The one rule under everything else
Your eyes will always win
Depth beats volume
There is no ready
Prepare the things you always end up saying
That is where the freeze lives
Free, invisible, endless practice
Words alone do not come back
Meet a word right before you forget it
Frequency is your friend
Attach words to things, not to other words
Speak at the same time, not after
You cannot say what you cannot hear
Rhythm carries more than pronunciation
Progress is invisible from the inside
Review a word right before you would have forgotten it.
Pulling a word out of your head strengthens it. Looking at it again barely does.
Link the sound of the foreign word to a word you know, then picture the two together.
Place what you want to remember along a route you already know by heart.
A word alone gives a translation. A word in a sentence gives grammar, company and a situation.
Attach the new word to the thing, not to the word in your language.
Words attached to your own life are remembered far better than neutral examples.
Reading silently and saying it aloud are not the same memory event.
Twenty food words in a row are easy today and gone by Thursday.
Memory is stabilised during sleep, so the last thing you study gets a privileged pass.
A new word used once in a real message is worth about ten reviews.
Handwriting forces attention that typing lets you skip.
Ask it to speak only in your target language while you answer in your own.
Ask for a correction after each mistake, plus a second chance to say the sentence again.
Speak only in the target language, then ask for a numbered list of every mistake with corrections.
Roleplay the exact situation: the border, the interview, the restaurant, the difficult call.
Ask what a filler word means, when people use it, and how rude it is.
Ask for your sentence rewritten formal, neutral and casual.
Ask for a short passage at your level, then three questions about it, repeated twice.
Ask for the rule behind the correction and one more example of the same trap.
Ask it to give the word in your language and make you produce it in the other, not the reverse.
It invents idioms, flattens regional usage, and will happily agree that a wrong sentence is fine.