I would love to use Smart Review to pair Portuguese words to their English meaning as opposed to just English → Portuguese. I don’t see a way to swap them, but this would be a huge bonus! Am I missing a setting or is this a feature request?
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Thanks for sharing this feature request with us! I just wanted to let you know that this is currently being planned 
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Yay! I’ve been using the app for 45 days now, and it’s been a wonderful experience. Do you have a rough timeline of when this will be delivered? I know plans and priorities can change, but I’m curious if there’s an ETA at this point. This is the feature I’m most excited about, so I appreciate that it’s on the docket!
Sorry for delay, both on this reply as well as on delivering this feature. Flipping the language is a priority for us, (at least in Flash Cards but we should also be able to include it in the Listen and Speak mode without much complexity).
This is connected to a large scope of foundational updates we are working on. It’s hard to say how long it will take, but I’m going to talk to our programmer to try and push through flipping the language in at least the Listen and Speak mode, since it seems like it shouldn’t be too complex.
Thanks for your feedback and patience!
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Sounds good, appreciate the update!
@joelrendall I wanted to check and see if this feature was planned for any time soon. Love the app, it’s so helpful!
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To provide a bit more detail so you can add this to the user story - understanding a language has always been the biggest challenge for me, and Portuguese is especially hard given how many syllables sound like they’re being dropped. I’m able to pick up speaking/pronunciation the fastest, followed by reading, followed by listening/understanding. This is the same as my experience trying to learn Spanish and French.
I love the Shorties, but even the shortest ones are too long for my brain to process in one go. Trying to grasp a minute’s worth of spoken word takes a LOT of effort, so I tend to avoid it unless I’m feeling really focused and capable. I love the flash cards and use them frequently, but knowing English → Portuguese doesn’t help as much as I’d expect with understanding Portuguese → English.
For example, I’ve been using my daily journaling as an excuse to use a bit of Portuguese, so I title all my entries as such: “quinta 20 fevereiro '25”. It’s a little change in my behavior that helps me add my Portuguese to my life. Even after doing this for a month and consistently getting the days of the week correct when testing them with flash cards, I ran across terça out of context and could not for the life of me remember what it meant.
Hope that helps provide a bit more context. I think delivering the ability to go Portuguese → English in Listen & Speak would be a massive boost to my learning.
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Thanks for checking in on this feature and for the further context – this is some of the best kind of feedback we can get… user experience, with a lot of clarity and careful thought!
This is going to be the most frustrating answer ever, but we actually have this feature pretty much done and working in a local testing environment. The launch is dependent on a couple other connected features that we are still wrapping up. Although I can’t give you a firm launch date, this feature exists and is very real and is a priority, but we need to make sure we don’t break any of the other connected features when we roll it out. My best guess is within the next month. 
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Not frustrating at all - that’s exciting progress! Super appreciate you taking the time to keep me updated.