A course for your own goal

How it works

1. Write why you need the language. A phrase or two in plain words — like a message to a friend. No level picking, no ticking topics off lists.
2. The first lessons are ready right away. From what the language already has, up to 4 lessons of 6 words are assembled. You can start on the spot, without waiting for the rest.
3. The app says when the rest will be ready. Not “tomorrow” but an exact time: “ready at about 06:15”. Usually it is ready earlier.
4. The missing words will be found. “Tank”, “buoyancy compensator”, “reception desk” — words an ordinary course does not have. They will be found for your task and spread across the lessons.

What you get

• Enough for at least 3 days lessons. Not a trial and not a single “let me look” lesson.
• 5–10 words per lesson. That is what sticks in an evening.
• A usage example for every word. Not a bare translation but a living phrase people actually say.
• From simple to complex. The words you cannot do without come first.

Why this beats an ordinary course

• The order follows your goal. Not “colours first, then food”, but first what you cannot do without.
• No separate studying needed. The program’s lesson arrives on an ordinary day, together with the lesson and the reviews.
• You can have several goals. One is free, up to 3 at once — with a subscription.
• If the language is short on words, you will find out on day one, not a week into your lessons.

The lessons adjust to you

• The word will come back right before you forget it. Not “once every three days” — exactly when it is about to slip out of your head.
• Everyone forgets differently. The app notices how exactly you forget and adjusts to you.
• The task stays within reach. Recognising a word among four is easier than recalling it. Tasks are picked so you succeed almost always — without getting boring.
• A day is up to half an hour, and better in several short runs than one long lesson.

The last one is not our invention — it has long been checked:

• Studying a little every day gets more into your head than spending the same total time in one sitting.checked many times
  Donovan & Radosevich, 1999, Journal of Applied Psychology 84(5) · 63 studies compared, difference d = 0.46 — a sizeable figure for a learning effect.
• Recalling beats re-reading. Covering the translation and trying to remember it does more than reading it ten more times.checked many times
  Adesope, Trevisan & Sundararajan, 2017, Review of Educational Research 87(3) · 188 experiments, 272 comparisons. g = 0.61; against plain re-reading 0.51, against passive review 0.93.
• The longer you want to keep a word, the rarer its repetitions should be. To hold it for a week, review every day; to hold it for a year, about once a month.checked many times
  Cepeda et al., 2008, Psychological Science 19(11) · Over 1,350 participants, tested after delays of up to a year. The best gap is about 20% of the target interval on a horizon of weeks, and 5–10% on a horizon of a year.

What it costs

• Your first program is assembled free — the whole thing, not a slice. The app will also open 7 days of Pro and tell you until which date.
• The first lesson is open without Pro too — if you have never switched it on during these 7 days.
• What you learned stays with you. The program’s words live in your dictionary and come back for review every day — afterwards too.
• Nothing is taken away from the free part. Lessons, the alphabet, drills and phrasebooks stay open.

Next

• For schools and teachersYour own program — on our platform
• How we make these materialsWhere the texts and sound come from
• About the projectWho does this and why