Meanings, not just word strings
A word can have more than one sense. Yarsoke is designed to represent and teach those meanings separately.
An independent learning project in development
Yarsoke is an upcoming vocabulary learning platform designed to connect meaning, memory, and active expression.
From recognition to expression.
To arrange for something to happen at a later time.
The problem
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.
“I understand this word when I see it.”
“I can retrieve and use this word when I need it.”
Conceptual illustration · Recognition and production are separate learning goals.
Why Yarsoke
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.
A word can have more than one sense. Yarsoke is designed to represent and teach those meanings separately.
Understanding a word on sight and retrieving it when needed are different learning goals, with separate practice and progress.
Related or easily confused expressions can be studied together, including where their meanings and usage diverge.
The same resolved vocabulary sense can appear in several books or courses while a learner keeps one connected history.
Planned competency estimates consider answer quality, context, difficulty, and time instead of treating repeated taps as mastery.
Learners choose materials and goals. The study system then brings relevant vocabulary into one coherent flow.
The learning system
An illustrative learning journey connects understanding, choice, retrieval, and long-term memory. Real study paths can vary.
Conceptual illustration · This is not a rigid technical algorithm.
Two kinds of knowing
Planned passive and active learning tracks keep receptive understanding distinct from productive ability. Related expression knowledge has its own track, too.
Recognize a meaning, hear it, find it in context, and understand what it says.
Choose a familiar meaning for focused practice, then retrieve and use its expression.
Learn when related expressions overlap, diverge, or call for different choices.
Meaning in context
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.
The right expression depends on the intended meaning and context.
Memory & evidence
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.
How challenging is this item?
How durable might this memory be?
How likely is recall right now?
Progress that means more
The planned progress model keeps different abilities visible instead of compressing learning into one global completion percentage.
What you have encountered or assessed within a chosen study scope.
Evidence of receptive understanding for individual meanings.
Which meanings you chose for productive learning and how retrieval is developing.
How well you distinguish important vocabulary alternatives.
What may need attention to maintain knowledge over time.
The interactions and evidence behind changes in progress.
Your materials, one 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.
A planned daily session can bring together new acquisition, passive review, active recall, relation practice, and remediation in a time-aware flow.
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
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.
A multilingual, sense-aware foundation for words and expressions.
Build understanding before expecting expression.
Choose which familiar meanings deserve deeper productive practice.
Study the differences between related expressions, not just their definitions.
Binary relations and relation clusters belong to the planned core MVP.
Estimate what is understood, retrievable, and ready for review.
These models are designed for implementation and testing; no learning outcome is claimed as validated.
Learn from different materials while keeping one knowledge base.
A clearer picture than one global completion percentage.
Account-based progress designed to travel with the learner.
A full offline corpus download is outside the product scope.
AI can assist content work where it helps, with human and system checks.
No specific AI provider or external partnership is claimed.
Product architecture
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.
Conceptual illustration
Roadmap
The items below distinguish planned core scope, the next platform target, and ideas still being explored. They are not a claim of completed development.
Windows is the first planned production client.
Android is planned after Windows, with the architecture designed for learning continuity across supported devices.
Planned to follow WindowsThese directions are under consideration, not committed releases.
Anki deck import, full corpus offline downloads, bulk premium corpus export, and general-purpose learning content export are outside current product scope.
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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.
First planned release
Desktop vocabulary learning, designed for focused study.
Planned to follow Windows
Take your vocabulary learning wherever you go.
Under consideration
A potential future home for Yarsoke on iPhone.
Under consideration
A potential future desktop experience for Mac users.
Yarsoke is currently in development. Downloads are not available yet.
About
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.
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Have a question or want to get in touch? We'd like to hear from you.
founder@yarsoke.com