We have updated our user-friendly SuperMemo manual (“Using SuperMemo to learn English“) to describe SuperMemo 2004.

This time we have something for those of our readers who use SuperMemo to learn English (or other languages): an updated version of our introduction to sentence items with a more thorough discussion of their advantages over standard definition-word items.

By the way, SuperMemo 2004 for Windows has just been released. Congratulations SuperMemo World on this new release!

How many times have you heard that “If you didn’t learn a foreign language as a child, you will never be fully proficient in its grammar”? This week’s article explains why this statement is unjustified.

“You are a foreigner, therefore you will always have a foreign accent” — this line is often used to discourage learners from studying pronunciation seriously. Our new article in the “Language learning: Myths and facts” series proves it is not true.

Two more language learning myths:

3. “It is OK to make mistakes”
4. “As a beginner, you’re bound to make a lot of mistakes”