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The Refold Roadmap

Published on January 28, 2024Updated on March 23, 2024

https://refold.la/roadmap/stage-0/a/roadmap-overview#Stage-1-Build-a-Foundation

  • Build a foundation

Instead of using these tools to learn how to speak, you will use them ONLY for understanding. You will only study one direction: from TL to NL.

You can think of this process as building a little machine in your head that converts the foreign gibberish into pure meaning (a.k.a. “mentalese”). The combination of conscious study and immersion gives your brain all the tools it needs to build this machine.

  • Develop comprehension

The key to developing comprehension quickly is to narrow your focus. Rather than randomly choosing TV shows or studying random vocabulary lists, you will choose immersion content that is the most comprehensible to you and only study vocabulary within that content.

  • Learn to speak

One of the coolest parts of acquisition is the moment when your brain starts outputting naturally. Suddenly, when you've received enough comprehensible input, the little machine in your head starts to run in reverse. Your TL will start spilling out of you.

In Stage 3, you will deliberately expose yourself to situations that force you to output: writing, then speaking. Exposing yourself to these situations causes your brain to search through your pool of acquired language and make those words and phrases available to you for output.

  • Refine to mastery

repeat Develop comprehension & Learn to speak

用中文总结下:

  1. 完成对语言的基本组成的学习,基本单词、语法,只用关注能够理解意思
  2. 把目标语言分层分块去加速理解
  3. 在当前层、块去输出 (写 / 说)
  4. 重复 2、3 ;提高难度、增加场景块