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Why Your 1000-Day Streak Means Nothing
You've been tapping circles for three years. You still panic at a restaurant in Madrid. Here's why traditional language apps are training you to fail.
You've been tapping circles for three years. You still panic at a restaurant in Madrid. Here's why traditional language apps are training you to fail.
Your brain doesn't learn languages by matching pictures. It learns by producing sounds. The science behind forcing yourself to speak from day one.
A brutally honest look at what three years of gamified language learning actually gets you. Spoiler: not fluency.
Korean. Japanese. Danish. Everyone says they're impossible. But the problem isn't the language—it's that you've never actually practiced pronouncing it.
Anki users know. The science of forgetting curves and why dubchat uses the same proven system to make vocabulary stick forever.
We're not promising fluency. We're promising you'll stop freezing. Here's the realistic roadmap to your first real conversation.
Dating. Flirting. Slang. Meeting the family. Not 'the cat is under the table.' Language learning for real situations.
Points. Badges. Streaks. They're designed to keep you opening the app—not to make you fluent. How engagement metrics replaced actual learning.