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Decks
Practice the same words grouped by topic, verb type or word type, and drill the words you miss most.
Decks are the path’s words grouped another way. Open them from Path → Decks, or from More ways to practice on Home.
- Words to watch: the words you’ve missed most lately.
- Topics: nouns that belong together, like Body, Family or Food & drink.
- Each deck shows a few of its words and a block of 50 dots: purple mastered, teal known, pale teal learning, sand new. Each dot is 2% of the deck, so a deck of 14 words and one of 80 compare at a glance. Beside it, how many you know.
Below the topics are two more groups:
- Verbs: irregular verbs (the ones you have to learn by heart) and regular verbs (the ones whose forms follow a pattern).
- Word types: adjectives, adverbs, pronouns, prepositions, conjunctions, numbers and interjections.
Study a deck
Open a deck to set up a session, just like a batch: choose the direction and any forms, then Start, or Flip through first to see the cards as flashcards. The setup lists the deck’s words colored by step, with how many are mastered; Show English adds their English. Each session takes the next 20 words from the deck: the ones you’re still learning first (they’re closest to known), then new ones, most used first. Once you know the whole deck, it gives you its most used words to keep them fresh.
What you learn in a deck counts everywhere: on your path, your map and your reviews. A deck can include words further along the path than you’ve reached, which is a handy way to learn a topic early.
Words to watch
Words to watch collects the words you’ve got wrong most over the last 30 days: anything under 90% right after at least 3 answers, the weakest first, up to 20. It’s the same list as on Home.
The deck starts with the word bank hidden, since these are words you’ve met before. It’s free on every plan.
On the free plan
Free accounts can browse every deck and use Words to watch. Studying the other decks is part of the full plan.