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Conversation Mile

Your First 90 Days

How to begin, how to lay out each day, what real time looks like and what to leave out early on, plus a starting page for each language.

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Plan

How to Learn a Language by Speaking a Little Every Day

Speak your new language aloud for 5, 10 or 20 minutes a day and count only the minutes you spoke. The planner lays out 90 days, a plan length, not a learning time.

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Plan

Learn Spanish for Beginners by Speaking From Week One

Your first two weeks of Spanish: pick whose Spanish to copy, start on vowels and the r, greet with tú, vos or usted, and usually learn nouns with el or la.

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Plan

How to Learn French When Spelling Hides the Sound

Your first two weeks of French: which final letters usually go silent, words that run together, nasal vowels and the r, and tu or vous. Grammar charts can wait.

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Plan

How to Learn German Without Starting From Case Tables

First two weeks of German: the sounds to fix first (this site's order), nouns with der, die or das, du or Sie, and verb second. Case tables wait, by this site's choice.