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Effective language learning requires learning the so-called core of the language and the periphery. The core are the most common words and phrases in the language (there are about a…

To start learning or listening, you must subscribe to one or more collections in our language catalog. Mixing elements of different types while learning a language is the most counterintuitive…

What you learn in Taalhammer works similarly to social media channels, where the content you see in your feed depends on what you like or follow. Everything you see in…

The Taalhammer app was created so that you can easily search and combine different sources of language content. We offer carefully created courses of different levels. There are collections to…

The desktop version of the Taalhammer app offers additional content creation and management capabilities. You can import materials from other tools and applications. This way you can create entire courses…

It doesn’t matter how long or short a time you’ve been learning a language. There will always be words, phrases, expressions and sentences whose meanings you will want to check….

In this chapter you will learn how to practice listening comprehension or, more colloquially, how to “get used to the language” and how to do it effectively. First of all,…

Adding and learning your own content is one of the secrets of polyglots. In Taalhammer, you can add your words and sentences not only individually, but also by importing them…

In Taalhammer, you can also add Google Slides to Blackboard and share them with others. If you’re a language teacher, you can also use them in your lessons and easily…

In Taalhammer, you can not only add your words and sentences, but also construct boards with stories, dialogues, explanations, videos and notes. In this way, you can easily create your…

A collection, also known as a “deck,” is a container for your phrases and boards. You can create new collections to store your personal content in them or share them…

To speak a language fluently is to speak in full sentences. Memorizing vocabulary words alone is very inefficient. Did you learn a new word? Type it into the search engine….

A flashcard is a unit of learning: a word, phrase or sentence. The Taalhammer app allows you to easily and quickly create your own flashcards and learn from them. Use…

Creating your own content while learning a foreign language is one of the secrets of polyglots. Taalhammer is designed to help you do exactly that. Why is it worth doing?…

In listening mode, you listen to everything from your listening stream. The listening stream contains everything you learn – any collections you’ve subscribed to or content you’ve created yourself. You…

When learning a language, it is very important to have a variety of exercises and stimulate memory in different ways. This exercises the ability of so-called phonetic segmentation, i.e. the…

Taalhammer has a special mode for practicing listening comprehension that allows you to do several types of exercises. Studies show that repetition on the move enhances memorization. Use this mode…

Mixing elements of different types while learning a language is the most counterintuitive and surprising part of learning. It may initially give the impression of even slowing us down as…

In learning mode, you learn everything from your stream. The learning stream contains everything you’re learning – any collections you’ve subscribed to or content you’ve created yourself. You can see…

Learning in full sentences is the most effective way to learn a language. It uses your ability to store whole phrases and sentences (so-called “formulaic sentences”) and helps you develop…

When learning, it is really important to evaluate yourself in the right way. In Taalhammer you evaluate yourself, and in doing so you train our repetition algorithm, which learns how…

Drill is a special memory exercise. It forces your memory to work harder and accelerates the loading of words and sentences into your long-term memory. Here you train in all…

Welcome to the introduction to the Taalhammer application. In this chapter we will cover the most basic elements of the application. We’ll see how learning new material and repetition work….

In this article, you will learn why using what is currently the world’s most popular language learning app, Duolingo, can do more harm than good in the long run. Even…

While we can’t go back to childhood and absorb language like a sponge again, we can use another proven method that gives us relatively quick and lasting results. Using extended…

Popular opinion has it that mastering about 800 to 1,200 words is sufficient for relatively fluent communication in most everyday situations.  However, has it ever occurred to you that this…

“Speech shadowing” is a famous method developed by the famous professor and polyglot Alexander Argüelles. It consists of repeating by ear everything we hear, exactly as children do. At Taalhammer,…

Your journey to fluency in a foreign language has just begun. We think it is important to know a few things before you start. It will only take 3 minutes.

So you want to learn Dutch? We’ve been there too. This is how the Taalhammer project started.

You learn 5 times faster, and you remember forever, if you have a contextual or emotional connection with the content you are learning.