# Yalango - full documentation index > Free language learning platform for 180+ languages with decks, tables, notebooks, reading tools, spaced repetition, a REST API and an MCP server (https://yalango.com/mcp). ## Getting Started - [Your Study dashboard](https://yalango.com/help/getting-started/your-study-dashboard): A tour of the Study dashboard - the daily goal ring, streak, today's session, mistakes card and content picker. - [Study multiple languages on Yalango](https://yalango.com/help/getting-started/study-multiple-languages-on-yalango): Yalango has no limit on how many languages you can learn, and keeps your content, vocabulary, goals and streaks separate for each one. - [Verifying your email](https://yalango.com/help/getting-started/verifying-your-email): Verifying your email address protects your account and unlocks actions that stay limited until your address is confirmed. - [Setting up your account (onboarding)](https://yalango.com/help/getting-started/setting-up-your-account-onboarding): Walk through the first-time setup wizard - name, languages, how you found Yalango, and an optional forum introduction. - [Starter decks](https://yalango.com/help/getting-started/starter-decks): Play official Yalango starter decks from the study page to build your first vocabulary before you create your own content. - [Install Yalango on your phone](https://yalango.com/help/getting-started/install-yalango-on-your-phone): Yalango is a progressive web app, so you can add it to your home screen from your browser and use it like a native app. - [Get started with Yalango](https://yalango.com/help/getting-started/get-started-with-yalango): Create a free account, add the languages you are learning, add your first content, and start practising with games. - [Why should I use Yalango?](https://yalango.com/help/getting-started/why-should-I-use-yalango): Yalango keeps the vocabulary, grammar, reading material and notes from all your language study in one connected place you can actually review. ## My Library - [What you can create in My Library](https://yalango.com/help/my-library/what-you-can-create-in-my-library): My Library holds your decks, tables, texts, notebooks, PDFs and folders for the active language. Here is what each type is for. - [Save public content to your library](https://yalango.com/help/my-library/save-public-content-to-your-library): Use Save to my library on any public deck or table to get your own editable copy that counts toward your vocabulary and reviews. - [Organize your content with folders](https://yalango.com/help/my-library/organize-your-content-with-folders): Group decks, tables, texts, notebooks and PDFs into nested folders, then study every deck in a folder in one session. ## Decks - [Importing decks or cards](https://yalango.com/help/decks/importing-decks-or-cards): Bring existing word lists into a deck from a CSV file, an Anki .apkg export, Quizlet, pasted text, or a paste-in table. - [What is a deck on Yalango?](https://yalango.com/help/decks/what-is-a-deck-on-yalango): A deck is a collection of cards - words, characters or short phrases - that you practice with games and spaced repetition. - [Study your decks with games](https://yalango.com/help/decks/study-your-decks-with-games): Every deck can be practised with Mix, Flashcards, Quiz, Write, Memory, Hangman, Hanzi and Audio. - [Deck settings](https://yalango.com/help/decks/deck-settings): Change a deck's languages and scripts, public title and description, and optional YouTube or text links from Deck Settings. - [Export your deck](https://yalango.com/help/decks/export-your-deck): Export any deck you own as CSV, Anki (.apkg), a printable PDF glossary, or a printable PDF quiz. - [Customize your cards with custom fields](https://yalango.com/help/decks/customize-your-cards-with-custom-fields): Attach extra information to every card in a deck with text and list custom fields, such as example sentences, gender or notes. - [Make your deck public](https://yalango.com/help/decks/make-your-deck-public): Share a deck with other learners from your deck settings. Publishing also generates free text-to-speech audio for its cards. - [Choose a regional accent for audio](https://yalango.com/help/decks/choose-a-regional-accent-for-audio): Premium users can pick which regional accent and voice gender Yalango uses for text-to-speech in each language, listening to each option before saving. - [Generate audio for your cards](https://yalango.com/help/decks/generate-audio-for-your-cards): Public decks and Premium accounts get