Flashcards & exercises

Lingara’s learning loop has two halves. Exercises introduce a word in context and check that you can use it. Flashcards bring it back later, at the point you are about to forget it.

Lesson plans

A lesson plan is a set of exercises built around a theme, generated for your language pair and level. You can let the app choose a theme or type one yourself — at the doctor, football, talking about the weekend. Vocabulary you have already seen is woven back in, so a plan is rarely all-new words.

How many plans you can generate a day depends on your plan; see Trial & plans.

Exercise types

Exercises test a word from more than one angle, because recognising a word and producing it are different skills:

• Multiple choice — recognise the meaning among plausible neighbours.
• Fill in the blank — supply the word a sentence needs.
• Translation — produce the word or phrase yourself.
• Listening — hear the word spoken and identify it.

Free-text answers are graded by AI, which means near-misses are treated as near-misses: a correct answer with a typo or a different-but-valid wording is usually accepted, with a note about what changed. If a grade looks wrong, the tutor is a good place to ask why — see AI tutor.

Flashcards and spaced repetition

Every word you meet in an exercise becomes a flashcard. Reviews are scheduled by spaced repetition: cards you answer confidently come back at growing intervals — days, then weeks — while cards you miss come back soon.

Two consequences worth knowing:

• The queue is the point. Reviewing the cards the app offers you today is worth more than adding new ones. If the review count looks large, clear it before generating a new lesson plan.
• Honest answers schedule better. Marking a card you guessed as “known” removes it from the queue for weeks, which is exactly when you will not remember it.

You can browse and search your saved words at any time, and delete cards you do not want to keep.

Progress

Progress indicators show how much of a level’s vocabulary you have met and how much you have retained. Progress is per language: switching the language you are learning does not reset the one you were studying before.