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How to use 1000 Words Academy
Short guides with screenshots, from your first 20 words to your subscription. New here? Start with Getting started, then put the app on your phone.
Getting started
Make an account, put the app on your phone and find your way around.
- Getting startedMake an account, choose your language and learn your first 20 words, in about five minutes.
- Install the appAdd 1000 Words to your phone, tablet or computer so it opens like any other app, full screen, with no app store.
- Your Home screenWhat each part of Home is for, and how to get around the app on a computer and on a phone.
Studying
How a session works, and how the app decides what comes back.
- A study sessionSet up a batch, answer the cards, and read what the app tells you after each one.
- The word bankTap or narrow to answer while a word is new, then hide the bank to prove you know it.
- Daily reviewsHow spaced repetition picks the words that come back each day, and how each answer changes when you'll see a word again.
- Known and masteredWhat new, learning, known and mastered mean, what moves a word up, and how to read your map.
- The path, stages and packsHow the 1,000 words are ordered into batches and stages, and the themed packs that come after.
- DecksPractice the same words grouped by topic, verb type or word type, and drill the words you miss most.
- Verb drillsFill in a verb's whole table, one tense at a time, to learn its forms side by side.
Tracking progress
See which words you know, which need work, and how your week went.
- Your wordsFind any word, see how well you know it, and open its page for its memory curve, every form and what's left to master it.
- Insights and your weekCharts of how your vocabulary is growing, where answers slip, which verb tenses need work, and a weekly summary.
- Grammar guides and the Learn libraryShort grammar guides inside the app, and the free public library of word lists, verb tables and weekly words.
Your account
Plans, billing, settings, and what to do when something goes wrong.
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