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u/Standard_Turnover_14
4 months ago

My approach to learning German up to C1+

from scratch
Discussion
Hello everyone, i would like to share my approach of how i am learning German in the hopes of
reaching Fluency and finally taking the C1 exam if possible by the end of the year. MY GOAL
FROM THIS POST is to get advice from advanced learners on whether my approach is good or i
need to adjust some things. I. Studying 3 to 5 hours a day depending on free time and mood.
When i first started, APRIL 2022, i wasted 3 months finding out what works for me. Until i made
up my mind on sticking to assimil and anki-ing every word.
I found that working on active recall took twice as much time and slowed me down. So halfway
through assimil i focused mainly on passive recall and throughout my journey i found out that the
more i review these words and come up across them when reading, they started to feel more like
second nature and i could recall them. (Often frequent words).
I didn't do much listening practice, i found that even when reading,my comprehension was slow and
had to read several times and really focus to get a meaning. Listening to the advanced assimil
lessons i was able to only get the gist and overall idea.
After being done with assimil, i found out that i couldn't read anything or even watch anything in
German due to lack of vocabulary, even though at hat time i had learned all assimil vocabulary+
extra and had around 3k words and sentences on my anki. This is where i opted to reading+anki
only.
So nowy approach is reading only, and anki ing every unkown word. I read up to this day, 29 graded
readers A2 LEVEL. at the beginning, few pages would take me 3 hours, going slowly and looking
up 40-60 unkown of words every 3-4 pages or so.
At the moment,after 2 and a half months of daily reading, i am even able to skim through A2
readers text fast and harvest 1 or 2 unkown words per page. I am satisfied. In a few days i will
finish reviewing assimil then switch to reading b1/b2 readers, and i have about 6k anki 90% words
and expressions which i have harvested from reading. AND I WAS SURPRISED, assimil audios
became easily distinguishable and understandable even the last difficult lessons... With barely any
LISTENING practice...
My plan is to keep reading," please note that German is easy to pronounce, and i have already good
grasp on pronunciation, i also check every unkown words pronunciation before adding it into anki
"until b2 readers start feeling natural and facing minimal unkown words, then keep reading but only
10% of my time, but focus on input from media and dubbed content while working on a grammar
book along with that to solidify my knowledge.
As for speaking, i do 1 hour a week with a penpal. I plan to up that when i feel i could follow
conversations without being held back by unkown words. German is complicated with plenty of
synonyms and has dozen ways of saying the same thing.
Tldr: acquired a good grasp on basic grammar and pronunciation by working on assimil. Then
switched to only reading+ anki every unkown words, basically only intenive reading until i would
be able to read fluently B2+ texts while facing not much unkown words. Then switch to media input
and work on a grammar book to solidify my grammar knowledge. I do 1 hour speaking every week
with a native speaker.
Razwog
· 4 mo. ago · edited 4 mo. ago
En (N) Fr (B2) De (C1) Es (A1)

I'm a C1 German language speaker looking to write the C2 exam soon, and I have some thoughts
about what you're saying here.
Taking seven months to get to A2 without taking any courses is commendable, but I can't see how it
would be possible for you to be C1 by the end of the year.
Getting to A2 is the 'easy' part. At the beginning, you'll learn the language really fast, but at the
intermediate stage there's practically always a point where the language learning plateaus, around
B1 or B2. That isn't to say nothing is happening, it's just a time where stuff solidifies. It's frustrating
to feel like you aren't progressing even though you're cramming full-time.
In my opinion, there's also a massive gulf between B2 German and C1 German. B2 speakers can get
by in Germany, but it can be tough. Even then, B2 isn't exactly low level. At a high B2 in university
I was reading full-blown books, but that wouldn't be considered C1. Neither would being able to
speak about most topics a bit haltingly.
With a C1 level in German, I could essentially talk to people in German at a loud technoklub or file
my taxes or deal with my resident permit or argue with the ticket controllers on the bus. I could live
with other Germans and talk about anything practically all day without getting burnt out. I could
read German literature from Stefan Zweig, Goethe, Humboldt and Immanuel Kant and write essays
in German about what I'd read.
It took me three years to get to C1 while working almost nonstop on my German because it was one
of my majors and I'd say that was really fast.
You've made so much progress, but I would set the goal for B2 instead. It took me a year and four
months to get to B2 and that was considered quick, even though it was literally one of my majors,
and I still had to take a 6 credit intensive over the summer where I basically only did German all
day for 2 months straight to get to that level. If you managed a B2 by the end of the year you'd be
practically a wunderkind already as far as learning German is concerned.
What I would change:
• Listening is way more important than you're giving it credit for. I would absolutely listen to
shows and podcasts in German, it's a crucial component of getting to a high speaking level.
I'd start off with kids shows (yes, really) like Wakfu, Voltron, She-Ra, Avatar, on Netflix and
listen to it in German, if you're actively watching that's even better. Start with English
subtitles, watch them through and then watch it again with German subtitles. Bonus: Notice
 when the subtitles and spoken German is different? That'll help you learn how the same idea
can be expressed in different ways!
• I'd listen to a shitton more podcasts. At around B1 I started listening to a history podcast
even though it was really hard because listening to perfect Hochdeutsch spoken by
professors was really good. That's what really good Hochdeutsch sounds like, and it can be a
huge help for pronunciation.
• I'd use Deutsche Welle WAY more. Deutsche Welle is free, and it's got a shitton of resources
that I wish I'd used earlier. Lots of articles, listening, and quizzes afterwards to test whether
you really understood what was said. Don't sleep on it.

