Learn your second language like you learned your first.
Ditch tedious rules and artificial fill-in-the-blanks for continuous, natural pattern building.
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Prerequisite Check
Can you say: “I like coffee. Do you?”
Then you’re 100% ready to start.
(If you can’t yet, no worries—but you do need a basic foundation in English to begin. We'll be glad to have you once you can! Check out Pimsleur, it's awesome for absolute beginners)
The Technical Stuff
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Procedural Memory
Grammar is stored in your procedural memory. That's a fancy way of saying the stuff you do without thinking.
When you ride a bike, that's procedural memory in
action. Swimming. Typing. Breathing. You get the idea.
When you learn by memorizing rules and filling in blanks, that's like trying to learn to ride a bicycle by reading the manual.
It just doesn't work.
Ditch the Manual
When you were a newborn you didn't memorize grammar. You
listened for patterns, figured out what they meant, then
tried them for yourself. Only everything all at
once. We do one at a time so it's easier, but it's something
your brain's already wired for.
Understand it, practice it. In your own words. Get that pattern into
procedural memory. A few days later, come back and play a
game to reinforce. Then when you're in the situation, production will happen without thinking. Your brain knows where to find what it needs.
How It Works
Find the Pattern
What repeats? It could be a word ending, a word, or a group of words
Support your Theory
Use the contextual clues in the example sentences (and the popup hints if you need them) to figure out why that pattern is used. Make a theory. Check it for ALL examples. Once you do, understanding clicks
Play & Level Up
Build sentences and play games to reinforce and set the pattern where your brain needs it to produce. Level up in as few as 5 weeks.
Progression Path
Available Decks & Levels
from core conversational structures to advanced nuances and word building
Foundation
Lock in essential daily sentence structures, present and past routines, and basic questions without hesitating.
Intermediate
Express opinions, handle travel and work scenarios, and smoothly link ideas together in longer thoughts.
Intermediate Flow
Build on core intermediate skills, tackling more varied structures and increasingly natural conversational patterns.
Complex Mechanics
Internalize nuances, conditionals, subtle time shifts, and spontaneous reactions with natural pacing.
Fluency Master
Grasp intricate phrasing, idiomatic structures, and rapid conversational flow effortlessly.
Prefixes & Suffixes
Unlock hundreds of new words without memorizing lists. Understand how word roots transform, boosting vocabulary growth exponentially through pattern recognition.
Behind the Method
Hi, I'm Annie 👋
Many years ago I ate lunch with a very clever gentleman once a week. We contemplated the idea of education as ripples in a pond. How can ideas spread once the initial stone has been tossed into the water? Can those who learn teach others?
That year of conversations led me directly to the experiment, which after much trial and rather a lot of errors resulted in the cards, which a number of years later led us here, combining 20 years of teaching experience with what is essentially stealing language learning ideas from babies.
Traditional language instruction misses the mark. It treats language like facts to memorize rather than intuition to build. Parseley aims to change that.
Transparent Pricing
No locked features, no endless mandatory subscriptions.
Level Access
Buy it once, use it for life. Only buy the next level if you want to continue.
Community
v2Planned: come to consensus live with fellow learners in real time, and practice together too.
Method comparison : Parseley vs DuoLingo, Rosetta Stone, Traditional Textbooks, etc
What people are saying
“Remek lehetőség az angol tanulás gyakorlatias módon történő elsajátítására!! Mindenkinek csak ajánlani tudom!!!”
“Why didn't they do this at my school?”
THE EXPERIMENT
The Idea
Everyone at one point in their lives had that teacher. The one who made you think, who turned the way you interacted with the world completely upside-down.
I was lucky enough to have about twenty of those teachers. And the one thing they all had in common was this : not a single one just gave me answers, they asked the right questions. They taught me not what to think, but how.
English is a pattern-based language. Patterns lead to understanding. The question is, can the right examples, coupled with leading questions, be enough for students to not only learn but really understand English, without a teacher? Everything in me said yes.
The Experiment
So I found some guinea pigs and we set to work. Every week I presented them with an envelope containing examples on 3x5 cards, plus folded hint cards containing leading questions for when they got stuck. Each week focused on only one topic, be it present perfect, 3 prepositions, 3 prefixes and 3 suffixes, or the future simple. Each common use had exemplars with relative words designed to give clues to underlying reasons for use. What do these sentences have in common? What meaning is conveyed when we use this pattern? Then I sat there, listening actively but for all appearances a kindly idiot, while they figured everything out for themselves. We stumbled a bit, but their feedback helped refine the examples. Which was needed because the number of accidental patterns I'd clued was astounding. 'You use it when first person singular did something in the past.' Sigh.
The Result
3 months in we had a little “test”. With no studying as such (their only homework had been to use in daily life what they'd learned in class, and they'd no warning of the review). Retention rate was roughly 85%. Because they hadn't memorized or been talked at, they'd found their own way to understanding. The best bit, when a question in that 15% arose for one, the others helped without actually giving away the answers. They'd figured out how to 'ask the right questions' too.
And this is useful why?
First and foremost, it's learning how to learn. This method provides people with tools they can apply when trying to learn anything new. All while encouraging creativity and critical thinking.
But also important is its flexibility. Traditional language courses are teacher dependent, time rigid, and often expensive when taken as an adult or otherwise outside of school. Miss one lesson and you're behind. Learn more slowly or more quickly than the average and you're wasting time. And some teachers have been known to talk at, rather than with.
Don't sit down and be told what to think and how to think it. Figure it out. Find the clues in the patterns, there are always clues. Talk with your neighbor. Everyone has strengths and weaknesses, learn how to listen and build upon each other. Work the puzzle out together, cause while a teacher is there to guide, only you can provide the answers. Enjoy the high from curiosity rewarded.