Alongside your course, for a move abroad, or simply because you have been meaning to for years. No lessons: you practise words, forms and sentences, and ripiti asks them again just before you forget them.
Free, no account. Your progress stays on your device.
From memory. Recognising a word is not knowing it. Only when you can say or write it from memory is it yours. That is why you type every answer in ripiti: the Dutch word, the right conjugation. No multiple choice, nothing to click.
By ear. Being able to write a word does not mean you understand it when someone says it. That is why you also hear everything you learn without text: the Dutch word, and you say what it means. Conjugations you hear in a sentence and write down, accents and all.
Repeat. Not ten times in a row, but a few times at the right moment: just before you lose it again. If you still know it, the gap gets longer. That is called spaced repetition, and there is a reason repeating is in the name: ripiti.
Every word and every conjugation is a card, and every card climbs a staircase. That decides when the card comes back.
Every new card begins at the bottom, at the start.
Typed correctly: one step up.
The higher the step, the longer the card stays away: 1 day, 3 days, 7 days … up to 240 days. Only then can you climb further.
Wrong: back to the start. The card comes up again later in the same round; in a review round, once more at the end.
From step 2 a card also comes back by ear from the next day, with a staircase of its own.
From step 3 a card counts as mastered.
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Words: first practise from English into Dutch
You always see the word in an example sentence with a gap, so in context.
2412 words, each with three example sentences, with translation and pronunciation.
Wrong? Then the word comes back four cards later (in a review, once more at the end), and starts again at the bottom of the staircase.
Play and find out: type what fits in the sentence.
give the Dutch
house
____ ____ staat midden in het dorp.
het huis
Hethuis staat midden in het dorp.
The house stands in the middle of the village.
give the Dutch
big
Dat huis aan het meer is ____.
groot
Dat huis aan het meer is groot.
That house by the lake is big.
give the Dutch
year
____ ____ begint met veel goede plannen.
het jaar
Hetjaar begint met veel goede plannen.
The year starts with many good plans.
give the Dutch
thank you
____ ____ ____ voor het mooie cadeau.
dank je wel / bedankt
Dankjewel voor het mooie cadeau.
Thank you for the lovely gift.
Listen and find out: hear the word, think of the meaning and judge yourself.
You hear the word, without text. Think of the meaning, tap show and judge yourself: right or wrong. Prefer typing? You can, under ⚙.
You can always listen again, slower too.
A word comes back by ear once it reaches step 2 under Words, from the next day, as part of Today.
In the order you meet them, in sets of ten. Every word has its own page with meaning, sentences and conjugation.
Conjugations: 50 verbs, 5 tenses, from A1 to A2
Conjugate and find out: type the form that fits in the sentence.
conjugation · lopen · simple past
I used to walk a loop through the park every morning.
Ik ____ elke ochtend een rondje door het park.
liep
Ik liep elke ochtend een rondje door het park.
I used to walk a loop through the park every morning.
You get an English sentence and the same sentence in Dutch with a gap; you type only the form. Where a tense follows one pattern, you practise the pattern rather than every verb separately: the whole present tense is 18 cards. Irregular forms get their own card and are shown in gold.