Help out
Everything the community needs is done by people who are learning the words themselves. Here is what each thing takes, in the order most people try them.
First, a name
Open the community site and pick a username. That's the whole sign-up: no password to invent, nothing to confirm. The first browser to claim a name keeps it, so nobody can pretend to be you by typing your handle. Add an email later if you want to sign in from another device; it also makes your votes count for more, because an identity that can be reached is harder to fake.
Vote, five minutes at a time
Every word page shows its candidate images. Under each are two buttons: helps me remember and doesn't. Ask one question only: would this image bring the Spanish word back to me next week? Not whether it's pretty.
One vote per image; you can change it any time. The home page keeps a strip of fresh images that need votes. Start there. How your vote is weighed.
Submit an image
Uploading your own image is free for every member. Having one generated by our tool is free up to 20 a month, with more on Plus or Studio. Two routes, both from the word page.
Generate one. Type the English sound-alike and, if you like, why it works. The house draws it in the app's style with the right gender colour. This is how the cat in the cake was made: gato, "gateau", one line typed by a member.
Upload your own. A drawing, a photo, a collage. Same rules: one clear object or scene, no writing anywhere in it, and the right ground colour for the word's gender. Every image is checked by the safety scanner before anyone sees it, then released for voting. Submitting an image, and making your own, step by step.
Suggest a word
If the list is missing a word you needed this week, propose it with its meaning and, ideally, a sound-alike. Accepted words open for images like any other. How the word list grows.
Comment
Under each image you can say why it works or doesn't. Two lines is plenty. Other members vote comments up when they're useful; the author of the image sees them and can try again with a better keyword.
Report
If something shouldn't be there, use report this image and give the reason. The image goes back behind the gate until a person or the rules settle it. Reports that stand up earn you an image credit and reputation; reports that don't, cost a little.
The one beside this is the kind of thing worth a report for the style rule, not for safety: the rooftop tea party invented its own sky and buildings, and the rules want one object on a plain ground. Reports, penalties and how they lift.
What you get for it
Nothing for volume. Standing comes from being right: voting with the image the community eventually chooses, submitting the image that wins, reporting something that is then removed. Your vote weighs more as your record improves, your name earns badges on the People page, and being right pays image credits you can spend on drawing your own. The numbers.
Bringing another language
Each language is its own community with its own word list. If you'd bring one, say so on the community site with a rough word count and who would vote. Spanish goes first; the next language opens when this one runs on its own.