# Tinycards: Rebuild and Import Saved Flashcards

> Prepare saved Tinycards material for import, check your language cards and plan practice with current tools.

- **Canonical URL:** https://flashcards.world/guides/en/pillar-tinycards-duolingo-flashcards-alternative-free-language-study-guide/
- **Markdown URL:** https://flashcards.world/guides/en/pillar-tinycards-duolingo-flashcards-alternative-free-language-study-guide.md
- **Topic / Curriculum:** Polyglot Language Learning: CEFR A1–C2 Vocabulary, Grammar, Phonetics & Immersion
- **Language:** en

# Tinycards: Rebuild and Import Saved Flashcards

Duolingo [launched Tinycards in 2016](https://duolingo-data.s3.amazonaws.com/s3/press-assets/Tinycards-PressReleaseiOS.pdf) as a separate flashcard app. Duolingo now also describes [flashcards within its lessons](https://blog.duolingo.com/duolingo-flashcards/); those exercises are distinct from recovering an old custom deck. Start here with a file you saved or notes you can check against their source.

## Keep the original

Preserve an untouched backup and prepare a separate working copy. If you have no saved deck, rebuild from reliable notes or ask the original provider about access. Importing a file cannot retrieve content that is absent from that file.

## Prepare and check the import

1. For a basic text deck, use two columns: question and answer. Save multilingual text as UTF-8. CSV uses commas and TSV uses tabs; a two-column file does not preserve media or review history.
2. Open the [Flashcards.World library](https://flashcards.world/mysets/), choose import and inspect the preview. Check the delimiter, headers, field mapping, characters and card count before confirming.
3. Compare the imported deck with the original. Verify front/back pairing, multiple-choice answers and media separately. Keep a downloaded backup.

Use a spreadsheet exporter to handle [CSV quoting](https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc4180.html) for commas, quotes and line breaks. Renaming a TSV file does not convert it to CSV.

## Study the material, then test its use

Choose a target language and a specific skill. Check meanings, example sentences and pronunciation, and practice listening, speaking and writing beyond cards. Use the [CEFR descriptors](https://www.coe.int/en/web/common-european-framework-reference-languages/level-descriptions) to plan language abilities; a deck count alone does not demonstrate proficiency.

Write clear questions with necessary context and verify answers against their sources, including AI drafts. Try answering before revealing feedback, revisit material over time and include application practice, as described in the [IES study guide](https://ies.ed.gov/ncee/wwc/PracticeGuide/1).

## Choose tools for your needs

Compare current import formats, editing, study modes, offline access, media support, limits and prices. Test a small sample before moving a large collection. A share link is useful for distribution but is not an independent backup.

## Curated Flashcard Decks & Practice Sets

- **High-Frequency Core Vocabulary, Zipf's Law & CEFR A1–A2 Survival Lexicon**: [Interactive Deck](https://flashcards.world/flashcards/sets/39c14484-2837-440d-a758-fe8edf7d6ee2/) | [Markdown (.md)](https://flashcards.world/flashcards/sets/39c14484-2837-440d-a758-fe8edf7d6ee2.md)
- **Phonetics, IPA Pronunciation, Prosody, Tone Systems & Orthographic Scripts**: [Interactive Deck](https://flashcards.world/flashcards/sets/86f334c8-f291-482f-a619-348493eeeb31/) | [Markdown (.md)](https://flashcards.world/flashcards/sets/86f334c8-f291-482f-a619-348493eeeb31.md)
- **Morphology, Verb Conjugation Matrices, Grammatical Gender, Case Systems & Aspect**: [Interactive Deck](https://flashcards.world/flashcards/sets/a35136f9-f3f8-4849-ae71-38ab11871eaf/) | [Markdown (.md)](https://flashcards.world/flashcards/sets/a35136f9-f3f8-4849-ae71-38ab11871eaf.md)
- **Comprehensible Input (Krashen i+1), Sentence Mining, Collocations & CEFR B1–B2 Fluency**: [Interactive Deck](https://flashcards.world/flashcards/sets/e6830ec3-713c-4761-a93a-2a8b7bd6918b/) | [Markdown (.md)](https://flashcards.world/flashcards/sets/e6830ec3-713c-4761-a93a-2a8b7bd6918b.md)
- **Pragmatics, Idiomatic Register, Subjunctive Nuance & CEFR C1–C2 Academic/Professional Mastery**: [Interactive Deck](https://flashcards.world/flashcards/sets/7a1643c6-5376-4bd7-a08e-cbd70b80a68d/) | [Markdown (.md)](https://flashcards.world/flashcards/sets/7a1643c6-5376-4bd7-a08e-cbd70b80a68d.md)
- **Official Language Proficiency Exams (DELE, DELF/DALF, Goethe, JLPT, TOPIK, HSK, IELTS) & Tinycards Migration**: [Interactive Deck](https://flashcards.world/flashcards/sets/0c107438-cb5c-46a4-a057-37f60f5bd4f8/) | [Markdown (.md)](https://flashcards.world/flashcards/sets/0c107438-cb5c-46a4-a057-37f60f5bd4f8.md)