Sounds awesome. Glad to have heard you Still continue to grind despite the projected pessimism. You have a brilliant mind and a philantropic heart.I am currently using your complete spanish course to reignite my desire to become fluent in spanish and it is amazing. I am also trying to find material to help create some material for my mother's native tongue which is extremely scarce, and I wasn't able to learn as a child and so this will be the next language that I will be attempting to tackle once I have reached conversational fluency with spanish. Ga, from ghana. Thank you so much for all the material you have provided it is absolutely and unequivocally amazingingly unmatched.
Thank you for your such kind words Rai! That sounds interesting about Ga! There really is high value in dissecting such languages of lesser known linguistic groups for so many reasons, amongst which are what they tell us about the method. I never thought the most sensible place to start a course would be with onomatopoeia until I took the method to Swahili, so who knows where Ga would take us!
I simply love your project and your method as a whole. I discovered LT a few weeks ago, when I was looking for an app to help learning languages and I stumbled upon a video recommending it. The girl on it said that it was made "by just one Greek guy", and it made me think it probably would have Greek lessons (something that isn't that common to find) - and I was surprised to find it has much more! Albeit I really enjoy the Hellenic language - because of the fact that there's a lot of Greek in other languages, both in vocabulary and in prefixes and sufixes, and it has a cool history -, it's always in my head the idea that I shouldn't jump outright to it, being a native Portuguese speaker myself (and not having any plans to live in Greece, for instance, or speaking it with anyone); thinking about it made me want to try romance language first, so I jumped into your Spanish course and it was good as I thought it would be :)
I would like to help you with your Round Table project - sounds like and amazing idea to give life to new language courses form new course writers -, but it's not viable for me to do an in person meeting (and there's probably other Portuguese or Brazilian speakers better suited and interested in helping you). I hope at least my donation was helpful :)
I have found your courses to be wonderful. The method is great. They have helped me enormously. I say that after trying many different ways to learn french, spanish, arabic and swahili
I have paid for a yearly subscription but can find no way to access info. and when i check my status it says free version. i find content great but what's the use if can't access. i need to cancel.
Hey Joe, I'm sorry for my delay and to hear you are having problems. As it should be mentioned when you sign up (although sign-up is disabled now), being a paying member doesn't give you access to any more content it is just another way to support LT if the other channels (Paypal, Patreon etc.) weren't to your liking. I'm not sure if that's what you meant by 'info' or you mean account info? Either way, iIf you signed up on another billing cycle it will say free version now and you won't be charged again because there are no more subscriptions. Stripe has been very uncooperative in releasing the funds and so I had to disable the option here. In fact I think no-one has been charged for around 4 months or more! All the best and please let me know if this resolves your concern!
These insatiable learners! hehe :) The Greek course is very complete, all you need is to go out and practice and consume culture in Greek, although I hope at one point to continue those projects I started to help you do that (translated lyric albums etc). Maybe with these new steps to get the project better known it'll become easier to secure the collaborations necessary to do that!
Thank you for your insightful commitment and ideas. You've done incredible work with Language Transfer, please know it is greatly appreciated!
I want to emphasize the importance of being supportive of volunteers. (I know, no one asked for my opinion!) , It's essential to recognize the valuable contributions of those who choose to volunteer.. unpaid. While some may be busy or unreliable, the dedicated individuals who make time for volunteer work more than compensate for the others. The Roundtable idea is fantastic. Wishing you great success!
Thank you for your thoughts Sea! I do celebrate it emphatically when a volunteer comes through and contributes, and I am genuinely grateful not least because of my experience of the opposite. The sad truth is though that the majority of those who plan work with me, get on multiple calls or write long emails planning and promising are beyond flaky, they are "anti-volunteers". They complicate my work and damage my motivation by promising work they don't do, and unfortunately the balance is so much in the negative that it was one of the reasons I have shifted models. That's not to say I am not extremely grateful to those who have given something of themselves to this project, and that something is something that stays with me. But unfortunately, it is a tiny minority of those who promise and so all of this infrastructure I am creating is carefully designed to filter out the hoards of people that either don't take themselves or Language Transfer seriously enough to not inundate me with this type of soul-stultifying interaction. Volunteers are indeed of course unpaid, but that doesn't mean they are not invested into or get something out of the experience, including on their CV. I did much volunteering before I created Language Transfer, and the fact I wasn't paid never made me see it any less as a job that I respected and had to show up for. Unfortunately, I was expecting that to be the general value system of those getting in touch but it has been far from it. Again, none of this applies to real volunteers, without whom of course none of this would have been possible! :)
Sounds awesome. Glad to have heard you Still continue to grind despite the projected pessimism. You have a brilliant mind and a philantropic heart.I am currently using your complete spanish course to reignite my desire to become fluent in spanish and it is amazing. I am also trying to find material to help create some material for my mother's native tongue which is extremely scarce, and I wasn't able to learn as a child and so this will be the next language that I will be attempting to tackle once I have reached conversational fluency with spanish. Ga, from ghana. Thank you so much for all the material you have provided it is absolutely and unequivocally amazingingly unmatched.
