I Asked Maha If Flashcards Are Worth It.
Intermediate (B2) · Conversations · 22 min · Free
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Every language app pushes flashcards. Most of Maha's own students barely use them, and she will tell you plainly: she never liked them.
Today Maha and I take the question apart. Why flashcards feel productive, what they actually train, why words learned on cards keep dissolving, and what the alternative looks like. We end where every honest conversation about language ends. Listening, then listening, then listening.
A real, unscripted conversation in Levantine Arabic, around B2, between two people who make listening material for a living, so yes, we have opinions.
