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How it works

A vocabulary accelerator built around how memory actually works

Worava is not a full language course. It is the part most learners stall on: the words. We teach them in the order that buys the most comprehension and review them on the schedule your brain needs.

Why frequency

The first 1,000 words do most of the work

In real Spanish and English, the top 1,000 most common words account for roughly 85% of everything people actually say. The top 5,000 cover around 95% of common speech. Worava orders your learning by that real-world payoff.

Top 1,000 words

~85% coverage

Of everyday speech in both languages.
Top 2,000 words

~90% coverage

Most casual conversations stay inside this band.
Top 5,000 words

~95% coverage

Comfortable reading of news, fiction, and dialogue.

Most apps shuffle words by theme or unit. Worava ranks them by how often they actually show up, so every review you finish buys you a bigger slice of comprehension.

Spaced repetition

You see each word right before you would forget it

Worava uses a proven spaced repetition algorithm (a variant of SM-2). Every card has an interval. Remember it cleanly and the interval grows. Stumble and it shrinks. The system decides what to surface today based on what you would otherwise lose tomorrow.

Intervals adapt to you
A word you nail repeatedly may not come back for months. A word you keep missing comes back tomorrow. The schedule is per-card, not per-deck.
No daily lottery
Today's queue is the set of words most at risk of being forgotten, plus a small dose of new ones from the next frequency band. No filler.
Card types

Five ways the same word gets practiced

A word is not really learned until you can recognize it, hear it, and produce it. Worava cycles a card through different formats as it matures.

Recognition
Live
See a sentence with the target word highlighted. Recall the meaning. Trains comprehension under real context.
Cloze
Live
A sentence appears with the target word removed. Type it in. Near-miss spelling is forgiven.
Listening
Live
Audio plays first. You write what you heard. Speed control helps your ear catch up to native pace.
Production
Live
You see only the meaning and type the target word. Active recall, not just recognition.
Reconstruction
Coming soon
A full sentence is scrambled into chips. Drag them back into order, or click to assemble. Output practice without a microphone.
Where we are headed

What is in flight and what is next

A short preview pulled live from the roadmap.

In progress

Live

    Next

    • Mic-based pronunciation shadowing
      Record yourself repeating a sentence and get feedback on which syllables drifted.
    • Conversation simulator
      Practice short dialogues at your level. The other side adapts to what you have learned.
    • Sentence mining from user-pasted text
      Paste an article or a song lyric and pull only the unknown words into your queue.
    • Personal decks from YouTube / articles
      Point Worava at content you actually want to understand and learn the vocabulary from it.
    • More languages beyond EN to ES
      Same frequency-first engine, applied to more language pairs.
    FAQ

    Straight answers

    No marketing fluff, no overpromises.

    Will Worava make me fluent on its own?
    No. Vocabulary is one pillar of fluency. You will still need grammar study and real conversation practice. Worava aims to close the vocabulary gap so the rest becomes much easier.
    Why no streaks?
    Streaks reward showing up. Spaced repetition rewards remembering. We optimize for the latter. You can still set a daily target, but you will not be punished with a broken counter for taking a day off.
    Which languages do you support?
    English and Spanish, in both directions, today. More languages are on the roadmap once the core engine is fully polished.
    Do I need to bring my own content?
    No. Worava curates sentences and audio around each frequency-ranked word so you can start the day you sign up. Bring-your-own-text mining is on the roadmap.
    Is there grammar instruction?
    Worava is not a grammar course. We surface short, contextual grammar references (conjugation tables, gender rules, common irregulars) right inside the card hints. Anything deeper is best paired with a dedicated grammar resource.
    How long until I see progress?
    Most users feel a real difference around 200 reviewed words. Reading coverage jumps fastest in the first 500 because those words are the densest part of the language.
    Why frequency instead of themes like food or travel?
    Theme-based decks teach you the words inside a topic. Frequency teaches you the words that appear across every topic. The math favors frequency by a wide margin in the early bands.
    What happens if I miss a few days?
    Your overdue cards stay overdue, not deleted. When you come back the queue catches up gradually so you are not buried by the backlog.