Learning Japanese Kanji With Spaced Repetition
Japanese difficulty is not spread evenly. Kana take a couple of weeks. Grammar arrives slowly but steadily. Kanji are the part that does not come for …
Japanese difficulty is not spread evenly. Kana take a couple of weeks. Grammar arrives slowly but steadily. Kanji are the part that does not come for …
Spanish is one of the friendlier languages to start, and one of the easiest to plateau in. The early words arrive fast — cognates, greetings, the …
Most learners blame the app when their flashcards stop working. Usually the app is fine. The problem sits on the card itself: it asks five questions …
Indonesian is often sold as one of the easiest languages for an English speaker, and the pitch is mostly true. There is no verb conjugation, no …
Ask learners which HSK flashcards to use and the answers split fast. Some reach for the largest deck they can find; others try to build one card at a …
The default flashcard — English on one side, French on the other — works for about a week and then stops, because French vocabulary is not one word …
There is a comfortable way to study vocabulary and an uncomfortable one, and the comfortable one barely works. Reading a word list feels like progress …
Vocabulary study has a nasty habit of requiring exactly the conditions you do not have. The flight is when you finally have three quiet hours, and the …
Most people who quit a vocabulary app do not quit because the words were too hard. They quit because on day one they opened an empty screen, were told …
Chinese vocabulary has a reputation for being hard to hold onto, and the reason is structural: a word is not one thing you memorise, it is three. A …