Part-of-speech highlighting

Part-of-speech highlighting underlines words by their role in the sentence: blue for nouns, red for verbs, and so on. It helps most in Listen and Build — the colour tells you what kind of word you’re hearing before you catch it.

How to turn it on

1. In the player, tap the mode button in the side controls.
2. Tap Highlighting.
3. Switch on Part of Speech.

Words in the line that is playing get a coloured underline.

Choose which parts of speech to mark

1. On the Highlighting screen, tap Part of Speech.
2. Switch on the ones you want. The number next to the row shows how many are selected.

By default, only nouns and verbs are marked.

Part of speech	Colour
Noun	Blue
Verb	Red
Adjective	Green
Adverb	Purple
Pronoun	Orange
Preposition	Yellow
Conjunction	Green
Interjection	Yellow

In Build mode

While part-of-speech highlighting is on, the word chips in Build mode are coloured the same way — only for the parts of speech you selected. See Build mode.

Which languages

Part-of-speech highlighting is available when you learn English. For other languages the row isn’t shown.

Free or Pro

It’s a Pro feature. Without Pro, the row shows a Pro badge, and tapping it explains the feature. See Free and Pro.

Common questions

How do I remove the underlines?

Open mode → Highlighting and switch off Part of Speech.

Why is only the current line underlined?

Underlines on every line would be noise. Colours appear on the line you’re listening to.