Learning a language with fifteen minutes a day

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Fifteen minutes is enough to make steady progress if the minutes are consistent and active. Split them: five minutes of vocabulary review, five of listening to native speakers, five of speaking or writing something you can use today. The daily rhythm matters more than the length, because a language that you touch every day stops feeling foreign.

Choose material slightly above your level and accept that you will not understand everything. Podcasts for learners, children's books and simple news summaries are ideal. Keep a running list of sentences you wanted to say but could not, and look them up later. After three months you will be surprised by how much of a real conversation you can follow.