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Decide if scoring or wording is at fault before the QA window

You’re the design researcher. Your team is in the room. Printed Oct 17, 2026.

The exercise is losing learners at the moment feedback claims they made an error.

Fast clarification protects completion, while a narrower change protects the meaning of pronunciation feedback.

Who you’d be doing this for

“I replayed it three times, and it kept flagging a sound I didn’t even say.”

Marisol Flores · Office administrator

A Korean-speaking learner who practices Simplified Chinese after work for customer calls.

What is at stake

312 of 487 recent exits happen within ten seconds of feedback. You must weigh a fast copy change against evidence that the scoring signal itself is wrong.

Why it isn’t already fixed

Every obvious fix costs something else. That’s the part you’d have to decide.

  • exercise completion vs pronunciation rigor
  • localized clarity vs construct consistency
  • fast cohort test vs verified feedback

Why Speak

Pronunciation feedback is central to voice-first practice for Korean learners studying Simplified Chinese.

Written with these in mind

mixed-method design researcherlanguage-learning researcherresearcher with speech-product experience

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This is the setup. The work is inside.

Running it puts you in the room: the full situation and its constraints, stakeholders who push back in their own words, and the decisions that are yours to make. What you produce becomes a Day One Plan — work you can show someone instead of describing.