Language learning for people who don’t fit into levels.

Broken Fluency is a quiet resource for people who understand a language well but struggle to speak it with confidence.

Many learning systems assume progress is linear: beginner to intermediate to advanced. In reality, a lot of people develop language knowledge unevenly. They end up with strong comprehension, but weak output and gaps in unexpected places.

This site exists for that in-between space.

I write about why this happens, why most tools fail at this stage, and how to think more clearly about turning understanding into usable speech.

If you’re new, begin with an overview of the core ideas behind the site and how to use it.

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All of my writing lives in one place, in chronological order.