SRS, Spaced Repetition & Anki for Language Retention (with Dinglish Badges)

How to actually remember what you study. Build a sustainable SRS habit, export from Dinglish chapters, use the in-app queue and badges, and avoid the most common SRS mistakes that waste months.

You finish a chapter, feel good, and move on. Two weeks later the exact same sentences feel new again. This is the forgetting curve, not a personal failure. Passive recognition (reading or clicking “I know”) creates an illusion of mastery. Only active recall under a timer or in context moves knowledge into long-term memory that survives when you need it mid-conversation.

The solution is not “study more.” It is to review at the right moments with the right format. That is exactly what spaced repetition systems (SRS) do. Dinglish now gives you three aligned tools: the in-app SRS queue on every lesson, automatic scheduling via the Practice Review banner, and one-click Anki export of the chapter’s vocabulary + workbook examples so you can drill offline with audio.

1. Open any chapter (A1–C1, any language track). 2. Do the interactive workbook tab (gap fills, error correction, transformations). 3. At the bottom or in the review banner, tap “Add to SRS queue”. 4. The app will surface those items again at increasing intervals. 5. When you see a low-accuracy pattern or an SRS-due item, the Practice Review banner shows them together so you never waste a session on things you already own.

Badges are awarded for streaks and milestones (7-day streak, first 50 reviews, etc.). They are motivational, not the point—the point is the retrieval practice itself. Keep sessions short (8–15 items) and daily. Ten focused minutes with real sentences beats an hour of new input with zero review.