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Я открою запись вебинара позже и переслушаю её в наушниках.

Я открою запись вебинара позже и переслушаю её в наушниках.
I will open the webinar recording later and listen to it again on headphones.

Breakdown of Я открою запись вебинара позже и переслушаю её в наушниках.

я
I
в
in
открыть
to open
и
and
позже
later
её
it
наушники
the headphones
вебинар
the webinar
запись
the entry
переслушать
to listen to again
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Questions & Answers about Я открою запись вебинара позже и переслушаю её в наушниках.

Why is Я included here? Can Russian drop it?

Yes, Russian often drops the subject pronoun because the verb ending already shows the person/number.
Открою … и переслушаю … already means I will open … and (I will) listen again …, so (Я) открою… is also natural.
Including Я adds a bit of emphasis/contrast (e.g., I will do it, not someone else).

What tense is открою and переслушаю? Why is there no separate word for will?

Both are simple future forms. Russian doesn’t use a separate auxiliary like English will for most verbs.
Because открыть and переслушать are perfective verbs, their “present-looking” conjugation actually expresses future:

  • открою = I will open
  • переслушаю = I will listen again / re-listen
Why are these verbs perfective? What does that imply?

Perfective aspect emphasizes a completed, single action/result:

  • Я открою запись… → I’ll open it (one completed act of opening/starting access).
  • …и переслушаю её… → I’ll listen to it again (treated as one complete listening-through).

If you used imperfective, it would sound more like an ongoing process:

  • буду открывать (rare here) = I’ll be opening (process, repeated attempts)
  • буду слушать = I’ll be listening (more process-focused)
Does позже apply to both actions or only to открою?

By default, позже can be understood as applying to the whole coordinated idea: Later I’ll open the recording and re-listen to it (both later).
If you want to make the sequence clearer, you can restructure:

  • Я позже открою запись вебинара и потом переслушаю её в наушниках. = later… and then…
What does запись вебинара mean grammatically? Why is вебинара in that form?

запись вебинара literally means a recording of the webinar.
Here вебинара is genitive singular (answering “recording of what?”). This is the standard Russian “noun + genitive” pattern for of:

  • страница сайта = a page of the site
  • запись лекции = a recording of the lecture
Why is it её and not его? And what exactly is её here?

запись is grammatically feminine, so “it” referring to запись is её.
Here её is the accusative direct object of переслушаю: I will re-listen to it.

If the noun were masculine (e.g., вебинар), then его could refer to it:

  • Я переслушаю его. (referring to вебинар, masculine)
Is её pronounced differently from ее? Why is ё used?

её is normally written with ё, and it’s pronounced ye-YO (two syllables, stress on -ё).
In many texts, ё is often printed as е, but that can create ambiguity. Writing её with ё is the clearest and most standard in learning materials.

Why is there no comma before и?

Because this is a simple sentence with two verbs sharing the same subject (Я) and joined by и:
Я открою … и переслушаю …
In Russian, a comma is not used in this basic pattern (similar to English “I’ll open … and re-listen …”).

What case is запись in after открою?

It’s accusative (direct object): открою (что?) запись.
For many feminine nouns like запись, nominative and accusative look the same, but grammatically it’s still accusative.

What does в наушниках mean exactly—“in headphones” or “with headphones”?

Literally it’s in headphones, but idiomatically it means wearing headphones / with headphones on.
The noun is in prepositional plural after в (location/state): в наушниках.

Common alternatives:

  • в наушниках = with headphones on (emphasis on being in that “state”)
  • включу в наушниках is less natural; you’d rather say включу в наушники only in special contexts (routing audio into headphones)
What does the prefix пере- add in переслушаю?

пере- often means again / re-.
So слушать = to listen, and переслушать = to listen again (often implying re-listening to the whole thing or checking it again).
If you just mean “I’ll listen to it (once)”, you’d usually use:

  • Я послушаю её в наушниках. = I’ll listen to it in headphones.
Is открою запись вебинара the most natural way to say “open the webinar recording”?

It’s understandable and common, especially when “opening” means opening a file/link/page. Depending on context, Russians also say:

  • Я включу запись вебинара… = I’ll play/turn on the recording
  • Я запущу запись вебинара… = I’ll start the recording
  • Я открою запись… fits well for opening a webpage, message attachment, cloud file, etc.