About glossjar

glossjar teaches the most common German words, a few every day. Rate each word and a spaced-repetition scheduler (FSRS) brings it back just before you would forget it.

How it works

Every day you get 10 new words (change it in Settings) from the 500 most frequent ones, plus the words that are due for review. The FSRS algorithm schedules them. Your rating decides when a word comes back:

Again

You forgot it. You see it again in about a minute, and it counts as a lapse.

Hard

You remembered it, but with effort. The gap until the next review is shorter.

Good

You remembered it. The gap is normal and grows every time you get it right.

Easy

You knew it instantly. The gap is long, weeks.

Why it works

Memory fades along a forgetting curve: fast at first, then slower. Without review, most of a new word is gone within days.

Reviewing a word just before you would forget it strengthens the memory the most, and every review pushes the next one further away. That is why the scheduler shows each word at the right moment, not all the time.

A few minutes a day beats cramming: the words stay for good instead of vanishing after the test.

Where the words come from

The word list is the most frequent words of the Leipzig Corpora Collection German news corpus (deu_news_2023_1M), counted and lemmatised by us. Proper nouns, numbers and abbreviations are left out.

Leipzig Corpora Collection, Wortschatz Leipzig, University of Leipzig. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.

wortschatz.uni-leipzig.de · CC BY 4.0

D. Goldhahn, T. Eckart and U. Quasthoff: Building Large Monolingual Dictionaries at the Leipzig Corpora Collection: From 100 to 200 Languages. In: Proceedings of the 8th International Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2012).

Translations

The English, Ukrainian and Russian translations, articles and plurals were generated with AI and then reviewed.