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Which flashcard settings can I change?

Short answer

Which language leads the card, whether it shows the context sentence or just the word, and the rest of the session behaviour. Your latest choices are what the Home session card reuses.

Set how your flashcards behave. Your latest Study settings are remembered and reused by the session card on Home, so there is no separate preset to define.

Under Mode you decide what a flashcard shows you.

  • Practice Direction: Which language leads on the card. Native first is good for active recall: it tests whether you can produce the target word. Leading with the foreign language trains recognition instead. Random mode sits alongside them and mixes the two.
  • What to show: Show the full example sentence, or the word on its own if you want to focus on raw vocabulary.

Feedback

This is where your tutor lives.

  • Show tips: Whether the tutor writes to you at all. The note appears on the Home screen under the heading A thought.
  • Language: Which language it writes in. It does not have to be the language you are learning.
  • Style: The tone it writes in, across every language pair. Warm coach is the default and sounds like someone in your corner; Gentle suggests rather than instructs; Strict is short and tells you what to do; Witty takes the mickey out of your verbs; Sage goes quiet and metaphorical. Each one shows you a sample line before you pick it.

The rest of the page

  • Leaderboard entry: Decide whether you appear in the global leaderboard. Switch it off and you keep studying exactly as before. You are simply not listed.
  • Study Reminders: A notification at a time you pick, so you don’t risk your Streak. It follows your Streak settings, so it stays quiet on your days off.
  • Show Hands-Free Mode: Study on the move with voice control of the quiz. Switching it on adds two settings underneath. Pause before answer sets how long the app waits after the prompt before it speaks the answer. Voice commands picks the language your yes and no are recognised in. The second one only appears when you have more than one language to choose between.

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