FAQ Vocabulary Trainer

There is a keyboard with all the necessary special symbols when you tap on the keyboard symbol. You can insert them using your mouse.

Use your pons.com user account on pons.com under Login. If you don’t have a user account, you can register using a username and password selected by yourself. Please use a valid email address in order that your password can be sent to you if you forget it at a later date.  You can get started as soon as you have activated your user account, then its practise, practise, practise …!

After you have taken a word over in the PONS Vocabulary Trainer it automatically selects the correct language direction. If, for example, you have looked up a French word in the English-French dictionary and take it over into the Vocabulary Trainer, it will automatically select the language direction English-French. Please select the language direction yourself for the entries you have added yourself. You can do this via the flag icons on the left at the top.

To delete words, select a unit. Mark the words you want to delete then tap on ‘delete’. Warning: you cannot get the words back once they have been deleted!

If you want to move words from one language direction to another, you can save them there using the option ‘move to the opposite language direction’.

There is the possibility in the PONS Vocabulary Trainer to choose which exercise you want to practise your words with. Preselected are all exercises as it makes sense to use all the different types of exercise to practise your words. If you are used to using learning cards, the exercises ‘word scanner’ and ‘vocabulary test’ are the right ones for you. If you are already advanced in a unit, you won’t be able to select the easy exercises: this way you train with the target of the ‘vocabulary test’. In order to be able to do all the exercises again, reset the learning level.

You can choose the language direction you are asked for before each training session starts.

The PONS Vocabulary Trainer remembers for each word which the most challenging type of exercise was, in which you could master a specific word. 0 – not yet practised 1 – word scanner 2 – text marker 3 - combiner 4 – letter salad 5 – vocabulary test. This provides your personal learning level. This is done for each word and always increased when you know the word in the next level. The learning level for a whole unit is calculated using the average of the learning levels for each word in that unit.

There are always 10 words from a unit in a training session. When you have finished a training session you can either stop practicing or continue practicing with the next training session. Additionally, you can choose to practise those words with a specific learning level so that you can get them closer to the ‘vocabulary test’.

This is to do with a bug that only affects some devices. If you delete the app and re-install it the problem is solved. As buying the words is connected to your PONS user account, you don’t need to buy the words again.