An independent learning project in development

Don't just recognize words.
Learn to use them.

Yarsoke is an upcoming vocabulary learning platform designed to connect meaning, memory, and active expression.

From recognition to expression.

Conceptual illustrationVocabulary note / 01
An expressionpostpone/pəˈspəʊn/

To arrange for something to happen at a later time.

RecognizeI know what it means.
DistinguishI know when to choose it.
UseI can bring it to mind.
Meaning memory expression

The problem

Knowing a word is one thing. Using it is another.

You might recognize a word in a book and still struggle to retrieve it in conversation. Vocabulary knowledge has more than one dimension, and practice should reflect that.

01 / Recognition
postponeto move an event to a later time

“I understand this word when I see it.”

02 / Production
We decided to postpone the meeting.

“I can retrieve and use this word when I need it.”

Conceptual illustration · Recognition and production are separate learning goals.

Why Yarsoke

A different approach to vocabulary.

Yarsoke is being designed around a connected view of meaning, practice, and progress. These are design priorities, not claims that other learning products lack these ideas.

01

Meanings, not just word strings

A word can have more than one sense. Yarsoke is designed to represent and teach those meanings separately.

02

Recognition and production

Understanding a word on sight and retrieving it when needed are different learning goals, with separate practice and progress.

03

Relationships between expressions

Related or easily confused expressions can be studied together, including where their meanings and usage diverge.

04

One identity across sources

The same resolved vocabulary sense can appear in several books or courses while a learner keeps one connected history.

05

Evidence over review counts

Planned competency estimates consider answer quality, context, difficulty, and time instead of treating repeated taps as mastery.

06

A personal learning scope

Learners choose materials and goals. The study system then brings relevant vocabulary into one coherent flow.

The learning system

From first encounter to natural expression.

An illustrative learning journey connects understanding, choice, retrieval, and long-term memory. Real study paths can vary.

  1. 01Discover
  2. 02Understand
  3. 03Recognize
  4. 04Distinguish
  5. 05Retrieve
  6. 06Use
  7. 07Retain

Conceptual illustration · This is not a rigid technical algorithm.

Two kinds of knowing

Build understanding before expecting expression.

Planned passive and active learning tracks keep receptive understanding distinct from productive ability. Related expression knowledge has its own track, too.

P

Passive sense

Recognize a meaning, hear it, find it in context, and understand what it says.

Understanding
A

Active sense

Choose a familiar meaning for focused practice, then retrieve and use its expression.

Expression
R

Active relations

Learn when related expressions overlap, diverge, or call for different choices.

Distinction

Meaning in context

Learn the differences that dictionaries alone cannot teach.

Words are not isolated cards. Yarsoke plans to connect meanings, examples, and related expressions, then make important distinctions learnable and reviewable.

Binary relations and relation clusters are part of the planned core MVP, alongside guides that explain relevant usage boundaries.

Conceptual illustration
expressiondelaythe train was delayed
expressionpostponewe postponed the meeting

The right expression depends on the intended meaning and context.

Memory & evidence

A learning system that adapts to what you actually know.

The planned engine combines memory scheduling with competency estimates. An answer is evidence, not just a point added to a score.

Hints, difficulty, repeated attempts, time since study, and evidence diversity can shape how progress is interpreted. These models are planned for implementation and testing; no measured learning benefit is claimed yet.

A study note on memory
One review tells part of the story.
Difficulty

How challenging is this item?

Stability

How durable might this memory be?

Retrievability

How likely is recall right now?

FSRS-6 & evidence-aware competency, planned

Progress that means more

Track what you understand, remember, and can actually use.

The planned progress model keeps different abilities visible instead of compressing learning into one global completion percentage.

Coverage

What you have encountered or assessed within a chosen study scope.

Passive readiness

Evidence of receptive understanding for individual meanings.

Active adoption & competency

Which meanings you chose for productive learning and how retrieval is developing.

Relation knowledge

How well you distinguish important vocabulary alternatives.

Review health

What may need attention to maintain knowledge over time.

Learning history

The interactions and evidence behind changes in progress.

