This is it, the last week of Kumi's beta. The door closes July 1st, and we go quiet for two weeks before the public launch on July 14th.

A lot shipped this week. More than any single issue can do justice. But we're going to try.

If you've been curious about where the product is before the world sees it, this is your last look inside.

Lists used to be a collection tool. Something to dump words into and come back to later, maybe.

Kumi has always had a great dictionary. You could look things up, understand them deeply, and save them to a list. But studying those saved things required waiting for the system to surface them through the daily fold.

Not anymore. Lists now have a "Learn" button that kicks off a study session from that list, on demand. The whole loop closes: you find something interesting in the dictionary, add it to a list, and learn from it whenever you're ready.

This accommodates every kind of learner. People who live by the curated daily path. People who want to build their own curriculum. People who are just casually exploring and want to study whatever caught their attention today.

Kumi already knows what you're missing.

When you start a session from a list, Kumi doesn't just hand you the items and wish you luck. It looks underneath them.

Say you've added a vocab word to your list, but you haven't mastered the kanji inside it. Or you've added a kanji, but the radicals that make it up are still shaky. Kumi sees that. It asks: do you want to include those prerequisites in this session?

This is a fundamentally different way to learn. You're not just studying the thing on the surface. You're building the foundation it rests on. The kanji before the vocab. The radicals before the kanji. The pieces before the whole.

Nobody else in this space does this like us. It's not a feature. It's a methodology.

Nothing against Anki. If you're here, Anki probably got you somewhere.

But binary flashcards have a ceiling. Green means you knew it in that exact context, at that exact moment, when the card was facing that exact direction. It's one data point.

You can now import your Anki deck into Kumi. Your lists come in intact. Then Kumi gets to work.

It tests you across modalities, not just "do you know this or not?" Recognition, production, reading, understanding in context. Your old deck becomes a starting point for something that actually gauges your depth.

The multi-modality approach is the whole point of Kumi. And now you can bring your existing work into it.

Fully proprietary. Built from the curation all the way down to the module types themselves, and every decision starts from the same place: context first.

You shouldn't just know what a grammar pattern is. You should know how it feels to use it, when it fits, what it changes when it's there versus when it isn't. Kumi's grammar modules build toward that. They're not flashcards. They're exercises in thinking.

The IME is fully usable end-to-end now. Grammar modules are showing real, live examples. This is just the first chapter of how context-based learning runs through everything Kumi does.

The IME is also fully usable end-to-end now. You can construct entire sentences inside Kumi without switching to your keyboard's IME. Grammar modules can show real examples, not "coming soon" placeholders.

Something we keep coming back to: a learner failing a question shouldn't leave them guessing whether they were actually wrong, or just answered the wrong interpretation of a right answer.

That's a fair situation to prevent, and it's on us to prevent it.

When a word has multiple valid definitions and only one is the target for a given question, Kumi now shows a disambiguation gloss directly under the prompt. Small, unobtrusive, specific enough to guide you without just telling you.

Example: testing a word that means both "end" and "extreme." If the target meaning is "extreme," a small note now clarifies that. You know what you're being asked. The challenge is still yours.

It's the kind of thing that shouldn't be notable. But it took real thought to get right, so here we are.

That's everything that shipped this week.

Beta closes July 1st. If you want to explore the product before we go quiet, this is the time.

Then we surface on July 14th for the public launch.

In the meantime: if you're not already in the Discord, that's where the community lives, where the conversations happen, and where early access has lived throughout the beta. Come find us: discord.gg/learnkumi

Following on socials helps more than you might think at this stage!

And if you're in the beta: the feedback you send before July 1st still matters. Keep using the product and let us know what you see!

What would your learning look like if you removed every system and just followed curiosity?

— The Kumi Team