kai

Elementary to Intermediate / spaced review

Everyday Kai review

A cumulative review path for keeping each lesson active after the first pass. Use the cycle after every lesson, then run the unit cards before assessments or projects.

course index proficiency scale self-assessment checklist all courses

cadence

spaced review cycle

same day

First retrieval

Complete the practice sheet from memory, then correct with the online answer key.

+1 day

Short recall

Rewrite the lesson's core vocabulary and two grammar patterns without looking.

+3 days

Mixed recall

Redo selected prompts from the current unit and one earlier lesson.

+7 days

Production pass

Write original Kai sentences or a short dialogue using the same grammar.

+14 days

Cumulative check

Review the unit card, repair errors, and move weak items into the next cycle.

cumulative units

unit review cards

unit 1

Home, Food, Family, and Health

Daily life nouns, care phrases, health needs, and practical requests.

vocabulary recall

  • ma
  • sai
  • sha
  • ya
  • yano
  • yava
  • yari
  • mi
  • ti
  • si
  • nai
  • tio
  • sio
  • e
  • el
  • an
  • li
  • na

grammar recall

  • daily need requests
  • home and family relations
  • food and drink routines
  • health status with e and en
  • clinic and medicine requests
  • polite commands with ma
  • safety warnings
  • everyday yes-no and content questions

practice mix

  • scenario vocabulary
  • dialogue reading
  • practical requests
  • health and safety phrases
  • translation
  • role-play
  • answer key
unit 2

Travel, Directions, Plans, and Appointments

Routes, place questions, schedules, appointments, permission, waiting, and practical planning.

vocabulary recall

  • a
  • ma
  • sai
  • sha
  • anvai
  • ya
  • yano
  • yava
  • yari
  • yaal
  • mi
  • ti
  • si
  • nai
  • tio
  • sio
  • e
  • el

grammar recall

  • direction with li
  • source with na
  • route with al
  • location with en
  • asking where and when
  • plan questions with mino
  • schedule and time-point phrases
  • appointments as planned meetings
  • permission with vari
  • wait and stay instructions

practice mix

  • route building
  • schedule reading
  • appointment dialogue
  • permission questions
  • translation
  • role-play
  • answer key
unit 3

Emotion and Repair

Feeling, conflict, apology, thanks, uncertainty, and conversation repair.

vocabulary recall

  • a
  • ma
  • sai
  • sha
  • ya
  • yano
  • yaal
  • mi
  • ti
  • si
  • nai
  • tio
  • sio
  • e
  • el
  • or
  • li
  • na

grammar recall

  • emotional states with en
  • care and thanks idioms
  • apology and forgiveness forms
  • boundaries with ma sha and viro
  • conflict repair
  • contrast with ri
  • self-correction with va
  • conversation repair phrases

practice mix

  • emotion recognition
  • care phrases
  • conflict boundaries
  • apology repair
  • dialogue rewriting
  • translation
  • role-play
  • answer key
unit 4

Work, Money, Services, and Help

Work status, tasks, tools, devices, money, fair exchange, buying situations, and help requests.

vocabulary recall

  • a
  • ma
  • sai
  • sha
  • ya
  • yano
  • yava
  • yave
  • mi
  • ti
  • si
  • nai
  • tio
  • sio
  • e
  • el
  • or
  • an

grammar recall

  • work status with el kame
  • task possession with te
  • work completion with or
  • help requests with ma nive
  • asking with yale
  • exchange with mone and mono
  • price questions with yave
  • fair exchange with monkai
  • practical service requests

practice mix

  • work status
  • service request dialogues
  • payment and exchange phrases
  • buying without unsupported buy-sell verbs
  • translation
  • role-play
  • answer key
unit 5

Health, Symptoms, Safety, and Emergency Care

Health status, symptoms, urgent help, safety instructions, clinic needs, and care coordination.

vocabulary recall

  • ma
  • sai
  • sha
  • ya
  • yano
  • yava
  • yari
  • mi
  • ti
  • si
  • nai
  • tio
  • sio
  • e
  • el
  • an
  • or
  • li

grammar recall

  • direct health status
  • symptoms as en phrases
  • pain and wound reporting
  • urgent need with el nive rine
  • safety commands with ma and ma sha
  • clinic and doctor requests
  • care coordination
  • avoiding poetic language in emergencies

practice mix

  • symptom reporting
  • emergency phrases
  • clinic dialogue
  • safety instructions
  • care coordination
  • translation
  • role-play
  • answer key
unit 6

Conversation Strategies

Clarification, repetition, polite disagreement, conversation recovery, and longer practical dialogues.

vocabulary recall

  • a
  • ma
  • sai
  • sha
  • ya
  • yano
  • yaal
  • mi
  • ti
  • si
  • nai
  • tio
  • sio
  • e
  • el
  • or
  • li
  • en

grammar recall

  • repair phrases
  • clarification questions
  • repetition requests
  • pacing
  • self-correction with va
  • contrast with ri
  • listening without agreement
  • polite disagreement
  • register correction
  • learning and meta-language

practice mix

  • clarification drills
  • repetition requests
  • polite disagreement
  • self-correction
  • register repair
  • learning dialogue
  • translation
  • role-play
  • answer key
unit 7

Everyday Review and Assessment

Cumulative dialogues, integrated practice, final assessment, and scoring guide.

