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Guides for language teachers and learners
Written for people who do this for a living, or who are serious enough about learning that they want the method rather than the encouragement.
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How to create a lesson
A lesson is a live document with its own URL that you and your student both edit during the call. Here is how to make one, what goes in it, and how it differs from a shared doc.
Lesson notes students actually reuse
Most lesson notes are written once and never opened again. The difference between notes that die and notes that get reused is structure, not effort — here is the format and the ten-minute workflow behind it.
How to read the IPA
You do not need the whole chart. You need the twenty symbols that differ from your expectations, plus the logic behind the layout — after which the rest is lookup.
Spaced repetition, explained properly
Why reviewing something just before you forget it beats reviewing it daily, what the intervals actually are, and the four mistakes that make most people's spaced repetition useless.
How to teach pronunciation online
Video lessons strip out the mouth, the room and half the frequency range. Here is a method for correcting pronunciation over video that does not rely on the student being able to see your tongue.
Guides for online language teachers
All 2 →Everything here is written for someone who teaches one-to-one or small-group language lessons over video, and who is trying to do it well without spending three unpaid hours preparing every lesson.
Lesson notes students actually reuse
Most lesson notes are written once and never opened again. The difference between notes that die and notes that get reused is structure, not effort — here is the format and the ten-minute workflow behind it.
How to teach pronunciation online
Video lessons strip out the mouth, the room and half the frequency range. Here is a method for correcting pronunciation over video that does not rely on the student being able to see your tongue.
Guides for language learners
All 1 →These are methods, not motivation. Each one is specific enough that you can start it this week and tell within a month whether it is working.
Phonetics and pronunciation reference
All 1 →Reference material you can come back to. If you teach pronunciation, this is the vocabulary you need in order to describe what a student is doing wrong.
How to use Teachee
All 1 →Short, complete answers to “how do I actually do this”. Each one ends by pointing at the teaching guide that explains why you would want to.