🗺️ Native-Like Fluency Roadmap
"A Living, Breathing Digital Guide to Native-Like Fluency"
The 🗺️ Native-Like Fluency Roadmap is an evergreen roadmap designed to keep you on track not only toward speaking like a native, but also toward achieving native-like proficiency in reading and writing.
Since you’re trying to reach native-like fluency, you’ll need a roadmap that not only shows you where to start, where to go next, and how to find your way back whenever you feel lost, but one that will never become outdated.
My roadmap is exactly that. A continuously updated online-compass for acquiring native-like fluency in any language. 🧭
🛣️ With This Roadmap, You Will Gain:
📍 Native-like speaking fluency
📍 Native-like reading fluency
📍 Native-like writing fluency
📍 Native-like listening fluency
📍 Native-like watching fluency
In the roadmap outline below, you can click each section to view the expanded 📍 checkpoints.
What Is An Evergreen Roadmap?
Who Is This Roadmap For?
🗺️ Native-Like Fluency Roadmap
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🗺️ Roadmap Overview
- Welcome!
- Introducing the Roadmap
- How to Use this Roadmap
- Who Is This Roadmap For?
- The Goal
- Evergreen Updates
- Membership Options
- My Motivation
- Can the Roadmap & Community Content be Shared Elsewhere?
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📍 Start Your Journey Here!
- The Little Bear Effect: Why Learning Language is Still Difficult
- Natural Input Daily Average: The reason you still don't understand anything
- Watching Stage vs. Reading Stage
- Defining the "Reading Stage"
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🛠️ Tools
- The Roadmap’s Online Community – Connect Daily with Me and Other Roadmap Members
- NordVPN - The best tool for creating a language immersion environment
- Saily eSIM (mobile data app for international travel)
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✅ Determining Your Current Target Language Level
- How to Assess Your Current Fluency Level: Method 1
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📲 Content
- Compelling Input: The Golden Rule for Choosing Content
- Inattentional Blindness and the Invisible Gorilla Experiment
- Focus vs. Attention
- Comprehensible Input vs. Compelling Input
- Using Playback Speed (1.5×–2.0×): When It Helps and When It Hurts
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📺 Watching
- Every Language Learner’s Journey Should Begin With 'Watching'
- 3 Reasons You Should Watch "Native Trailers"
- Reason 1: They Tell You Which Content is "Compelling Input"
- Reason 2: It Saves You Time
- Reason 3: You Learn to 'Watch Without Subtitles' With No Pressure
- Native Trailer Pro Tip: Create Your Own Playlist on YouTube
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🎧 Listening
- Focused Time vs. Non-Focused Time
- The Language Activity You Should Invest the Most Time In: Listening
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🗣️ Speaking
- Speaking Practice: NO | Real Conversations: YES
- Speaking Practice vs. Speaking as a Tool
- 'Conversation' is Largely a Subconscious Language Activity
- Speaking Practice vs. Conversations
- Speaking Fluency is the Result of Listening Comprehension
- How to Start Having Conversations: Finding a Compelling Conversation Partner
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📖 Reading
- The Foundation of Reading: Learning the Writing System
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✍️ Writing
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🧠 Study
- Why Language Acquisition Is Possible Without Vocabulary or Grammar Knowledge
- If You Do Not Train Your Ability to Infer, Vocab Study Never Ends
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🍚 Korean Content Recommendations
- My Recommended Korean Content List
- Movie - 더 폰 (2015)
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🍱 Japanese Content Recommendations
- My Recommended Japanese Content List
- Movie - 正体 (2024)
🌲 What you see in the outline above, is only part of the larger roadmap. Since it is an evergreen roadmap, I am adding new content and checkpoints daily. If you become a member today, you get access to not only to the full roadmap, but you'll also be joining the...
The 🏠 Fluency Community is my online community built to motivate and support you, together with myself and other language learners on the path to native-like fluency in a variety of target languages. This community is directly integrated with the 🗺️ Native-Like Fluency Roadmap, making them one complete package!
What you’ll gain inside 🏠 The Fluency Community:
- 💬 Live Chat with Me and Other Members – Ask questions anytime, chat freely, and stay motivated in real time
- 📅 2x Online Meetups per Month – I host two live online video meetups per month where members and I come together to 1) encourage and get to know each other, 2) motivate one another, and 3) ask and answer questions in real time
- 📸 Daily Progress Photos – Capture your daily watching, listening, speaking, reading, writing, studying, or practice content, and upload it for other members to see! Celebrate progress together, stay motivated, and earn points at the same time
- 🎯 Challenges – Join the challenges I provide to put language immersion into real action, and earn points when you complete them
- 🏆 Points System & Leaderboard – Earn points by completing challenges and uploading your Daily Progress Photos. Climb the rankings and enjoy friendly competition (with prizes from time to time!)
- 🗺️ Direct Roadmap Access – Use the roadmap right inside the community for a smoother, more convenient experience
- 🔄 Instant Roadmap Updates – Get immediate access to new checkpoints and content as soon as they are added
- ✨ And much more on the way…
💳 Membership Options
1️⃣ 3-Month Membership – $67/every 3 months
This option provides full access to the roadmap and community on a 3-month cycle. It renews automatically every three months from your signup date.
2️⃣ Annual Membership – $189/year
This option provides full access to the roadmap and community on a yearly basis. It renews automatically every year from your signup date.
3️⃣ Lifetime Membership – $489 one-time payment
This option provides full access to the roadmap and community with a single $489 payment. You’ll have lifetime membership with no renewals and no extra fees.
📌 Membership prices may increase in the future for new members, but your price is fixed at the rate you sign up at. Your membership is grandfathered into that rate, so you will never be charged a higher price than your original signup rate. There are no hidden or additional fees.
🏦 You can pay using Apple Pay, Google Pay, and Visa cards. Please note that if you are located outside the United States, some banks may have a “Foreign Currency Payment Block” (sometimes called “Dynamic Currency Conversion Block” in the U.S.) or a similar restriction in place. If your payment doesn’t go through, or if you’d like to check in advance, please reach out to your bank and ask them to remove any foreign payment blocks so your payment can be processed with ease. This may apply if you’re located outside the United States.
📌 If you have any questions about the roadmap or community before purchasing the full version, simply sign up for the free trial below and use the Community's Direct Message Feature to send me a message!
