RemeMate Blog
Notes on remembering words you actually meet.
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Why Word Lists Fail
A word list is a map of a language, not the language. Memorizing the 2,000 most common words rarely becomes vocabulary you can actually use — here is what the research supports instead.
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How to Take Notes During a Language Exchange
Language exchange notes only help if you reopen them. Take a few things during the call, tidy them in the fifteen minutes after, and decide what belongs to your partner.
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Three Shelves Toward Japan
A design student builds English from grammar books, vocabulary, and immersion, aiming at study abroad rather than a language collection.
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Between the Sink and the Page
How Zoe keeps several languages alive in the leftover minutes of work, study, cooking, and walking.