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Refold
An unofficial Refold community @ DATATERM.
This is a small part of the language learning community but all language learners are welcome as this applies to all languages!
What is Refold?
Refold is a method for learning to have an instinct in a language -- so, to be able to use it naturally to express your thoughts and ideas, rather than learning to translate like is taught in schools – Ben @ Refold (2023)
Refold uses immersion and exposure to the language to achieve that goal of learning a language. If you like binging Netflix and Youtube, reading novels or gaming, then you're in the right place!
Videos About Refold:
Useful Links:
Links to Other Lanugage Communities: TBA
Rules of this instance: https://dataterm.digital/legal
Community rules: (I may add new rules at a later date but this covers it for now.)
- Read the instance rules and then read these ones.
- No posts asking for translations. e.g "How do I say X?"
- No pirated materials! (We all love a bit of bootleg content but there are other platfomrms to share it on if you wish. I'm just trying to cover our ass.)
No worries there! While the focus here is refold and immersion based methods, I don't think think I'd want to open a community with intolerance towards other learning methods if that's what works for them. I would rather help someone figure out a way of including it if that's what they want to do but if they think it's not for them then that's okay too. I think with every method, routine, technique or topic there's some really diehard fans that you see and hear from the most.
Overtime things have become more moderate, you get out as much as you put into it for sure but you can still have a social life with this method and combine it with whatever suits you and your interests best.
I know you mentioned Dreaming Spanish and I think it's is a great resource for listening practice but it sticks to the methodology of not reading until you have X amount of listening hours and not studying grammar at all, whereas Refold wants you to include reading time (with an audio source at first) into your study and they want you to put a little bit of time into grammar if you can manage it in order to speed up the process of understanding. It's kind of interesting to see where these guys agree and disagree. :D