What Do You Need to Know to Learn a Foreign Language?

TL;DR — Paul Nation’s short, practical guide to learning a foreign language: how many words you need, and twenty activities that work.

How much weight it carries: Grounded in decades of vocabulary research by a leading applied linguist.

Where this came from

• Will Manidis’s “most underrated PDF” thread, July 2023 — routing record: The Most Underrated PDF on the Internet (July 2023)

56 pages. A copy is archived locally against link rot; the header links the original source.