Preply's Lesson Insights don't cover your language. Here's what your lesson leaves behind anyway.

Preply's Lesson Insights are, in Preply's own words, "only available for English lessons." If you're learning Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese or Russian there, the vocabulary review is yours to run.

Your Spanish lesson ended 4 minutes ago. You got the subjunctive wrong, your tutor fixed it, you typed the fix into the chat, and for a minute there you had it.

Tomorrow you'll remember that it was something about the subjunctive.

Preply's answer to that is Lesson Insights: AI summaries with "personalized feedback on vocabulary, grammar, and speaking," landing 5 minutes before the lesson ends.

Preply's help centre says this, on the learner article and the tutor one: "Currently, Lesson Insights are only available for English lessons."

So if you're learning English on Preply, close this tab and go switch Insights on. Settings, then Permissions. It's free, and the feedback reaches you before you've left the classroom.

For everyone else it doesn't exist, though the guides answering "Preply lesson vocabulary review" describe it as though it covered every language.

Preply Classroom holds a Vocabulary section and a Notes section in the bottom navigation bar, and "messages sent during your lesson will be saved so you can review them later."

The whiteboard isn't on that list. Preply is blunt: "students cannot access the whiteboard after the lesson." Whatever your tutor drew died when you closed the tab.

That's your raw material. Here's what to do with it before bed.

What Lesson Insights cover, and who gets them

Preply's own help centre says this, in one sentence, twice: "Currently, Lesson Insights are only available for English lessons."

So if tonight's lesson was Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese or Russian, the feature you've been reading about all week didn't run. There's no summary waiting for you. There never was one.

What it does when it does run, in Preply's words: "Lesson Insights are AI-generated lesson summaries that provide personalized feedback on vocabulary, grammar, and speaking, along with tailored exercise suggestions." Built from audio: "We generate Lesson Insights by transcribing the audio from your lessons and then extracting the insights."

The delivery is genuinely good. Insights appear "5 minutes before the lesson ends, in the classroom", again when you leave, and again in chat within 5 minutes of the hour finishing. Feedback on your vocabulary before your tutor has said goodbye.

Everyone else: the rest of this page is the vocabulary step you now have to run yourself.

Credit where it's due, though. You can switch recording on alone, without your tutor. Preply: "If your tutor doesn't enable them but you do, you will still receive insights. Your tutor's audio won't be recorded or analyzed."

On italki, both parties have to agree or nothing is recorded at all. One teacher who never got round to the toggle, and your lesson leaves no trace.

Which makes the English-only limit sting. The consent model is built for a learner acting alone, and then the feature won't cover your language.

What you actually keep after a Preply lesson

Open Preply Classroom tonight and look at the bottom of the screen. Two words there hold everything you still own: Vocabulary and Notes.

Preply's student guide, updated 17 December 2025, puts them there: "You can access the Vocabulary and Notes sections in the bottom navigation bar of Preply Classroom menu." It promises the lot stays put. "Your homework, vocabulary, files and notes are all in one place; you'll never lose them!"

The chat survives too: "Messages sent during your lesson will be saved so you can review them later." I'd copy anything you care about out of there anyway.

Now the part that stings. The whiteboard is gone. One line, same guide: "Please note, students cannot access the whiteboard after the lesson."

Every conjugation table your tutor drew there went when you closed the tab. If that's where your tutor does the explaining, the richest hour of your week left no trace.

Which leaves audio, where I'll be careful. Preply publishes 2 sentences. "You can access your lesson audio for as long as you're using Preply." And: "You can also download the audio at any time."

Both sit in the Lesson Insights help article, dated 16 July 2026: turn Insights on, and "we will transcribe your lessons". The same article says, flatly, "Currently, Lesson Insights are only available for English lessons."

So the download is documented for the lessons that feature covers. For a Spanish or Russian lesson, whether audio exists at all is undocumented, and I won't guess for you.

Go and look yourself. That article, read on 9 September 2026, gives the route in 5 words: "Open Settings and click Permissions."

If audio is offered, take it, and turn it into a transcript. If nothing is offered, you've learned that before building a Tuesday routine around a file that was never coming.

The honest inventory for a Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese or Russian learner: a Vocabulary tab, a Notes tab, a saved chat log, and a whiteboard you'll never see again. All of it text that you or your tutor typed.

Start with Notes tonight, not Friday. Copy the whole pane into a plain text file, date it, and add the 2 or 3 things your tutor said out loud that nobody typed anywhere.

Then open Vocabulary and read its rows against that file. The next section is about the gap you'll find.

Why the Vocabulary tab isn't the list you need

Preply doesn't publish what goes into the Vocabulary tab, or who puts it there. What's documented is that it survives the lesson, along with your notes and files: "all in one place; you'll never lose them!"

So read it as a record of what somebody stopped for while the lesson was running.

A word gets on that list because your tutor introduced it on purpose, or because you interrupted and asked. Both need you to have known, mid-conversation, that there was something worth stopping for.

