Launch of the 12-Week Course!!
A Special Offer
Attention: Men and Women Tired of Their Own Culture and Country, Lusting to Travel Abroad But Too Scared to Start...
Today we are excited to announce the launch of our 12-Week Course!
Gain the Confidence and Courage to Travel To A Foreign Country, Make Friends Who Don’t Speak Your Language, Impress Romantic Partners and Expand Your Worldview
Warning: Members of this community will become so in love with language learning that they will go months without speaking their native language.
Read on to discover the sure-fire methodology that’ll have you speaking your target language fluently in 6 months even if...
- You’ve tried solo learning and failed or quit
- You’ve tried classroom learning and failed or quit
- You find the idea of talking to a person in a foreign language scary!
- You’re stuck at home in a far-too-familiar city where you know all there is to know about the place, lusting for adventure...
We get it: Knowing just one language, just one culture, knowing people with almost entirely the same experiences is boring! Stale!
You want to try Italian coffee made by a real Italian, while the sun beats down on the ancient Roman roads...
You want to feel the gentle wind of a garden in Japan, before going off to drink a few bottles of Sapporo with the local populace...
You want to attend Carnaval in Brazil and find out what the lives of the locals are like...
Without being stuck relying on your hostel’s other English speakers to socialize.
You know that other people have mastered a foreign language, even without living there themselves.
Others have done it – so why can’t you?
You’d love to have a real conversation with a native speaker of a foreign language...
And you envy people who can do it!
You want the pride and joy of doing simple things like ordering food in Portuguese, playing soccer in a French pickup game, and listening to Japanese bands without a translation.
I get it.
That’s similar to what I wanted out of language learning – before I had my success!
To get you hungry for more, here’s one of my secrets:
Secret #1: I realized mistakes are the best way to learn a language.
High schools and universities want you feeling worried that your test scores won’t be high enough.
Have you worried that a quiz will come back 7/15 instead of 11/15.
Does your score really matter?
No, it doesn’t.
All that matters is whether, after one or two or three months of learning, you’re seeing pleasing achievements.
Because pleasing achievements make you want more.
In contrast, fearing being wrong means you’re scared to make mistakes.
Being scared to make mistakes means you’re scared to progress... Because progress requires mistakes.
That’s why when I began embracing mistakes instead of hiding from them, my learning 10x’ed over night.
I want you to have this secret whether you sign up or not – because I want the best for other language learners who were scared to make mistakes...
Just like I was.
Secret #2: I believed I was good enough to do interesting things with my second language.
A major change occurred when I realized I could act as if I was already good enough.
When I realized I already had the knowledge to have fun with my language...
Even though I’d only been learning it for a few weeks...
That’s when my learning accelerated rapidly!
Why?
Because suddenly I could brute force my way challenges that previously seemed daunting.
I could:
- Write a letter to a friend
- Give dialogue to a cartoon
- Join a foreign language gaming server and talk to people
- Translate poems and stories
- Invent a joke (or translate one) and tell it to my instructor
- Write or video tape diary entries
- Write lyrics
- Read the news
- Learn a song
- Understand some (but not all) movies!
Because of the previous secret – that I embraced making mistakes – I was able to stumble my though many many interesting exercises...
Fix the mistakes I’d made...
And look back on the finished piece with pleasure.
So my second secret that I’ll give away to you for free here is this:
By believing that you can do interesting things with your language skills, you actually learn faster than someone who hesitates.
Secret #3: Conversational ability is a more important milestone than fluency by far.
People imagine that the real goal is to sound almost like a native speaker..
That they’ve only “made it” once they’re fluent.
And in a way, we all aim for that.
However...
The real success starts to happen not when you become fluent, but when you become conversational.
And becoming conversational is actually pretty easy!
The reason this is such a huge milestone is this:
Once you’re conversational, you can pick up new parts of the language just by talking to people!
Yes, you’ll still have to make flash cards and do memory exercises. That’s true.
But you’ll start to pick up how a native speaker speaks the language...
Just by conversing with them!
So if you think the real marathon is to make it to fluency...
I wouldn’t worry about it!
Conversational competency will be a much bigger – and much quicker – milestone to hit.
