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The Language Dojo retweeted
Should you study grammar if you want to learn a new language?
74%👍 Yes
26%👎 No
163 votes • Final results The Language Dojo retweeted
Want to make learning a habit?
Then you need Anki.
For over 15 years, this app has helped me remember tens of thousands of facts, words, and phrases in a fast and fun way.
Here's why Anki is (still) the best tool to remember what you've learned:
The Language Dojo retweeted
Amazon's Kindle is the perfect language-learning toolbox 🧰
With its dictionary, translator, and integrations, Kindle has everything a language learner needs.
These 5 @AmazonKindle features will help you acquire any language effortlessly👇
The Language Dojo retweeted
Flashcards are power tools for learning languages fast and without studying.
But most overcomplicate the process.
These 3 types of flashcards will make you absorb vocab and grammar in no time:
1) Sentence + audio
2) Cloze + audio
3) Audio only
Learn how to use them 🧵👇
The Language Dojo retweeted
Habit is the mother of learning.
If you want to learn any skill, you must keep showing up.
Use this framework to spend 30 minutes learning every day:
• Make it obvious
• Make it easy
• Make it fun
Here’s how I applied these steps to review 33,244 flashcards in 2022:
Honestly the only benefit of learning French so far has been reading Takeshi Kitano's autobiography. What a badass.
If you're unhappy acquiring a language 1) stop 2) breathe 3) assess 4) fix the problem. The process should be joyful, like riding a wave.
I finally understand why French are snobs about pronunciation, it sounds like dogshit when you butcher it. #AlwaysUseTheNativeAccent
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I think the single best 'hack' I've found for practice (Anki/guitar/whatever) is to meditate for about 10 minutes before I start.
The Language Dojo retweeted
An ambitious goal for the next ~4 months: all German all the time.
Hope @thelanguagedojo approves ;-)
Holy crap, I've finally got an idea for a new post. Spoiler: it's about the guitar teacher I stopped going to, and why.
Hands down, no contest, the most bizarre, entertaining Korean youtube channel shrd.by/6E6Nm7