text-to-speech audio generated automatically for cards, which also unlocks the Audio game for Premium users. - [Play multilingual decks](https://yalango.com/help/decks/play-multilingual-decks): Some official decks support several language pairs - pick which language you are studying and which one you already know before playing. - [Discover public decks](https://yalango.com/help/decks/discover-public-decks): Browse decks shared by other learners in the deck directory or Explore, play them straight away, or save a copy to your library. - [Add and edit cards](https://yalango.com/help/decks/add-and-edit-cards): Add cards to a deck with a target word and a source word, plus optional custom fields, pinyin and audio. - [Search and sort cards](https://yalango.com/help/decks/search-and-sort-cards): Find cards quickly with Search cards, and reorder the list by target, source, date created, or last update. ## Tables - [What is a table on Yalango?](https://yalango.com/help/tables/what-is-a-table-on-yalango): A table is a spreadsheet-style grid with as many columns as you need, ideal for conjugations and declensions you want to drill in several directions. - [Table power tools](https://yalango.com/help/tables/table-power-tools): Search rows, bulk-delete with undo, duplicate and reorder rows, copy a public link, and manage table settings from the More menu. - [Build columns and rows](https://yalango.com/help/tables/build-columns-and-rows): Add, rename and reorder columns, fill in rows directly in the grid, or import a CSV file to build a table quickly. - [Study Yalango tables with games](https://yalango.com/help/tables/study-yalango-tables-with-games): Practice any table with Flashcards, Quiz or Write, choosing which column asks the question and which one holds the answer. - [Export a table](https://yalango.com/help/tables/export-a-table): Download any table you own as a CSV or TSV file, choosing comma, semicolon or tab as the separator. ## Vocabulary - [What is the vocabulary list on Yalango?](https://yalango.com/help/vocabulary/what-is-the-vocabulary-list-on-yalango): My Vocabulary is the single list of everything you are learning in a language, with an SRS level and review date for each item. - [SRS levels and intervals](https://yalango.com/help/vocabulary/srs-levels-and-intervals): Items climb eight levels with doubling intervals from 1 day to 256 days, then enter yearly maintenance. Wrong answers drop an item two levels. - [Manage your vocabulary items](https://yalango.com/help/vocabulary/manage-your-vocabulary-items): Search, filter and sort your vocabulary, then use statuses - active, learnt, paused or deleted - to control what comes back for review. ## Study - [The study timer](https://yalango.com/help/study/the-study-timer): A floating focus timer with a standard and a Pomodoro mode that tracks your study time and earns stars. - [Fix your recent mistakes](https://yalango.com/help/study/fix-your-recent-mistakes): A dedicated session that replays only the words you have answered wrong in the last 30 days. - [Start today's session](https://yalango.com/help/study/start-todays-session): The daily session pulls the items that need review most across all your decks and plays them as a Mix game. - [Reading stats and recommended texts](https://yalango.com/help/study/reading-stats-and-recommended-texts): Track texts finished, time reading, words looked up, and words saved - and try Recommended Texts For You Today on the study page. - [Study a whole folder](https://yalango.com/help/study/study-a-whole-folder): Play every deck inside a folder as one mixed session, which is the simplest way to revise a full chapter or unit. - [How spaced repetition works on Yalango](https://yalango.com/help/study/how-spaced-repetition-works-on-yalango): Yalango shows each word again just before you would forget it, moving items up eight levels with increasing intervals as you answer correctly. - [Daily goals and streaks](https://yalango.com/help/study/daily-goals-and-streaks): Set a daily target of correct answers per weekday, including rest days, and keep a per-language streak going. ## Games - [Game settings and the score screen](https://yalango.com/help/games/game-settings-and-score-screen): Configure how many exercises to play, which direction prompts appear in, autoplay audio and pinyin - and read what the score screen tells you. - [Flashcards, Quiz and Write](https://yalango.com/help/games/flashcards-quiz-and-write): The three core games, from the gentlest to the strictest test of whether you really