--- title: "30 ways to be asked about your own words · NoaLingua" description: "Twenty-six question types and four challenge formats, every one generated from the sentences and words you actually saved — not a generic word list." url: "https://noalingua.com/features/practice-games/" language: "en" modified: "2026-08-21" license: "CC BY 4.0 — https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" --- Feature # NoaLingua practice games Thirty practice formats, all built from your own material The Learn tab holds thirty items: twenty-six question types across meaning, production, grammar and context, plus four challenge formats. Every question is generated from your own material — your sentences, your other saved words, forms from your downloaded grammar pack — so nothing asks about vocabulary you never met. ![The Learn tab with the games drawer open showing selectable game modes, the saved word list with status badges, and a grammar question being answered on the right.]() *Thirty question types over your own saved words, mixed automatically, scheduled so they come back before you forget them.* Fit ## Who Practice games is for Choose it for the workflow it actually supports, not for a promise the product does not make. ### Best for - Learners who want several retrieval formats built from their own saved words and sentences. - People who like switching weak exercise types off instead of accepting one fixed study routine. ### Not the right fit for - Anyone expecting a complete language course, live tutoring or exercises unrelated to their saved material. - Learners who only want classic front-and-back flashcards; a simpler review tool may suit them better. First-hand evidence ## What the NoaLingua evidence proves Product source and version reviewed 10 September 2026 · version 0.2.36 **Observed:** The capture shows selectable exercise types and a grammar prompt generated from material the learner saved. **Evidence boundary:** It demonstrates the exercise interface, not a complete curriculum or an independent measure of learning outcomes. - **Thirty question types** The games drawer with each type switchable, and a grammar question built from a sentence you actually met. These are plain product captures, taken before the extension was renamed. The only altered pixels are the product's own name in the corner, repainted to [NoaLingua](https://noalingua.com/download/); the exact patches are documented in the repository screenshot script and come out when the captures are re-cut. How to use it ## How to use Practice games in NoaLingua - 1 ### Open Learn A session starts by itself. The button’s label tells you what it is about to do. - 2 ### Answer with 1–4, continue with Enter The reminder stays at the bottom of the page the whole time. - 3 ### Narrow the mix if you want to The games drawer groups everything into five families. Empty selection means all games. Each family has its own all/none, so “only grammar today” is one click rather than twenty-four. - 4 ### Set a time budget Any length, 2, 5 or 10 minutes. The deck decides how many cards go in; the clock decides when it ends. Mechanism ## Why NoaLingua behaves this way ### How a game is chosen for a word Only games you selected are considered. Each is then asked whether it can ask about this particular word: a multiple-choice format needs at least one genuinely plausible wrong answer from your own deck, some need a word sharing a root, some need a rival translation, some need a sentence with real captured audio. The most specific question that can be assembled wins. It also remembers which game asked that word last — across sessions, not only within one — so the same format does not come round twice in a row. ### Why Recall exists Recall — see the word, remember, check yourself — is chosen last, when nothing sharper can be built. It exists so that a session containing a single word is still a real session, rather than an error message about not having enough material. ### The five families Meaning: ten formats, from recognising a translation among your own words to picking which of several senses your sentence used. Producing the word: four, including writing it from the meaning alone. Grammar: six, covering gender, form, tense, prepositions and finding the deliberate mistake. In context: five, built on the sentences you saved. Challenges: four session shapes rather than question types — a one-minute speed round, survival until the first mistake, a boss round of only the words that have given you trouble, and a daily set derived from the date rather than at random. ## Common questions about NoaLingua Are the questions generated or pre-written? Generated from your own deck. The wrong answers in a multiple-choice question are your other saved words, which is what makes them plausible — and what makes the question worth answering. Is there a guided course if my deck is empty? Yes. An A1–C1 course built from frequency bands: 300 words at A1 in sentences up to seven words, rising to no length limit at C1. A lesson is eight words with a short reading text built from real bilingual sentences, and it says plainly that these are frequency bands with familiar labels rather than somebody else’s syllabus. Does a broken streak lose my progress? The streak counts on your first answer rather than a finished session, and you get two rest days in any rolling 30-day window — and it tells you that explicitly, because a hidden forgiveness mechanism just looks like a bug. ## More NoaLingua features to read next [Feature Vocabulary review Two schedules, one deck, source context on every card, and export that is always free.](https://noalingua.com/features/vocabulary-review/)[Feature Shadowing & Say It Back Whole-video shadowing, single-sentence drilling, and scored pronunciation feedback.](https://noalingua.com/features/shadowing/)[Feature The word card Contextual meaning, lemma resolution, conjugation tables, IPA and real examples.](https://noalingua.com/features/word-lookup/) ## Practice games 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](https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/ocimolffhgpeeoifjpjhgikgfbnmlkdh) 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.](https://noalingua.com/pricing/) - [No account, no email Nothing to sign up for and nothing to cancel. There is no login screen at all.](https://noalingua.com/privacy/) - [Two dropdowns to set up Pick what you are learning and what you want translations in. That is the whole setup.](https://noalingua.com/getting-started/) - [Your words stay yours Export to Anki, CSV, a spreadsheet or a full JSON profile — free on every plan.](https://noalingua.com/docs/export-import/) [What happens after you install](https://noalingua.com/getting-started/) · [Pricing](https://noalingua.com/pricing/) · [What it cannot do](https://noalingua.com/limits/)