Tulip Talk is easier to get around on your phone

Everything in this update came from the same place: on a phone, Tulip Talk had become harder to move around than it needed to be. Here is what changed.

Learn fits on one screen again

The Learn page listed all 28 practice activities at once — around 2,200 pixels of scrolling on a typical phone. If you wanted pronunciation practice, you scrolled past everything else to reach it.

The activities are now grouped by skill, and the groups start closed:

• Course — today's lesson, your learning path, the A1 video course, KNM topics, the NT2 exam path and the exam simulators
• Words — flashcards, your review queue, the article and verb trainers, cloze practice
• Grammar — the syntax map, the AI grammar helper, quizzes
• Read and listen — reading practice, listening practice, decoder studio
• Speak — speaking practice, the pronunciation trainer, studio and guides
• Write — AI writing feedback
• Play — Tulip Arcade, Dutch conversation, real-life role-play

Seven rows instead of twenty-eight. The list now ends around 740 pixels down instead of 2,200, so it fits on one screen. Tap a group to open it; what you open stays open while you keep using the app, so coming back from an exercise does not fold it shut again.

Speaking also has a group of its own now. It used to sit mixed in with reading and listening, which made it harder to find than it should have been for anyone working towards a speaking exam.

New here? There is a tour

If you are new, Tulip Talk now walks you through the bar at the bottom of the screen — Today, Learn, Talk, Speak and NL — one button at a time, with a sentence on what each is for. It takes about thirty seconds, and you can skip it at any point.

You can watch it again whenever you like, from Account → About.

The tour is available in English, Ukrainian and Arabic, like the rest of the interface.

Three smaller things that were quietly in the way

Two-factor sign-in is one step shorter. Type the sixth digit of your code and it submits by itself. No reaching for a button after you have already typed the code.

Notifications no longer sit on top of the navigation bar. On a phone, a message such as "saved" or "you are offline" used to cover the five buttons at the bottom for a few seconds — exactly the buttons you would want to tap. They now sit clear of the bar, at every text size and navigation size.

Your XP cannot be counted twice. If you had Tulip Talk open in two browser tabs and came back online, both tabs could send the same queued XP. Only one sends it now.

Spotted something?

If something looks wrong or gets in your way, tell us on the feedback page — you will need to be signed in, so we can follow up with you. Several of the changes above started as exactly that kind of report.