Follow a path

Choose a language and let Kardamone guide you from A1 to C1: every day, a session ready with your reviews, new words and, at the levels that have it, some grammar.

The path teaches you a language step by step, from A1 to C1. Every day, Kardamone prepares a session for you: you review the words you have already seen, discover new ones and, at the levels that have them, do a grammar lesson. There is nothing for you to plan.

Getting started

On the home page, tap “Follow a path” and choose the language you want to learn. Then take the “Level test” to start at the right point, or choose “I’m a beginner”.

A last screen lets you choose the session length and the sound. The suggested settings are fine to begin with; “Start” opens your first session.

You can learn several languages: each one has its own tab on the home page. To add one, tap “+” or “Add a language”.

Today’s session

On the home page, “Start the session” opens today’s session. A first screen shows what it holds and roughly how long it takes; “Begin the session” on that screen begins it.

Reviews come first: each word comes back just before you would forget it. Then come the new words and, on some days, a grammar lesson, a listening exercise or sentences. When many reviews are waiting, the session brings fewer new words.

Choose the length that suits you: “Full”, “Short” or “Custom”, where you set each part yourself. To change it, tap “Session length”, next to the session button.

Every answer is saved: if you run out of time, stop and pick up later. Once the session is over, “New session” offers you another one. After a week or more without a session, you ease back in with reviews only.

When is a word learnt?

A new word comes back for review at longer and longer intervals. It is learnt when you answer right at its third review, 12 days after the previous one in the Standard rhythm, and acquired at the fourth, 35 days later. It then comes back only once, about four months later, as a check.

Already know a word? Tap “I already know this word” and you will not be asked it again.

The path page

Tap “Path” in the menu. At the top is today’s session: tap a part to see what it holds. Below are your levels, divided into steps: each step tells you what you will be able to do by its end, and its lessons, words and texts are ticked off as you go.

Nothing is locked. Open a step and tap “Start here” to go straight to it, or “Skip this step” if you already know it. Today’s session changes to match right away.

Below the levels, “Path settings” changes the session length and the sound, and “Change level” moves you up or down.

Finishing a level

A level ends with two end-of-level exercises, which you pass at 80%. From A2 on, you also need to know 80% of the level’s words. The “Track A1 completed” screen then offers “Continue at A2”: you move up when you decide to, and you can finish the remaining words first.

Choosing your topics

At A1 and A2, every word is essential: nothing can be skipped.

From B1 on, the path moves forward by themes. A step brings together a few related topics, family, the body and clothes for instance, with the grammar that goes with them. With “Full” sessions, it lasts two to three weeks. You learn the most common words first; the rarest ones wait for you at the end of the level.

Each level opens on the list of its topics. If one does not interest you, untick it: you can set aside at most one in five, and the level will be passed without it. You set aside a topic, never a whole theme, and the grammar stays.

Along the way, “Not this topic” sets a topic aside in the same way, within the same limit.

Changed your mind? Topics you set aside stay dotted at the end of the level, on the path page. “Take this list back” puts its words back into your sessions, starting today.

Your lists and stopping the path

The path’s lists are kept in your library, in a collection named after it, “Spanish path” for example. You can open them and study them freely: everything counts towards the path. The path manages this collection, so you cannot rename or delete it.

To stop, tap “Stop the path” below its levels. Your progress is kept: if you take it up again later, you carry on where you left off.