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The Most Awesome Word List You Have Ever SeenStep 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 pronun...
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Learn Languages Fast: Free ResourcesBelow 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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Fluent Forever Book: The GalleryThis 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...
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Using Anki Online: Chapter 2Here 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...
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Fluent Forever Book: Appendix 5The 625 Word List and Associated Resources The 625 Word List (Printable, in Thematic Order) The 625 Word List (Printable, in Alphabetical Order...
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Fluent Forever Book: Chapter 3Pronunciation and Ear Training We'll break this up into two chunks: The Pronunciation video series, and a discussion about Minimal Pair testing. The Pronun...
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Fluent Forever Released to App Stores!It’s finally happened. After a year and a half of intense development work, our app is officially available in the Apple and Google Play app stores. Holy...
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On Hacking Fluent ForeverToday, I'm going to talk about the first major revision to the methods presented in Fluent Forever. I've been wanting to share this stuff fo...
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Setting up Google Images for Language LearningGoogle Images is a wonderful resource for vocabulary and grammar study. There are three basic ways you can use it: The Default Version (for images), the...
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Learn TagalogLearn Tagalog with these resources Tagalog is the lingua franca of the Philippines and the fourth most spoken language in the US, behind English, Span...
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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...
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New Word FlashcardsThe Gallery – Phase 3: Abstract Words and Grammar Cards for New Words Once you've built a foundation with several hundred simple vocabulary cards, you can...
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Pictures of Pronouns…and how to learn themIn my list of basic words to learn, I suggest learning subject pronouns (I, you, he, she, it, we, they) using pictures. Instead of "'Ich' is the German...
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Audio Only Flashcards: Is There a Way to Safely Study While Driving?So...I drove to an appointment today and studied my Spanish flashcards without actually looking at my phone. Then I yelled something like "Holy crap it WOR...
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Learn SpanishLearn Spanish with these resources To learn Spanish, you’re going need a way to learn correct pronunciation, a frequency dictionary to form your base vo...
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Simple Word FlashcardsThe Gallery Phase 2: Simple Words – Picture Word Cards These flashcards are designed to teach you basic vocabulary. You'll use these to form a vocabul...
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The Key to Learning PronunciationAs rumor has it, you can't learn to have a good accent if you're above the age of 7, or 12, or some other age that you've most definitely already exceeded...
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Learn FrenchLearn French with these resources To learn French, you’re going need a way to learn correct pronunciation, a frequency dictionary to form your base vocabu...
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Images for the Days of the WeekI asked Sandra Salsbury (the main artist for the Most Awesome Lists) if I could commission her to create images that could be used to learn the 7 days of t...
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The French Pronunciation Trainer ResourcesHi! If you're seeing this, you've probably purchased my French Pronunciation Trainer (if not, you can get it at the store). I'm going to be using this page...
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How Long Does Making Flashcards Take?Today I got a chance to try and answer the question - 'How long does making new cards in Anki take?' I've tested this out in English before, timing how lo...
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The Assimil Language Method: Some ThoughtsRecently, a reader asked me whether I had heard of the Assimil method, and whether I'd recommend it or not. I had never really looked into them, and now th...
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A Guide to Language Learning With an italki TeacherAt 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...
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Ear Training FlashcardsThe Gallery – Phase 1: Sounds – Ear Training: Minimal Pair Flashcards These flashcards are designed to train your ears to hear new sounds. Basically, if yo...
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Is There A More Efficient Way to Learn Vocabulary?In most grammar classes and textbooks, you learn words in groups. You might learn about animals on one day and fruits the next. This is comfortable, both f...
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Spelling/Sound FlashcardsThe Gallery – Phase 1: Sounds – Eye Training: Spelling and Sound Flashcards These flashcards are designed to train your eyes to recognize spelling patterns...
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Learn GermanLearn German with these Resources To learn German, you’re going need a way to learn correct pronunciation, a frequency dictionary to form your base vo...
