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Twice.
A word you run into, a quick translation, a tab closed, and the word is gone again. Rouge Gorge keeps it: a vocabulary card written at your level, the pronunciation to work on, and reviews that bring it back until it's yours.
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↻ « swamped » → overwhelmed
/ˌəʊvəˈwelmd/ · oh-ver-WELMD
adjective
feeling unable to cope because there is too much to deal with
“She felt overwhelmed by the number of emails waiting in her inbox.”
- third personoverwhelms
- pastoverwhelmed
- past participleoverwhelmed
- -ing formoverwhelming
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ANTONYMS
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How it works
Three steps, and the word stays
Rouge Gorge doesn't pick your words for you. It starts with the ones you actually run into, and handles the rest.
The word you just ran into
In an article, an email, a series, a conversation. Look it up in the app, or share it from Safari without even leaving the page.
It becomes a card
A definition written for your level, phonetics, an example in context, a translation in your language, and the pronunciation to try yourself.
It comes back until it sticks
Once kept, the word joins tomorrow's review. It comes back in a different form every time, right when you're about to lose it.
Why Rouge Gorge
A translator gets you unstuck. It teaches you nothing.
You look a word up, you get the answer, you close the tab. You did need that word: your own life put it in front of you. Three weeks later, you look it up again. Then once more.
Rouge Gorge starts exactly there. A word you look up can be kept, and a kept word comes back: recognition, prompted recall, active recall, until it's learned. A few weeks in, you don't have a textbook's vocabulary. You have your own.
“You kept reluctant six days ago. Let's do it again now, before it gets away.”
Gorgie, your robin on duty
The vocabulary card
Explained at your level, not the dictionary's
A dictionary definition is written for everyone, so for no one. Here, the entry is written for the level you're actually at, and it holds everything the word needs to become usable.
- ✍️Written for youThe same entry isn't written the same way for an A2 and for a C1: plain or nuanced definition, with an example chosen to match.
- 🗣You say it, the app listensPhonetics, the word read aloud, and a pronunciation coach that points out what slipped.
- 🌍In your native languageTranslation and explanations in your language, not only in English. English is the subject, not the obstacle.
- 📥Capture from anywhereSafari, a message, a PDF: share to Rouge Gorge and the word is already waiting in the app.
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↻ « to get on » → board
/bɔːd/
verb
to get on a plane, train, bus or boat
“We will board the plane in ten minutes.”
- third personboards
- pastboarded
- past participleboarded
- -ing formboarding
SYNONYMS
ANTONYMS
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MY WORDS
deadline
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“the latest time or date by which a task must be finished”
Your reviews
Ten minutes a day, on your own words
Today's session isn't a random list. It's built from the words you kept and are about to forget, in the order your memory needs them.
- 🧠Spaced repetitionEach word comes back as it starts to fade, not before, not too late. The longer it holds, the wider the gap.
- 🔀Never the same form twiceRecognize, retrieve, complete, pronounce: the same word comes back another way every time. That's the difference between knowing a word and being able to use it.
- 📈Five mastery levelsDiscovery, recognition, prompted recall, active recall, learned. You see exactly where every word in your notebook stands.
Lists & classes
And when you have a deadline
Sometimes you can't wait to run into the words: you need them now, on one precise subject. They land in the same notebook and follow the same reviews.
39 ready-made lists
Emergencies, hospital, job interview, travel, the office. Vocabulary already sorted by situation, loaded in one tap.
ENM-CRFPA pack
499 legal English terms for the ENM oral and the CRFPA paper, cut into sessions. Day one is free.
Your own classes
Describe the context, the app generates the matching vocabulary and turns it into reviewable sessions. A class stays on its own and never clutters your daily reviews.
Also inside
And if you want to start from scratch, the course is there
78 units written level by level, A1 to C2. Every unit keeps the same rhythm: learn the vocabulary, lay down a grammar rule, hear it in a dialogue, practice it, review it. It isn't what the app is for, but it's in there, included in the subscription, and it holds up.
One lesson, one rule, six to eight exercises. Instructions and grammar explanations in your native language.
The app
The rest, at a glance
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Pricing
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- ✓7 words looked up and explained a day
- ✓Up to 50 words kept in your notebook
- ✓Daily session and reviews
- ✓All 39 themed lists
- ✓3 course lessons a day
Premium
3-day free trial, then automatic renewal until you cancel
- ★Unlimited lookups, explained at your level
- ★No limit on your word notebook
- ★Pronunciation coach
- ★Classes and exam packs
- ★The full course, unlimited, A1 → C2
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Your data
An English app has no need to follow you around
- 📵No ads, no trackersThe model is the subscription. Not reselling your attention.
- 📱Your notebook belongs to youYour words live on your iPhone and sync through your private iCloud, not our servers.
- 🤖AI, only if you say yesDefinitions written at your level go through a third-party service: it's explained, and you accept it explicitly.
The next word you run into, keep it
Ten minutes a day, and a robin that brings you back tomorrow the words you were about to lose.
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