Tracking your vocabulary progress in sayit

30-second version: Vocabulary progress shows up in a few concrete, checkable places rather than one abstract score: a running count of words you've practiced, a weekly words-practiced summary, milestone badges at 500 and 2,000 words practiced, a saved-words wishlist for anything you want to revisit, and a mistakes deck in flashcards that grows automatically from what you've actually gotten wrong.

"Am I actually making progress on vocabulary" is a hard question to answer from memory alone — you don't reliably notice slow, real gains day to day. sayit tracks several concrete signals instead of asking you to self-assess, and knowing where to look at each one is more useful than a single vague sense of "getting better."

Where the numbers live

Words practiced, overall and weekly. Every scored session counts the words in it, rolling up into a running total and a rolling seven-day summary — a plain, checkable "words practiced this week" figure rather than an abstract score.

Milestone badges. Practicing 500 words earns a "Wordsmith" badge; 2,000 earns "Word Master." These are blunt, cumulative counters — they don't measure quality, only volume — but volume is still a real signal: a consistent habit accumulates toward them, and an inconsistent one visibly doesn't.

Progress is the home for score trends and session history generally — the place to check whether your accuracy and fluency scores are moving, alongside the vocabulary-specific counters.

The saved-words wishlist

Learning includes a saved words & sounds list — a personal wishlist you can add any word (or sound) to, with a status you can toggle as you work through it, and remove once it's done. This is different from the flashcard deck: it's a lighter-weight "I want to come back to this" list, not yet in spaced review, useful for words you notice mid-passage and don't want to lose track of but aren't ready to commit to a review schedule yet.

The mistakes deck that builds itself

The most useful vocabulary-progress signal isn't a counter you check — it's the "My mistakes" deck in Flashcards, which grows automatically from every word flagged during normal practice, across every mode. You don't curate it; it curates itself from what you've actually gotten wrong, which makes its size and turnover a genuine progress indicator: a shrinking backlog of due mistake-cards, or words graduating out of the deck as they reach mastered status, is a more honest signal than any score trend, because it's built entirely from real, demonstrated errors rather than a generic list.

Reading these signals together

None of these numbers alone tells the full story, but together they cover the real question from different angles:

• Words-practiced counters answer "am I putting in the volume."
• The mistakes deck's size and turnover answer "is what I'm getting wrong shrinking over time."
• Score trends in Progress answer "is my actual pronunciation and fluency improving," which volume alone doesn't guarantee.

A learner who's racking up words-practiced without the mistakes deck shrinking is covering ground without necessarily fixing anything — worth noticing, and worth slowing down to actually clear the review queue rather than only adding to it.

A weekly check-in routine

Once a week, look at three things: your words-practiced total for the week, how many cards are due versus mastered in flashcards, and your score trend in Progress. Fifteen seconds, and a far more concrete read on real progress than the feeling of "did I study enough this week."

Try it: open Learning and check your saved words list, then open Flashcards and see how many mistake-cards are currently due.