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Guides to every feature, the ideas behind the Tiwtor method, and what's inside each collection. Written by us, for people who like to know how things work.

Features

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Every feature in depth — each exercise type, the learning loop, and making the app yours.

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The Tiwtor method — the loop

How the pieces fit together: learn phrases, drill them, hear them, say them. The daily loop that makes it stick.

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Guide: flashcards

Rating honestly, what Again/Good/Easy actually do, and why the queue looks the way it does.

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Guide: listening exercises

Hide the text, slow it down, loop it. Getting comprehension out of conversations built from your phrases.

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Guide: monologues

Speaking practice without a partner: shadowing, recording, and building fluency out loud.

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Guide: reading

Brain-soaking with graded texts: how to read above your level without drowning.

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Customising Tiwtor — dialects

Gog or Hwntw? Tuning Tiwtor to the Welsh you actually want to speak.

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Creating your own exercises

Turn any phrase list into flashcards, conversations and monologues of your own.

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Collections

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What each collection covers, who it's for, and how to get the most out of it.

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Course: Cymraeg byw (free!)

The flagship free course — everyday spoken Welsh, and why it’s the right place to start.

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Course: Top 1000 Welsh words

The high-frequency core of the language, in the order you’ll actually meet it.

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Course: Top 100 Welsh verbs

The verbs that carry most conversations, with the forms you’ll really hear.

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Course: Adversarial Welsh

The confusables, false friends and near-misses that trip learners up — drilled head-to-head.

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Course: Grammar deep dive

Mutations, prepositions and the bits coursebooks rush — for when you want to know why.

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Concepts & behind the scenes

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The ideas that inform the Tiwtor method, and honest notes on how we build.

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SRS, FSRS, spaced repetition — the ideas behind Tiwtor

The forgetting curve, why reviews are spaced the way they are, and what FSRS adds. The core concepts behind the method.

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How did we create the courses?

Where the phrase lists come from, who checks them, and how a course goes from idea to app.

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How do we use AI?

Exactly where AI sits in the pipeline, where humans sit, and what we do when it gets Welsh wrong.

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What do you mean, beta? Alpha? Early access?

What those labels mean at Tiwtor, what’s solid, what’s rough, and what it costs you (nothing, mostly).

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