Your materials, one knowledge base

Learn from different sources. Keep one connected knowledge base.

A word may appear in a course, a book, and an exam list. When those sources point to the same resolved meaning, progress should follow the learner's knowledge.

Book / ChapterCourse / ModuleExam / Topic
One resolved sensepostponeShared learning identity
One history follows your knowledge.

One learning flow. Multiple ways to practice.

A planned daily session can bring together new acquisition, passive review, active recall, relation practice, and remediation in a time-aware flow.

Daily StudyLearn NewReview OnlyActive PracticeNew Only

Account-based progress and bounded offline study are planned. Cached interactions can sync after a connection returns; the full vocabulary corpus is not offered as an offline download.

Feature explorer

A connected way to know a word.

Explore the capabilities in Yarsoke's product vision. Core MVP plans and later explorations are identified inside each topic.

These are planned capabilities, not features currently available to download.

01Vocabulary intelligence

A multilingual, sense-aware foundation for words and expressions.

  • Lexical items can include single words, multiword expressions, fixed phrases, and patterns with variable parts.
  • Individual meanings have their own examples, relationships, and learning progress.
  • Word forms, parts of speech, pronunciation variants, IPA, and audio can be represented when content is available.
  • An internal TMRND usage model organizes tone, mode, register, nuance, and dialect or language variety.
  • A semantic knowledge graph connects senses, concepts, related expressions, and contextual examples.
  • Content curation considers duplicate detection, sense disambiguation, provenance, and validation.
  • The shared architecture supports multiple languages, while a first release may focus on one language.
02Passive learning

Build understanding before expecting expression.

  • Acquisition introduces a lexical cue, meaning, pronunciation when available, and a useful example.
  • A quick placement check can recognize prior familiarity without treating self-report as proven mastery.
  • Meaning recognition, listening recognition, sense recognition, and context comprehension provide varied evidence.
  • Passive competency tracks understanding of a particular meaning.
  • Relearning and remediation support recovery when evidence suggests forgetting.
03Active production

Choose which familiar meanings deserve deeper productive practice.

  • Learners can move eligible meanings into an Active Sense Pool.
  • Controlled recall asks for a word or expression from a meaning cue.
  • Guided production asks for an expression in a communication situation or sentence frame.
  • Active competency and active review scheduling are separate from passive recognition.
  • A path toward writing and speaking assessment is being explored for later stages, outside the core MVP.
04Semantic relationships

Study the differences between related expressions, not just their definitions.

  • Binary relations connect related senses and concepts.
  • Relation guides explain meaningful usage boundaries and distinctions.
  • Controlled distinction and contextual discrimination practice choosing the right expression.
  • Relation clusters group multiple related senses with contrast guides.
  • Relation understanding has its own competency and scheduled review.

Binary relations and relation clusters belong to the planned core MVP.

05Memory and assessment

Estimate what is understood, retrievable, and ready for review.

  • FSRS-6 is planned for memory scheduling using difficulty, stability, and retrievability.
  • An IRT-like proficiency model is planned to consider learner ability and interaction difficulty.
  • Passive, active, and relation competency remain separate modeled estimates.
  • Evidence may account for hints, repeated attempts, elapsed time, diversity, and uncertainty.
  • Repeated easy answers in one session should not imply lasting mastery.
  • Interaction selection and review timing can adapt to session goals and current knowledge.

These models are designed for implementation and testing; no learning outcome is claimed as validated.

06Curriculum and study

Learn from different materials while keeping one knowledge base.

  • A learning library can organize books, courses, exam frameworks, topics, and other materials.
  • Flexible structures can represent book chapters, course modules, or exam topics.
  • Study plans resolve chosen materials into a practical learning scope.
  • Preview and intake decisions can include Learn, I Know, and Skip.
  • Vocabulary search is planned for exact and prefix lookup, word forms, and basic typo assistance.
  • Daily Study, Learn New, Review Only, Active Practice, and New Only are planned study modes.
  • Sessions can mix acquisition, passive, active, relation, and remediation work with flexible new/review order.
  • Time-aware sessions and progressive disclosure make practice manageable.
07Progress and personalization

A clearer picture than one global completion percentage.

