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Chemical elements and their atomic numbers
Every element of the periodic table and the number of protons in its nucleus.
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Chemical elements and their symbols
Every chemical element of the periodic table with the symbol that stands for it.
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World capitals
Every country with an ISO 3166 code and its capital city.
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International dialling codes
Each sovereign state and the telephone code that reaches it.
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Countries and their internet domains
Sovereign states that have exactly one two-letter country-code domain, paired with that domain. States with several domains, or with none of their own, are left out.
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Famous athletes and their sports
Well-known sportspeople and the sport they are known for. Athletes who competed in two sports are left out.
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Famous films and their directors
Widely known films and who directed them. Films with two directors are left out.
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Famous paintings since 1800
Paintings made in 1800 or later and the artist who painted them.
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Operas, operettas and musicals
Works for the musical stage and the composer who wrote the music.
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Currency codes (ISO 4217)
Currencies in circulation today and their three-letter ISO 4217 code.
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Cities of the world and their countries
Well-known cities that are not the capital of a sovereign state, and the country they stand in. Sizes run from world metropolises down to regional cities of about a hundred thousand people, and coverage is uneven: half the deck sits in the United States, Germany, France and Italy.
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Famous paintings before 1800
Paintings made before 1800 and the artist who painted them.
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Rock albums and who made them
Studio albums of the rock canon, from the British invasion to the guitar bands of the 2000s, and the artist credited with each one.
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Mountains and their ranges
Well-known summits and the mountain range they belong to.
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Countries and continents
Which continent each country belongs to.
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Japanese kanji: fourth year of primary school
The kanji taught in the fourth year of Japanese primary school (the kyōiku list, 202 characters in the official programme); this deck holds 201 of them, one having been dropped in review. The front of the card is the character on its own. The back gives its main meanings, then its on readings in katakana and its kun readings in hiragana. In a kun reading the dot separates what the kanji itself writes from the okurigana that follows it: 高.い is read takai and written 高い. The order of the cards comes from the source data and cannot be checked from this file, so no ordering is claimed.
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Mandarin Chinese: 200 essential two-character words
The 200 most frequent two-character words of spoken Mandarin — pronouns, question words, everyday verbs — with pinyin and English meaning. Start here once you know the characters.
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Mandarin Chinese: 200 more everyday words
The next 200 two-character words by frequency, after the essential two hundred: feelings, work, travel, family and the small words that hold a conversation together. Pinyin and English meaning on the back.
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Mandarin Chinese: two-character words 401 to 600
The next two hundred two-character words of spoken Mandarin by frequency, picking up exactly where the first four hundred stop: study, money, weather, the body, the words that carry an opinion. Pinyin and English meaning on the back, at most three meanings per card so the answer stays short enough to recall.
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Mandarin Chinese: two-character words 601 to 800
Two hundred more two-character words by frequency, after the first six hundred. This is where a learner leaves the survival vocabulary behind: abstract nouns, verbs of thought and of decision, the connectives of an argument. Pinyin and English meaning on the back.
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Medium-length French sentences
French sentences of seven to twelve words, with their English translation. The step after the short sentences: subordinate clauses, negation, complements. Every card carries a whole sentence — nothing has to be guessed from outside the card.
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Medium-length German sentences
German sentences of seven to twelve words, with their English translation. The step after the short sentences: subordinate clauses, negation, complements. Every card carries a whole sentence — nothing has to be guessed from outside the card.
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Medium-length Spanish sentences
Sentences of seven to twelve words in the Spanish of Spain, with their English translation. The step after the short sentences: subordinate clauses, negation, complements. Every card carries a whole sentence — nothing has to be guessed from outside the card.
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Short French sentences
French sentences of three to six words, with their English translation. The shortest band in the catalogue: enough to start without drowning in syntax. Every card carries a whole sentence — nothing has to be guessed from outside the card.
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Short German sentences
German sentences of three to six words, with their English translation. The shortest band in the catalogue: enough to start without drowning in syntax. Every card carries a whole sentence — nothing has to be guessed from outside the card.
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Short Spanish sentences
Sentences of three to six words in the Spanish of Spain, with their English translation. The shortest band in the catalogue: enough to start without drowning in syntax. Every card carries a whole sentence — nothing has to be guessed from outside the card.
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Japanese kanji: third year of primary school
The kanji taught in the third year of Japanese primary school (the kyōiku list, 200 characters in the official programme). The front of the card is the character on its own. The back gives its main meanings, then its on readings in katakana and its kun readings in hiragana. In a kun reading the dot separates what the kanji itself writes from the okurigana that follows it: 高.い is read takai and written 高い. Cards are ordered by how often the character appears in Japanese newspapers, so the most useful ones come first.