vocabulary recall

  • ma
  • sai
  • sha
  • ya
  • yano
  • yava
  • yari
  • yaal
  • yave
  • mi
  • ti
  • si
  • nai
  • tio
  • sio
  • e
  • el
  • an

grammar recall

  • cumulative Everyday Kai dialogue
  • turn-taking
  • practical repair
  • topic shifts
  • health and safety language
  • travel planning
  • service and payment interactions
  • emotional repair
  • polite disagreement
  • cumulative Everyday Kai assessment
  • practical requests
  • travel and appointments

practice mix

  • dialogue reading
  • dialogue completion
  • role-play
  • translation
  • repair drills
  • cumulative scenario writing
  • answer key
  • final assessment
  • reading comprehension
  • grammar recognition

grammar spiral

grammar return schedule

51 first-introduced patterns

Every first-introduced instructional grammar point is assigned to later lessons, reviews, assessments, projects, or capstones so learners meet it again after the first explanation.

spiral path

lesson-by-lesson review

cycle 01 / unit 1 / lesson 1

Everyday Unit 01: Home, Food, Family, Health, and Daily Needs

Build practical Everyday Kai for food, home, family and close groups, basic health needs, medicine, clinic questions, and daily support requests.

  • focus Everyday Unit 01: Home, Food, Family, Health, and Daily Needs
  • grammar daily need requests, home and family relations, food and drink routines
  • sheet print practice sheet
cycle 02 / unit 2 / lesson 2

Everyday Unit 02: Travel, Directions, Plans, Schedules, and Appointments

Learn practical Everyday Kai for going places, giving directions, asking when and where, making plans, reading schedules, and handling appointments.

  • focus Everyday Unit 01: Home, Food, Family, Health, and Daily Needs, Everyday Unit 02: Travel, Directions, Plans, Schedules, and Appointments
  • grammar daily need requests, home and family relations, food and drink routines
  • sheet print practice sheet
cycle 03 / unit 3 / lesson 3

Everyday Unit 03: Emotions, Conflict, Apology, Thanks, and Repair

Learn practical Everyday Kai for feelings, thanks, apology, conflict boundaries, listening, clarification, and conversational repair.

  • focus Everyday Unit 01: Home, Food, Family, Health, and Daily Needs, Everyday Unit 02: Travel, Directions, Plans, Schedules, and Appointments, Everyday Unit 03: Emotions, Conflict, Apology, Thanks, and Repair
  • grammar daily need requests, home and family relations, food and drink routines
  • sheet print practice sheet
cycle 04 / unit 4 / lesson 4

Everyday Unit 04: Work, Money, Services, Buying, and Asking for Help

Learn practical Everyday Kai for work, tasks, money, payment, fair exchange, service requests, buying situations, and asking for help.

  • focus Everyday Unit 02: Travel, Directions, Plans, Schedules, and Appointments, Everyday Unit 03: Emotions, Conflict, Apology, Thanks, and Repair, Everyday Unit 04: Work, Money, Services, Buying, and Asking for Help
  • grammar direction with li, source with na, route with al
  • sheet print practice sheet
cycle 05 / unit 5 / lesson 5

Everyday Unit 05: Health, Symptoms, Safety, Emergency, and Care

Learn practical Everyday Kai for health status, symptoms, pain, wounds, urgent care, safety warnings, clinic needs, and care coordination.

  • focus Everyday Unit 03: Emotions, Conflict, Apology, Thanks, and Repair, Everyday Unit 04: Work, Money, Services, Buying, and Asking for Help, Everyday Unit 05: Health, Symptoms, Safety, Emergency, and Care
  • grammar emotional states with en, care and thanks idioms, apology and forgiveness forms
  • sheet print practice sheet
cycle 06 / unit 6 / lesson 6

Everyday Unit 06: Conversation Strategies, Clarification, Repetition, and Polite Disagreement

Learn practical Everyday Kai for repairing conversation, asking for repetition, clarifying meaning, correcting yourself, disagreeing politely, and talking about Kai while learning it.

  • focus Everyday Unit 04: Work, Money, Services, Buying, and Asking for Help, Everyday Unit 05: Health, Symptoms, Safety, Emergency, and Care, Everyday Unit 06: Conversation Strategies, Clarification, Repetition, and Polite Disagreement
  • grammar work status with el kame, task possession with te, work completion with or
  • sheet print practice sheet
cycle 07 / unit 7 / lesson 7

Everyday Cumulative Dialogue Practice

Practice full Everyday Kai conversations that combine home, food, travel, work, health, emotion, service requests, clarification, and polite disagreement.

  • focus Everyday Unit 05: Health, Symptoms, Safety, Emergency, and Care, Everyday Unit 06: Conversation Strategies, Clarification, Repetition, and Polite Disagreement, Everyday Cumulative Dialogue Practice
  • grammar direct health status, symptoms as en phrases, pain and wound reporting
  • sheet print practice sheet
cycle 08 / unit 7 / lesson 8

Everyday Final Assessment and Scoring Guide

Complete Everyday Kai with a graded assessment covering daily needs, travel, work, money, health, safety, emotion, repair, clarification, and practical dialogue.

  • focus Everyday Unit 06: Conversation Strategies, Clarification, Repetition, and Polite Disagreement, Everyday Cumulative Dialogue Practice, Everyday Final Assessment and Scoring Guide
  • grammar repair phrases, clarification questions, repetition requests
  • sheet print practice sheet