How It Works

10 Words is built around one idea: learn a few words at a time, in real sentences, and review them at exactly the right moment so they stick.

Spaced Repetition, Backed by Science

10 Words uses FSRS (Free Spaced Repetition Scheduler) — a smart, open-source method for helping you remember words.

Here's the idea: every word you learn starts to fade from memory over time. FSRS keeps track of that, and shows you each word right when you're about to forget it — not too early, not too late.

Where Our Sentences Come From

Many of the sentences and translations in 10 Words come from Tatoeba (tatoeba.org), a free database of example sentences built by volunteers. Tatoeba's sentence data is released under the Creative Commons Attribution license (CC-BY 2.0 FR).

Quality & Reporting

We filter sentences carefully to remove errors and low-quality content. Even so, with a database this large, occasional errors can slip through.

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That's the whole method

Ten words at a time, learned in context, remembered with spaced repetition.

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