  • Coverage shows which parts of a chosen scope have been encountered or assessed.
  • Passive readiness, active adoption, active competency, and relation knowledge are separate views.
  • Review health reflects the maintenance needs of knowledge over time.
  • Learning history keeps the evidence behind progress.
  • Study planning can consider available time, review backlog, retention preferences, and target balance.
08Sync and offline study

Account-based progress designed to travel with the learner.

  • Learning identity and progress are planned to persist in an account, beyond one installation or textbook.
  • Windows is the first planned production client; Android is the next target.
  • Previously cached study material can support bounded offline sessions.
  • Offline study events can synchronize when a connection returns.
  • The canonical vocabulary corpus remains server-controlled, with a protected, bounded cache.

A full offline corpus download is outside the product scope.

09AI and future development

AI can assist content work where it helps, with human and system checks.

  • AI may help draft examples, exercise questions, plausible distractors, relation explanations, and linguistic metadata.
  • Generated content must pass suitable validation before becoming authoritative scored material.
  • The core MVP learning loop is not dependent on a runtime language model.
  • Future exploration may include contextual explanation, writing feedback, and speaking practice.
  • Dedicated grammar learning, additional language corpora, and personal content authoring are later possibilities.

No specific AI provider or external partnership is claimed.

Product architecture

A structured vocabulary knowledge model.

The architecture is designed to connect lexical items, individual meanings, relationships, learning targets, competency evidence, and review timing.

This diagram describes the product vision. It is not a screenshot of a completed application or a public internal schema.

01Lexical itemWord or expression
02Sense & contextMeaning, example, usage
03Learning targetPassive · active · relation
04Evidence & memoryCompetency and review timing

Conceptual illustration

Roadmap

The vision is broad. The release plan is specific.

The items below distinguish planned core scope, the next platform target, and ideas still being explored. They are not a claim of completed development.

01 / Planned core MVP

Build the learning loop.

Windows is the first planned production client.

  • Multilingual vocabulary architecture with words, expressions, meanings, and relationships
  • Vocabulary search, curriculum scope, placement, and acquisition
  • Passive learning, active sense learning, and relation cluster learning
  • FSRS-6 scheduling, competency estimation, and evidence-aware assessment
  • Daily study orchestration and multidimensional progress
  • Account-based cloud sync and protected bounded offline study
  • Internal content curation tools and a Windows desktop client
02 / Next platform target

Bring it to Android.

Android is planned after Windows, with the architecture designed for learning continuity across supported devices.

Planned to follow Windows
03 / Future exploration

Keep room to grow.

These directions are under consideration, not committed releases.

  • Weekly writing assessment
  • Guided speaking and pronunciation assessment
  • Dedicated grammar learning
  • Expanded language coverage
  • Richer AI assistance
  • Personal content authoring and community features
  • Potential web, iOS, and macOS clients
Product boundaries

Anki deck import, full corpus offline downloads, bulk premium corpus export, and general-purpose learning content export are outside current product scope.

Download

Yarsoke, wherever you learn.

We're building Yarsoke for a more connected vocabulary learning experience. Our first release is planned for Windows, with Android to follow. Additional platforms are being explored.

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Windows

First planned release

Desktop vocabulary learning, designed for focused study.

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Android

Planned to follow Windows

Take your vocabulary learning wherever you go.

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iOS

Under consideration

A potential future home for Yarsoke on iPhone.

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macOS

Under consideration

A potential future desktop experience for Mac users.

Yarsoke is currently in development. Downloads are not available yet.

About

Built with care, still in the making.

Yarsoke is an independently developed educational software project. Its aim is to make vocabulary learning more connected, from recognizing a meaning to expressing an idea.

We're developing the product and its content architecture. The website shares the vision and planned scope while the software is still being built.

Coming Soon

A more connected way to learn vocabulary is on its way.

Have a question or want to get in touch? We'd like to hear from you.

founder@yarsoke.com