Chances are, Glossika is pretty different from any other language app or textbook you might have used in the past. Our first sentences might be harder than you expected, the sentences you're seeing might seem random, and you might be confused as to how all of this is supposed to benefit you.
In this post, we'll discuss a few questions that likely ran through your mind during your first few sessions.
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Glossika is a lean app that strives to do one single thing as efficiently as possible: push you through as many level-appropriate sentences in your target language as possible within the period of time you devote to Glossika.
If you're following our "best practices", you'll strive to do 25,000 repetitions within a period of three to five months. (To give yourself a cushion in case you miss the odd day here and there, this works out to about 200 reps per day, or about an hour of focused training.)
Again, all you will be doing on Glossika during this time is listening, understanding, speaking, and reflecting.
We do not provide any explanation of the sentences you see, and none of them has any sort of context to them. They're practical and useful sentences, but they exist in a vacuum and likely won't fit together thematically. You won't be asked to conjugate any verbs or to fill in any blanks. You'll just work through session after session of five sentences, ideally repeating them out loud as you go.
By the time you finish your first hour on Glossika, you'll have spent pretty much the entirety of that hour either speaking out loud or listening to a native speaker.
We believe that languages must be used to be learned, and we recognise that it’s difficult to use your language as a total beginner. You need a foundation to stand on, but you don’t have one yet. It’s only natural that people turn towards courses, apps, and textbooks to build that foundation.
The problem is that a lot of people never move beyond those “beginner” applications. They maintain their streaks, and they learn a lot about their target language, but they never really begin using their target language. As such, they never grow beyond a certain level of basic proficiency.
These people aren't total beginners anymore — they’ve studied their language for a while — but they can’t do anything fun or useful in their language, either.