How long should I practise linking each day?

Five minutes is enough, and the ceiling matters more than the floor. The limiting factor is not minutes but repetitions of one sentence: three passes, one comparison, then a new sentence. Twenty sentences in a day teach twenty beginnings; one sentence for three days teaches an ending.

Stop when the third pass sounds the same as the second. That is a plateau, not a failure, and the next sentence will move you further than a tenth repetition.

Treat three sentences as the ceiling for one session, and four days a week as a rhythm rather than a rule: leave a day between sessions so the last pass has time to settle. If the third pass matches the second for two sessions in a row on the same phrase, replace the phrase instead of adding repetitions. A short daily session works better than one long weekly one because the thing you are training is timing, which fades quickly, not knowledge, which keeps.

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