The word for “word” in eleven languages: كلمة言葉단어शब्द palabramotWortpalavra parola词word

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FlashRun’s Music sheet: a Favorite Songs playlist picked for Reviews, with All Library Songs and None beside it; Shuffle on; Music Breaks set to play out the current track between blocks of cards. — Music · Playlist, shuffle, breaks

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Years of cards in Anki? Import the .apkg and they come into FlashRun as they are, pictures included. A .csv file or a plain list of words works the same way.

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Scheduled by FSRS, the open-source algorithm Anki users already trust.

Games built from your own words
Your Week: your reviews, study days and streak
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An Audio Practice session: the Spanish phrase ¿cuánto cuesta?, how much does it cost?, above the playback controls and large Not Known and Known buttons. — Audio · Practice

More than a front and a back.

Arabic is the first language with advanced tools built into FlashRun. Arabic words grow from three-letter roots, so Get Root finds a word’s root, and Same Root gathers every word in your library built on it. One tap opens the root in the Arabic Almanac, with Hans Wehr and other classic dictionaries.

Spanish words open in the RAE dictionary. English words show their etymology from Etymonline. Any card can get a mnemonic image, drawn on your iPhone with Image Playground.

FlashRun’s word detail for the Arabic word مكتبة, library, with its root ك ت ب filled in, a link to look the root up, and Same root open on two more words from it: كاتب, writer, and كتاب, book. — مكتبة · library
root ك ت ب

FlashRun’s word detail for the Spanish word ojalá, hopefully or if only, opened from the Library, with a row that opens the word in the RAE dictionary. — ojalá, from Arabic · Look up on RAE

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Create with AI’s setup screen: the topic Ordering at a café in Paris, French as the language, level B1 Intermediate, twenty cards, example sentences on, and a Generate Deck button. — Create with AI · Setup

Create with AI writing an At the Station deck in Japanese: six of twenty cards written so far, including 切符, ticket, and 駅, station. — Create with AI

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Why I built it

Back in high school one afternoon at cross-country practice, I wished for some way to study flashcards while on a run. My teammates and I talked about how cool and time-saving it would be if we could do our homework and the workout at the same time. I’ve thought about that idea for two decades.

And during that time, I’ve studied Spanish, Arabic, Catalan, and Italian to varying degrees of fluency. In all of these languages, I wish I knew more words to describe the world around me, to ask interesting questions, to understand locals while traveling. My vocab deficit often came down to not putting in enough time studying. I liked the studying. I just wasn’t consistent about finding the time.

If only an app for this existed. It didn’t, but this year I stopped saying “if only,” and I built FlashRun. Now I’m crushing dozens of flashcards every day while I run around the lake, eyes on the shoreline, not the screen. I can’t wait to share FlashRun and see where language lovers take it.

Charlie

Words from this page, in one library.

كاتبkātib · writerAR مكتبةmaktaba · libraryAR mañanatomorrowES escucharto listenES musicamusicIT saudadelongingPT ありがとうarigatō · thank youJA 册cè · bookZH 사랑sarang · loveKO 끄덕kkeudeok · nodKO पानीpānī · waterHI भाषाbhāṣā · languageHI كتابkitāb · bookAR 車chē · carZH حلمḥulm · dreamAR 電車densha · trainJA cittàcityIT 친구chingu · friendKO किताबkitāb · bookHI StraßestreetDE 朋友péngyou · friendZH fenêtrewindowFR tarjetacardES

FlashRun’s word list, All Decks, holding the same words.

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