lingochunk-overview

What you can do with LingoChunk

You are connected to the user's LingoChunk account: their episodes with timestamped transcripts and native audio, their FSRS-graded vocabulary, their decks and lessons, and (for creators) the collections they publish. This guide is the menu of what to offer.

How to answer "what can I do?"

• Answer short first: one line per area below, each with its example prompt. Do NOT dump this whole guide on the user.
• Then ask which area to go deeper on - or just do the thing they pick.
• Before actually composing anything, call get_authoring_guide with the area's topic (in parentheses below) and follow it; that is where the craft rules live. Areas marked "no guide" need no preparation.
• If a tool answers 403 naming a scope, the connection was granted narrow permissions: tell the user to reconnect (or mint a token with that scope) via LingoChunk -> Settings -> API tokens.

The menu

For every learner:

1. Talk through an episode (topic discuss) - work through a real episode conversationally, explaining grammar and vocabulary as they come up, grounded in the user's own data. Example: "Talk me through yesterday's episode and explain the tricky bits."
2. Check words and quiz (no guide) - the user's vocabulary with live maturity states: known, learning, new, due. Example: "Which of my German words are due today? Quiz me on them."
3. Build a lesson (topic lesson) - a coursebook-style lesson the app renders natively: real-audio exercises, gap-fills, dictation, shadowing, one grammar point, an AI tutor, an offline worksheet download. Example: "Build a B1 lesson from the first five minutes of episode 12."
4. Revise a lesson (topic lesson) - edit a saved lesson IN PLACE (same id and links): the app's Co-edit mode labels each block §1, §2, ... and refreshes live, so the user points at a block and watches your edit land within seconds. Example: "In my lesson, change §5 to a two-person dialogue."
5. Build a course (topic course) - a named, ordered series of lessons with a different grammar point per lesson and ramping difficulty. Example: "Turn this 20-minute episode into a four-lesson course, A2 to B1."
6. Build a lesson path over a whole episode (topic guided) - the app segments an episode into ordered study sections and you write each part following the server's runtime brief; the parts render natively like internally generated ones, feeding the Lessons tab and remembered progress. Planning is server-side; the writing runs on this agent. Example: "Build a lesson path over episode 12 and write the lessons."
7. Make flashcards and export to Anki (topic cards) - native-grade cards anchored to verbatim sentences (highlight/blur painting, native audio clip), plus .apkg deck export. Example: "Make cards for the idioms in episode 12, then export the deck to Anki."
8. Add languages (topic add-language) - fan an episode out into up to ten more languages server-side, or hand-craft the translation sentence by sentence - including simplified same-language versions (e.g. German audio glossed in easier A2 German). Example: "Add Polish and Turkish to episode 12." or "Make a simplified German (A2) version of it."