One short piece. Read out loud. Every day.
That is the whole method. We call it a kata.
You have not run out of motivation.
Six apps, four decks, a podcast, a notebook somewhere. Each one is reasonable. Together they are a schedule nobody keeps — and the collecting feels enough like progress to hide that nothing is compounding.
A few things account for almost all of the result. Everything else is a tax on the only thing that does compound: coming back tomorrow.
Two things, then.
Read something worth reading.
Short pieces on subjects you choose, in the language you are learning. Tap a sentence for the translation. Tap a word for what it means and how to say it.
Say it out loud.
Producing a language is harder than recognising it, and that is where the gain is. LangKata counts the words you have said, not the words you have seen.
A kata is one piece, read once.
In martial arts, a kata is a form you drill until it needs no thought. Here it is one short piece, read aloud, today — and again tomorrow. A short one runs to about two hundred words, which read aloud is a couple of minutes.
The discipline is yours. The convenience is ours: the piece is already written and waiting when you arrive.
Two numbers, and no others.
- Streak
- Days in a row you have turned up, across every language.
- Run
- Words read aloud without missing a day.
No badges, no ranks, no leagues, and nothing to compare with anybody else. A second thing to win is a second thing competing with the language.
One language at a time.
Arabic, Bengali, Chinese, English, French, Hindi, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish and Urdu. Change which one whenever you like — but not two at once. Two at once is the problem, not the solution.
What this will not do.
- Make you fluent by summer. Nothing will.
- Teach you grammar in order. This is practice, not a course.
- Get everything right. The pieces are written by a language model. They are good, and they are occasionally wrong — read them as practice material, not as reference.
If you want a syllabus, get a syllabus. This is the daily repetition a syllabus assumes you are already doing.