Onboarding: setting your language & goal
What the first-run setup asks, and how Dardsh unlocks features across your first week.
When you first sign in, a short step-by-step setup tunes Dardsh to you. You move through it one question at a time with a progress bar, and only your language is required — feel free to skip the rest and fill it in later. It asks:
- The language you want to practise — one of our 10.
- Why you're learning — travel, work, exams, family, and so on.
- The topics you love talking about, so coaches can match real conversations to your interests.
- Your level — pick a band yourself, or take a quick 2-minute adaptive placement test that finds it for you.
- Your pace and coach preference — how much time you want each week, and any preference for who you learn with.
Your answers shape what you see: recommended coaches, practice content at the right level, and realistic weekly targets. You can change any of it later from your profile.
Your first week
Dardsh eases you in rather than dropping everything on you at once. A Your first week card on your dashboard reveals one themed step a day — finish your profile, take a placement test, read and save vocab, play a game, meet a coach — and each step ticks off automatically as you do it. The card tucks itself away once you're up and running.