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  • [New features] "Unlearn word" and "learn word later"

Have you ever started reviewing vocabulary after taking a break and discovered that you've forgotten some of the words? Today's new "unlearn" feature aims to help, by letting you erase your learning history for a word, so that it won't show up in reviews until you learn it again!

The "Unlearn" button shows up when reviewing:

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Note that unlearning a word only unlearns it for the direction that's being tested on. For example, if you're being prompted with Spanish and answering in English, unlearning the word will unlearn it for the Spanish -> English direction but not the English -> Spanish direction.

Today's second new feature is "learn word later". While learning, click this button to have the word be skipped until next time you learn:

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That's all for today! 🙂

a month later

I really love the idea, but I just wanted to point out that when I "unlearn" a word, it's not added to the next learning session or any of the next ones after that. It seems to slip through the cracks, because the system will just ask me the next 10 (or however many) words without evaluating whether there are words earlier in the list that are not marked "learned"…which means I'm not sure whether I'll be taught that word again ever especially if I keep adding to the end of the list…

    6 days later

    taubercat Hm, that sounds like a bug, indeed. I'm having a hard time reproducing it, though.

    The next time you unlearn a word, can you let me know the word, which course it's in, and which test direction you were reviewing with?

        7 days later
        22 days later

        taubercat I finally had a chance to look into this, and I think this bug might have gotten fixed 🙂

        I copied your data to my computer, and here's what I see when logged in as you:

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        Can you confirm?

        BTW, it's interesting to see that you have "times to test" set to 7. I had mine set pretty high (5) for Chinese, too 🙂