Below is an example of a complex drill item. The main item is itself a drill item which tests your ability to translate 'bailar' to and from English (which direction is chosen at random).

The item has several child items, some of which contain notes about the verb, others of which are separate drill items relating to the verb. In this example, all of the child drill items test verb conjugation, and have the 'conjugate' card type. Which tense to test is specified by the VERB_TENSE property in each item, and the information about the verb is retrieved from the parent's VERB_INFINITIVE, VERB_TRANSLATION and VERB_INFINITIVE_HINT properties.

Some of the conjugation items are empty – this allows the user to paste in conjugations as they are learned. They will automatically be excluded from drill sessions as long as their bodies remain empty.

Following this item is an example of the older "spanish_verb" card type. This is not as sophisticated or useful as the first example, but is intended to demonstrate how a function can control which subheadings are visible when an item is tested.

It is generally a lot harder for language students to translate to the foreign language, than to translate from it. This is because when you see a sentence in the foreign language, you can often get the sense of the sentence by recognising the nouns and verbs; once this is achieved, combining them into a grammatically correct sentence in your native tongue is automatic and effortless. However, in the other direction, not only do you have to recall the correct nouns, verbs and so on, but you also have to put the words in the right order and get all the grammar and "in-between words" correct.

Therefore, if you are learning a language you should generally test your ability to translate into the language, more often than you test your ability in the other direction.

The following is an example of the card type hide1_firstmore. This card type works like hide1cloze but the first clozed text area is guaranteed to be hidden 75% of the time.

The second example is of a similar card type, show1_firstless. Here only 1 clozed text area is visible during testing. 75% of the time, the first area is guaranteed to be one of the hidden areas.