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Re:500 days of Duolingo: What you can and can’t learn from a... by tcbawo on Saturday May 04, 2019 @09:20AM (#19826254)
The Pimsleur method, which relies on a progressly timed learning technique really helps commit language to long term memory. It's audio only, but I really recommend then. I believe Ankh is based on this as well.
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Re:500 days of Duolingo: What you can and can’t learn from a... by wallflower on Saturday May 04, 2019 @10:02AM (#19826492)
If you are interested in repetition, Assimil is similar.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assimil

> These are some of my favorite Christmas gifts because they're the only self-teachers I know that work. In just 20 minutes a day -- if you do exactly what they tell you to with the books and accompanying recordings - - then presto! You will be talking like, roughly, an unusually cosmopolitan 3-year old.

https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=502158...

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Re:500 days of Duolingo: What you can and can’t learn from a... by maxxxxx on Saturday May 04, 2019 @09:23AM (#19826269)
Pimsleur really hammers the language into you until it becomes instinctive.
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