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Keeping your language alive

Languages · Language Learning · ages 17-18
Name ______________________   Date ____________

  1. What fades first when a language goes unused?

    • Your own name and greetings
    • Rare words and fine grammar
    • The ability to hear anything

  2. What matters most in a maintenance plan?

    • A fixed routine you enjoy
    • The most expensive app available
    • Studying only before exams

  3. Reading and apps alone keep speaking under pressure alive.

    Circle one:   True   False

  4. How do you hear whether your fluency holds or slips?

    • Record same topic monthly and compare
    • Count the apps installed on your phone
    • Ask friends to praise your accent

  5. Where should most maintenance time go?

    • On buying new textbooks
    • On what already stays longest
    • On what fades fastest

  6. How do you check your level honestly?

    • One glance at a word list
    • Comparing yourself to a beginner
    • CEFR can-do statements per skill, recorded twice a year

  7. Your check shows strong listening but weak writing. What next?

    • Drop writing and retest listening instead
    • Aim practice at writing, the weakest skill
    • Retest every day until scores rise

  8. A learner plans vague someday contact plus daily app taps, skipping speaking. What is wrong?

    • Daily habits are worse than yearly ones
    • Apps destroy all language skill
    • Someday plans fade, and speaking needs its own fixed slot
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  1. Rare words and fine grammar · Rare vocabulary and fine grammar go first, while everyday phrases stay.
  2. A fixed routine you enjoy · Routine beats method, and enjoyment keeps the routine alive.
  3. False · Producing sentences on the spot is a separate skill that needs its own slot.
  4. Record same topic monthly and compare · Same-topic recordings make change audible across months.
  5. On what fades fastest · Spend most time on rare words, fine grammar, and live speaking.
  6. CEFR can-do statements per skill, recorded twice a year · Public descriptors per skill replace vague claims with levels.
  7. Aim practice at writing, the weakest skill · Recorded levels exist so the weakest skill gets the next months.
  8. Someday plans fade, and speaking needs its own fixed slot · Only fixed, enjoyable contact survives, and speaking needs producing, not tapping.
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