Active Dictionary for reading and practicing with your own sources

Active Dictionary is a reading and language practice tool built around material the user already wants to understand. The product page lists articles, PDFs and videos. It lets the reader examine difficult wording, collect useful expressions and use them again in a conversation or written response.

Building a dictionary from a source

Start with an article, PDF or video. The site describes breaking down the wording of a difficult sentence and saving expressions to a personal dictionary with the context that made them useful. The context matters because a phrase can play a particular role in a paragraph or argument. Saving it alongside the material gives you something to refer back to when deciding how to use it.

The publisher gives examples that include technical documentation, research papers and captioned lectures. If the immediate task is understanding a paragraph, there is no requirement to do a speaking or writing exercise afterward.

Practicing with the same material

For speaking practice, the publisher says to sign in, open the material's Speaking tool and select an AI character. The conversation stays on the material and gives the user a chance to explain or question an idea with relevant saved phrases at hand.

The writing tool gives wording hints beside the draft, including suggestions about word choice and style. The documentation describes the user writing the response. Use the suggestions to revise your own explanation rather than accepting a sentence whose meaning you have not checked against the source.

Choosing a use case

This setup is useful when you want to revisit language from a source you care about. The workflow differs from looking up an isolated word, because the source remains available during practice. The captured product pages explain the practice tools but do not state a price. Before making it part of a class or team workflow, check the current access terms and try the process with one short document.