know a word. - [Memory and Hangman](https://yalango.com/help/games/memory-and-hangman): Two lighter standalone games - match word pairs by flipping tiles, or guess a word letter by letter. - [The Mix game](https://yalango.com/help/games/the-mix-game): Mix rotates between flashcards, quizzes, writing and audio within one session, and you choose which games it includes. - [Choose a game](https://yalango.com/help/games/choose-a-game): An overview of every deck game, what each one requires, and how to pick the right one. - [Keyboard shortcuts](https://yalango.com/help/games/keyboard-shortcuts): Speeding up study with keyboard shortcuts in games, texts, tables, notebooks, and the forums. - [The Audio game](https://yalango.com/help/games/the-audio-game): A Premium listening game that plays a word aloud and asks you to choose the right translation. - [The Hanzi game](https://yalango.com/help/games/the-hanzi-game): Practice writing Chinese characters by watching the stroke order and then drawing them from memory. ## Texts and Reading - [Study a text sentence by sentence](https://yalango.com/help/texts/study-a-text-sentence-by-sentence): Study mode shows one sentence at a time so you can translate words, translate the whole sentence, and save new vocabulary to a deck. - [Import a text](https://yalango.com/help/texts/import-a-text): Paste up to 50,000 characters of reading material into your library, then read it with tap-to-translate and save words as you go. - [The translation popover](https://yalango.com/help/texts/the-translation-popover): Tap or select any word while reading to translate it, save it straight into a deck, or mark it as known. ## Notebooks - [Notebook block types](https://yalango.com/help/notebooks/notebook-block-types): Every block you can add to a notebook page, grouped as basic, embeds, media and practice - including the two Premium ones. - [Upload and use PDFs](https://yalango.com/help/notebooks/upload-and-use-pdfs): Premium accounts can upload PDFs up to 20 MB to the library and embed them in notebook pages. - [Create study material with notebooks](https://yalango.com/help/notebooks/create-study-material-with-notebooks): A notebook is a digital binder you build from blocks - notes, headings, embedded decks, videos and more - then read in study mode. - [Sections and pages in notebooks](https://yalango.com/help/notebooks/sections-and-pages): Organize a notebook with sections and pages, then search and adjust display settings in study mode. - [Export and print a notebook](https://yalango.com/help/notebooks/export-and-print-a-notebook): Duplicate a notebook, export it as Markdown, or print it to PDF through your browser's print dialog. ## Watch - [Learn languages with YouTube videos](https://yalango.com/help/watch/learn-languages-with-youtube-videos): Yalango Watch turns YouTube into study material - browse a curated library or add your own videos, and translate and save words as you watch. - [Save words while watching](https://yalango.com/help/watch/save-words-while-watching): Use the Translate panel to look up words from a video, queue them with timestamps, and save the whole batch to a deck. ## Community - [Comments and votes](https://yalango.com/help/community/comments-and-votes): Comment on decks, tables, help articles, blog posts and videos, and upvote the ones worth finding. - [Get corrections from native speakers](https://yalango.com/help/community/get-corrections-from-native-speakers): Post a correction request on your language board to have your writing corrected, and use the correction form to help others. - [The language forums](https://yalango.com/help/community/the-language-forums): Each language you study gets its own forum board for questions, tips and corrections, alongside General and Yalango News. - [Your public profile](https://yalango.com/help/community/your-public-profile): Your profile page shows your languages, stars, milestones, public decks and recent activity to other learners. - [Report content](https://yalango.com/help/community/report-content): Report a forum post or reply that breaks the rules - reports are anonymous to the author and reviewed by a moderator. - [Follow and edit forum posts](https://yalango.com/help/community/follow-and-edit-forum-posts): Follow threads for reply notifications, edit your posts and replies after publishing, and rely on auto-saved drafts while writing. ## Yalango Stars - [The Yalango leaderboard](https://yalango.com/help/stars/the-yalango-leaderboard): Two all-time top-25 rankings - most stars, and