The items that actually cost you the hour are the ones nobody stopped for. You reached for a word, produced a worse one, and kept going. Your tutor echoed the sentence back with the preposition swapped and carried on, because stopping every time would wreck the lesson.

When Verbamor mines a lesson transcript it tags every candidate with a reason, and ranks the reasons. Struggled means you reached for it and couldn't produce it cleanly. Corrected means your tutor supplied or fixed it after you got it wrong.

Gap means you needed the word and never produced it at all: you said it in English, talked around it, or trailed off. Taught, used and personal sit below all three, and you can run the same sort by hand tonight.

The evidence for putting the failures first is old and boring. In Karpicke and Roediger's 2008 Science study, students learned 40 Swahili-English pairs, and a week later the items that kept getting tested came back at about 80% against 36% for items that were only restudied.

So work backwards through the hour from the parts that stung, and stop when you run out. I get 5 or 6 off a 50-minute lesson, which is my own working number rather than anything measured.

Do that pass tonight. By Thursday you'll remember the lesson covered the subjunctive, and you won't remember which sentence broke.

Turning those 5 or 6 into cards that survive contact with Thursday is its own craft.

The 25 minutes after you close the classroom

You have the Classroom open and the lesson is 4 minutes gone. Everything below works from what's in front of you, plus your own memory, which is better right now than it will ever be again.

Do it in this order. The order carries more weight than the total time does.

Minutes 0 to 6. Empty your head before you open anything.

Blank page, no scrolling. Write down every word you reached for and missed, and every time your tutor stopped you and said the thing back differently.

Do this first because the Vocabulary section will overwrite you. Read someone else's list and you'll recognise all of it, which feels like remembering.

Minutes 6 to 12. Now open the Classroom and scrape it.

Notes, Vocabulary, and the lesson chat, which Preply says is saved so you can review it later. Star anything that was already on your own list, because those words beat you twice.

The whiteboard is gone. Preply's guide says students can't access it after the lesson, so whatever your tutor sketched there died when you closed the tab.

Minutes 12 to 22. Cut the list down, then write the cards.

I aim for about 10, which is my own working number rather than anything measured. The words you struggled to produce and the ones your tutor corrected go first, and I've argued that ordering over here.

Ten minutes for 10 cards is tight on purpose. A fill-in-the-blank card built from the sentence you actually said takes a minute if you don't fuss, and the fussing is what kills the habit by week 3. Where the blank goes is its own guide.

Minutes 22 to 25. Run them once, out loud, then go to bed.

You'll get several wrong. Good. Getting them wrong tonight, while you can still hear your tutor saying the correct version, beats getting them right on Saturday.

The bedtime instruction isn't padding. Gais, Lucas and Born taught high-school students English-German vocabulary and retested them 48 hours later. The ones who slept within a few hours recalled more, and the deficit survived a recovery night, which rules out the deprived group just being tired on test day.

So a lesson ending at 9pm is a gift. One ending at 2pm means the cards want to exist before dinner. Longer version in the sleep post.

After tonight, widen the gaps. Cepeda and colleagues reviewed 317 experiments and found the gap that produces the best retention grows as the delay before the test grows.

One piece of arithmetic if you end up holding an audio file. Verbamor caps each at 90 minutes, so a 60-minute lesson fits with half an hour spare. Whether Preply gives a non-English learner a file at all is the open question above, so check Settings > Permissions.

The one change that makes the next lesson easier

Send your tutor one message before the next lesson. Something like: when you correct me, please type the corrected sentence into the lesson chat.

Preply's Classroom guide says what happens to it: "Messages sent during your lesson will be saved so you can review them later."

The correction arrives written down, by the person who knows the right form.

Ask for 2 things.

• The whole sentence, with the fixed word inside it. "Use the subjunctive there" tells you nothing in a week. No creo que sea verdad gives you a blank you can put somewhere, and the card guide covers where that blank goes.
• The idioms. The ones that come out mid-conversation and never reach a lesson plan.

Then use Notes and Vocabulary on purpose. Preply puts them here: "You can access the Vocabulary and Notes sections in the bottom navigation bar of Preply Classroom menu."

Distrust the whiteboard. "Students cannot access the whiteboard after the lesson," so retype anything living only there into Notes while your tutor is still talking.

Last, open Settings, then Permissions, and check the Lesson Insights toggle. Your tutor's choice doesn't gate yours: "If your tutor doesn't enable them but you do, you will still receive insights."

Whether that switch does anything for you rests on one sentence Preply publishes and most pages skip: "Currently, Lesson Insights are only available for English lessons."

Turn it on if you're learning English. Everyone else just saw the real switch.

Then book the lesson and send the message, while the tab is still open.

Who should ignore all of this

Two kinds of reader shouldn't run any of this, and the English-learner case above is a third.

If none of those three is you, Verbamor is $19.99 a month, or $129.99 a year with a 7-day trial on the annual plan, and there's no free tier. Weigh it against what a month of lessons costs you, and against how many of tonight's words you'll still have in March.

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