spaced repetition, rebuilt for immersion

Stop studying a language.
Change your lingual habitat.

«языковая среда»

Immersion works, and you already live online.
Polyglot Cards moves your feed, your AI, and your flashcards
into your target language, so you absorb it by exposure.

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FSRS-6 · each card returns at its optimized time

One word in. Three recalls out.

Learning is training recall — and recall has directions. Each direction is its own memory, so one entry becomes three cards, each on its own schedule.

you — or your AI — add this once
собака dog
voice · generated for you
trains understanding
собака word → meaning you see it written and recall what it is
sound → meaning you hear the voice alone and recall what it means
trains speaking
picture → word you see the thing and recall its name — no English in the loop

three memories · three schedules · one entry

Your digital immersion.

Immersion is a choice now. Your videos, your podcasts, your AI — all of it can happen in the language you are learning.

Every podcast you already listen to ships audio tracks in other languages.

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Connect ChatGPT and have spoken conversations that use only the words you know.

Wire it into the brain you already have.

Your knowledge is a network. "Dog" is not a fact filed somewhere — it is a pattern: four legs, furry, barks, animal firing together. On day one, a card hops in through what you already have: its picture finds the dogs you have seen, собака finds the English word. That is how it should start. But every review, and every picture, voice, and sentence on your cards, grows direct pathways — until собака fires the pattern itself, no English in the loop. FSRS times the reviews that grow them.

this is you four legs furry barks animal dog dog собака

Decks in bulk, not card by card.

One sentence in, fifty cards out — each arriving with its audio already generated.

>make me 50 cards of kitchen vocabulary, with audio
cards written: 50/50

Hear it. This is the pipeline, unedited.

The agent writes pronunciation, not just text — stress for Russian, tones for Chinese, pitch accent for Japanese.

recorded from the app's own pipelines · Silero, Kokoro, VOICEVOX · offline
minimal pairs · Русский
Press play, then choose what you heard.
 
a pair closes at ten straight — try your ear

Sounds you were never trained to split

Pairs a native speaker hears as two different words can reach your ear as one — your language never needed the split. Play one, prove which you heard.

pre-made decks in every language · more coming soon

Ask what you are struggling with.

Claude reads your review history, tells you where you slip, and builds the review for exactly that.

Based on my cards, where do I mess up?
Claude
Two clusters. Words with the -ств- combination — «государство», «правительство», «устройство» — you miss those twice as often as anything else. And political vocabulary in general. I built a 20-card deck for exactly this. Review 20 cards
reads your FSRS history · local only

Connect it to Claude.

Polyglot Cards speaks MCP, so any Claude conversation can build and tend your decks. One address, pasted once.

1

In claude.ai, open Settings → Connectors and choose Add custom connector.

2

Paste this address and save:

https://ifucjgfizrpoesfwenad.supabase.co/functions/v1/mcp
3

Click Connect and sign in with your Polyglot Cards account. That login is the whole permission model — Claude only ever sees your own decks, and revoking the connector cuts it off instantly.

Then just talk: “make me a deck of the hundred most common Russian verbs” — cards, audio, and images arrive in your review queue, held for your approval.

Beige flashcard grind.
Immersion, done properly.

You will look at this a few hundred times a month. Hover anything.

Agent-built decks

Ask in one sentence; an agent writes the cards, files them, and records the audio.

Generated audio, every card

Neural voices tuned per language get stress, palatalization, and tone right — no hunting mp3 files, ever.

FSRS-6 scheduling

A memory model trained on billions of reviews — each card returns at the exact moment before you would forget it. The closest thing to downloading vocabulary into long-term storage.

Minimal-pair ear training

Pairs a native speaker hears as different can sound identical to you — the trainer plays one and your ear proves which it heard.

Card architectures

Recall, meaning recall, cloze, relearn — the same word is tested from every direction until it is yours.

Real conversations at your level

Talk with AI that stays inside the words you know — understanding everything you hear is what makes conversation practice work.

Targeted lessons

The AI reads your review history, finds where you are falling behind, and builds the lesson that catches you up.

Generated podcasts

A short listen built from the words you already know, new whenever you ask.

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The science is settled. The tools are new.

Two findings have held for decades: you acquire a language from input you almost understand, and you keep what returns on a widening schedule.

the edge of forgetting retention no review card is reviewed learned 1 day 3 days a week a month later still

Catch a word just before it slips and it rebounds higher — stronger memory, slower decay, longer gap. The scheduler finds that edge for every card; ten minutes a day holds a vocabulary of thousands.

Krashen — comprehensible input

Acquisition happens when you understand messages pitched slightly above your level. Not drilling, not grammar tables. Understanding.

Principles and Practice, 1982

Cepeda et al. — the spacing effect

Hundreds of studies pooled into one answer: spaced review beats massed review, reliably and by a lot. The gap is the mechanism.

Psychological Bulletin meta-analysis, 2006

Both grew into the same modern scheduler — FSRS, which returns every card at the last moment it still counts.