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by visitor4rmindia 6103 days ago
Very nice interface. I tried it out and had the following problems:

1) In 17 words, "arboretum" and "impetus" came up twice. 17 words is way too soon to start repeating. 2) The words appear to be of uniform difficulty. They aren't very hard and you don't progress as you go along. It may be better to start off with easy words and progressively get harder as the user keeps going.

Overall, I thought it was a cute idea. All the best.

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Thanks.

Yes, the words you answer correct repeat progressively after 15 words, then 150 words and then 500 words (just to be sure it doesn't slip off your memory).

Perhaps I need to way to determine if a word is already known versus if a person has just learnt it.