Hey reader,
An update: over on MondeLibrary I’ve expanded the resource count from 250 to over 600. Still another ~3,000 on the list at this stage 💀.
I’m not sure what my plan is to get through that amount. AI is helping a little, but I still need to check everything.
The good news, if you’re learning French, I’ve been focusing on that first. Go check it out if that’s you!
🛠️Resource spotlight: Fabulang
This is one I ran into while adding resources. Lots of bilingual stories in English, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, and German. Contains exercises at the end of each story. All completely free. What’s not to love?
🌐Language learning
Someone’s experience having studied very hard for a year but still finding they could barely speak at a Mexican dinner party. Very relatable. It’s a good reminder about how humbling language learning can be sometimes.
Someone on r/Anki asked what the perfect card looks like.
There are lots of great responses in that thread, it’s hard to pick out something to quote. Some of the best advice is in the top post. Instead, I decided to pick out something a little more buried.
I do make plain vocab (single-word) cards too, but I try to always complement them with at least 1–2 cards that use the word in context. Anecdotally I find that words I have context cards for are much less likely to become leeches or otherwise painful.
This interesting article got linked.
💻From around the web
Slang is more powerful than ever.
Someone at NYT claims they figured out who the elusive founder of Bitcoin really is, and they did it using hints in their language.
Some more on Starkey Comics.
One final thing:
Till next time!
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