Learning Paths

A learning path is a guided route through Japanese. Someone has picked the words, kanji and kana worth learning, put them in an order that makes sense, and split them into stops called waypoints. You enroll in the learning path, work through its waypoints, and the learning path keeps track of where you are.

Finding a learning path

Every public learning path is listed under Discover. You can browse without an account.

• Filters narrow the list by level, subject and length.
• Skills in Filters list paths that train any skill you pick, as a focus or along the way. Turn on Only filter on focus skills to match focus skills alone.
• Card details show the title, the rating, the author, roughly how long the learning path takes at about 15 minutes of study a day, how many waypoints it has and how many learners are enrolled. The skill icons in the colored band at the top show what it trains; tap one to see what it means.
• Tap the title or View to open the learning path and see the whole route before you commit. Enroll adds it to Enrolled. Learning Paths you are enrolled in show the same card as your Enrolled tab, with Continue.
• Public items show a globe; private items show a lock.

Reading a learning path

The learning path page opens with a short description, the skills it focuses on, and the learning path itself.

Enrolling in a learning path

Enroll is the button in the learning path header. It puts the learning path on your Enrolled tab and starts tracking your progress through it.

• The learning paths you enroll in are listed under Learn, on Enrolled beside your enrolled collections and on Learning Paths.
• Each learning path shows the waypoint you study next, with its status and any reviews due. A finished path shows its last waypoint, and a check on its icon gives the date you finished.
• The bar under each title shows how far you are toward the goal, then Mastery once you finish, with your waypoints done and when you last studied beside it.
• Continue picks up where you left off. Its arrow opens Review only, which studies just the reviews due on the learning path; the number on the button corner is how many.
• Your learning path stays put. If the author changes it later, you decide whether to update.
• Update available shows at the top of a learning path you are enrolled in when the author has changed it. Tap it to see what changed.
• Leaving keeps everything. Your progress, badges and dates stay, its study reminders turn off, and you can enroll again whenever you want.

Waypoints

A waypoint is a stop on the learning path. It holds a handful of related items and a goal the author set, such as reaching a given level on most of them.

• Order is a suggestion. A waypoint up ahead can be started early whenever you like. Nothing refuses you.
• You can pause one too. A waypoint you pause stays out of your way until you resume it.
• Goal met and Fully mastered are the two milestones a waypoint can earn. Once earned, they are yours permanently.

Finishing a learning path

A learning path is complete when every waypoint and group the author required has met its goal. The goals are the author's, so finishing means you got where they pointed you, not that you have seen every item.

Study history

• Shows once you have studied a learning path you are enrolled in.
• It holds the same totals and chart as Study History for this learning path.
• Its session list shows every session started from this learning path or one of its waypoints.
• It loads the first time you open it.

Rating a learning path

The Ratings tab is where learners say whether a learning path was worth enrolling in. The average and the count sit under the title, and tapping them opens the tab.

• One to five stars. You leave one rating per learning path and you can change it whenever you like.
• A review is optional. Write one to say what the learning path is good for and who it suits.
• Authors do not rate their own paths. The control is there for everyone else.

Comments

The Comments tab is for questions and discussion: ask the author about an ordering choice, suggest an item, or tell other learners what helped.

• Replies go one level deep, so a thread stays readable.
• You can edit or delete your own comment. A deleted comment leaves a placeholder so the replies under it still make sense.
• A comment is up to 1,000 characters.

Reporting something

Report is in the more-actions menu (⋮) at the top of the learning path, and on every comment and review. 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 author is not told who reported them, and nothing changes on the learning path while it is reviewed.
• The author hears if it is hidden. If your own content is hidden, you get a notification saying so.

What the badges mean

A learning path can carry one badge above its title. The eevy team sets all three, and a learning path carries at most one of them.

• Official is a learning path the eevy team wrote and maintains.
• Top Pick is a learning path by someone in the community that the team picked out as especially good.
• Featured is a learning path the team is highlighting, sometimes with a short note about why.