top contributors ranked on forum help - rebuilt once a day. - [What are Yalango Stars?](https://yalango.com/help/stars/what-are-yalango-stars): Stars measure your contributions to the community and your study habit - earned from sharing decks, helping on the forums, streaks and focus sessions. - [Star milestones](https://yalango.com/help/stars/star-milestones): Reaching star totals unlocks badges, titles and profile frames, from Bronze Star at 10 to the Legendary Frame at 10,000. ## Progress and Stats - [Your Stats page](https://yalango.com/help/progress/your-stats-page): Five tabs - Overview, Learning, Activity, Content and Achievements - covering your progress over any period from 7 days to all time. - [Achievements](https://yalango.com/help/progress/achievements): The Achievements tab tracks your stars, unlocked milestones, leaderboard rank and where your stars came from. ## Integrations - [Study languages with YouTube and Yalango Watch](https://yalango.com/help/integrations/study-languages-with-youtube-yalango-watch): Yalango integrates with YouTube through Yalango Watch, so any video can become a study session with translation and vocabulary saving. - [Google Translate with Yalango](https://yalango.com/help/integrations/google-translate-with-yalango): Yalango uses Google Translate for automatic translations, with 300 per month on the free plan and no limit on Premium. - [Google Text-to-Speech with Yalango](https://yalango.com/help/integrations/google-text-to-speech-with-yalango): Public decks and Premium accounts get Google Text-to-Speech on cards. Text audio and the Audio game stay Premium. - [Import a Quizlet deck](https://yalango.com/help/integrations/import-a-quizlet-deck): Move a Quizlet study set into a Yalango deck by exporting the text from Quizlet and pasting it into the Quizlet importer. - [Import an Anki deck](https://yalango.com/help/integrations/import-an-anki-deck): Upload an .apkg export from Anki and map each note type's fields to the front, back and custom fields of your Yalango cards. ## Yalango Premium - [Manage your subscription](https://yalango.com/help/yalango-premium/manage-your-subscription): Change plan, update your payment method, find invoices or cancel through the Stripe billing portal, reached from Your Plan. - [What is Yalango Premium?](https://yalango.com/help/yalango-premium/what-is-yalango-premium): Premium removes the free plan's creation and translation limits and adds the Audio game, private-deck text-to-speech, text audio, image and PDF blocks, and PDF uploads. - [Upgrade to Yalango Premium](https://yalango.com/help/yalango-premium/upgrade-to-yalango-premium): Upgrade from the pricing page or Your Plan, choosing monthly or annual billing, and pay through Stripe Checkout. - [Free plan limits](https://yalango.com/help/yalango-premium/free-plan-limits): The exact free plan numbers - 300 translations a month, 10,000 cards, 100 decks, 100 tables, 2,000 folders, 100 texts and 10 notebooks. ## Account and Settings - [Switch between light and dark mode](https://yalango.com/help/account/switch-between-light-and-dark-mode): Toggle light and dark theme from the header, account menu, or footer. Your choice is remembered across visits. - [Send feedback and track submissions](https://yalango.com/help/account/send-feedback-and-track-submissions): Report a bug or request a feature with Send feedback, then follow the reply under My submissions - and earn stars for it. - [Account settings](https://yalango.com/help/account/account-settings): Manage your username, display name, introduction, website, profile photo, privacy options and country. - [Language settings](https://yalango.com/help/account/language-settings): Per-language options for autoplay audio, custom fields, pinyin and which games Mix includes. - [Your notifications](https://yalango.com/help/account/your-notifications): Use the bell and the Notifications page to see upvotes, comments, forum replies, milestones, and more - then mark them as read. - [Download all your data](https://yalango.com/help/account/download-all-your-data): Download everything in your account as a single zip file, with a spreadsheet per deck and complete JSON for everything else. - [Notification settings](https://yalango.com/help/account/notification-settings): Choose which in-app notifications are also emailed to you, and whether to get the weekly forum digest. - [Sign in and reset your password](https://yalango.com/help/account/sign-in-and-reset-your-password): Sign in with Google or email, create an account, and