Templates / For adults learning a language
Language Notebook
Adults teaching themselves a language.
The leech sheet: what keeps coming back, and why.
$11.99
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| Pages | 139 |
|---|---|
| Editions | mono, colour |
| Variants | right hand, left hand |
| Devices | reMarkable 2, reMarkable Paper Pro, reMarkable Paper Pro Move, Kindle Scribe, Kindle Scribe Colorsoft, Supernote Manta, Boox Note Air, A4 Print, US Letter Print |
| Format | Hyperlinked PDF, one file per device |
| Updates | Included, for as long as the template exists |
- 139 pages for the half a flashcard app cannot do - producing the form, not recognising it
- 10 leech sheets: what keeps coming back, how many times, and a forced choice of why from four reasons - then the rewrite
- Leitner's rig printed as he described it in 1972: five compartments of increasing width, worked when they fill rather than on a date
- The day intervals are blank on purpose - the ones usually quoted with his name are a later simplification, not his scheme
- What the spacing research actually supports, including where it contradicts the folklore: expanding intervals lost to equal ones after two days, and delaying the first test is what helped
- 48 sentence-mining sheets, one new thing per sentence - a sentence with two in it is two cards you will fail together
- 24 pages of script paper drawn to its real structure: genkou-youshi with the furigana channel between columns, the field and rice squares with their guide lines, and wongoji
- 16 paradigm grids with the axes printed and the labels left blank, because a language that drops a person, adds one, or has no present tense in the perfective does not fit a printed grid
What is inside
For the half of the work the app cannot do — producing the language, not recognising it.
48 sentence-mining sheets, 16 blank paradigm grids, 10 leech triage sheets, 14 tutor session sheets, listening notes, a vocabulary ledger, and 24 pages of script paper. 139 pages, all linked.
WHAT MAKES IT DIFFERENT
· The leech sheet: what keeps coming back, how many times, and a forced choice of why — it looks like another word you know, there's nothing to picture, the card asks two things, or you only ever recognise it — then the rewrite. Every serious learner has a leech pile and no method for it
· Leitner's rig as he actually described it: five compartments of increasing width, worked when they fill. The day intervals are blank, because the ones quoted with his name are a later simplification
· What the spacing research supports, including where it contradicts the folklore — expanding intervals beat equal ones after ten minutes and lost after two days
· Script paper drawn to its real structure: genkoyoshi with the furigana channel between columns, the field square and the rice square with their guide lines, and wongoji
· Paradigm grids with the axes printed and the labels blank, because Rioplatense adds a person, Brazilian Portuguese collapses two, and a Russian perfective has no present tense
· Tutor sheets that keep what I said, what it should have been, and why — three columns, because the third is the one you learn from
· No word list, character list, frequency list or exam syllabus anywhere. Those belong to whoever compiled them
· The six level names and nothing else. What they mean is not free to reprint, and the framework's own authors call it a tool for reform projects rather than a standard
· No branding inside. You are buying paper, not an advert.