Language
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- Aim-Shoot-Skin for Language Learning Aim–shoot–skin is a language-learning loop that starts from a passage the learner can almost follow. It does not start from a word list built in advance. Each
- Attention is Important A barely-understood language hour counts as a session when the learner registers a word, a sound, a subtitle, or a pattern as present. Early language content
- Character Primer A character primer is a short orientation that treats characters as reusable parts met in real words. It does not treat them as a list of radicals or as
- Freeflow Immersion Freeflow is relaxed but attentive time with real language that the learner can already follow for the gist. The learner almost never pauses, rewinds, or looks
- Hacking Comprehension Menu The Hacking Comprehension Menu is a list of changes a learner can make in the middle of a language session, when the material has become too hard to follow.
- Immersion Metalayers A metalayer is a tool that sits on top of real input and lets the learner inspect a line without leaving the language. Looking up a word, pausing, replaying,
- Interactive Immersion Interactive immersion is work on real language, audio or text, with tools such as subtitles, replay, and lookups. It sits between a lesson and background
- Language Isn't Math Natural speech cannot be produced reliably by applying abstract rules. Natural language is too specific, too idiomatic, and too tied to context for that.
- Noticing Game The Noticing Game is a procedure for early immersion. The learner watches real content in the target language and looks on purpose for pieces they can
- Preparation Preparation is a short orientation to the sounds, words, characters, grammar, and tools of a language, done before a stretch of immersion. Its purpose is to
- Refold Grammar Primers A grammar primer is a short, incomplete orientation to common patterns. It points attention at what to look for in real input. It is not a rulebook for
- Refold Language Learning System The three-mode immersion system is a way of learning a language by spending many attentive hours with language the learner can partly follow. Sounds, words,
- The Hán-Việt Bridge The Hán-Việt bridge is a method for Vietnamese speakers who are learning Mandarin. A Vietnamese speaker already knows about three thousand Mandarin morphemes.
- Three Pillars of Language Learning Language study time splits into three modes. Each session gets one of the three, chosen by how much of the session's content the learner already understands.
- Vietnamese Grammar Primer The Vietnamese grammar primer is a short catalog of the separate words and the word order that express meaning in Vietnamese. Its purpose is noticing these
- YouTube Immersion Account A YouTube Immersion Account is a second YouTube identity used only for the language being learned. Its watch-history holds only that language, so YouTube's