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TricolourGem
· 4 mo. ago

I know a native English speaker who went from A1 German to C1 German in 1 year, verified with a
certificate.
The method:
1. Move to Germany
2. Intensive university program for 8 months
3. During this, use ReadLang every day + flashcards for unknown word with the goal to absorb
as much content as possible
Other skills were quickly picked up in #1 / #2.
Razwog
· 4 mo. ago
En (N) Fr (B2) De (C1) Es (A1)

The intensive university program definitely would make that feasible, especially while living in
Germany and getting full immersion. That's still one helluva achievement.
Imo university programs are the fastest way to speedrun a language, since the professors involved in
the courses have spent decades figuring out how to cram as much necessary info into you as
humanly possible without making you totally burn out.

TricolourGem
· 4 mo. ago

He said he was a weak C1, not one with an enormous breadth. But remember, he lived in the target
country. He had exposure 24/7 and was pushed outside his comoft zone. Even read dozens of books
3h-4h on many days, developed friendships speaking German.
Any story of someone rapidly learning a language comes from living in the society. It's not the same
thing as 2h-4h self study in your bedroom. It's like 12h per day in a targeted system. FSI
recommends an average 36 weeks in their intensive program.
His experience was optimal conditions.

creamyturtle
· 4 mo. ago · edited 4 mo. ago

I still don't believe it, sorry. are you a C1? I live in colombia now and my friend is a C1 in english.
he took 8 years of english classes to get there lol
I came here six months ago as a B2 and took 2 hours a day of uni classes as a refresher. I'm still not
a C1. before that I had a live-in girlfriend for 4 years who spoke zero english. four freaking years of
daily struggle in this language after I already had a strong base of 4 years of formal classes. still not
a C1. and I'm a straight A student type where learning came easy for me. I studied for fun on my
own and crushed half the duolingo tree. I lived in Spain for 6 weeks at university. I lived with a host
family for 10 days in costa rica in highschool. I also spent 7 years at a job where I travelled south
america selling auto parts in spanish (with an interpreter).
unfortunately I'm still not a C1. C1 is a hurculean achievement that requires literally thousands of
hours. the gap between b2 and c1 is massive
TricolourGem
· 4 mo. ago · edited 4 mo. ago

