Are You an Active or Passive Learner?

Polly Glott
4 min readAug 10, 2021

What’s your language learning style?

A man standing at a fork in the road with a sign for active on the left and passive on the right.

Many discussion threads on social media ask the question: “What’s your favourite language-learning tool?” Some of the most popular names are Anki, Duolingo, Memrise, maybe some gamified apps and specific one-language websites. They are all great for what they do, but there is something missing.

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Polly Glott

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