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This template is free.

Click "Duplicate" at the top right to copy it into your own Notion. The databases and their sample rows come with it.

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Most language-learning systems fail for the same reason: reading and listening feel like progress, so you keep doing them, and never find out that speaking and writing have not moved at all.

This template makes that imbalance visible. Nothing more clever than that.

🗂 Three databases

Database What goes in The point
📗 Materials & Wishlist Books, courses, and apps you use or want. Comes with buy links as samples "Dropped" is a status, not a failure. Keep it — it tells you what you do not finish
🔤 Vocabulary & Phrases Words and phrases, with the sentence you met them in Isolated words do not stick. The sentence is the unit that does
🎧 Practice Log What you did, for how long, and which skill Group by Skill once a week. The empty column is your answer

🚀 Start in three minutes

  1. Click "Duplicate"
  2. In 📗 Materials & Wishlist, add what you are using right now. Set status to "Using"
  3. In 🎧 Practice Log, add one row for today — even if it was five minutes
  4. On Sunday, group the Practice Log by Skill and look at which column is empty

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Do not fill everything in on day one. Run the Practice Log for one week first. The rest can wait.

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🎧 Why the Practice Log has a "Skill" field

After two weeks, group the log by Skill. You will almost certainly see something like this:

Skill Typical result after two weeks
Reading Many rows. It is comfortable and feels productive
Listening Some rows. Usually passive listening
Grammar A few rows, early on, then nothing
Speaking Empty
Writing Empty

That is the whole diagnosis. You do not need an app to tell you what to do next — you need to see the two empty rows.

📗 About the sample materials