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• Linguistics
  Fluent Forever Book: The Gallery
  

  This is a guide to the flashcards that will teach you your language. This page is designed as a supplement to my book. To that end, I'm going to show you s...

• Linguistics
  The Most Awesome Word List You Have Ever Seen
  

  Step 1 of learning a new language is to learn how to pronounce the sounds in your target language really, really well. Once you are comfortable with pronu...

• Linguistics
  Fluent Forever Book: Appendix 5
  

  The 625 Word List and Associated Resources   The 625 Word List (Printable, in Thematic Order) The 625 Word List (Printable, in Alphabetical Order...

• Linguistics
  Fluent Forever Book: Chapter 3
  

  Pronunciation and Ear Training We'll break this up into two chunks: The Pronunciation video series, and a discussion about Minimal Pair testing. The Pronun...

• Linguistics
  Using Anki Online: Chapter 2
  

  Here is a collection of tutorials on Anki. Watch these videos or follow the step by step instructions that follow them (and then browse around the Gallery...

• Linguistics
  Learn Languages Fast: Free Resources
  

  Below are my top recommended resources for language learning. Hopefully this serve as a helpful complement to the Fluent Forever book and our other paid to...

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  How to Search Multiple Websites Fast for Word Research
  

  I've talked about using iMacros in the past. Basically, you click a button, a dialogue pops up and asks you "Which word do you want to look up?" and in 4 s...

• Linguistics
  Simple Word Flashcards
  

  The Gallery Phase 2: Simple Words – Picture Word Cards These flashcards are designed to teach you basic vocabulary. You'll use these to form a vocabulary f...

• Linguistics
  No Progress With Duolingo? Here’s What the Owl Gets Wrong
  

  If you’ve been using Duolingo to learn languages, you may have noticed that you’re learning words and completing a bunch of modules/skills... but you don’...

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  A Guide to Language Learning With an italki Teacher
  

  At this point, I’ve spent the last 3 years learning Japanese and Spanish almost exclusively with iTalki tutors. It’s been working really, really well; I’ve...