Find the Chunks. Fix the Mistakes. Get Fluent
Techniques
If I could change one thing about how my students learn vocabulary, it would not be more words. It would be learning which words travel together.
Techniques
Words arrive one at a time, like a waiter bringing individual grains of rice. Then everyone acts surprised that your English sounds built rather than spoken.
Techniques
You found a list, did the maths, and worked out you would be fluent in 100 days. Here is why that plan fails, and the daily number that actually sticks.