Phase 2: Build routines

Be Social

The hardest part was having that first lesson.

We expect it was way nicer than you’ve expected. Go ahead and book a five lesson pack, if you didn’t yet. The teacher gets a higher % of your money, and you’re making a commitment. Here is the link to book:

Book lessons on iTalki

And here is the link to send to your teacher about how to use the app: https://lingophant.com/for-teachers/

No one expects you to be perfect. Have a normal chat, and ask for recordings of the new words you learned. The more mistakes you make, the more you will learn.

How to never have an awkward silence?

• Know your interests that you want vocabulary for.
• Think of situations, so you can ask to role-play through them.
• Find out common interests with your teacher.

Use simple language, make mistakes, and ask for phrase recordings. Your goal is getting at least 30 new phrases from each lesson. That way you’ll have 300+ phrases at the end of your journey.

What you need to do to complete this week:

✅ Practice all your phrases. Try to keep those available to 0. How far are you from that?

✅ Go to your note with the link to listening material 2x this week and spend 30 minutes with the material. Review old Listening videos as well.

✅ Have another lesson, and schedule the next ones already. We’re building routines.

If anything is unclear, please do not hesitate to contact us through whatever platform you like. You can also answer to our emails. We really want to help you succeed and also learn where you’re stuck so we can make things clearer.

Thanks and good luck !

Work smarter, not harder

This is a reminder that you’re not wasting time. You’re actually saving time.

30-40 minutes per day is not a lot of time. Take it as seriously as a traditional language course where you sit three evenings per week and paid 500€ for.

But you should take it just as seriously.

Just because we have minimized the time to only three activities doesn’t mean you can take it lightly.

Be an opossum and act smarter. And you’ll get to the fun part of speaking very soon.

All you need to do to complete this week:

✅ Spend 2x 30 minutes on listening-reading practice, reviewing old videos.

✅ Have a lesson and try to get at least 30 new phrases from your teacher.

✅ And as always, practice those phrases daily. Keep those routines running.

A video about reviewing old Listening-Reading content

Vitor in this older video makes a good case for why and how to review content. From your app you can directly access video content. Well, here’s why reviewing content is actually quite rewarding:

Have a clever week dear fellow language learner!

Be cute, be fierce

Cats learn from imitation mainly (here’s a ridiculously long article about how cats learn).

You can also learn from imitation. Of sounds. With our “pronunciation training” feature. Somehow, we can recognize differences in sound, but we cannot yet point at the exact difference.

This means we need to learn to hear new sounds and differences. And no AI can help you here.

YOU need to hear the difference. Only then can you say it correctly. So try this feature when you’re stuck with some difficult words, to kill two birds with one meow.

Talking about cute and fierce,

Be fierce this week and in 12 weeks you can sound cute in your own personal way:

✅ Have your fourth lesson and get around 30 recordings again.

✅ Build a routine of daily practicing phrases in the app (keep the counter of available phrases at 0).

✅ Do at least 30 minutes of Listening-Reading, either review old content or listen to new content.