At its core, Tiwtor is a flashcard app and as such, will feel familiar to anybody that has used software like Anki or good ol’ physical flashcards! ## Flashcards In your day to day learning with Tiwtor you’ll be presented with phrases to translate into Welsh. You’ll indicate a success or a failure to recall and difficult phrases will pop up more regularly than those you can remember. Tiwtor flashes more than simple flashcards, however... ## Your library, your queue In the app, you maintain a [library](#feature-library) (stuff you want to learn at some point) and a [queue](#feature-queue) (stuff you’re learning right now). You can pluck phrase lists and exercises from our official [collections](#todo-collections) or you can create your own lists and exercises using our authoring tools. ## Orbiting exercises <!-- graphic showing orbiting exercises, somehow... showing embedded phrases? --> The best way to learn a language is to immerse yourself in it - to hit it from many different angles - to use all the senses. To that end - the same phrases that you’re practising through flashcards, you’ll see popping up in [conversations](#feature-listening-exercises) you can listen to, in [monologues](#feature-monologues) that you can memorise or even in [“children’s books”](#feature-reading-exercises). We also have a [hands-free mode](#handsfree) that you can use when you’re on the move - which will feel very similar to anybody that has used the excellent [SSiW](#ssiw) If you’re learning from our collections, you’ll find that all phrase lists have accompanying exercises you can add to your library. If you’re learning from your own lists, you can use our authoring tools to create your own related listening, reading & speaking exercises. ## Phrase forestry <!-- a graphic that combines e.g. ladders, trees, scaffolding, building blocks? and probably show an actual phrase tree --> With Tiwtor - you’ll learn smaller constituent phrases & words before building up to longer phrases & sentences. You can visualise a phrase as a tree structure, with the smaller component phrases as branches. These branches can be shared between other phrases. We call this the “phrase forest”. By learning lots of smaller phrases and then eventually how to connect them together learners can build a sense of flexibility & confidence. <!-- tree graphic, showing two interleaved phrases -->\ <!-- todo: reword the above... not great - maybe confusing --> ## Make it yours We highly recommend that you create your own phrase lists and exercises based on your day to day experiences! It’s much easier to learn a language, when you’re learning relevant phrases that you’ll actually use... For example - I myself have two kids in welsh medium schools - and so my own queue holds phrases I can use with them - e.g. I have one phrase list called [“School mornings”](#public-collection-school-mornings) and another [“Outside the school gate”](#public-collection-school-mornings) - both of which you can add to your own library! You can learn more on how to do this [here](#feature-creating-your-own)
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