Notes
Short, plain-language pieces on why speaking is hard and how practice actually builds it. The thinking behind OkeeTalk.
Practicing alone isn't a compromise
You speak for half a conversation at best, and less than that in a lesson. Alone the whole hour is yours — and only one part of speaking still needs a person.
Read →Fluency is topic-shaped
You can talk about your work for an hour and then lose the thread describing a symptom. That's not your level — it's a topic you've never had to speak about.
Read →What a rep is
The word comes from the gym, and in the app it counts one thing: a topic exercise spoken start to finish, out loud.
Read →The same story, three times
Questions, Expand, and Words use the same topic with less support each time, so you gradually hold more of the story yourself.
Read →Why a topic you finished comes back
Spaced repetition is usually applied to words. Here it works for whole topics.
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