“But I’ve already started learning a language – I don’t want to go back to the beginning!”
That thought is exactly what makes my community a great fit for you.
Because we don’t cater to people starting from the very basics.
Yes, there will be some drilling of early essentials: A strong foundation is key!
But the community I run does what I call language recovery.
This new language learning community is for people who have already invested time and money into learning a language...
But haven’t taken their language beyond the classroom setting.
We’ll start by assessing your skills with your target language.
In this community, your language learning will start on square 3 instead of on square 1.
(Hint: “Use it or lose it” is a complete myth.)
From there, we’ll focus on finding you personalized learning experiences.
That means we’ll do discovery to find out what might be a fun, engaging, or welcome challenge.
So if you want to write a dialogue, we’ll get you writing those.
If you want to make art, we’ll help you learn by making art.
If you want to join video game servers, we’ll show you how you can progress by doing just that.
Because you’ve already taken a language course before, it’s likely you can be ready to meet these challenges within two weeks of starting.
Through our language recovery program, you could be completing a song in a foreign language one month from now.
Or leading a team in a video game.
Or listening to native language speakers with a high degree of comprehension in just one month.
This is unique to my program:
I offer customized approaches, centered around finding ways to make each individual’s learning journey right for them.
So if approach A works for someone else but doesn’t work for you, we’ll use another approach.
This sounds like common sense and yet you can only find it here.
So why didn’t you learn this approach in school?
Universities want you to believe that the only way to learn is to pay $9,000 for an 18 hour course.
That’s $500 per hour. No wonder they want you to think you need them.
With a university you’re limited by the speed of the other students. You want to learn 30 new words a day, while the average student can only handle 15, and only wants to handle 5.
Yet anyone who really wants to learn can handle 20 words a day no problem. I’ve seen it time and time again:
Students who work with me and actually care about their studies go further and faster than any typical classroom student.
Why?
What changes?
1. I encourage you to make mistakes.
There are no grades, no report cards or in-class tests.
That means you aren’t dinged for being wrong.
In fact, I’ll show you how you can even feel empowered by making mistakes.
How you can “laugh it off.”
How native language speakers don’t really mind if you mix a few words up here and there.
What changes when you’re OK with making mistakes?
You actually learn far faster.
It turns out that making mistakes is a requirement to learn! Because adding 100 new words to your vocabulary in just a week means you’re bound to mix up a few of them.
And that’s completely okay! You’ll fix the mistakes and keep the parts you got right.
But, spoiler:
With just two months of practice in my community, you’ll be beyond worrying about mistakes. :-)
2. People who work with me have self-selected as people who really care about learning a second language.
They’re people who already put in the effort to learn a language the “standard” way... The standard way that works good enough if it’s all you have. (But I’ll show you a way that’s leagues ahead of a classroom!)
3. I focus on writing.
Writing enables you to memorize and recognize many facets of language.
Grammar that takes you months to recognize via dialogue and speaking end up sitting there right in front of you.
Vocabulary that takes months to remember can be memorized within a few days of usage – so long as its in writing!
That means that while you will have uncomfortable practice conversations...
You’ll start far ahead of where you would’ve been without practicing in writing first.
So by focusing on writing, we’ll make recall and recollection of your language occur on-demand during conversations.
4. Once we’ve gotten outside of the dull, awkward, standardized routines of a classroom approach... We’re free to use a custom tailored solution, a unique and novel approach personalized to every student.
In a classroom, if the teacher wants you to translate yawn-fest dialogues... You’re stuck translating a yawn-fest!
But with my method, I recognize that what makes language fun, entertaining, thrilling, adventurous for one student...
Might be a dull bore to another student!
So I’m sure to give every student I take on the opportunity to recover the language they’ve already learned...
And then advance further than they thought possible...
Using a bespoke solution that works right for them.
That means I’ll show you how to:
Thank a friend or family member (who speaks your target language) for something they did for you.
Make a poem in your target language within one month of starting.
Write and record a scene.
Translate a recipe to learn words about food.
Write a song within six weeks.
Plan a trip in in a foreign city.
We’ll do all this without:
Commuting 20 to 60 minutes each way to class.
Going so slow you become bored of the material.
Going so fast you can’t keep up with the material.
