A collection detail page shows a curated set of Japanese words with community features: ratings, reviews, and comments. Bookmark it, make a copy, or study it directly.
Bookmark vs copy
Two ways to keep a collection.
| Bookmark | Make a copy | |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | A reference to someone else's collection: a shortcut, not a copy, kept in your bookmarks | Your own independent copy |
| Editing | Read-only | Add, remove, and reorder words freely |
| Author's updates | Flow through to you automatically | Don't affect your copy |
| Your edits | None | Don't affect the original |
| Best for | Quick access to someone else's list | Customizing the word list for your own study |
Share in the toolbar opens the native share sheet (or a copy-link dialog on desktop) to send the collection's link. Appears only on public collections.
Words tab
The collection's vocabulary. Each entry shows its written form, reading, and top meanings at a glance.
Browsing
Words show ten to a page. Prev and Next move between pages, and each page has its own address, so a shared link or the back button returns to the same page. Tap any word to open its full dictionary entry (pronunciation, meanings, variant forms).
Entry details
Each entry carries badges, frequency rankings, and audio playback. Your display preferences (font, romaji, furigana) apply here too.
Learn about word list itemsLinked meanings
A collection can link a word to one of its meanings. That meaning is outlined and tinted in the word's list of meanings, under its own number, and the word's other meanings stay listed. It always shows, however far down the entry it sits. A word with only one meaning always shows that meaning as linked.
Study uses the linked meaning for that item: its questions ask about that meaning, and the answer shows it. A word with no linked meaning is studied as its whole entry, and so is a word whose linked meaning a dictionary update removed. The owner links a meaning with Specify meaning when adding the word, with Change meaning in the collection editor, or through an import.
Study history tab
- Shows once you have studied this collection.
- It holds the same totals and chart as Study History for this collection.
- Its session list shows only sessions you started from this collection.
- It loads the first time you open it.
Ratings tab
Where the community evaluates collection quality.
Star ratings
Rate 1 to 5 stars. The average and total count show beneath the collection title. Tap it to jump straight to the Ratings tab.
Written reviews
Add a review alongside your rating to help other learners find quality content and understand what makes a collection useful.
Comments tab
A space for community discussion: ask about word choices, suggest additions, share study tips, or thank the author. The comment count shows on the tab header.
Studying the collection
Take the collection's items into a study session.
Starting
- Quick Study sits at the top, beside the item count. It practices the collection at once, with no goal to keep.
- Add studied items to my reviews decides whether items new to you join your reviews. Your answers are always saved.
- Enroll sits beside it. It sets goals, shows your progress under the stats, and puts the collection on your Enrolled tab.
- Once enrolled, Enroll and Quick Study give way to one Continue button. Its arrow opens Review only, which studies just the reviews due in the collection; the number on the button corner is how many.
- Study settings and Leave collection are in the page's more options menu. Leave stops tracking the collection and removes it from your enrolled collections. Everything you've studied stays saved, and its study reminders turn off.
- The session opens at once on a short loading screen, then its start screen shows total items, how many this session covers, and the settings. If loading fails, Try again runs it again.
- Edit settings adjusts them beforehand; Start hands the screen to the session.
- A collection needs at least one item to study.
Inside the session
- Items arrive one exercise at a time, across the skills you choose.
- You start on the Standard preset: Vocabulary, Reading, Recall and Listening are on where the items support them.
- Typing is off to begin with. Switch it on in settings.
- Writing covers kana and kanji to begin with. Under Handwriting in the exercise types, Kana, Kanji and Words choose what you write, and Words up to leaves longer words out of writing. More in Writing.
- Answers feed a spaced-repetition schedule: each item returns as you near forgetting it, and its mastery level moves with how you do.
Pausing and setting aside
- Pause anytime with the study controls, or Esc.
- The pause screen shows your progress and offers Resume, Restart, Settings, and Quit.
- Exclude from all study takes the current item out of all study, after a confirmation, and keeps everything you've built on it.
Session summary
Every session ends on a summary, quitting included: correct count, accuracy, a tile per skill studied, and View details for the item-by-item log and the mastery levels that moved. Done takes you back to the page you started from; Try again goes back to the start screen, where you can change settings and start a fresh session.
Learn about study sessionsReporting a collection
Report is in the more-actions menu (⋮) at the top of the collection and on each collection in a list. Use it for content that breaks the rules rather than content you disagree with.
- Pick a reason and say what's wrong. A sentence or two is enough, and Submit stays off until you write something. Only the moderation team sees it.
- The report is private. The owner is not told who reported them, and nothing changes on the collection while it is reviewed.
- The owner hears if it is made private. If your own collection is made private, you get a notification saying so.
Create an account to participate
A free account lets you bookmark and copy collections, leave ratings and reviews, join comment discussions, and track your study progress. Browsing and studying are open to everyone.
For collection owners
Viewing your own collection surfaces extra controls.
Visibility
The Public switch, on the Details tab of the collection editor, switches between public and private, and the strip above the collection states which it is. Public collections are discoverable and can be bookmarked, copied, rated, and commented on; private collections are visible only to you.
Edit
The Edit control in the toolbar opens the collection editor to change the name, description, tags, visibility, or word list.
Allow copies
The collection editor holds the Allow copies switch. With it off, the Make a copy control shows as disabled and says so.