How do study settings customize how flashcards test your skills?
Tomaru lets you customize how flashcards test your skills—from reverse testing and cloze deletion to custom neural voices—without altering your underlying FSRS-6 review schedule.
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Language learners do not all need the same outcome from a word. For one learner, recognizing a word's meaning on sight is the entire goal—they are reading literature or news, and passive recognition is enough. Another learner needs to produce the word from a definition because they are writing or speaking. Someone else may focus primarily on listening comprehension, while another is not satisfied until they can drop the word into a sentence seamlessly.
These represent fundamentally different cognitive skills. A flashcard that tests only one direction or format will train only that specific skill.
The essential question a study app must address is not merely what information a card contains, but which specific skill the review asks you to exercise. In Tomaru, that choice is managed through global study settings rather than requiring you to construct custom card templates or install third-party plugins.
How can flashcards test different language skills?
By default, flashcards present the target word on the front and display its definition on the back. Beyond this standard word-to-meaning direction, Tomaru offers three alternative testing modes. Selecting one of these modes focuses your review on a specific skill, and choosing one automatically turns the other two off:
- Reverse front and back: Displays the meaning on the front and requires you to produce the target word on the back. This trains active production rather than passive recognition—a harder and far more valuable skill for speaking and writing.
- Pronunciation only: Shows the written reading or phonetic transcription alone on the front. For logographic or non-Latin scripts like Japanese and Chinese, this separates knowing the sound of a word from recognizing its written character, preventing you from conflating visual recognition with phonetic recall.
- Example cloze: Blanks out the target word inside its own example sentence, asking you to recall the correct term based on surrounding context. This provides the closest approximation to real-world usage on a flashcard.
In systems built on rigid card templates, changing how a card tests you often requires modifying code, managing template variations, or installing external add-ons. In Tomaru, these testing modes are standard, free study settings that can be toggled whenever your learning goals change.
What settings control card behavior and display?
You can adjust visual display, audio playback, and interaction behaviors to fit your exact study preferences:
| Setting Category | Available Adjustments |
|---|---|
| Audio Playback | Independent controls to automatically play audio when the front appears, when the back appears, or both. |
| Badges & Labels | Toggle visibility for the pronunciation badge and part-of-speech badge, or display parts of speech in your native explanation language instead of English. |
| Visual Interface | Adjust card text size, show or hide review timings, or display a back image as the full card background. |
| Gestures & Feedback | Flip cards horizontally or vertically (with swipe gestures following your selected orientation) and adjust the intensity of haptic feedback when rating cards. |
Why does selecting different voice options matter?
Listening rehearsal shapes auditory recognition. Whichever voice model you listen to during review becomes the vocal cadence, accent, and pitch contour your ear learns to identify.
Tomaru provides dedicated neural voice options tailored to specific language needs:
- English: Default voice, gentle female voice, British male voice, and British female voice.
- Japanese: Default voice and an additional male voice.
- Korean: Default voice and an additional female voice.
Selecting a specific voice allows you to train your ear on accents and speech patterns you expect to encounter in real life, making listening practice far more relevant to your personal communication goals.
Do study settings affect your review schedule?
Adjusting testing modes, visual displays, or audio voices does not alter your underlying review schedule. Whichever way you configure your study settings, the central FSRS-6 algorithm calculates memory stability and review intervals identically.
What these settings change is which skill the review exercises—ensuring your daily study routine reflects your personal learning priorities rather than an unyielding default format.
All study settings and testing modes are free for all users. To learn more about subscription coverage, see is Tomaru free. To explore card structure details, read anatomy of a card, or see how spaced repetition works for scheduling details.
Related questions
How do I switch a card from testing recognition to testing production?
You can enable the reverse front and back setting in your study preferences, which displays the definition on the front and asks you to recall the target word.
Does changing the testing mode reset my FSRS-6 memory history?
No. Changing how a card is displayed or tested modifies the presentation style without altering your accumulated review history or FSRS-6 interval calculations.
Are voice selections available on free accounts?
Yes. Selecting alternative voice models for English, Japanese, and Korean is included as part of the core study features available to all users.
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