The Speak-to-Master Method: Why It Works

Your brain has a dirty secret: it's lazy. Given the choice between actually learning something and feeling like it learned something, it'll pick the easy path every time. That's why passive learning feels productive but produces nothing. Speaking forces your brain to do the hard work.

The Science of Production

Cognitive science calls it the "production effect"—information you produce is remembered better than information you passively consume. When you say a word out loud, you're engaging multiple brain systems simultaneously: motor planning, auditory processing, phonological encoding. You're not just storing information. You're building neural pathways.

Why Pronunciation First

Traditional methods teach reading first, pronunciation later. This is backwards. When you learn a word by reading it, your brain maps it to your native language's sound system. You create a mental pronunciation that's probably wrong. Then you have to unlearn it before you can learn the correct pronunciation. It's inefficient.

Starting with pronunciation—hearing it, then producing it—builds the right neural pathways from day one. No unlearning required.

The dubchat Approach

Every card in dubchat works the same way: you hear native audio, you speak it back, the AI scores your pronunciation. You don't move on until you get it right. It's not about perfection—it's about getting your mouth used to making sounds it's never made before. That muscle memory is what fluency is built on.