The course
Seventy units. Somebody wrote every one of them.
Seven sections, ten units each, in every one of the ten languages. Each unit is one grammar point, explained plainly, with a memory hook for the rule itself, and the vocabulary that rule is easiest to learn on. The order is a decision a teacher made, not a frequency list with a progress bar on it.
What is written
The course, counted.
Counted from the files that ship with the plugin, and the build fails if these numbers and the files disagree. No language is a token entry: the smallest course is 727 lessons.
What a unit actually contains
- 1
One rule, in plain English
Not a table to memorise. A few sentences that say what the rule is and then the part that actually trips people up, which is usually the part textbooks put in a footnote.
- 2
A hook for the rule itself
Mnemonics are normally used for words. Grammar is harder to remember than vocabulary and almost nobody writes hooks for it, so every one of the seven hundred rules has one. The adjective is a shadow: it copies the noun, including the plural.
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Then the words the rule fits
Six to fourteen words chosen so the grammar has something to be true about, each with its own keyword mnemonic and its own drawn picture.
- 4
Lessons of about three minutes
A grammar lesson, a few vocabulary lessons, one that mixes them, then extension lessons carrying the rest of that subject. Every lesson has five levels, and the questions get harder at each one.
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A unit opens when you have earned it
Not on a schedule and not on a payment. The next unit unlocks when the one before it has a level on every lesson.
Fifteen kinds of question
Because knowing a word is four different abilities
Seeing it
Multiple choice from the word, tap the pairs, and the two mnemonic exercises: the picture to the word, and the word to its keyword. The hook is tested, not just offered.
Producing it
Choosing the word from its meaning, building a sentence out of word chips, and applying the unit's own grammar rule in a gap.
Hearing it
Listen and choose, listen and type, and say it back with the browser doing the listening. On a device with no recogniser it says so rather than marking you wrong.
Writing it
Typing, with accents forgiven and the right spelling shown anyway, and for the scripts a phone keyboard cannot manage, building the word from character tiles instead.
For a classroom
A course a teacher can steer
Assign a unit
Any unit, lesson or story becomes an assignment with a target and a due date, and progress is computed from real card states rather than a completion tick.
Different speeds, one class
Because the schedule is per student, a class on the same unit is never held to the pace of its slowest or fastest member.
See where it snags
When a unit stalls for the whole class the trouble words report usually tells you exactly which six words did it.
Start with ten words tonight
Thirty days free, no card. When the trial ends the account drops to the free limits and nothing is deleted.