Notes on learning to speak
What the research says about speaking a new language, what we see inside Avita's lessons, and what we're learning as we build it. New posts every week.
- October 27, 2026
What 49 spoken answers in one lesson look like
An Avita lesson asks you to say about 49 things out loud (German lessons about 60), and a full course is roughly 10,000 spoken answers (German about 12,000).
- October 27, 2026
Why speaking early works: the research on output
Speaking from the start helps for two reasons: producing a sentence forces you to process grammar that understanding lets you skip (Merrill Swain's output hypothesis), and pulling language out of memory strengthens it more than reading it again (the testing effect).
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