The Mix game

Mix is the recommended way to practice. Rather than one exercise type for a whole session, it switches between them card by card, so the same word gets tested in several different ways.

It's also the game used by today's session and by Fix your recent mistakes.

What it can include

Mix draws from:

• Flashcards
• Quiz
• Write
• Hanzi - on Chinese decks only
• Audio - Premium, and only for cards that have audio

Memory and Hangman are not part of Mix; they're standalone games.

Choosing which games it uses

Go to Language settings and look for Mix mode games. Tick the games you want included - you need at least 2. The setting is per language, so you can have writing exercises on a language you're learning to spell and leave them off one you're only learning to recognise.

You can also reach this from a Mix intro screen, which lists what's currently included alongside a link to change it.

By default Mix uses everything available for that language.

How the balance works

Mix deliberately doesn't distribute games evenly, because some exercises are much slower than others:

• Write is capped at about 10% of a session.
• Hanzi and Audio are capped at about 20% each.
• The remainder goes to flashcards and quizzes.

A few other rules apply automatically: Quiz drops out of sessions of 3 cards or fewer, Audio is skipped for cards without generated audio, and Hanzi only applies to cards that actually contain characters.

During a session

• Show first works here, so prompts can lead with the target or source word, or randomise per card.
• On an Audio card, Can't listen now turns audio off for the rest of the session - useful if you started a session somewhere you can't play sound.
• Wrong answers reappear 5 to 8 cards later, so the session may run a bit longer than the number you chose.

Why bother

Recognising a word on a flashcard is a much lower bar than producing it in a writing exercise. Mixing formats means your levels reflect something closer to actually knowing the word, instead of just knowing how it looks in the format you always practice.