Getting stuck paired up with a student you don’t like.
Spending high 4 figures to low 5 figures on “tuition.”
Relying on expensive textbooks you would never choose.
Sitting in an uncomfortable chair while an unenthusiastic teacher talks at length.
What makes even more sense than skipping all that...
Is signing up to learn an actionable framework so that once you’ve finished with the community...
You can continue learning and trust the method to deliver you more success.
That’s what I want for my students:
For you to leave this course knowing that you can go as far as you want.
For you to to discover a reliable, smart, fast and simple method for learning languages.
Because once you’ve seen that you can skip the boring textbooks and jump quickly into using your target language for real-life applications and conversations...
Learning will be so easy that you’ll go on to master as many languages as you choose!
Because when you discover that you are able to form complete, coherent sentences in weeks, not months or years...
You tend to want to take advantage of that fact!
You probably also wonder...
What have other people who worked with me said about their progress with a second language?
I’ve only been running my language programs for a few months.
Yet students are making the kind of progress they’d take a full year to make inside of a classroom…
In weeks, not months or years.
Here’s what BowTiedGrandma has to say about me:
“He recognizes that everyone has a different way of learning and that each language has its own difficulties. He doesn’t shy away from saying it takes a commitment and that it should be done daily. He gives examples of why different resources work better for one language than another one.
If you aren’t following BowTiedOdin I recommend you give it a shot”
Let’s go through this line by line.
Yes, you’ll be working with someone who knows multiple languages well enough to know their unique difficulties. Whether it’s making sense of German grammar or suffering through French pronunciation or mastering Spanish dialects, you’ll be able to find out that, “yes, everyone agrees, that specific part of German is really difficult. You aren’t alone!”
In case you’re wondering, I know the following languages well enough to warn you about the hard parts: French, Spanish, German, Italian, Portuguese.
And I have a network of two dozen polyglots I can ask on your behalf.
“He doesn’t shy away from saying it takes commitment and should be done daily.”
Yes, I’ll tell you the truth: Learning a language well enough to use it during travel or life abroad takes work.
However, when you join my program, you’ll find out that you can do useful, pleasing and impressive things with it after only two months of regular practice.
You won’t be fully beyond the awkward moments, but you will be good enough to get hooked on practicing and impress your friends.
“He gives examples of why different resources work better for one language than another one.”
Your typical language teacher hasn’t learned a new language in years, possibly a decade.
In contrast, unless I’ve run out of new languages to learn, you can bet I learned a new language sometime this year.
That means I’ve sampled all the different resources, all the different tools.
And I know which tools students are likely to succeed with...
And which ones will fail.
Better, I know how to recognize when someone would be better suited to mastering writing exercises first...
Or when someone would go further with a higher odds of sticking with it by watching movies...
Or by finding a local community of native speakers nearby to hang out with (Hint: They’re going to be really nice to you because you’re trying to learn their language!)
Here’s a kind word I received from Bread Flanders:
“I figured you’d have some good advice for me and you did! You were welcoming and you provided me with simple frameworks that fitted with the way I learn and my lifestyle.”
The simple yet far-from-obvious frameworks I provide will last this student of mine many years.
From language to language, he will be able to remember how simply watching The Adventures of Tintin and playing Pokémon were my suggestions to him.
I knew this exercise would work for him because he is a working professional with a full time job. That means I needed to find a way to add education to his leisure time. Does it take extra brain power? Absolutely. But he was going to do those things anyway, so changing the language in which he did them is all I needed to do.
Now, 3 months in, he is already dreaming in French.
You don’t get this with most teachers and classes. Because classrooms have a “one size fits all” approach, you miss out on opportunities to find fun overlaps with activities you already enjoy doing.
You can imagine how participating in an exercise like songwriting – which requires you to imagine the sound of a word internally, and maybe say it quietly out loud – would move you towards memorization without being boring.
Because you enjoy the exercise:
- You get more out of it.
- It’s easier to do.
- You can feel it moving you towards your goal, so it becomes addictive... You don’t need to “force” yourself to do it; you just want to do it.
