Tag: Input

Handling Forms and User Input in React

Forms are a essential part of many web applications. They allow users to interact with the application and provide data. In React, there are two ways to handle forms: controlled components and uncontrolled components. Controlled components are the preferred way to handle forms in React. In a cont...

How Comprehensible Input Skyrocketed My Mandarin

I’ve been studying Chinese Mandarin for about six years now and a good part of those years consisted of struggling to get pass the intermediate slump. While I was amassing new vocabulary and grammar, they ultimately meant nothing when I could barely comprehend native speakers. Determined...

90 Days of learning Portuguese with comprehensible input

In September I began to study Brazilian Portuguese. Since then I have read over 115,000 words and listened to over 70 hours of Portuguese. This has helped me make faster progress in a foreign language than I ever thought possible. In school I was not good at languages. I was a smart kid, but when...

Incomprehensible Input for Advanced Language Learning

“Hoy se bebe, hoy se gata… hoy se fuma como un rata… si dio lo permite… Hmm doesn’t make sense, but OK.” My career as a Bad Bunny impersonator was off to a bad start. Every once in a while, when I feel very confident in my Spanish abilities, I walk into a st...