Science Curiosities

October 18, 2026 • 12 min read

Is It Better to Learn Words by Category or by Situation?

Learning English words in groups seems like an obvious idea. Colors go together, foods belong together, and travel vocab

October 18, 2026 • 12 min read

Series · Part 2/3

Should You Repeat the Same Example Sentence or Try Different Ones?

Repeating a familiar example sentence can make a new English expression easier to remember. But seeing that expression i

October 18, 2026 • 11 min read

Deep dive Series · Part 1/3

Can You Learn Vocabulary While Doing Something Else?

Learning English while doing something else sounds convenient. But does listening in the background actually help you re

September 12, 2026 • 9 min read

Why learning a word is not the same as being able to use it

You are reading in another language and come across a word you know immediately. A few hours later, you want to use that

September 11, 2026 • 7 min read

Why Your Own Vocabulary Collections Can Work So Well

Pre-made vocabulary lists have their place. They can introduce common words, cover important topics, and give beginners

September 11, 2026 • 6 min read

Why Some Words Stick: Association, Context, and Memory in Vocabulary Learning

Learning a new word is easy. Being able to recall it days or weeks later—and actually use it—is much harder. Research on

Why 15 minutes a day beats 3 hours on sunday

August 26, 2026 • 14 min read

Deep dive

Why 15 minutes a day beats 3 hours on sunday

A three-hour Sunday session feels productive — but the research on memory and habit formation tells a different story. H

August 25, 2026 • 13 min read

Deep dive

The Science of Language Retention

Most language learners aren't lacking discipline or talent — they're up against a well-documented feature of how memory

July 30, 2026 • 15 min read

What Kind of Word Is It - and What Is It Doing?

A noun is not the same as a subject, and a verb does not always tell the whole story of a sentence. This guide explains

Who Did What to Whom? How Languages Signal Roles in a Sentence

July 30, 2026 • 21 min read

Series · Part 2/2

Who Did What to Whom? How Languages Signal Roles in a Sentence

English relies heavily on word order. Japanese places particles after noun phrases. Hungarian uses case endings. Spanish

A Word Is Not the Same as Its Role: Understanding Parts of Speech and Sentence Functions

July 30, 2026 • 15 min read

Series · Part 1/2

A Word Is Not the Same as Its Role: Understanding Parts of Speech and Sentence Functions

Why can the same noun be the subject in one sentence and the object in another? Is the subject always the person who per

July 9, 2026 • 8 min read

Why We Forget - and Why Spaced Repetition Works

Every learner has encountered this phenomenon: a new word that feels crystal clear today becomes completely inaccessible

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