I'm a dad in China. I make English-teaching videos for a living, which is embarrassing, because my own kid hated learning English. We tried classes. Expensive ones. He'd sit there for an hour, zone out, and remember nothing. What actually worked was stupidly small: five minutes a day, every day, no exceptions and no extensions. So I built it into a mini-app for him. Three characters do the teaching — a fox, a flamingo, and a very serious ostrich professor. One tiny lesson a day. When the five minutes are up, it stops, even if he asks for more. Especially if he asks for more. Six months in, he reminds ME when it's time. That has never happened with anything educational. Full honesty: it runs as a WeChat mini-program (that's where parents in China live), so I know most of you can't just open it. I'm mainly here to ask the people who think about language learning more than I do: Is 5 minutes a day real learning, or am I just building a very elaborate habit tracker? What would you put in a daily kids' English app if attention span was the only constraint? Screenshots attached. Roast away.   submitted by   /u/Illustrious-Art-4172 [link]   [comments]