Practise exactly what is giving you trouble – for as long as you like.
In normal learning mode the algorithm decides what comes next. Over time that is the most efficient route – but sometimes you know precisely where the problem is. Ser or estar? The subjunctive everyone avoids? The reflexive verbs where you keep dropping the se?
In that moment you do not want to wait until the right card happens to fall due. You want to practise that one thing, now, until it sticks. That is what drills are for.
Each set bundles a handful of verbs with the tenses that matter for them. You tap a set and start – the app keeps dealing new cards from it until you stop.
During a drill the bar at the top shows just two numbers: how many you got right and how many you got wrong. No progress bar, no target, no end – you stop when you have had enough.
This is the key difference from normal learning mode: what you answer in a drill does not feed into the review schedule. Your intervals stay where they are, your statistics stay untouched, and there is neither XP nor streak credit.
That is deliberate. A drill is a practice ground, not a test. You can get the same verb wrong ten times in a row without it scrambling your deck later. And the other way round: twenty correct subjunctive forms in a drill will not convince the algorithm that you know the subjunctive – you still have to show that in learning mode.
Use drills as a warm-up or as emergency practice. For long-term progress, normal mode with spaced repetition remains the route that gets you furthest fastest.
Start for free – you will find the drills in the dumbbell tab at the bottom left.
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