One of the hot topics of discussion among polyglots around the world is "When is the best time to start speaking?" Opinions range from 'speak from Day One' to 'just focus on Comprehensible Input and …
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Plant Seeds of Success With Tiny Habits
Consistency is one of the most important leverage points for learning a language. Just by the nature of how learning and memory work, you are far better off spending half an hour each day interacting …
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Spaced Repetition System Best Practices
The Forgetting Curve Hermann Ebbinghaus was a German psychologist who conducted pioneering research on memory and learning back in the late 19th century. He named one of his discoveries "the …
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Memory Quickstart
Learning is memorization. To some this is a controversial statement but the fact is, if you cannot remember something, can you claim to have you actually learned it? To that end, let's take a …
SVO To SOV ASAP
"Backwards this language is," Yoda might have said upon first encountering English. After all, for native English speakers, the usual sentence structure is Subject-Verb-Object and for Yoda, as well …
A First Look At Goal Setting
Learning any foreign language well takes an extraordinary amount of dedication and effort. For many people, they “wish” they could speak Japanese (or any other language) but in reality, they don’t …