New Feature on Sapere.ai: Smart Flashcards

The Sapere.ai team is proud to announce a brand-new feature that improves your learning experience: flashcards. With them, learners can build vocabulary faster, more effectively, and at a level that suits them. Learn more about this new tool and how it fits into Sapere’s teaching philosophy.

Sapere.ai: A New Way to Learn with AI

Sapere.ai is a Quebec-based language-learning platform designed to offer personalized lessons and exercises tailored to each learner’s profile, professional field, level, goals, and pace. Unlike other AI platforms, Sapere puts artificial intelligence at the service of people: our platform is meant to be used as a duo with a teacher. This way, teachers keep their central pedagogical role, while AI acts as a powerful assistant to generate exercises, analyze learners’ answers, detect errors, and provide targeted recommendations.

With Sapere, every piece of content—whether a grammar exercise, a listening comprehension activity, or a simulated conversation—is custom-built around the learner’s real needs. This approach fosters more relevant, engaging, and lasting learning. It’s in this spirit of personalization that we developed the flashcards module.

Our New Feature: Flashcards to Learn and Review Vocabulary

Building vocabulary is a major challenge for most language learners. That’s why Sapere.ai now integrates a smart flashcard tool directly into the platform.

Why Use Flashcards?

Have you ever used flashcards to review your lessons? History, biology, foreign languages—this simple yet effective tool helps train your memory and learn precise terms. With flashcards, you can’t get around the challenge: the learner must know the exact word or definition.

Using flashcards is essential to:

• Learn more vocabulary

• Review regularly at your own pace

• Retain new words for longer

The Sapere Advantage

While adding flashcards to Sapere felt natural, our developers wanted to personalize and enhance the concept to help learners get even more out of their studies. Sapere doesn’t just provide vocabulary cards: each deck is created around the learner’s lexical field so that they learn words that are truly useful in their daily life. And the platform goes beyond simple translations: you can create flashcards to learn synonyms, antonyms, etymology, and more.

With Sapere flashcards, you can:

• Learn vocabulary in context (example sentences, audio, translation)

• Create your own vocabulary lists or use automatically generated ones

• Work with enriched cards (pronunciation, synonyms, images, professional usage, etc.)

• Practice vocabulary aligned with your goals (exams, work, conversation, travel)

Sapere’s flashcards aren’t just simple word lists: they’re AI-driven to prioritize vocabulary that matches the learner’s field of interest (medical, legal, engineering, office administration, business, etc.) and their CEFR level (A1 to C2).

The Secret of Flashcards: Spaced Repetition

To optimize memorization, Sapere.ai uses a well-established scientific method: the Spaced Repetition System (sometimes known as the Leitner System). The principle is simple: to remember information over the long term, you need to review it regularly—even if you think you know it. The goal? Review more often what you’ve mastered less, without forgetting to occasionally review what you already know.

As Wikipedia’s page on spaced repetition explains: “Newly introduced and more difficult flashcards are shown more frequently, while older and less difficult flashcards are shown less frequently in order to exploit the psychological spacing effect.”

How It Works on Sapere

Every time you answer a flashcard, Sapere asks for your confidence level:

• If the word is easy and you already know it, Sapere won’t show it again (or not for a long time).

• If you hesitate or don’t know the answer, Sapere will show it again soon.

Result: You spend more time on difficult vocabulary, strengthen long-term memory, and avoid unnecessary review sessions.

With smart flashcards, Sapere continues to build out its comprehensive learning ecosystem. This tool integrates seamlessly with other features already available on the platform, such as personalized exercise generation, progress tracking, role-play activities, and content tailored to professional realities.