Thank you for your such kind words Rai! That sounds interesting about Ga! There really is high value in dissecting such languages of lesser known linguistic groups for so many reasons, amongst which are what they tell us about the method. I never thought the most sensible place to start a course would be with onomatopoeia until I took the method to Swahili, so who knows where Ga would take us!
I simply love your project and your method as a whole. I discovered LT a few weeks ago, when I was looking for an app to help learning languages and I stumbled upon a video recommending it. The girl on it said that it was made "by just one Greek guy", and it made me think it probably would have Greek lessons (something that isn't that common to find) - and I was surprised to find it has much more! Albeit I really enjoy the Hellenic language - because of the fact that there's a lot of Greek in other languages, both in vocabulary and in prefixes and sufixes, and it has a cool history -, it's always in my head the idea that I shouldn't jump outright to it, being a native Portuguese speaker myself (and not having any plans to live in Greece, for instance, or speaking it with anyone); thinking about it made me want to try romance language first, so I jumped into your Spanish course and it was good as I thought it would be :)
I would like to help you with your Round Table project - sounds like and amazing idea to give life to new language courses form new course writers -, but it's not viable for me to do an in person meeting (and there's probably other Portuguese or Brazilian speakers better suited and interested in helping you). I hope at least my donation was helpful :)
Have a good one, Mihalis, you are a legend.
I have found your courses to be wonderful. The method is great. They have helped me enormously. I say that after trying many different ways to learn french, spanish, arabic and swahili
I have paid for a yearly subscription but can find no way to access info. and when i check my status it says free version. i find content great but what's the use if can't access. i need to cancel.
Hey Joe, I'm sorry for my delay and to hear you are having problems. As it should be mentioned when you sign up (although sign-up is disabled now), being a paying member doesn't give you access to any more content it is just another way to support LT if the other channels (Paypal, Patreon etc.) weren't to your liking. I'm not sure if that's what you meant by 'info' or you mean account info? Either way, iIf you signed up on another billing cycle it will say free version now and you won't be charged again because there are no more subscriptions. Stripe has been very uncooperative in releasing the funds and so I had to disable the option here. In fact I think no-one has been charged for around 4 months or more! All the best and please let me know if this resolves your concern!
Great idea, thank you for all your hard work.
I absolutely loved your Greek course, and am hoping against hope that you will extend it one day, maybe even soon, please, please!
These insatiable learners! hehe :) The Greek course is very complete, all you need is to go out and practice and consume culture in Greek, although I hope at one point to continue those projects I started to help you do that (translated lyric albums etc). Maybe with these new steps to get the project better known it'll become easier to secure the collaborations necessary to do that!
Thank you for your insightful commitment and ideas. You've done incredible work with Language Transfer, please know it is greatly appreciated!
I want to emphasize the importance of being supportive of volunteers. (I know, no one asked for my opinion!) , It's essential to recognize the valuable contributions of those who choose to volunteer.. unpaid. While some may be busy or unreliable, the dedicated individuals who make time for volunteer work more than compensate for the others. The Roundtable idea is fantastic. Wishing you great success!
Thank you for your thoughts Sea! I do celebrate it emphatically when a volunteer comes through and contributes, and I am genuinely grateful not least because of my experience of the opposite. The sad truth is though that the majority of those who plan work with me, get on multiple calls or write long emails planning and promising are beyond flaky, they are "anti-volunteers". They complicate my work and damage my motivation by promising work they don't do, and unfortunately the balance is so much in the negative that it was one of the reasons I have shifted models. That's not to say I am not extremely grateful to those who have given something of themselves to this project, and that something is something that stays with me. But unfortunately, it is a tiny minority of those who promise and so all of this infrastructure I am creating is carefully designed to filter out the hoards of people that either don't take themselves or Language Transfer seriously enough to not inundate me with this type of soul-stultifying interaction. Volunteers are indeed of course unpaid, but that doesn't mean they are not invested into or get something out of the experience, including on their CV. I did much volunteering before I created Language Transfer, and the fact I wasn't paid never made me see it any less as a job that I respected and had to show up for. Unfortunately, I was expecting that to be the general value system of those getting in touch but it has been far from it. Again, none of this applies to real volunteers, without whom of course none of this would have been possible! :)