✦Learning · 11 recordsLearn a language

Language learning is almost entirely a consistency problem, so the routines carry it and the skill track holds the hours. The conversation deadline is the part that makes the rest real.

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Goal

Hold a real conversation Month 4

Twenty minutes with a stranger, without switching back to English.

Daily practice Month 4

The engine. Small and every day beats long and occasional.

  • Pick one course and stop comparing coursesDo firstDay 2
  • Learn the 100 most common wordsWeek 4
  • Start reading something written for childrenWeek 6

Speaking Month 4

Booked, so it cannot be postponed indefinitely.

  • Find a tutor or a conversation partnerWeek 3
  • Book the first conversationWeek 4

Routines

  • 15 minutes of practicedaily
  • Speak out loud for 10 minutesweekly
Skills
  • The languageBeginner → Intermediate

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This plan is dated at four months to twenty minutes with a stranger, on daily practice. That is achievable for a language close to one you already speak and ambitious for one that is not, so the date is worth adjusting.
Because it is the deadline that makes everything else real. Practice with no speaking date attached drifts into an indefinite preparation phase, and speaking badly early is how the preparation becomes useful.
Fifteen minutes, done daily. Language is the clearest case where frequency beats duration, and a short session survives the days when a long one would simply not happen.
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