Notes on craft, method, and steady progress.
Nothing here is published on the first try. A vocabulary list only stays if the word turns up in a real conversation that same week, grammar explanations get a blue-ink correction once the first version proves wrong, and pronunciation entries carry a mental audio cue so you can hear the Rioplatense sound next to the one you had in your head. If a page has no example from an ordinary day, it waits in draft.
Why these notes hold up
Nothing here is published because it sounds good. A page earns its place after it gets reread, tested in a real conversation, and corrected when the first explanation was wrong. If a note cannot be used today without guessing, it stays in draft.
That habit is the whole method: write it down, use it, fix it in blue ink, and keep the version that actually worked.
A vocabulary entry is kept only if the word shows up in an actual conversation within seven days. Lists that never leave the page get trimmed, not decorated.
When a grammar note was wrong, the fix is written next to it instead of quietly deleted. You see the mistake and the repair, which is how it sticks.
Each entry notes how a word lands in Rioplatense Spanish next to how it sounded in my head first. That gap is usually where the confusion lives.
Where English and Dominican Spanish pull in different directions, the note is highlighted so the same thought does not get forced into one shape.
The checking routine itself is documented on the process page, and the notes that passed it live in the notebook.
These are the honest answers about how entries get checked, corrected, and kept. Nothing here is a certificate, and nothing is promised in advance.
If a correction here ever contradicts something you read elsewhere, the contact page is the place to flag it. How your data is handled is described on the privacy page.