THE ALLOMORPHEUS JOURNAL
Articles on language acquisition, AI learning, spaced repetition, and the structural approach to fluency.
Best Way to Use Anki for Language Learning (A Linguist's Guide)
Card design, sentence mining, daily limits, and the failure modes that make most learners quit — plus how to automate card creation entirely.
Language Learning With AI: What It's Actually Good For
A computational linguist on what AI tutors genuinely change — conversation access, feedback loops, adaptive lessons — and what they never will.
Language Learning Levels: CEFR, JLPT, DELE Explained
What each proficiency framework actually measures, how long each level takes, and how to climb from one to the next.
How to Use Music Videos with Synced Lyrics to Study Languages
A computational linguist on why music videos with synced lyrics are one of the most effective tools for bootstrapping comprehension — and how to build a structured workflow around them.
My Language Learning Journey: From New Caledonia to Computational Linguistics
William Lane on learning French through immersion in New Caledonia, reaching Advanced-Mid Arabic OPI, and how that led to a PhD in Computational Linguistics and building Allomorpheus.
How I Actually Learn Languages: A Workflow Built on Structure
Language acquisition is cycles of lexical acquisition and generalization. Here is my actual workflow using Allomorpheus — from multi-sensory content to vertical exploration.
More posts coming soon.