New learners now get a short welcome before creating an account: what the app does, two quick questions and a plan built from the answers. The app now keeps itself up to date. Fixes and improvements download in the background and take effect the next time you open the app, so you get them without waiting for an App Store update. An update never interrupts a lesson. Finishing a lesson now keeps the progress of flashcards you had already studied. Written answers accept a close spelling of a person's name, and both forms of "is" in more places. Screen readers announce whether a flashcard answer was right and move focus to each new card. Content fixes to cards and lesson pages reported by learners.

Lessons now pick up where you left off, and the slider works again. Coming back to a lesson you had started could leave the timer stuck while the audio played from the beginning, and dragging the slider or skipping stopped working. That is fixed for streamed lessons too, and a drag now jumps once, when you let go. New in reviews: Hide this card. When a word comes up that you don't need, hide it right from the review screen. It stops coming up, keeps its progress, and you can bring it back any time from My Cards, under Removed.

Downloaded lessons now pick up where you left off. Coming back to a downloaded lesson could start it from the beginning while the timer stood still, and the slider and skip buttons stopped working. That is fixed. Cards you once got wrong no longer get stuck. Such a card could keep coming back every day, however often you answered it right. Now it moves on to longer gaps like any other card. Written answers with two parts, like "The girl is big and the boy is big", now accept the short form of "is" in both parts, not just the last one. Content fixes to audio-course cards and lesson pages reported by learners.

Your streak, daily goal and due reviews now follow your own local day. The app used to count days in UTC, so learners in the Americas saw their day roll over in the afternoon. If your phone's time zone is not the one you study in, pick one under Settings, Profile, Time zone. Reviews are due by calendar day. A card scheduled for tomorrow is ready from midnight, not from the exact hour you last reviewed it. Choose how you review. Before your first review session the app asks whether you want Multiple choice, Self-rated, Written or Mixed (a bit of everything). Change it any time in Settings. Type Georgian on a Latin keyboard. In written reviews you can answer in Georgian script, in Latin letters, or a mix: kava, qava and q'ava all count for the Georgian word for coffee. The "Rate the app" popup now takes "Not now" for an answer. It waits a week before asking again and stops after the second "Not now". Content fixes to audio-course cards and lesson pages reported by learners.

Language Exchange: practice with a real Georgian, we make the introduction. Settings: choose the female or male voice for the audio course. Lock-screen play/pause controls for lessons and songs. Plus bug fixes.

Georgian Citizenship Exam Prep is here. The full citizenship exam course is now in the app: all 600 official questions from the state exam bank, taught across 33 lessons with English translations and explanations, plus flashcard decks that drill the real exam format and a timed mock exam that mirrors the real thing. The first three lessons are free. Also in this update: - Listening to lessons now keeps your streak alive, even on days you are re-listening rather than finishing something new. - Fixed lesson XP not always being credited. - Fixed the feedback form on the home screen. - Various smaller fixes and polish.