Everything the site does, in order, with a picture of each screen as it looks on a computer and on a phone.
An account is your name, your email and a password. It costs nothing and it is what your progress, your saved words and your lessons hang on.
Tick Keep me signed in on this device and you will not have to type the password again on that phone or that computer. It is unticked on a shared computer for a reason: anybody who picks it up afterwards is you.
Where you land. It says where you are rather than deciding what you came for.
Every word and every sentence, with Aymen saying each one out loud. Search in English, in French or in Arabic letters, and it will find a word however you spell it.
The chips at the top filter rather than jump: pick Words and sentences step aside, pick Sentences and words do. Pick neither and you see everything.
The star on any word puts it in Saved, which is your own shortlist and nobody else's.
Units, in order, from the first greeting to arguing a point. Each one opens when the one before it is done, so the order is the course rather than a suggestion.
A unit is a short written note and then the exercises: choosing, matching, writing, listening. Nothing is timed and nothing is lost if you close the page.
His voice reads every word and sentence he has recorded. The first one plays on its own as the question appears, and the speaker beside it says it again as often as you like. Getting one wrong plays the right answer back so you hear what you missed. The speaker at the top of the screen turns all of it off, and that page remembers your choice on that device.
At the end you get the count: how many right, how many wrong, and every one you missed listed with its answer and his voice beside it, so you can hear them again before deciding. Try it again starts the same lesson over on the spot. On a computer the keys 1 to 9 pick an answer and Enter checks it, so a whole lesson can be done without touching the mouse. If you try to leave in the middle, it asks first, so half a lesson is not lost to a stray tap.
Every word you meet in the course carries a small eight point star. It fills as you get that word right in lessons, and only in lessons: a word is mastered by being taught and asked, not by being flipped past on a card.
Once a word is full it starts a clock. Leave it long enough and the star keeps its shape but loses its colour, which means the word has slipped. That is what the flashcards are for. Getting a slipped word right brings it back to full and pushes the next check further away, so a word you keep bringing back stops asking so often.
Cards on words that never got there are still worth doing and still earn points, they just do not fill the star. That is the one rule to remember: the course masters, the cards maintain.
Review sits in the bar at the bottom on a phone, and beside your name on a computer, with a number on it when something is asking to be looked at. There are three ways to be asked, and they are the same words each time: Read it shows the Arabic and you pick the meaning, Say it shows the meaning and you pick the Arabic, which is harder and the one that builds speaking, and Hear it plays his voice with nothing written. Getting one wrong does not send it back to the beginning: it slips one step and comes back tomorrow.
Every word the course has asked you about is listed in one place. Open Review and press Everything in your review, or tap the count of words at full strength on the home page. The list says where each word stands and which ones are asking to be looked at, and the shelves along the top cut it down to one level at a time. The star beside a word keeps it: a kept word gets its own pile of cards, so anything you want to work on stays within reach. The same star is on the word cards in a learning note and on the list at the end of every lesson and every round, which is where you will use it most, because the moment you find out a word slipped is the moment you want to keep it.
Points come from finishing things: a lesson, a whole unit, a note read, a word reaching full strength, a word brought back. Each of those pays once, so doing a lesson again is welcome and does not pay twice. This week counts from Monday and everybody starts level, so a good week is a good week whenever you joined. Only students with a pass or lessons appear on it, and only a first name and an initial.
Lessons are booked on this site and happen on a video call.
You do not need an account to book. If you book without one you are invited to make one afterwards, with the same address, and the lesson is waiting on your page.
Everything you have, on one page, under My lessons.
Inside 12 hours of a lesson you cannot move it or call it off here. That close, the hour has been kept free for you and turned other people away. Write to Aymen and he will sort it out.
You pay Aymen directly, however the two of you arranged it: a transfer, cash, three lessons at a time or ten. Nothing is paid on this site.
What he has written down is at the bottom of your lessons page: how many lessons you have paid for, which of them are settled, and the date and amount of everything that arrived. It is there so you can check it against your own bank rather than take it on trust.
Other people learning the same thing, and Aymen in there answering. It is the place for the questions that are too small for a lesson: how do you say this, why is it that way, is this rude.
There is no group open at the moment. When there is, the way in appears here and on your own page.
The site writes to you, in your own language, only when something has happened.
That is all of them. There is no newsletter and nothing is sent to sell you anything.
Anything this page does not answer: aymen@learnwithaymen.com, or +351917547991.
