Polish words drift by. You write one short English message. Every word you get right lights up a tile on your map, and it stays lit. Your passive English, made active.
One tile per English word. Write it well and it's yours.
You read the news in English. You watch series without subtitles. You get the memes, the podcasts, your boss's emails. Then someone asks about your weekend and you say: it was very nice.
You can look at the words. You never touch them. Twelve years of school English, flashcards, a 400-day streak somewhere else. And the same hundred words come out every time.
passive · words you understand →Pick a set, say renting a flat, and its words drift around the screen: najemca, wilgoć, kaloryfer. Inspiration, not homework. Swipe one left to save it, right to peek at the English.
Anything. Two hundred characters, your words, your story. No multiple choice, no "repeat after me".
Tap Check and every word gets its own verdict in seconds: meaning, form, context. Points per word, and a bonus for every orbit word you use.
Tap the result and the message opens in your log, word by word: the meaning it was credited for, which use it was, what it earned. No mystery score.
Each word you used warms its tile. Three meanings on three different days and the tile is complete. For good.
One tile for every English word, the most common at the top. Use a word well and its tile warms up. Use it in three meanings on three different days and it's complete.
And it never goes dark. Earned progress doesn't decay, ever. A tile you lit in March is still lit in December, even if you took the summer off.
Everything is built around one move: you write, it checks, your map grows. No lessons to sit through, nothing locked away. Your points just climb from one milestone to the next.
Words drift by to spark a sentence. Save one to your learn deck, reveal the English with a short definition, or ignore them all and write what you want. Arrows mark words a step above your level.
A red pen tells you what's wrong. This tells you what you've earned.
"I kept putting off my visa, and the word was on the tip of my tongue."
Phrasal verbs, idioms and compound nouns are spotted in your message and earn a phrase bonus. Two sentences that tell one story earn a connected bonus.
I am living have lived here since 2019.
Nothing nags you while you type. One tap checks the whole message and shows the natural version, plus the slips you keep making.
drżący,
trwożliwy
tap to flip ↻With a tremulous voice, she asked for directions.
rozkwitać,
prosperować
tap to flip ↻These plants thrive in sunny spots with plenty of water.
niechętny
tap to flip ↻She was reluctant to leave the party because she was having fun.
Until you've used them on two different days. Then they leave on their own.
Not for tapping. Milestones that never run out.
Speak instead of typing, in the accent you pick. It lands in the box as text, then it's checked like any message.
Renting a flat, a doctor visit, a job interview, sailing, a newborn. Thirty-two sets so far. Pick one and the orbit fills with it.
Every word in the orbit is Polish, every meaning has its Polish translation. Which means we know exactly where you'll trip. tap a card
Just you, a blank box and two hundred characters.
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