Comments on: Four language learning mini habits for big results in 2026 https://howtogetfluent.com/four-language-learning-mini-habits/ How to learn a foreign language. Methods, matrials and stories to help you maximise your effectiveness on the road to fluency Tue, 30 Dec 2025 23:53:31 +0000 hourly 1 By: Dr Popkins https://howtogetfluent.com/four-language-learning-mini-habits/#comment-56425 Sun, 06 Feb 2022 16:13:25 +0000 https://howtogetfluent.com/?p=10346#comment-56425 In reply to Carol Vang.

Great to hear, Carol. Let us know how it goes!

]]> By: Carol Vang https://howtogetfluent.com/four-language-learning-mini-habits/#comment-56422 Sun, 06 Feb 2022 14:19:17 +0000 https://howtogetfluent.com/?p=10346#comment-56422 Up until now, I have been afraid to try writing in Chinese. But I did write a paragraph about my cat one time. I wrote it in pinyin, and then let the computer put it into characters. Now I am going to try your one sentence a day idea, writing in Chinese characters. One sentence sounds fun, I even have my idea for my first one. Yesterday it snowed. I made spaghetti at home…

]]> By: Dr Popkins https://howtogetfluent.com/four-language-learning-mini-habits/#comment-55077 Sat, 01 Jan 2022 00:57:06 +0000 https://howtogetfluent.com/?p=10346#comment-55077 In reply to Irena.

It’s a classic advanced challenge, isn’t it. One thing you can do is practise talking or writing about topics that aren’t so familiar to you as a way of deliberately pushing your vocab boundaries. I made a short vid about this on the YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIGdCBh93BM but I think that at this level, we need to celebrate that there are only a few words pre page that we don’t know and, as you say, keep reading. Oh, and poetry is great for new words as it’s such concentrated language. Happy New Year! 🙂

]]> By: Irena https://howtogetfluent.com/four-language-learning-mini-habits/#comment-55071 Fri, 31 Dec 2021 23:29:00 +0000 https://howtogetfluent.com/?p=10346#comment-55071 Right now, I’m learning Czech and mostly focusing on reading. (I’ve set myself the goal of reading 10K pages of native-level Czech, and so far, I’m somewhere between 4K and 5K.) I never had the discipline for “a few pages per day”: I read in blocks once or twice per week. 🙂 I was wondering, though: do you have any tips for acquiring vocabulary at an advanced level? Reading is key (obviously), but the more advanced you get, the trickier it gets. An average page of an average Czech novel will have about 5-6 unknown words (unknown to me, that is). Alas, they’re always different words. 🙁 A word I look up might not reappear until 50 or 150 pages later, if it reappears at all. That has obvious consequences for vocabulary acquisition. A massive amount of reading (say, another 10K-20K pages) would turn those 5-6 unknown words into 2-3. (Or at least I imagine that would happen: that’s what I accomplished with French and Russian via massive amounts of reading.) Is there a better/faster way…?

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