Choose your flash-card count and keep pictures visible on a phone
September 2026
A round of work on the vocabulary flash cards: faster setup, a phone fix, better wording, and a lot more cards.
Setup is instant. Picking a level or a topic used to reload the whole card count from the server and grey out the tiles while it did. Now one request loads everything up front and every change updates the counts in place, with no reload and no "Counting cards…" message. Picking two topics still leaves the harder levels on offer, and switching the explanation language keeps the counts on screen while the new ones load.
Phones: the keyboard stays out of the way. The answer field no longer grabs focus the moment a card appears, so the on-screen keyboard cannot cover the picture. Tap the field when you are ready to type. "Next card" still keeps the keyboard's focus after you answer.
Card fronts name the real thing. A front used to say "Name the object shown" even for a season or a drink. About 2,500 cards now ask for what is actually pictured, such as "Name the season shown." for Herbst or "Name the beverage shown." for Bier.
Topics re-checked card by card. Every card's topic was decided again by reading the word in context rather than matching pieces of text, which had put many "a person who..." words under Family by mistake. The empty "Connections" tile is gone.
More words on familiar pictures. Reviewed situation cues focus each question on the intended part of a scene. The cue stays visible in the learning language. Tap to show its English version. Feelings are tested with describing words now (inflected answers such as "traurige" are accepted), and Numbers cover both finger pictures for 1 to 10 and plain digits for 11 and up.
New Numbers cheat sheets. Each language gets its own Numbers page, at the right level, covering counting, hundreds, years, ordinals and rough amounts like "about a hundred."
German spelling: capital letters count. A German answer used to grade correct no matter the case, though German nouns are always capitalised. Getting only the capitalisation wrong now earns one more try with a hint, then counts as wrong on a second miss. The other four languages stay case-insensitive.
Pick how many cards. The flash-card setup screen now offers a choice of 5, 10, 25, 50 or 100 cards per test. The pick is saved and comes back the next time you open a test.
Numbers from 1 to 100, plus larger milestones. Every number from 1 to 100 is now a card in each language, plus the hundreds, one thousand and a handful of larger numbers. A hint for a built-up number explains its pattern, such as "Built like fourteen: the ones word, then -teen," instead of naming a neighbour.
Family and title cards say whose side you're looking from. A card with two people in the picture used to leave the viewpoint to guess. A scene note now states the viewpoint directly and distinguishes similar roles.
Look up and listen on every revealed answer. Each answer, right or wrong, now carries a "Look up and listen" link to a dictionary for that language, so you can hear the word spoken. The same link appears next to every missed word on the results screen.
Sharper new card pictures. New flash-card sheets render at twice the resolution, so faces and small details come through more clearly.
Cheat-sheet fixes. Rule headings on the cheat-sheet pages keep their own capitalisation instead of title-casing every word ("Numbers 0 to 12", not "Numbers 0 To 12"). On a phone, the header no longer overlaps the back link to the cheat-sheet catalogue.