I wrote a follow up blog post on my new strategy for achieving personal goals, this time declaring my New Month’s Resolutions for February. If you’re learning French, what are your learning goals for February? Setting yourself concrete learning goals is one of the best ways to ensure progress in a language.
Twelve tests per day can have a dramatic effect on how fast you can learn French.
I strongly recommend you set goals. We are going to making some great improvements to French Test in the coming weeks and months, and you’ll be able to set goals within the system. In the meantime, I recommend you just write them down.
Good language learning goals have a timeframe and are specific, so setting yourself a goal for February is a neat thing to do. If you’re actively using French Test to help you improve (and you really should, it’s a scientifically proven method – see Why is Taking Regular French Tests is SO Good for Grades?) then I recommend you set yourself a specific target number of tests to take each week. How many is up to you. If you’re on a free account you get 10 free tests per calendar month; just one test a week will move you forward in your learning and takes up only 5 minutes of your time each week. If you’re a paying subscriber with unlimited tests, then you can really ramp up your learning speed. You might want to do ten a week, or even five a day.
Testing daily can have a dramatic effect on how fast you learn French. The amazing timeline above is a genuine graph from one of our students. She’s taking on average twelve tests per day and rocketing up the learning curve! Since we measure your confidence based on how you answer test questions, we can prove to you that you’re learning. The test-driven learning cycle really works.
So, what are your French learning goals for February?
Gruff
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[Follow on Twitter: @gruffdavies] Despite the very Welsh name, Gruff is actually half French. Nowadays, he's a tech entrepreneur (and some-time novelist) but he used to be a physicist at Imperial College before getting hooked on inventing things. He has a special interest in language learning, speaks five languages to varying degrees of fluency and he often blogs about language learning, science, and technology. As well as co-founding Kwiziq, he is the author the Amazon best-selling SF thriller, The Looking Glass Club and the inventor of the Exertris gaming exercise-bike and Pidgin, a free online tool that makes drawing flow charts and relationship diagrams as quick and easy as describing them in pidgin English.