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Nice UI. I would love if you add a "Advanced English" deck. I have a 11 years old vocabluary (according to some online test I forgot the name).

There is a place for people learning english as a second language where you know enough to be able to communicate, but you don't have a good enough vocabulary to express more sophisticated ideas, or express simple ideas more elegantly. I am at this place and I am sure there are lots of others here.

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Yes, when talking about the language learning market, English is the whale. We're going to get there as fast a possible, but it means we'll have to be prepared for everything that comes with having non-English speaking customers.

Though, having an Advanced English deck - so people have good enough English to tell us all the problems we have - sounds like a terrific way to start :)

As a non-native English speaker myself, I agree with GP. I have a bunch "English Vocabulary in Use" books of various levels which I almost never open because, you know, it's hard to carry it around with you.

$14.99 seems to be a right price, too.

you don't need an app for this, you need to read more books. Not about expanding your vocabulary, but just quality fiction novels. That's how native english speakers broaden their vocabulary and your ability is clearly far enough along that most books will be within your grasp. From what you wrote your vocabulary is fine, it's the nuaces of grammar where your English would be improved by reading copiously.

Books will really, really help. But targeted practice will also help.

For the original question, there's an Anki deck for English idioms with sentences.[0]

[0] https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/846593111

Edit: It seems Anki is mentioned quite a bit further in the thread, so I'll skip defining it here.

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