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Portuguese nouns in everyday use
Everyday Portuguese nouns with their English meaning, taken from the English Wiktionary. Dictionary headwords only: no plurals, no inflected forms, and the commonest words first. The two norms are mixed and nothing labels them: European forms such as equipa and telemóvel sit beside Brazilian ones such as banheiro and terremoto. The back of a card is the short Wiktionary definition kept as written, so it can give one sense among several rather than the single commonest translation. Cards are asked in one direction only, Portuguese to English, because many of the English glosses are too general to be answered backwards.
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Spanish nouns in everyday use
Everyday Spanish nouns with their English meaning, taken from the English Wiktionary. Single-word dictionary headwords only: no plurals, no inflected forms. Each back is the Wiktionary definition copied word for word, British or American spelling as the entry had it. The order follows word frequency measured on the Tatoeba corpus, so the commonest words come first. Cards run from Spanish to English only.
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Earth, rocks and weather
Science exam questions on rocks and minerals, erosion, volcanoes and earthquakes, oceans and rivers, weather and climate, from the ARC Easy set.
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Highest point of every country
The summit that stands highest within each sovereign state.
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Italian nouns in everyday use
Everyday Italian nouns with their English meaning, taken from the English Wiktionary. Dictionary headwords only: no plurals, no inflected forms, and the commonest words first. Each answer is the first sense of that Wiktionary entry, shortened but never rewritten, so it is a dictionary sense and not always the whole everyday range of the word.
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Chess openings: closed games and Indian defences (ECO D–E)
Named variations of volumes D and E — Queen’s Gambit, Slav, Semi-Slav, Grünfeld, Nimzo-Indian, King’s Indian, Queen’s Indian and the Catalan. Each card gives the moves of the variation.
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Philosophy, religions and human sciences
Open questions on philosophy, world religions, logic, psychology and society.
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Battles and their wars
Well-known battles and the war they were part of.
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Moons of the Solar System
Each named natural satellite and the planet it orbits.
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Pop and soul albums and who made them
Studio albums of pop, soul and R&B — Motown, the eighties, and the singers who followed — and the artist credited with each one.
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Chess openings: flank openings (ECO A)
Named variations of volume A — English Opening, Réti, Bird, Dutch Defense, Benoni, Benko Gambit, the 1. d4 sidelines and the irregular first moves. Each card gives the moves that define the variation.
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Chess openings: open games (ECO C)
Named variations of volume C — the 1. e4 e5 openings (Ruy Lopez, Italian Game, Scotch, King’s Gambit, Petrov), the French Defense, and the sidelines that transpose into them. Each card gives the moves of the variation.
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Chess openings: semi-open games (ECO B)
Named variations of volume B — everything Black plays against 1. e4 except 1… e5: Sicilian, Caro-Kann, Pirc, Modern, Scandinavian, Alekhine. Each card gives the moves of the variation.
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Japanese kanji: second year of primary school
The kanji taught in the second year of Japanese primary school (the kyōiku list, 160 characters in the official programme). The front of the card is the character on its own. The back gives its main meanings, then its on readings in katakana and its kun readings in hiragana. In a kun reading the dot separates what the kanji itself writes from the okurigana that follows it: 高.い is read takai and written 高い. Cards are ordered by how often the character appears in Japanese newspapers, so the most useful ones come first.
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Rivers and where they flow
Major rivers and the sea, gulf, bay or estuary they flow into. Rivers that end in another river are left out.
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Major cities of the Americas
The largest cities of North and South America apart from the national capitals, and the country each one stands in.
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Ecology and ecosystems
Biomes and the abiotic world, population and community dynamics, energy flow through ecosystems, and conservation.
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Everyday Spanish sentences
One hundred and fifty short, complete sentences in the Spanish of Spain, with their English translation. Every card carries a whole sentence — nothing has to be guessed from outside the card, and the vocabulary is kept to the commonest words of both languages.
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French nouns: the first hundred and fifty
The hundred and fifty commonest French nouns, each with its English meaning and its pronunciation in the international phonetic alphabet. Inflected forms are excluded: every card carries a dictionary headword.
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German nouns and their gender
The hundred and fifty commonest German nouns, each shown with the definite article that carries its gender — der, die or das — and its English meaning. Nouns whose gender varies are left out.
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Mandarin Chinese: the 150 most frequent characters
The 150 single characters you meet most often in spoken Mandarin, each with its pinyin and its English meaning. Only characters that stand on their own as a word are included; characters with more than one reading are left out, so every card has exactly one right answer.