Blog
Notes from the workshop.
Long-form notes on language pedagogy, structured learning, and the occasional story about how Bookverse gets built.
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Why you forget what you study (and how to stop)
What the forgetting curve, Anki, and 50 years of psychology research can teach a language learner about which 60 minutes of study actually stick — and which evaporate by Friday.
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Nobody understands your Mandarin. It's almost certainly the tones.
The wall most intermediate Mandarin learners hit isn't grammar or vocabulary — it's tones. Here's why your textbook didn't prepare you, and what actually fixes it.
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Six months of building Bookverse, alone
Reflections from half a year of building a language-learning platform as a single developer — the boring middle, the speech-recognition rabbit hole, and what it taught me about scope.