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How MyWika Works

Eleven steps. Each one takes a minute.

1

Add a Language

Pick a ready-made pack, or build one no one else has.

The Library (tap ☰ at the top)
The Library (tap ☰ at the top)
  1. 1Add a new language.
  2. 2Your languages. Tap one to hide or show its cards. Hold it to edit or remove it.
  3. 3Categories. Pick which topics show up in your cards.
  4. 4Open a topic to see its words.
  5. 5Search every word in the Library.
Tap +
Tap +
  1. 1Create a language from scratch, all your own.
  2. 2Download a pack that’s ready to go.
2

Add Cards From the Library

Every pack comes full of words, sorted by topic.

Inside a topic
Inside a topic
  1. 1Search this topic.
  2. 2The word in your language.
  3. 3The same word in the language you’re learning.
  4. 4Hear how it sounds.
  5. 5Add it to your cards.
Added
Added
  1. 1A check means it’s in your cards now.
3

Know Your Card

Every button on a card has one job.

Your cards
Your cards
  1. 1Studied. Tap it to check the card off for today.
  2. 2The language this card belongs to.
  3. 3Delete the card.
  4. 4Drag here to move the card around your deck.
  5. 5Send it to Practice, or to another deck.
  6. 6The crown. Tap it when you think you know the card.
  7. 7Lock it so it can’t be moved, edited or deleted.
  8. 8Tap the card to flip it. Hold it to edit.
  9. 9Start a new deck.
Front
Front
  1. 1The word in your language.
  2. 2The dot: green is a word, yellow is a phrase, blue is a sentence.
Back (tap to flip)
Back (tap to flip)
  1. 1The word in the language you’re learning.
  2. 2How to say it.
  3. 3Tap to hear it out loud.
4

Master a Card

Know it? Crown it, and it moves out of your way.

Tap the crown
Tap the crown
  1. 1Got it moves the card to Mastered.
  2. 2Almost keeps it in your deck.
  3. 3Not yet keeps it and shows it first next round.
Your Mastered pile
Your Mastered pile
  1. 1Mastered cards wait at the bottom of your deck. The count at the top shows how many.
  2. 2A gold crown means mastered. Tap it again to put the card back in your deck.
5

Make Your Own Card

Heard a new word? Save it before you forget it.

Bottom of the Library
Bottom of the Library
  1. 1Make a card from scratch.
  2. 2Publish: send your words or a deck to your community profile, then finish and publish it there. Needs a free account.
  3. 3Share: send or get cards with a code. Coming soon.
Fill it in
Fill it in
  1. 1The language it belongs to.
  2. 2The topic to file it under.
  3. 3The word in your language.
  4. 4The word in the language you’re learning.
  5. 5Auto-fill fills in the translation for you (needs internet).
  6. 6How to say it, written the way it sounds to you.
  7. 7Tick this once you know it’s right, then tap Create card.
6

Set Your Own Streak

You decide what counts as a day.

Tap the flame
Tap the flame
  1. 1Your streak: how many days in a row.
  2. 2This week. 🔥 a big day, 💧 a little, ❄️ nothing yet.
  3. 3A day you studied.
  4. 4A rest day. Miss one day and your streak is safe. Miss two and it starts over.
  5. 5See one day, one week or a whole month.
  6. 6The gear sets your goal.
Week view
Week view
  1. 1Pick any week.
  2. 2Each day: the date, and how much you did.
  3. 3A day off.
  4. 4Your totals for the week.
  5. 5Your best day.
  6. 6Your week goal, and how close you are.
Your goal (the gear)
Your goal (the gear)
  1. 1What counts as a day: anything, cards studied, flips, rounds, cards mastered or practice minutes.
  2. 2How many a day.
  3. 3Quick picks.
  4. 4Save your goal. Days you already finished never change.
  5. 5Hold to wipe your streak and start fresh.
7

Use the Practice Translator

Write it yourself. That’s how it sticks.

The Practice tab
The Practice tab
  1. 1The language you speak.
  2. 2Swap the two.
  3. 3The language you’re learning.
  4. 4Write a word or sentence here.
  5. 5Pull the words in from one of your cards.
  6. 6Talk instead of typing.
  7. 7Auto translates as you type. Tap it to turn it off.
  8. 8Hear it out loud.
  9. 9Save it to your list.
  10. 10Turn a saved sentence into a card.
8

Teach It Your Words

Turn on My Cards and it translates from your own cards first. No internet needed.

Turn on My Cards
Turn on My Cards
  1. 1Tap My Cards. It looks in your cards before it asks Google.
  2. 2How many of your words it already knows.
  3. 3Green means it knows the word. It even spots the pieces, like mu + puyo.
  4. 4A ? is a word it doesn’t know yet. Tap it and teach it.
  5. 5Not sure? Ask Google for just that word.
Save, and it remembers
Save, and it remembers
  1. 1The whole sentence, so next time it’s finished for you.
  2. 2The new word you taught it.
  3. 3The topic to file them under.
  4. 4Add them to your deck too.
  5. 5Tap Remember.
Type it again
Type it again
  1. 1It remembers what you taught it, and when.
  2. 2The translation fills in by itself.
9

Tiles and Chunks

Break a sentence apart and see how it’s built.

Tiles
Tiles
  1. 1Tap Tiles to split your sentence into words.
  2. 2Tap a tile to flip it and see what it means. Hold it to edit.
  3. 3Flip every tile at once.
Tiles + Chunks
Tiles + Chunks
  1. 1Tap Tiles again for Tiles + Chunks.
  2. 2Each word gets a label for its job: Action, Who, What, Where, When, Why or How.
Where the labels come from
Where the labels come from
  1. 1Hold a card to edit it, then open Advanced and Meaning.
  2. 2Pick a label for each word. That word keeps its label in every sentence.
10

Test Yourself

Done practicing? See if you got it right.

Write it, then Check
Write it, then Check
  1. 1Turn Auto off.
  2. 2Write the translation yourself.
  3. 3Tap Check (a ✓ on phones).
  4. 4The machine translation shows under yours. ✓ Matches means you got it.
11

Make It Yours

Tap the gear at the top right.

Settings
Settings
  1. 1Day or night.
  2. 2Pick your color.
  3. 3Make the cards bigger or smaller.
  4. 4Study: cards come back fresh each day, auto-flip, and reverse mode.
  5. 5Timer: a practice timer with a daily goal.
  6. 6Screen: full screen and landscape.
  7. 7Sound: how fast words are read out loud.
  8. 8Account: create an account, sign in, and set up your community profile.
  9. 9Notifications: turn reminders on or off.
  10. 10Back Up & Restore: save everything, one deck or one pack to this device, bring in cards from other flashcard apps, or use the cloud and sync across your devices.

Try It Yourself

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