You stopped for three months, or a year. Opening the app now feels like admitting something. But the material you learned did not evaporate — it went quiet, and quiet is much easier to reverse than gone.
You lost access, not knowledge
What decays first is retrieval speed, not the memory itself. Words you cannot produce today will usually come back within a few sessions, far faster than they took to learn the first time. This is why relearning feels strangely easy after the first uncomfortable week. You are re-opening a path, not cutting a new one.
Do not start from lesson one
The instinct is to restart the course from the beginning. It wastes weeks on material that is still intact and it is dull enough to make you stop again. Instead, test yourself: try to speak for two minutes about your day. Whatever breaks is where to resume. That is usually somewhere in the middle, not at the start.
Make the first week absurdly small
Five minutes a day for seven days. The goal is not progress, it is re-establishing that opening the app is normal. Ambition on day one is how the second lapse starts. Speak on day one, even badly. Reading quietly for a week rebuilds recognition and leaves you as blocked as before when someone asks you a question.
The break cost you less than it feels like. What it really cost was the habit, and that is the part to rebuild first.