a web or mobile client for #Ebisu would be neat but i just don't have the time https://github.com/fasiha/ebisu #SpacedRepetition #Anki. I'd like to do a head to head experiment like I did for Supermemo vs. Anki (https://www.momomori-eki.net/2020/11/16/battle-of-the-spaced-repetition-heavyweights-anki-vs-supermemo/ and https://www.momomori-eki.net/2021/01/08/battle-of-the-spaced-repetition-heavyweights-anki-vs-supermemo-part-ii/) but i do most of my learning on my phone these days on maternity leave.

My first suggestion for learning another language for USians would be Spanish, for a bajillion reasons:
- It's the second-most common language in the US
- You can use your skills to support immigrant communities from the Americas, if that's your jam. Or you could expand your dating pool, or just make friends; it's a choose-your-own-adventure!
- It's relatively easy compared to, say, Arabic or Mandarin, or even German. You can torrent all 5 Pimsleur levels and be relatively fluent after 150 days if you do all the half-hour lessons 1-per-day. There are lifetimes of teaching resources online, including on Youtube. And if you're in a big enough place, it's likely there's a Spanish practice group near you, or you could always find one online.
- It opens up an easy travel and emigration experience to pretty much the entire Americas except for Brazil, but even that's kind of not true since once you're good enough at Spanish, Portuguese is somewhat intelligible
- Language learning helps keep your mind sharp/prevents aging
- You can read news in other languages and escape the US media/culture bubble (though steer clear of El Pais and DW and other PMC-friendly, corporate-owned publications, since they often carry the same foreign news perspectives as US news outlets)
- The felt experience of speaking another language is like living in a magic/sci-fi movie; sometimes you feel like an intergalactic spy, or like you've entered another dimension that's visible from this one. Once you get that feeling, you always want more, which makes practice feel worth it even when it's hard.

I could probably go on but I think you get the point. Also, if you take away nothing else, whatever language you learn, you should torrent Pimsleur and/or use some other spaced-repetition whole-sentence learning system; learning grammar is actually not the best way to learn at first (maybe at all, unless you're a linguist), despite it being SO prevalent in how new languages are taught.

#Pimsleur #Spanish #language #LanguageLearning #SpacedRepetition

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(https://apps.ankiweb.net/)

Low-key Anki is a method for using Anki with constant ease factors and only two options — 🟩 pass and 🟥 fail — instead of the normal four (again, hard, good and easy).

💡 I implemented the low-key method using the new custom scheduling feature. Find out how and why you should consider using it here:
https://digitalwords.net/anki/low-key/