Practice

Phrases

Phrases are a separate track with their own mechanics: here you drill a ready-made expression as a whole rather than assembling it from words. A session is always mixed — a few new phrases from your current section plus whichever practised ones are due.

Why learn whole phrases

Real speech is built from set chunks, not isolated words. Knowing every word separately makes it easy to assemble something grammatical yet unnatural. A phrase drilled as a whole comes out instantly and sounds the way people actually speak.

What "mastered" means

The mark appears once a phrase comes out confidently. It is not the end of the work: a mastered phrase keeps returning, just noticeably less often than one that is not.

The gap then widens once more — after several successful drills a phrase moves into the rarest mode. The order never changes: an unmastered phrase returns sooner than a mastered one, and a well-drilled one returns least often of all.

How this differs from words

Words carry a stored schedule: each has its own date for the next encounter. For phrases it is worked out on the fly, from how many times you have drilled the phrase and whether it is mastered. The mechanics are simpler because the task is simpler: a phrase needs to become automatic rather than be held for years.

What order they come in

The ones waiting longest relative to their own due time come first, with unmastered phrases ahead of mastered ones. Phrases you have never drilled do not enter the review queue at all — they arrive as new.