A learning app that adapts to your strengths and weaknesses
Friki translates them, names the grammar inside, keeps the words you choose, and practises the things you keep getting wrong.
In closed testing with the first group of learners. Store links land here the moment it opens up.
How it works
Everything starts with something you wanted to say. From there, one loop teaches you the grammar in it and the other keeps the words.
Loop one · the grammar
Type the sentence in either language. You get the Spanish back, with alternatives when a word has more than one honest reading.
Tap Grammar Breakdown and every construction is named: which rule is at work, who is doing what, and the word in the sentence that justifies it.
Straight into a short practice written for that rule. Get one wrong and Friki reads how it was wrong, and the exercises that follow know.
Loop two · the words
Tap the ones worth keeping. Each becomes a flashcard with its sentence attached, so the word you save is the meaning you met, not a dictionary's first guess.
Saved words come up early in your next session, so the sentence you needed on Tuesday is what you are drilled on come Thursday.
They come back just before you would forget them. Get one right and the wait grows; miss it and it comes back sooner.
Why it works
Every translation is a signal about the Spanish you reach for. The grammar your own sentences keep leaning on moves up the queue; what you never use stays out of your way. Nothing to set up, no lists to choose from.
Futuro: the forms keep coming up a little inverted (about 7 of your last 9 tries). Your next practice session will show if it stuck.
The wrong half of haber is a different mistake from a wrong participle, which is different again from reaching for the indefinido where "today" wants the perfecto, and Friki tells them apart. Future exercises are written for the mistake you actually made, the correction says what the sentence meant and why the other form was right, and the coach puts it in plain words.
Everything the app notices ends up as a sentence you can act on: which skill your own translations keep leaning on, which half of a tense keeps slipping and how often, what you are prioritising, and what you are ready to start. Every note ends in somewhere to go.
Subjuntivo perfecto: it's the haber half that keeps slipping (about 5 of your last 8 tries). Your participles are fine.
Every tense, rule and word family is a place on a map, so you can see everything there is to learn and where you are in it. Zoom out for the shape of the language; zoom in and pick. Read the lesson behind a skill, push it up the queue, or leave it for later. The order is yours, wherever you are in your Spanish.
What's inside
Tap a construction in a translation and Friki names the rule, quoting the word in the sentence that justifies it. Then straight into a short practice, or onto the map.
Words, phrases and verb conjugations, each its own deck with its own count, beside the day's exercises. Practise never dead-ends: a deck with nothing due still offers a run.
The big idea, the forms in a table, the uses with real examples. Written to be read in a couple of minutes, not studied.
Four answers, one schedule, and a ? on every card that says what each answer does and why a deck can run out.
Get Friki
Friki is in closed testing right now. Store links land here the moment it opens up.
Already testing? Open the app.