Academic and PTE Core test has 3-4 Write From Dictation items, and each one scores toward your Listening AND your Writing band. It is scored word by word. This app drills 384 deduplicated WFD sentences one at a time and marks you word by word, in order, so you can see exactly which words you dropped. Learning content works fully offline — questions and audio ship inside the app. No account or ads. Optional anonymous product-interaction analytics use Apple CloudKit only after your consent. First 30 sentences free. SENTENCE-BY-SENTENCE DICTATION • 384 deduplicated WFD sentences built in • English and Chinese audio ship with the app — nothing to download • Scored word by word, in order, with every dropped word marked in place • Progress saves automatically; star the sentences you keep missing • Hide the English and the translation together for true blind dictation SPACED REVIEW • Learned sentences return after 1, 2, 4, 7, 15, 30 and 60 days • A badge on the Review tab shows today's remaining count, with days changing at 4:00 am Beijing time • Missing words, low scores and revealed prompts stay in today's queue until written correctly OFFLINE DICTIONARY AND WORD LIST • Tap any English word in a sentence for phonetics, meanings, phrases, derivatives, word roots, synonyms and antonyms • Unlimited lookups; free users can save up to 30 words • Review saved words one by one and retire them once learned — your history is always kept WFD FM • A focused listening mode built around the English sentence and its translation • Play across all sentences, only the ones you have studied, or only your starred ones • Sequential, shuffle and single-sentence repeat • Turn on Chinese playback to hear each sentence in English then Chinese • Speed control, background playback and lock-screen controls QUIET, FOCUSED, OFFLINE LEARNING • No account required • No personally identifiable data collected, no third-party analytics SDK, and no cross-app tracking • Optional anonymous product analytics can be declined or turned off at any time without affecting learning • No ads • Unlock the full question bank, WFD FM and unlimited saved words with a monthly or yearly subscription, or a one-time purchase • All questions and audio stay on your device This is an independent study tool. It is not affiliated with, authorised by, or endorsed by Pearson or PTE. Terms of Use (standard Apple EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/