How the deck works

Your deck is a hand of about twelve exercise cards, picked for you from what you have done, the level you are at and the pace you chose. The top card is the one we suggest next.

The deck at a glance

What each part of the screen does:

Swipe right to start, left to skip

Swipe a card right, tap it or press "Let's go" to open the exercise. Swipe left or press "Skip" for not now. A skipped card stays away until you have been through the rest of the deck, then it can come back.

What the cards say

"Continue" is an exercise you started and did not finish; it always comes first. "Learn next" is the next step in order, "Practise" and "Review" bring back what is due again or went less well, and "Something new" is a peek at something you have not tried.

Pace and level

The chip under the title sets how the deck deals. Slow & steady keeps to your level with regular review. Fast learner pushes a level ahead. Adventurous spreads two levels either way. Polish up puts weak spots and due reviews first. You can also pick the level yourself, or leave it on automatic and it follows your progress.

How the deck picks your cards

Every hand mixes three groups. Within each group the strongest candidates are the likeliest, but not certain, so no two hands are the same. The groups are spread through the hand, so a repair card turns up every few cards rather than all at once.

Repair: exercises that went less well (about one mistake in five or more), ones you started and left, and finished ones due for review.
New: exercises you have not tried yet, mostly at your level.
Next steps: the next exercise in order, ones that build on what you are good at, and a mix of the rest.

How your pace changes the mix

The same three groups, in different amounts. Slow & steady keeps a balance, Fast learner and Adventurous deal more new cards and reach further up the levels, and Polish up is mostly repair.

When an exercise comes back

A finished exercise returns for a quick review once enough time has passed. The better it went, the longer it waits. "Shaky" means about one mistake in five or more on your last go.

The progress ring

It shows how much of the current level you have done. Tap it for the full picture, level by level.

Runs and medals

Exercises come in runs of ten, and eight right or better passes the run. Most exercises have three ways to play, shown as a switch above the exercise: an easier one, the usual one and one with no help, where nouns lose their gender colors until you answer. Passing a run on one earns its medal: bronze, silver or gold. Exercises you read, hear, say or write earn their medal by score instead: bronze for a pass, gold for full marks. Once you hold a medal, the bar at the end offers the next one up — "Try for silver", then "Try for gold". A medal is never taken away, and there are no lives. When you check a text with gaps, every gap you missed is listed in its sentence, with the right answer and why, and "Read the corrected text" shows the whole text filled in.

How surprises turn up

Each time the deck deals, it decides once whether a surprise comes, then picks one kind at random from the kinds that have something for you right now. Your very first surprise is the story prologue. Settings has a switch to turn surprises off.

Story: the next episode in order, once you have reached its place in the course.
Song: the next song for your level.
Ja oder Nein?: the next themed round.

Exercise library

The button between Skip and Let's go lists every exercise in order, if you would rather choose yourself.

The heart in the top bar

Once you have started a Schreib mir! chat, a heart appears in the top bar. Its number counts the characters who liked you, and it opens the game.

German Course A1–C2

Your deck

How do you want to learn?

Where are you?

Pick a level and the deck centres there. "Work it out" uses the furthest level you have finished anything in.

Save your progress

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