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Language hubs Each language has its own page: the guide, flashcards, a reading list and articles. 12 Vietnamese English Chinese Spanish Korean Japanese Greek French German Italian Russian Arabic
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Enter the day you first studied, and get the next nine review dates. Built for the things software struggles to cut into cards: a lecture, a chapter, a page of Cornell notes.
Public Resource, curated by Thom
Paste a poem or a passage, then fade away words and letters across five steps until you can recite it with nothing on the page.
Public Resource, curated by Thom
Paste an English passage, tap the words that are new to you, and each one becomes a card with its part of speech, a translation, the collocation from that very passage, and a video of a native speaker saying it.
Brown, Roediger & McDaniel
The definitive popular account of the science of successful learning — retrieval, spacing, interleaving, and why the most comfortable way to study is the least effective one.
Yana Weinstein, Megan Sumeracki, and Oliver Caviglioli
Six evidence-backed learning strategies, presented visually — a book deliberately designed according to the principles it recommends.
Daniel T. Willingham
The practical manual Make It Stick never provided — fourteen chapters on reading, lectures, exams, procrastination and anxiety, written directly for the learner.
Gabriel Wyner
An opera singer rebuilds language learning from the ear upward — the most practical book on this shelf, and the most demanding to actually follow.
Daniel T. Willingham
A cognitive scientist explains how the mind works and what it means for teaching — the most useful book here if you stand in front of a class.