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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:
The Language Dojo retweeted
An ambitious goal for the next ~4 months: all German all the time.
Hope @thelanguagedojo approves ;-)
The Language Dojo retweeted
Great advice. "@epicpoodle: Learning multiple langs is empowering, but so is learning one lang deeply. Do both. #codenewbie”
The Language Dojo retweeted
@ajatt Sufficiently advanced studying is indistinguishable from fun
The Language Dojo retweeted
@thelanguagedojo plateaus are wide flat things. If you want to get across them all you do is keep going until you're at the other side.
The Language Dojo retweeted
1) Observe. 2) Imitate. Everything else is details. #languagelearning
The Language Dojo retweeted
After all, what is a country anyway but an environment? It just so happens that electronic devices allow you to simulate environments.
The Language Dojo retweeted
@thelanguagedojo Just checked all of them. Great big NOPE. NONE of them have subtitles that match the dialogue. You suck, Disney :/
The Language Dojo retweeted
@thelanguagedojo I just bought Minitube. Wow, an endless stream of interesting L2 media that can play in a tiny window on top of everything.
The Language Dojo retweeted
So you made a bad decision. Make a less bad one now. Keep moving. :) #immersion #SRS
The Language Dojo retweeted
If you played music the way you read books, you would hate music. #ReadingIsSkimming