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Memory, language teaching, and how this thing is actually built, including the parts that went wrong.
Why a picture beats a translation
The keyword method has been studied since the seventies, it works in every language pair anyone has tested, and almost no software builds it in properly.
7 minute readMethodHow the schedule decides when to ask
Every card carries two numbers. Between them they work out the day your memory of that word falls to ninety percent, and that is the day it comes back.
8 minute readPracticalWriting hooks that actually stick
A practical guide, with the five rules, the three traps, and worked examples in four languages.
6 minute readTeachingThe twelve words your class is losing
Completion tells you somebody clicked. This is the report that tells you what to teach on Monday, and how to read it without over-reacting.
6 minute readMethodGender is not a second thing to learn
Teaching that a noun is feminine as a separate fact is twice the work and half the recall. Put it in the picture instead.
5 minute readProductWhy there are no streaks
A streak measures whether you opened an app. We would rather show you the thing you were actually trying to build.
5 minute readMethodThe memory palace is not a gimmick
Two and a half thousand years old, still the strongest technique anybody has found for ordered material, and it takes about ten minutes to build your first one.
6 minute readPracticalWhat a first month actually looks like
Real numbers at fifteen minutes a day, including the week where it gets heavier and what to do about it.
5 minute readEngineeringBuilt in the open, including the bugs
What it takes to ship a plugin that has never run on a live install, and the four bugs the test suite found that reading the code did not.
7 minute readAlso from us
Written in WordPress rather than shipped with the plugin.
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