Practice

Grammar

A rule counts as learned after several correct answers in a row. The path is short and visible, and — most importantly — one mistake right at the finish does not send you back to the start: there is a separate recovery step that a single correct answer clears.

A rule’s path

Meeting a rule places it on the first step. From there every correct answer in an exercise moves it one step up, and after a few such answers the rule becomes learned.

A mistake on the early steps returns it to the start — there is little to lose there. A mistake right at the finish, however, sends it to a recovery step rather than back to the beginning.

Why recovery exists

A single slip before the finish used to wipe out the whole ladder, and the rule had to be worked through from scratch. That is a disproportionate price for one stray mistake, and it discourages more than it helps.

Now such a slip costs one correct answer: get it right and the rule is learned; get it wrong again and only then does the path restart. Two mistakes in a row at the finish really do mean the rule has not settled.

A learned rule does not disappear

Being learned and being scheduled are different things. Even after a rule is marked learned it keeps appearing in sessions, and a wrong answer still brings the next encounter closer. All that changes is that the visible progress on the rule no longer falls back.

Where grammar appears

Rules arrive inside the daily session, interleaved with words and radicals. There is also a separate grammar section where you can browse the rules as a list and work through any of them without waiting for it to come up.