NoaLingua Feature
A guided course from A1 to C1, built from frequency
Frequency bands with familiar labels — and it says so rather than implying a syllabus
Five levels from A1 to C1, built out of frequency bands rather than someone else's syllabus — and the product says so plainly. A lesson is eight words, a short bilingual passage made of real corpus sentences, and a button that turns those words into cards and starts a session on them.
Fit
Who Guided course is for
Choose it for the workflow it actually supports, not for a promise the product does not make.
Best for
- Beginners with too little saved material for recommendations from their own watching to mean much.
- Learners who want the commonest words first and are happy to be told that is what a level is.
Not the right fit for
- Anyone needing a real syllabus, grammar progression or exam preparation towards a CEFR certificate.
- Languages whose frequency list and bilingual corpus packs do not exist — coverage differs and is published.
How to use it
How to use Guided course in NoaLingua
- 1
Open Learn → My material → Guided course
It sits with the other five cards: Words, Expressions, Sentences, Unique words and Courses. Courses also holds orders built from your own material rather than from frequency.
- 2
Pick the level that matches you
A1 is the 300 commonest words in sentences up to seven words long. A2 is 700, up to ten. B1 is the full 1,500, up to fourteen. B2 is the same 1,500 in longer sentences with real subordination. C1 removes the length limit, and the words above 1,500 are whatever you meet.
- 3
Work through a lesson
Eight words as chips — click any of them for the full word card. Under them, a short passage assembled from real bilingual sentences in the corpus already downloaded, with every word clickable.
- 4
Press "Learn these and be asked"
The eight words become real cards and a session starts on them immediately. From that point they are ordinary deck members: they come back on the schedule, and the practice formats draw on them like anything else.
Mechanism
Why NoaLingua behaves this way
Why B1 and B2 share a word list
B1 and B2 are both the same 1,500 words. What changes is the sentence: B1 caps them at fourteen words, B2 removes that cap and lets real subordination in. That reflects something true about the plateau — the step from B1 to B2 is much less about new vocabulary than about handling sentences that carry more than one clause.
Each level also states what you can do at the end of it in plain terms — follow a simple conversation about yourself, get through everyday obligations, follow the main thread of ordinary speech on a familiar topic — rather than only naming a letter and a number.
Why it says it is frequency bands
CEFR levels are descriptions of what somebody can do, defined by a Council of Europe framework, and nobody can convert them into a word list without making choices. Products that present a frequency list as a CEFR course are quietly asserting an equivalence they have not established.
So this says what it is: frequency ranges with familiar labels attached, because the labels are how people navigate. The reading passages are real sentences from a downloaded bilingual corpus rather than sentences written to demonstrate a word, which is the other place courses usually cheat.
How it relates to learning from what you watch
The course answers "what is worth knowing regardless of what I watch". "Learn these next" in Settings → Study answers "what would open up the most of what I already watch". Early on the first is more useful, because there is not enough material for the second to rank against.
They feed one deck. A word learnt in a lesson and the same word met later in a video are the same card, with the video encounter added to its history rather than creating a duplicate.
Common questions about NoaLingua
How long is a lesson?
Eight words, plus a short passage. The session that follows can be capped with the Learn header's budget control — any length, two minutes, five or ten.
Can I skip ahead?
Yes. Each level has its own progress bar, and the Start button only says Start if you genuinely have not begun — otherwise it offers to continue. Previous and next lesson move you around freely.
Are the reading passages generated?
No. They are assembled from real bilingual sentence pairs in the corpus that is already downloaded, which is the same source the word card's examples come from.
What is the difference from Courses?
Guided course is the frequency ladder. Courses also holds orders built out of your own saved material, which is the same mechanism pointed at what you have actually met.
More NoaLingua features to read next
Guided course is on the free plan. So is everything else.
Free, with every feature. No account, nothing to cancel, and your deck stays on your machine.
Add to Chrome — Free Add to Chrome Opens the Chrome Web Store listing NoaLingua — beyond dual subs: video, web, PDF — free, no account, Chrome 138 or newer.- Free, and not a trial Every feature on the free plan — both PDF modes, shadowing, all 30 practice formats.
- No account, no email Nothing to sign up for and nothing to cancel. There is no login screen at all.
- Two dropdowns to set up Pick what you are learning and what you want translations in. That is the whole setup.
- Your words stay yours Export to Anki, CSV, a spreadsheet or a full JSON profile — free on every plan.