I'm not a C1 learner, though I'm not sure why that's relevant. It's not a self-assessment on his or my
part, he has the cert.
Everyone has a different experience, ability, and methods learning languages so you cannot
compare everyone as the same.
I am Canadian and I can tell you a lot of immigrants here stall out at B2 English, (sometimes even
B1 or A2 for the older crowd). Why? Because they stop learning. Whatever their level is, is
sufficient for their life. People have the ability to continue their education but they just don't.
crushed half the duolingo tree
Unless you're A0 to A1 this is mostly a waste of time.
I lived in Spain for 6 weeks at university. I lived with a host family for 10 days in costa
rica in highschool. I also spent 7 years
He took an 8-month accelerated language-learning program in the source country. He was dedicated
to studying language skills, he was not taking history classes or just talking to friends. Like I
mentioned before, if someoen is not focused on improving the mistakes they make or depth into the
4 competencies then they can either stall out or get really good in 1-2 of the competencies but not
the other.
sorry. are you a C1?
Coming back to this, are you even familiar with the C1 exam? I haven't written it myself, but just
viewing the exam videos on Youtube it's not as hard as you think to pass the exam. There is a time
limit to how long u speak for, they ask you direct questions that you can choose to answer how you
please, and you can prepare for a testing environment in advance. They are mostly looking to see if
you are a fluid speaker who can think. They can't test if you know the 15,000th most common word.
Someone could know only 1,000-2,000 more words than B2 but have a much stronger grasp of
using the language that they pass C1. And it may not take that long for people to get very good at
using the knowledge they already acquired, assuming they actively practice it with that purpose.
C1 is a hurculean achievement that requires literally thousands of hours.
That's more like C2 which is near native. Ultimately here I think you are overestimating C1. You
don't need to have a conversation in philosophy, science, etc. to be C1. Although you would have
the skills to converse with someone on these topics and learn from them, i.e. ask clarifying
questions and follow train of thought. These skills of comprehension and production are tested.
I can also speak to pace of learning that I've experienced myself. I believe one learn quicker if their
studying is more dense than sparse. For example, compare studying 1) a word list on anki once /
month for 12 months vs 2) a word list on Anki every day for 12 days. Test someone on month 13 vs
day 13, which one has higher comprehension? In all cases, repetition is important but the more
spaced out the more you forget and do not establish building blocks.
There are periods in my language journey where I had sparse learning over 3 months and didn't
learn much, more of a pleateau, but 3-week spirts of 4+ hours studying every day where I learned a
ton because everything came together and clicked.
creamyturtle
· 4 mo. ago

I've taken the online CEFR test exam a few times. sometimes I can pass C1, and sometimes I can't.
I've had way more immersion than your friend. Like I said I've lived in my TL country for 6 months
and take 2 hours per day of university classes. the only more immersive course is 4 hours per day.
after a few hours of study your brain gets fried and you're not learning much. and even then, your
friend doesn't have 4 years of classes or 4 years of practice with a native like I do to fall back on.
there's no way that dude is ahead of me in terms of practice or education. plus spanish is an easier
language than german
C2 is basically native and almost nobody reaches that level. anything under that is C1. your friend
might have dedicated 8 months to his language, but I've dedicated a decade of my life to it, and I
can communicate about as well as a native 7 year old in spanish. languages are hard
your friend is probably just good at taking tests, he's not a real C1 by any stretch of the imagination
MungoBeaver
· 4 mo. ago

For reading and higher level grammar and vocabulary, ,,der treffende Ausdrück” is fantastic
For listening, watch Tagesschau and Deutschewelle news. Tagesschau news is purposefully spoken
at slower speed so people can understand it. More so, if you keep up with news in mother tongue,
you have context for what they are saying.
Put subtitles on so you can see the words they are saying.
lazydictionary
· 4 mo. ago · edited 4 mo. ago
🇺🇸 Native | 🇩🇪 B1/B2 | 🇪🇸 A2

Neglecting listening entirely is going to cost you in the long run.

Start listening now. Watch TV shows with subtitles. Then rewatch episodes without them. This
helps train your ears to pick up sounds you already know.
Everyone is going to be a stronger reader than listener - but if the gap becomes too large, it's
extremely demotivating.
Imagine being able to read a scientific textbook but struggle to listen to a children's cartoon. You're
never going to want to practice listening if you think it's beneath your level.

fightitdude
· 4 mo. ago
🇬🇧 🇵🇱 N | 🇩🇪 🇸🇪 C1

+1 for listening. I've found it's actually the most effective way for me to develop my comprehension
in a foreign language, and listening is often a much stronger skill for me than reading. I attribute
most of my success in Swedish (zero to C1 in under 12 months) to having spent a lot of hours on
listening - podcasts, TV shows, panel shows, etc.

