lingioCourses · Kurse
Drills build recall. A course gives it a shape.
Spaced repetition is very good at making a word stick and very bad at telling you what to learn next. A Lingio course is an ordered path — chapters, lessons, and tasks that someone has to mark before the next one opens.
How a course is built
A course is a sequence of chapters; each chapter holds lessons. You always know where you are and what is next.
A lecture is something to read and work through. A task is something you submit — and it is graded before you move on.
A task has to be passed, by an admin or by your classroom's instructor, before the next lesson unlocks. No clicking 'complete' on yourself.
Lessons are authored in a proper editor, with embedded resources and files, by the people who teach the classrooms.
A course tells you which words and which grammar to train this week. The scheduler still decides when you see them.
Join an open course on your own, or get added to one by the instructor running your class.
- Chapter 1 — Perfekt · Lecture: haben oder sein?
- Chapter 1 — Perfekt · Task: write six sentences in the Perfekt → graded
- Chapter 2 — Genitiv · Lecture: the case that survives in writing
- Chapter 2 — Genitiv · Task: decline ten nouns → locked until Chapter 1 passes
- Do I need a course, or are the drills enough?
- The drills are enough to build vocabulary and grammar recall. A course is what you want when you do not know what to study next, or when you need someone to tell you whether your written German is actually correct.
- Who marks the tasks?
- An admin, or the instructor who leads your classroom. A task is not self-marked, which is the whole point: it is the one place in Lingio where a person, not an algorithm, decides whether you have understood something.
- What happens if I fail a task?
- The next lesson stays locked and you resubmit. Nothing is deleted and there is no penalty beyond the delay.
- Can I take a course without joining a classroom?
- Yes. Courses and classrooms are separate. A classroom usually runs a course, but you can enrol in an open course on your own.
- Are courses free?
- Yes. There is no paid tier anywhere in Lingio.
Give the drilling a direction.
Enrol in a course, work the chapters in order, and let an instructor tell you when you have actually got it.