JinnoroGuides · Students · 5 min read
Learn a language with a weekly study routine
Plan short daily sessions across vocabulary, grammar, listening and speaking, and pick tasks by the time you have.
Learning a language works through many short sessions, not rare long ones. The difficulty is deciding what to do on a given day, and having time-appropriate options for a busy one.
In this guide you will keep a project with four skills as sections, and two time labels, 15 min and 30 min, so you can open the list that fits the time you have.
Step 1
Make a project with the four skills as sections
Create a project for the language, and add the sections Vocabulary, Grammar, Listening and Speaking. Balancing the four stops you from only doing the easy and enjoyable part.
Step 2
Label every task with how long it takes
Create the labels 15 min and 30 min. Put one on each task. A set of vocabulary cards is 15 minutes; a conversation with a friend is 30.
Step 3
Plan a week at a time
On Sunday, give each task a day, spread over the week. Do not aim for perfection. Four or five sessions a week beats seven you cannot keep up.
Jinnoro does not repeat tasks automatically, so add next week's sessions on Sunday. Planning the week takes five minutes and doubles as a recap of what you covered.
Step 4
Open Today and do the first thing
Each morning, open Today. It shows the study task for the day. Do it before you look at anything else.
Step 5
Add new ideas as you find them
You hear a good podcast or a teacher recommends a book. Press Q and add it with a day and a time label so it joins the plan.
Over a few weeks you will see the pattern of your habit in what you have checked off. If you are also studying a subject in school, set up a semester planner alongside this project.
