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A daily language routine you can keep25 minutes split four ways, a four-week ramp and a tired-day menu- Notebook layouts that make words stickFour spreads for what the textbook cannot hold: your own errors
How to learn vocabulary that sticksWhy cards beat rereading, the intervals, and a system for month two
Shadowing: a ten-minute speaking drillShadowing, recording yourself, and a 20-minute session alone- How to learn a language aloneOne spine, immersion at home, and what to do when you are stuck
- Is one language lesson a week enough?The yearly hours, and a plan for the six days between lessons
- Language exchange vs paid tutorWhat an exchange hour gives you, and what a lesson adds
- Preparing for your first italki lessonThe message to send first, a 30-minute plan and the notes afterwards
- What belongs in a travel phrasebookTwo phrases first, twelve situations, and a two-week plan
Pocket tools
On paper
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Fluent Forever, revised edition (Gabriel Wyner)
Why this one: The book-length case for spaced repetition and picture-based flashcards, which the vocabulary method here borrows from.
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Why this one: Plain ruled cards for the paper flashcard box described in this guide.
View on AmazonAffiliate linkLeuchtturm1917 A5 notebook
Why this one: Numbered pages and an index, which make the notebook layouts here easier to keep. Any A5 notebook works.
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How this site is made
- Written by Ren (pen name), who studies languages alone in Japan.
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