The Sustainable Pace
A 30-day language challenge for a study routine you can still keep on day 90
If you have started a language before and stopped somewhere around the fourth or fifth week, you probably did not run out of discipline. You ran out of minutes. Every flashcard you learn comes back to be reviewed, and a pace that takes eighteen minutes on day one can take more than twice that by day thirty without anything changing. The Sustainable Pace fixes that before it starts. In the first week you measure the minutes you really have and the seconds a card really takes, and choose a pace from the review pile it will build, using the same schedule as the free Simplang Spaced Repetition Scheduler. The next three weeks spend those minutes well: input at the right difficulty, speaking and writing you can check, and a routine with a floor for bad days and a weekly count to steer by. With your purchase comes a personalised sheet worked on the pace and minutes you enter in the Simplang calculators: the review pile your pace builds, and the largest pace your minutes can carry.
Look inside
Two full pages from the workbook, exactly as printed. Click either to read it at full size before you decide.
What is in it
- Thirty days, one task each, in four themed weeks: the budget, the input, the output, the keep
- The review pile your pace builds, drawn from the same schedule as the Simplang scheduler
- The Budget Rule: the largest daily pace your minutes can carry, for your miss rate
- Input at the right difficulty: what your vocabulary covers and how to find text worth reading
- Speaking, writing and an error log, with a CEFR self-check and a weekly conversation
- A daily floor, a weekly count and a plan for the next sixty days
- Printable tick-sheet, Review Budget table and Daily Minimum card
- Bonuses: the Quickstart, the Deck Rescue for an overdue pile, and thirty speaking prompts
- A personalised sheet worked on your own pace and daily minutes
- ✓ 50 printable pages
- ✓ 9 sections, worksheets and templates
- ✓ A second PDF worked out from the numbers you enter
- ✓ No account needed — just an email address
- ✓ Instant download; link valid 7 days
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The workbook complements the free calculators — they do the arithmetic, they compute one pace or one card; it builds a routine your minutes can carry.