Efficient_Horror4938
· 4 mo. ago

If you have any advice/tips for this strategy I’m all ears - anything you found particularly useful in
the early stages? My Latvian is not good enough to follow really much that’s happening in content
for natives, and, unlike German, I can’t find a lot of comprehensible input. So I’m listening a lot,
but not sure it’s giving me much compared to intensive reading at this point, which is a shame,
because the important part for me is to be able to listen…
fightitdude
· 4 mo. ago
🇬🇧 🇵🇱 N | 🇩🇪 🇸🇪 C1

Comprehensible input really is the magic word here, unfortunately. Swedish is a lucky one because
there's just so many resources available, and it's close enough to English that it's very quick to learn.
I'll describe roughly what I used, but I don't know whether you'll be able to find equivalent
resources in Latvian (and the timelines will be very extended for Latvian):
• Week 1-2: watched Hilda on Netflix with Swedish audio and English + Swedish subtitles.
Didn't understand much without the English, but it helped me train my ear into the sound of
the language.
• Week 2-4: listened to Nyheter på lätt svenska, which is the news in Swedish with simple
language and slow, clear speaking. Something like this, if you can find it, is super useful for
improving your understanding. I finished the A2 textbook at this point so I could
 understand/follow along even if I didn't know all the words. If I didn't know a word or
phrase I'd keep going, then relisten and note them down with definitions into Anki. (Edit:
there is an equivalent in Latvian! https://www.lsm.lv/temas/zinas-vieglaja-valoda/)
• Month 2-4: started on podcasts so I no longer had the crutch of subtitles. I started with
'easier' ones, on topics I was familiar with and that included a lot of English vocab so I could
follow along. The magic thing seemed to be podcasts about music aimed at teenagers - not
super complex language, lots of English scattered in, and familiar enough to follow. Again,
unfamiliar words/phrases went into Anki, but I tried not to pause too much. Once I was
comfortable with the easier ones I started upping the difficulty to unfamiliar topics.
• Month 4 onwards: mostly watching panel shows (to get exposure to 'real'/unscripted
language and accents) and listening to podcasts on politics / the economy. I also started
taking a C1 class at this point (previously only self-study).

Efficient_Horror4938
· 4 mo. ago

Thank you! I'm trying to speedrun to get good at listening in everyday situations by July, and I'm
not starting from zero, so even with a stretched timeline, hopefully I'll get there!
I'm glad to hear you've found the simple news useful. I had come across it, as one of the few things
with simple language and (almost) matching audio/words, but haven't spent much time with it - I
will now! And I've found a nature documentary for kids that I hope I can get to watching soon,
which seems similar to your music podcasts. You make it feel doable, so thanks for that, too :)
BlueDolphinFairy
· 4 mo. ago
🇸🇪 (🇫🇮) N | 🇺🇸 🇫🇮 🇩🇪 C1/C2 | 🇵🇪 ~B2

Getting from A2 to C1+ is a very ambitious goal. Reading is a great way to learn a language and
combined with Anki it's probably one of the most effective ways of learning vocabulary, but I think
you may be making a mistake by neglecting listening practice this early in your studies.
German pronunciation may seem easy to you because you do not have sufficient listening practice
to hear the errors that you make and how the words you are studying with Anki and subvocalizing
while reading may just be slightly mispronounced or simply sounding slightly odd to a native
speaker. This is something that is very difficult to correct at a later point.
So my advice to you would be to add listening practice. A lot of listening practice. If you absolutely
refuse to do both reading and listening practice simultaneously, then choose to do only listening
practice for now (although both is preferred) until your skills improve and you can go back to
focusing more on reading again.

nbeepboop
· 4 mo. ago

While I was learning Spanish, I went through multiple teachers. Each focused on different aspects
of the language more than the other (reading, writing, listening, speaking). But the most success I
ever had was with my last teacher who focused almost exclusively on listening. She did her entire
PhD in Argentina on how the brain learns language.
How does a baby learn to speak? Through listening and repetition. She would have me watch a
Spanish movie 5 minutes at a time (or even smaller chunks or a min or 2) and just listen 1x, then 2x,
then 3x I could turn the Spanish subtitles on. In Spanish conversation with my teacher, I noticed I
would say things (correctly) I never studied but heard without even trying. You will be stunned at
how much language you can learn by chilling out and giving yourself even just 15min/day of
focused listening. It’s even more helpful if you get comfy and lay down and listen to a language
podcast and close your eyes and really hear what they’re saying.
Truth is, if you don’t focus on listening, you won’t be able to have conversations with people. You
will get upset because you can’t understand them, or they speak too fast, because you haven’t
trained your ear to hear what they’re saying.
Standard_Turnover_14
Op · 4 mo. ago

Do you mean with video+subtitles/audiobooks or try to listen without script?

dcporlando
· 4 mo. ago
En N | Es B1?
One of my goals this year is to listen to a chapter a day from the Bible in Spanish. YouVersion Bible
app has tons of translations in tons of languages. I got a friend doing it in German while I am doing
it in Spanish. He started a week after me but he says it has been very helpful. The combination of
reading and listening is fantastic.
I also take the text and import it to LingQ for using to build vocabulary.

