Coaching
Discovery call
A 60-minute call to figure out what your 250 words look like and the plan to learn them around your life. The starting point if you want a custom plan.
$120 60-minute call
Book a callNekh's Language Blueprint
Read something real in your target language in 60 days. With 250 words.
The 200-Word Base. The 200 highest-frequency words in your target language. One email a week from Nekh after you download it.
The methodology
Two hundred and fifty words is the whole foundation.
Two hundred high-frequency words show up in almost every conversation in any language. Add fifty from a show, a game, or a topic you actually care about. Memorise those and the language stops being a wall and starts being content you can engage with. That is the whole foundation. There is nothing else to learn by brute force.
The Zero to Hero app drills that foundation across sixteen languages with spaced practice. Sixty days from starting, you can read something you actually care about in your target language without translation. The newsletter follows the method in real time while I rebuild Ukrainian from scratch using it. Coaching is for people who want a plan built around their life and a person to keep them honest about it.
What's here
Four places to start.
App
Zero to Hero
Drilled practice across sixteen languages. The 250-word method, run as exercises with spaced repetition. For anyone who wants a decided path they run themselves.
$39.99 one-time
Get the appNewsletter
One email a week
Honest writing about the 250-word method while I rebuild Ukrainian from scratch. The free 200-Word Base PDF arrives in the welcome email.
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Free tool
AI language tutor
A Claude Project that tutors you in your target language and remembers you between sessions. Set it up once with the full instruction block, free with your email.
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The 250-word trick that replaced my entire study routine.
About
Who's writing this.
I'm Nekh. Norwegian by birth, fluent in English and Portuguese, learning Ukrainian from zero in public. The 250-word method is the path that got me there. It is the version I teach to the people I coach and the version the app is built around. Before this I tried every mainstream method for years and watched them fail at the one thing they promise. This is what I ended up with instead.
I took five years of French in school. By the end of it I couldn't follow the story in a Donald pocket book. The reason was simple: we spent most of the time talking about the language in Norwegian instead of interacting with our own interests in it.
Pokémon is what actually worked. Watched and rewatched until the English started making sense on its own. Get through a small, deliberate foundation, then let content you already like do the rest of the teaching. That's the model the whole method is built on.
The 250 words are that foundation. 200 high-frequency words plus 50 more from whatever you actually care about. Fifty to sixty days of real, unglamorous memorization, then you're past the threshold. Everything before that point is studying. Everything after it is content you already want to watch or read, just in the language you're learning.
This isn't built for someone collecting a tenth language for fun. It's built for people who've been told a language is hard and believed it. The gap between the life you have and the one where you speak this language is almost always smaller than you think. A couple of months of focused work, not a rewritten identity.
The 250-word method, the newsletter, and the Skool community are free. The Zero to Hero app and the coaching calls exist for people who want to move faster or want someone checking in on them. Neither one is the toll gate. The method works without them.
"It's not really a question of do I want to do this? It's more of: I am the type of person that does this. Therefore, I will do this."
That's the operating principle behind all of it. Not motivation. Just what someone learning a language does, so I do it.