Tag: Approach

Reached 900 total hours of immersion. Continued to immerse in chosen focus areas (history and historical fantasy). Recovered from a long hiatus away from language learning. Greatly improved Audiobook comprehension. Started Outputting. For reasons unrelated to language learning, I had to step away...

This is my second update for my Spanish learning journey with the refold approach. For my first update see here. For more information about the Refold approach see here. General Progress Reached 400 total hours of immersion. Finished my first non-translation book. Reached level 5 und...

This is my sixth update for my Spanish learning journey with the refold approach. For my first update see here. For my second update see here. For my third update see here. For my fourth update see here. For my fifth update see here. For more information about the Refold app...

Started to output! Reached 1100 hours of immersion. Realized the importance of consistent immersion in maintaining language level. Realized how far I have to go in terms of vocabulary. It’s been a while since my last update, life always seems to get in the way of Spanish. Luckily Spanish al...

Background: The mass immersion approach(MIA) is a language-learning method based on the input hypothesis developed by linguist Stephen Krashen. The input hypothesis basically states that language is acquired through exposure to comprehensible input. Improvement comes from when you advance your compr...

In short: Some people think that the gender concept evolves with time, other people think that it’s a fundamental, unchanging truth. Why do we have such a gap with two distinct contrasting views? I might as well rephrase this question to: Why does half of the population resist the idea t...

In my opinion Psychedelics are one of the most important frontiers of human understanding right now. It is a strange fact of history that they have been eclipsed and banned when their use has been so widespread, prevalent and foundational to human societies, but here we are. The unknown is to be fea...

Onan industrial side street in Providence, Rhode Island, down by the train tracks, below the freeway, an effort is underway to pull lives back from the precipice of America’s opioid epidemic. Early next year, if all goes according to plan, a safe space for people who use drugs will open the...