Because a break and especially a night’s sleep clears short-term memory, you achieve the best learning results by practicing briefly but often. Practicing for half an hour daily for a week will give you much better results than practicing for two hours twice a week.

If you don’t know the answer, proceed as follows:

1. Guess
If something suitable comes to mind, write it in the answer field. Learning is largely subconscious. Give your subconscious space and write what comes to mind without too much criticism. After just a few repetitions, you will learn to write even a difficult word correctly.

2. Listen
If nothing suitable comes to mind, listen to the word with the listening button. In this way, you learn both to listen to and to write the language you are studying, which quickly strengthens your language skills.

3. Look
If you answer incorrectly, the program will show you the correct answer. You can also listen to the correct answer again if you like.

Also make sure in WordDive’s settings that translations are turned on.

Repetition is essential for permanent learning. You learn much more by listening to or looking at the answer after a few seconds than by thinking for a long time. So take a relaxed attitude and just go for it.

Don’t worry: you cannot answer everything correctly the first time, nor is that the purpose. The main goal of the first repetitions is to leave a memory trace of the word in your mind. Soon you will notice that the picture brings the word to mind directly in the target language, without going through your native language. This way, you learn to think and act directly in the target language, which is the natural way to learn.

Even if you don’t understand everything, listen and repeat the model pronunciations. Keeping up with listening and speaking reinforces memory traces and speeds up learning.

Remember that studying languages is not necessarily most effective when you are tired. Intensive study right before bedtime can also make it harder to fall asleep.