Nightshade282
· 4 mo. ago
Native:🇺🇸 Learning:🇯🇵🇫🇷
I should do that too. I would kill two birds with one stone because my dad has been on my back
about reading the bible recently. I just get worried that I accidently read the French equivalent of the
KJV, but I feel like I notice if that's the case

BlueDolphinFairy
· 4 mo. ago
🇸🇪 (🇫🇮) N | 🇺🇸 🇫🇮 🇩🇪 C1/C2 | 🇵🇪 ~B2
I mean a combination of different types of listening and different materials. Podcasts at your level,
cooking shows, documentaries, soap operas, talk shows, news broadcasts, TV shows, audiobooks
etc. Definitely don't limit yourself to only one source, but it may be a good idea to spend some time
with material at or just above your level to start with.
A while ago I read a study that came to the conclusion that listening without subtitles is better for
learning, but you could do a combination of both if you prefer as long as you practice listening. A
lot.

SimplyChineseChannel
· 4 mo. ago
中文(N), 🇨🇦(C), 🇪🇸(B), 🇯🇵/🇫🇷(A)

Why are you avoiding LISTENING?

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Standard_Turnover_14
Op · 4 mo. ago
I am not avoiding it. I find it pointless if i don't understand most of the worlds.. it feels like wasted
time which could be used learning more words and pushing towards a comprehension level where i
could just relax from learning many words a day and focus more on just listening and input. Some
say, i need 10k vocabulary for that. I know half of that, and i find it challenging listening to
podcasts because half the vocabulary is unkown. I have assimil audio, and i could hear it very well.

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sipapint
· 4 mo. ago
Assimil is perfect to make cards with just audio at front. Also pairing audiobooks with books is
reasonable.

ragedaile
· 4 mo. ago
🇫🇷N 🇬🇧C1 🇵🇱B1 🇪🇸A2
10k words seem huge I passively understand maybe 2500 in polish (without counting declensions
different forms etc...) And I can understand a LOT. I'm not really taking any measures but I work in
Polish, my speaking is really awful but I understand whatever people are talking about around me.
And believe me Polish has a lot of words, I have no experience with German so maybe it's the same
but one French word (my native language) can often be translated by 5, 6, 7 or even more words in
polish.
Reading on the other hand is a real pain for me, literary words are countless and they use literary
equivalents for extremely basic word like to speak or to say. So I'm getting around it but much
slower than with listening. I think you should be aware that a lot of words that are used in books are
just not used in the spoken language so the vocabulary you're learning might be excellent for
reading but less usefulfor daily speech or just listening.
What I like to do is to just listening about one topic, history, politics, one specific video game etc...
Building all the vocabulary I need for that one specific topic and then going to another one a bit
similar but still different or just larger. And little by little you gain vocabulary for all topics.
So in to summarize, 10k seems a lot, reading doesn't require the same words as listening, you can
develop your listening little by little which is, I think, very efficient.

StrongIslandPiper
· 4 mo. ago
EN N | ES C1 | 普通话 Absolute Beginner
There's absolutely no way you can get to even a solid B2 without listening. It's a good idea to listen
to natural speech early and often. If you know 5,000 words, you already know enough to start
listening, because once you start, there's the added hurdle of actually understanding the words that
you already know. That could take months and months and even after you have a handle on it,
you're not there yet.
It's not a numbers game. It's a common mistake people make to put off listening, to the point that
you hear a lot of people (even those who post here) saying that they can read fine, but for some
reason, can't understand people naturally speaking in their target language.
That's why people keep stressing that you need to listen.

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SimplyChineseChannel
· 4 mo. ago
中文(N), 🇨🇦(C), 🇪🇸(B), 🇯🇵/🇫🇷(A)
I see. You are taking a different approach. I, on the other hand, just focus on LISTENING!
Listening to comprehensible input (Dreaming Spanish videos in particular). And at the same time
avoiding READING, WRITING and SPEAKING until a much later stage when I’m actually ready
to speak.
If interested, you can look at this:
https://www.dreamingspanish.com/method
And this:
https://www.dreamingspanish.com/blog/the-10-commandments-of-language-acquisition

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Standard_Turnover_14
Op · 4 mo. ago
I think it's the same as refold. Right?

bildeglimt
· 4 mo. ago
I've spent a fair amount of time digging into both of these approaches. While they're both
immersion-heavy approaches, the underlying philosophy is quite different.
Refold is about hacking your way to understanding even a little bit of the language, giving you a
slight toe-hold. Then throwing yourself in the deep end and getting massive amounts of immersion
(including passively listening to content, even if you don't understand it).
Refold uses a lot of memorization and translation, and some active study (phonetics, grammar) but
with a focus on unlocking comprehension. So you're not studying with the goal of constructing
sentences, but rather priming your brain to start noticing things and understanding things.
Most of the initial immersion has very low comprehensibility, so the process is quite slow, but has
excellent results if people stick with it long enough.
Refold suggests to avoid speaking at first, but mostly because they say it will harm your accent
long-term. Once you hit a certain threshold of comprehension, Refold recommends actively
practicing output. They suggest that you start with writing, as it gives you time to think and
construct your sentences. They also recommend actively doing exercises to improve pronunciation.
The Dreaming Spanish approach actively discourages reading, writing, speaking, grammar study,
and memorization.
From what I can tell, this has nothing to do with aiming for a better accent long term, but rather that
active study creates different pathways in the brain than learning through context does, and so the
end result will feel different if you actively translate and memorize vs if you don't.
Dreaming Spanish discourages speaking until words start popping out without having to think. Then
there will be a period of gradually finding that more and more of the language will be available to
you, and then there's a tipping point where it starts gushing out.
The Dreaming Spanish approach is quite a lot faster than Refold, due to the focus on ensuring that
input that is comprehensible from day 1.
Both approaches are interesting and get excellent results.

SimplyChineseChannel
· 4 mo. ago
中文(N), 🇨🇦(C), 🇪🇸(B), 🇯🇵/🇫🇷(A)

Wow! Excellent analysis! Thanks so much! Now I kind of know Refold better.
One minor correction about Dreaming Spanish is that Pablo does believe early reading/speaking
will cost you on your accent. He detailed his argument here in this blog (and many others): Two
Kinds of Foreign Accents https://www.dreamingspanish.com/blog/two-kinds-of-foreign-accents

bildeglimt
· 4 mo. ago · edited 4 mo. ago
Thanks, I hadn't seen that bit.
I apparently focused more on the parts where he talks about not having to think.

sipapint
· 4 mo. ago
There is a lot of voodoo here about this approach. How can it create different brain pathways? Any
evidence? Few weeks ago, a bunch of people posted their's progress, and they were hundreds of
hours into the process, but not even closing the gap to a native content. Kinda sad. OP is right that
listening isn't too efficient in learning a vocabulary and a grammar. We are pattern recognition
machines, and written words sticks a bit longer. However, it is possible to go along with both what
gives a nice headstart. It's a massive commitment, so I want to be able to read and listen as fast as
possible, because it is the point where things start to get exciting.

bildeglimt
· 4 mo. ago
I have no skin in the game with either method, I am just trying to lay out my understanding of the
differences.
In terms of brain pathways, I may have phrased it wrong. I was trying to express that for Dreaming
Spanish the focus with respect to the results seem to be as much about how natural it *feels* as
opposed to how natural it *sounds*.
But as /u/SimplyChineseChannel pointed out, it looks like Pablo also has a focus on the resulting
accent, so that's less of a difference than I originally thought.

SimplyChineseChannel
· 4 mo. ago
中文(N), 🇨🇦(C), 🇪🇸(B), 🇯🇵/🇫🇷(A)

There’s a lot of research behind this. But if you wanna call it voodoo. Fine!

SimplyChineseChannel
· 4 mo. ago
中文(N), 🇨🇦(C), 🇪🇸(B), 🇯🇵/🇫🇷(A)

Somewhat! But I haven’t looked into Refold in details. Does Refold also promote using ANKI to
remember vocabulary? This method does NOT do any vocabulary memorizing using flashcards or
ANKI.