Getting started
How learning works
Everything rests on your dictionary — the set of words you have taken on. A short session is assembled from it each day, and what goes into that session is decided by spaced repetition: first whatever is about to be forgotten, then new material. Everything else is built on top of that pairing.
The dictionary is the foundation
Words enter your dictionary as you work through material at your level, and you can add your own. Everything in the dictionary is in play: each word has a stage and its own date for the next encounter.
The session is rebuilt every day
Sessions are short and deliberately capped: regularity matters more than length. Their composition is not fixed — it depends on how many reviews have piled up. The bigger the backlog, the more room goes to reviews and the less is left for new material.
Besides words, a session includes grammar and radicals — the building blocks of characters. They alternate with words so that every track moves forward in a single sitting.
Three kinds of practice, kept apart
A word can be recognised, written by hand, and produced inside a ready-made phrase — different skills, and Tomyo runs each on its own schedule.
- Dictionary — recognising and understanding a word; the main schedule.
- Writing — its own schedule per character, unlocked after recognition.
- Phrases — drilling whole expressions, with review mechanics of their own.
What you decide
Tomyo takes on the scheduling, not the goals. Your HSK level, the pace of incoming new words and the contents of your dictionary stay with you. Those settings shape your sessions more than any internal rule does.