I asked Flanders for some examples of how our work together worked well for him. He gave me a great answer that will help you understand if the program is right for you:
“I think the best advice that you gave me was to maximize immersion
but through doing things that you enjoy, and even if it’s a small amount
it still adds up; it sounded simple but it was so effective. For me, this is
watching ‘The Adventures of Tintin’ on the way to work and writing in
my journal on my phone.”
(Bolding is done by me.)
This is a key part of why you’ll have success with this program, even if you’ve had failures using other approaches.
Other teachers don’t tell you directly, often because they don’t even realize it: “Doing things that you enjoy” is the path to success with a foreign language.
Have you ever had a teacher tell you to watch movies in a target language? Maybe.
Have you ever had a teacher tell you you can learn by journaling? Almost never.
Mine never did.
Yet journaling about something you like writing about – yourself – can add up to a hundred hours of practice a year.
Bonus: If you deliberately write about stuff you don’t mind sharing, you can provide the journal entries to a teacher for feedback and criticism. They’ll have hundreds of sentences in various grammar tenses, enabling them to see what your most common mistakes are.
What’s more, this works across any medium. You can do it with songs. You can do it with video essays, or video diaries.
This is how I get students further, faster, and usually to the point of addiction.
“I never stick with it, I always quit before I get to a point where I’m happy with my progress.”
One of my previous clients told me they had trouble following through.
In fact, you could guess that sticking with the chosen path to language acquisition is the #1 reason people fail at language learning.
Yet when you join the Second Language Strategy Program, you’ll receive strategies and exercises that guarantee you stick with it long term.
Let’s see what one of my current clients had to say about their progress:
You can expect a result like this when you join. I ask you to hold me to it!
Everyone who joins will end up sticking with their language.
You’ll go far beyond the point where you’re satisfied that you’re fluent. I would consider anything less a failure on my part.
When you work with me, I take any thoughts of quitting your language learning journey personally.
True, most teachers really do care that you succeed with your language. However, they’re likely to think that quitting is normal (it is but shouldn’t be) because that’s what the classroom setting causes: quitting.
In contrast, I’ve put more than a year of my life into building people up into wildly successful, multi-lingual people. Your success is your own, but if you quit I won’t sleep right for a few days.
What does this mean for you?
If you tell me the exercises aren’t your cup of tea, I won’t rest until I find you exercises that appeal to you.
By the end of month two, you should expect to be doing activities that would be rewarding for you even in English.
So that you’re doing it in a foreign language makes it extra fun, extra impressive.
The Investment
If you were to get these results from a university course, they’d charge you $8,000 over 3 years.
For results you likely won’t use afterwards (because using the language was no fun).
So while the investment in this community is $25/month...
And I expect most students will stay with me for a full year-long commitment...
The investment will pay off for years – even decades!
Because what happens when you master language learning?
It means you can leave your worries behind, and pick up even more ambitious learning objectives.
It means you can push the limits of your comfort zone, again and again.
Go from being an intermediate, to being advanced, to being fluent.
That’s what a few months of consistency in this community will give you: You’ll never again worry that you won’t ever be able to converse with a native speaker.
Because you’ll have seen what works, and know you can do it again.
That’s why I consider $300 to be a steal.
3 years of university: $8,000 / 36 months = $222/month (if you’re American, you know these are conservative numbers)
Regular price: $300 a month
Current price: $25 a month
Your Guarantee
I’m so confident in my community and the materials that you can get a full refund if the exercises don’t work for you.
All you need to do to get a refund is show that you’ve done the exercises.
Everyone who completes a full week’s worth of the materials (and can prove they did so) is eligible for a refund.
But what you’ll find is that after completing a few exercises, you’ll want to continue.
Because it works.
Think $25/month is too much for a language community? Here’s what costs more:
Staying in the same city you’ve lived in for twenty years.
Knowing people who have about the same life experiences as you do.
Being exposed to the same culinary life you were last year, and the year before.
Experiencing the same cultural life, the same news reports, the same entertainment as everyone else.
Without a second language, you’ll be stuck in English-speaking countries your whole life.
You’ll never get to:
Live abroad
Date or marry an exotic foreigner
Work in an office where they don’t speak a lick of English!
Impress your friends by having a conversation they don’t understand.
If those are experiences you’re OK with passing on, go ahead and close the page.
Otherwise, tell us: