Guides
Short, practical guides about reading in a foreign language and keeping the words you meet along the way.
How to read foreign news articles without losing your place
A reading routine that keeps you inside the article: when to look a word up, when to guess, and how to save the sentence so you can come back to it later.
Read the guide →How to capture words from foreign sites into Anki
Collect words as you browse, keep the source sentence, and turn them into an Anki-ready import file in a few minutes — without copy-pasting into a spreadsheet.
Read the guide →How to memorize vocabulary so it actually stays
Why re-reading word lists fails, and the three techniques that make vocabulary stick: retrieval practice, spaced review, and keeping the sentence the word came from.
Read the guide →How to keep a vocabulary notebook you will actually review
Most vocabulary notebooks become graveyards. Structure yours — paper or digital — so words stay findable, keep their context, and get reviewed.
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