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Stories written with the words you already know. It decides what to review and what to learn. A few minutes a day.

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这是谁的手机 Today's chapter Tap any word

Whose phone is this?

It is not mine.

It is not mine either.

Is it that classmate's?

手机shǒujīcell phone; mobile phone

You looked it up, so it joins your reviews by itself. For example:

tomorrowin 3 daysin 8 daysin 3 weeks

今天Your day is already decided.

You choose your minutes once. Each day it decides what to review, which words are next and what you read. You create no cards and tune nothing.

About 15 min today · in one sitting or several

Reviews · meaning

You recall it, you say how it went, and it comes back when it is about to fade. Weakest words first.

New words · they enter by themselves

A few words a day: the ones you tapped, the next of your level, the ones your next chapter needs. You never make a card.

Chapter · written with the words you know

A short scene you can read in full: the words you know, plus the few you are learning. Hear each sentence as you read it, then a short check.

Tone training · which tone do you hear?

A few minutes of tone listening, with the answer heard at once. It shares one memory with your reading.

What you learn comes back.

A word returns after a few days, then after longer gaps, each time just before it would fade. Here is 手机 over three weeks, as an example.

Each review asks you to recall the word, not just look at it again.

Recalling beats rereading: about 80% against 36% remembered a week later. Karpicke & Roediger, Science, 2008.

Spread-out practice beats cramming.

It helped in all but 12 of 271 published comparisons. Cepeda et al., Psychological Bulletin, 2006.

At 15 minutes a day, about 5 to 15 new words a week.

For a beginner, in our own simulation, studying every day. No promise of a level by a date.

A calm tool, not a game.

No streaksNo pointsNo guilt

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