The Three-Pass Method

gregstignani
Feb 9, 2025
4 min read

As promised in last week’s post, here I will explain a foreign language reading method that I discovered by happy accident while reading to learn Spanish. As the title of this post implies, material is read three times over in this learning process. The way you read the material changes somewhat with each pass, but each pass also has an important function for supporting your learning – I think you’ll understand why when you try this for yourself. Before getting into the three-pass method, here are the three main points to note:

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