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How to Learn Verb Conjugations: A ToolkitI've gotten a lot of emails asking for help with grammar. Most of those emails had questions about learning verb conjugations, so I thought it might be han...
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No TranslationLearning a language without translating When you remove translation from your language learning process, you can learn to think in your target lan...
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The Fluent Forever Difference & Why We Made a Language AppA tech journalist recently asked me how Fluent Forever was different from existing products like Duolingo or Rosetta, and I realized that I didn't have a s...
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New Word Form FlashcardsThe Gallery – Phase 3: Abstract Words and Grammar Cards for New Word Forms Once you've built a foundation with several hundred simple vocabulary cards, you...
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Preposition Images for AnkiJust a short post that should prove useful if you've had trouble finding good pictures for prepositions (on, over, between) or directions (up, down, top, b...
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VocabularyChoosing your Vocabulary Vocabulary Size Now you have an incredibly efficient way to memorize words, you know how to teach yourself each word, and you k...
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The Japanese Radical Anki DeckSo I've begun learning Japanese, and as I discuss on my Logograms page, the first 3 steps to my plan have been to: Tackle the Japanese pronunciation s...
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Learning Grammar and Abstract Words Without TranslationWe've covered grammar a few times in the past, but as I'm in the middle of writing the grammar chapter in my book, this might be a nice opportunity to go t...
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Word Order FlashcardsThe Gallery – Phase 3: Abstract Words and Grammar Cards for Learning Word Order Once you've built a foundation with several hundred simple vocabulary cards...
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Three New Flashcard Types to Speed Up Flashcard CreationToday, I wanted to show you three new types of flashcards that I've been using lately to learn Spanish, along with a new flashcard model for...
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Japanese/ChineseHow to modify my methods for Chinese and Japanese Both of those languages use logograms (characters that represent meaning, rather than sound). This...
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Dealing With Homophones and Non Phonetic LanguagesI keep addressing this question in various forum/comment discussions, but I should discuss it here, because it addresses a lot of issues in a lot of langua...
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VideosVideo Tutorials Youtube videos are a great way to demonstrate some of these concepts - you can see exactly what I’m suggesting, hear pronunciation examples...
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Conversation Questions, Language Exchanges and the Science of FriendshipWhen learning a language, eventually you're going to need to actually talk to someone. The internet makes it stupidly easy to get in touch with new people...
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Learn JapaneseLearn Japanese with these resources: To learn Japanese, you’re going need a way to learn correct pronunciation, a frequency dictionary to form your ba...
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Fluent Forever Audiobook Resources and GuideAudiobook Resources & Guide Below are resources and links mentioned throughout the audiobook, organized for you chapter by chapter. We'v...
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Learn ChineseLearn Mandarin Chinese with these resources To learn Mandarin Chinese, you’re going need a way to learn correct pronunciation, a frequency dictionary...
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Learn EnglishLearn English with these Resources Until I translate the site, if you’re reading this, you’re at least an intermediate student. To learn English up to...
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The Chinese (Mandarin) Pronunciation Trainer ResourcesHi! If you're seeing this, you've probably purchased my Chinese (Mandarin) Pronunciation Trainer (if not, you can get it at the store). I'm going to be usi...
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Learn ItalianLearn Italian with these Resources To learn Italian, you’re going need a way to learn correct pronunciation, a frequency dictionary to form your base vo...
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Installing downloaded decksTutorial 3: Installing downloaded .zip decks NOTE: This tutorial is for Anki 1. Anki 2 is substantially easier; just doubleclick the .anki file and it shou...
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The Leitner Game ScheduleWelcome! For those of you who want to make a Spaced Repetition System with paper flashcards, I have a schedule here for you to print out! Download it her...
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How to Learn a Language’s Sound System with AnkiI've been fielding questions about my methods for Hungarian and how they might work for a less phonetic language like French, with multiple ways of spellin...
