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Nobody ever fell in love with a language through a vocabulary list.
It was a scene you watched twice, the second time without subtitles. It was the conversation you followed to the end before you noticed you had stopped translating. Amiora is built for that, and for the fifteen minutes in the evening when it is possible.
The problem
You can finish the course and still freeze in the conversation.
Hundreds of days of multiple choice teach you to recognise a word on a screen. They do not teach you to find it in the half second before someone expects an answer. Those are two different skills, and only one of them is the thing you wanted. A word memorised out of context is usually gone a week later.
The honest reason most of us are here is not that we want to know a language. We want to speak it.
The science
Four ideas, none of them ours.
All four are older than this app and every one of them is published. What most apps skip is the connecting, so that the word you met on Tuesday is the word you said on Wednesday and still have on Saturday.
Comprehensible Input
You acquire a language by understanding a little more than you comfortably can. Understand all of a clip and nothing sticks. Understand none of it and you switch off. We look for the one in between.
Krashen, 1981, Input Hypothesis
Spaced Repetition
Memory fades along a curve. A word brought back just before it goes is worth a dozen reviews of a word you already know, so each review pushes the next one further out.
Ebbinghaus, 1885 · Bahrick, 1993
Active Recall
Retrieving something is what fixes it. Saying a word out loud holds it far harder than reading it again, which is why the hardest tab here is the one where you talk.
Roediger & Karpicke, 2006
Motivation
Milestones and streaks work when they mark something you actually did. Gamified feedback reliably lifts how often people come back, and reliably backfires once the reward replaces the reason.
Hamari, Koivisto & Sarsa, 2014
The product
Four tabs, and they feed each other.
Tap a word in a video and it lands in your review deck that evening. What one tab collects, the next one gives back.
Watch
Comprehensible input
Real video in the language you are learning: street interviews, everyday conversation, podcasts, clips and trailers. Tap any word to see what it means in that sentence, said by that person. Not in a dictionary.
Words
Spaced repetition
Every word you tapped comes back on its own schedule, and the card carries the sentence you first met it in. You review the moment you saw it, not the word on its own.
Speak
Active recall
Talk about what you just watched. Order the coffee, argue about the ending. The voice never rushes you and it never sighs. You can be wrong a hundred times and nobody will know.
Progress
Motivation
Not points. The words you have said out loud, the minutes you held a conversation, the words that have reached long-term memory. Every number here counts language you used, not time you spent in an app.
The word you tapped in a video and then forgot about. The one that came back just as it was starting to go. The one you said out loud without stopping to look for it.
That is the whole thing. Everything here exists to give you more of them.
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