Phase 4: Reaping the benefits

Harry, you’re a lizard. A what? A lizard, Harry.

Keep it up, train your magic powers, it’s three more weeks until you’re conversational. Can you feel it coming already?

You’ve also been to something like the Hogwarts school of witchcraft and lizardry. And we’ve been working HARD to create it in an independent way.

Hogwarts wasn’t sponsored by Borgin and Burkes, Ollivander’s Wand Shop, or Weasleys’ Wizard Wheezes. Hogwarts was an independent institution led by competent professors. Well more or less actually, Dolores Umbridge was a bit of a … And they accepted someone with Voldemort on the back of his head as the defense against the dark arts teacher. Nevermind.

The point is our lil elephant school also needs your support to stay independent and become the coolest start-up in Europe’s history. I think the potential is there and the fun could be great. Why should everything be owned by Silicon Valley investors, or Hong Kong Ltd.’s. Wouldn’t it be great to have a half-Viennese, half-Georgian elephant take a poop on the green owl?

Anyways, getting distracted again.

✅ Practice all your phrases. Try to keep those available ones at 0.

✅ Go through the listening material 2x this week and don’t forget to review old Listening videos as well.

✅ Have your 8th lesson and get like 30-40 recordings.

And that’s it, Wingardium Leviósa! (And not Wingardium Leviosá)

Almost there. You are! You’ve gotten this far.

Two more weeks! (Yep that’s a flying turtle)

Let’s keep it short and simple. You’re doing great if you’ve made it this far.

Did you already have your magic moment like the flying turtle in the picture?

Same procedure as last week? Same procedure as every week.

✅ Spend 2x 30 minutes on listening-reading practice, only reviewing old videos.

✅ Have another lesson this week, and try to get at least 30 new phrases from your teacher.

✅ And as always, practice those phrases daily. Keep those routines running

Maybe you’ll be lying on a beach in Costa Rica soon, with sea turtles hatching, and lots of Argentinians around. Or chilling with indigenas in Panama that eat sea turtles as a delicatesse?

Yeah. That’s it. The moment we promised you 12 weeks ago.

In case you think we promised too much, we hope that it wasn’t a complete waste of time. And having had 10 private lessons must’ve been useful in any case.

Otherwise, we’d love to get your support after this course. It’s been a lot of work with blood, sweat and tears. But we made it, and with your help we can continue a company that’s human-centered. (By the way all these texts were written without the use of AI. You were reading human words hehe).

Anyways, here’s how you can help:

• Donate an appropriate amount for the value we have created in your life. We really need cashies most of all.
• Recommend us to your friends that also might want to speak, a language. Speaking languages will make any future holiday better, as well as make any job more fun if it’s in that language. So you can help your friends and us at the same time.
• Record a listening-reading video for other learners, or even give some free lessons in return. We will take care of everything to make this as easy as possible.

In any case, no company can exist without an income, even if the main goal isn’t making investors richer. And I’d love to prove that a donation-based system can work as well as a subscription and marketing based system.

What you’ve learned already will

Here’s what to do, in your final week (yay, so exciting!):

✅ Practice all your available phrases in the app.

✅ Do at least 30 minutes of Listening-Reading. You’re pretty much ready to start watching movies or series now, if possible.

✅ Have your seventh lesson and get around 40 recordings.

And now you’re done. What’s next?

Well, you know… If you continue for another 3-6 months. You’ll actually be fluent.

And you have everything you need to continue: a routine, the right tools, and an understanding…

You might as well …

Or you could learn another language 😇. What’s next? hehe

And if you decide to stop, you can still practice the phrases every now and then. You’ll see that they’ll really stay in your long-term memory. And they’ll pop up when you need them. You can almost hear it in your brain, it’s super interesting.

I was at this party and every time I would meet one of the three Russian girls, another sentence would pop up, I’d say it, and then walk away again. In the end they were convinced I spoke Russian, although I didn’t have any practice in 2,5 years. lol.

The skill you have now has real value, your 2000€ holiday might become 30% nicer. Your relationship with the family of your foreign-born wife might suddenly become warm and open. Your job opportunities might increase, resulting in 10’s of thousands of euros over the course of your career.

Well, whatever, I don’t want to put a price tag on learning a language.

I’m just happy you made it until the end, and that the world has another foreign language speaker.

Thanks for your trust,

Alex