reset a forgotten password with a secure email link. - [Delete your account](https://yalango.com/help/account/delete-your-account): Account deletion has a 30-day grace period, so you can cancel by signing back in before it completes. ## About Yalango - [The team behind Yalango](https://yalango.com/help/about/the-team-behind-yalango): Yalango is a one-person project built and run by Peder Helland from Norway. - [How can I contact Yalango?](https://yalango.com/help/about/how-can-i-contact-yalango): Reach us by email at hello@yalango.com, through the in-app feedback tool, or on the community forums. - [Is Yalango free to use?](https://yalango.com/help/about/is-yalango-free-to-use): Yes. Yalango is free to use with no ads, with generous limits on the free plan and an optional Premium subscription. ## API - [Create and manage API keys](https://yalango.com/help/api/create-and-manage-api-keys): Create an API key in settings, choose what it is allowed to do, and revoke it when you no longer need it. - [Tables with the API](https://yalango.com/help/api/tables-with-the-api): Create tables, manage their columns, and add, edit and delete rows in batches. - [Edit and delete cards with the API](https://yalango.com/help/api/edit-and-delete-cards-with-the-api): Change the text on a card, fill in custom fields, and remove cards you no longer want - one at a time or up to 100 in a single request. - [Vocabulary and reviews with the API](https://yalango.com/help/api/vocabulary-and-reviews-with-the-api): Check whether you already study a word before adding it again, and read how much is waiting in your review queue. - [Create and update decks with the API](https://yalango.com/help/api/create-and-update-decks-with-the-api): Create a deck, change its name, description and other settings, and retry safely with an idempotency key. - [Languages with the API](https://yalango.com/help/api/languages-with-the-api): List the languages on your account and add a new one to study. - [Add cards with the API](https://yalango.com/help/api/add-cards-with-the-api): List your decks and their cards, add up to 100 cards at a time, and look up the custom field ids a card write needs. - [API errors and rate limits](https://yalango.com/help/api/api-errors-and-rate-limits): Every error code the API can return, what each one means, and the rate limits and plan limits that apply to a key. - [Texts with the API](https://yalango.com/help/api/texts-with-the-api): Create, read, edit and delete your reading texts from a script. - [Custom fields with the API](https://yalango.com/help/api/custom-fields-with-the-api): List, create, rename and delete a deck's custom fields, choose the cloze field, and find the ids you need to fill them in on a card. - [Notebooks with the API](https://yalango.com/help/api/notebooks-with-the-api): Create notebooks, organize sections, and write pages with every block type the editor supports - including videos, sentences, multiple choice, images and PDFs. - [Connect an AI assistant](https://yalango.com/help/api/connect-an-ai-assistant): Let ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Copilot, Cursor or another MCP client read and build your decks, cards, texts, tables, notebooks and folders - by signing in, or with an API key. - [The Yalango API](https://yalango.com/help/api/the-yalango-api): Manage decks, cards, texts, tables, notebooks and folders in your own Yalango account from a script, using an API key you create in settings. - [Folders with the API](https://yalango.com/help/api/folders-with-the-api): Create library folders and move your decks, tables, texts, notebooks and other folders into them. ## Explore and Learn - [Mandarin Chinese tools](https://yalango.com/help/explore-and-learn/mandarin-chinese-tools): Practice writing hanzi stroke by stroke and convert Chinese text to pinyin with free Mandarin tools on Yalango. - [Free language courses](https://yalango.com/help/explore-and-learn/free-language-courses): Browse official Yalango language courses, open lessons, and practice with Flashcards, Quiz, Write, and Mix - no account required. - [Explore decks and tables](https://yalango.com/help/explore-and-learn/explore-decks-and-tables): Find public decks and tables with search, language filters, creator filters, and sort options on the Explore page. - [Language pages and collections](https://yalango.com/help/explore-and-learn/language-pages-and-collections): Use /learn pages to browse collections of decks for a language, open full word lists, and find community and official decks.