When you learn a second language, you are literally re-wiring your brain to create a new language “module” that operates alongside your first language.
It’s a process that normally takes years of patient, systematic practice. So it’s important that the process you use is both efficient and targets your specific goals.
In this lesson, we’ll explain the process that SuperCoco uses, so that you can decide whether it suits your goals.
SuperCoco—learn by speaking
SuperCoco is different from other apps and teaching methods. Most methods focus on learning vocabulary and grammar—and they prioritize the written word, with speaking and listening secondary.
We believe that’s exactly backwards. In SuperCoco, listening and speaking are primary. There’s no need to focus on vocabulary and grammar. Those will come in time, as a side effect of learning how to communicate.
In SuperCoco, you learn conversations. You gradually internalize a library of phrases and sentences that you have mastered. These are the true building blocks of language—that every native speaker has. Every time you play SuperCoco, you get practice using these language blocks.
SuperCoco process
SuperCoco uses a call-and-response pattern, so that learning Spanish is just like talking on the phone. Listen and speak, listen and speak.
In this method, the ideal learning attitude is relaxed absorption. Enjoy the conversations and don’t worry about remembering everything. SuperCoco keeps track of your learning and cycles repeatedly through all the conversations.
Each time it returns to a conversation, SuperCoco presents it to you in a slightly different way. You gradually absorb the building blocks.
Forgetting is part of this cycle—it allows you to move past rote memory and begin producing Spanish yourself.