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Fluent Forever Audiobook

Tue, 28 Feb 2017 10:39:04 +0000

Publisher’s Summary

Memory is the greatest challenge to learning a foreign language; there are just too many words and too many rules. For every new word we learn, we seem to forget two old ones, making fluency seem out of reach. Fluent Forever tackles this challenge head-on. Starting with pronunciation, you’ll learn how to rewire your ears and turn foreign sounds into familiar sounds. And with the help of sophisticated spaced-repetition techniques, you’ll be able to memorize hundreds of words a month in minutes every day. This is brain hacking at its most exciting, taking what we know about neuroscience and linguistics and using it to create the most efficient and enjoyable way to learn a foreign language in the spare minutes of your day.

A Note From Gabe About the Audiobook

I’ve wanted to do this for quite some time. Back when the book first came out in 2014, I was talking to my publisher about making an audiobook, and they were a bit unsure about making it. They felt like there were too many diagrams and things, and they weren’t confident it would work. But readers like you kept emailing me, asking for an audiobook, and I knew that the book would work in that format, with a few modifications. Three years later, and my agent managed to get our publisher to give us back the audiobook rights, which we then sold to a wonderful audiobook-only publisher named Dreamscape. They got me into a sound studio near Chicago, and over the course of two rainy, 8-hour days, I recorded it, re-wrote some of the spots that relied upon diagrams, and then recorded those sections as well. It ended up being a pretty cool composition – I think some of the spots where I’m talking about learning pronunciation work a bit better in audio format – and it’s neat to think that there’s a version of Fluent Forever that you can actually listen to while driving in a car. Now, the next time someone asks me, “What can I do to learn a language while driving?”, I can point them towards the audiobook Towards the end of the recording process, I decided to create a webpage and PDF guide that would contain all of the URLs and resources cited in the book, so that any listeners would only need to remember a single address, instead of writing down every address and resource contained within the book. You will receive access to the guide with your purchase of the audiobook.

Fluent Forever Pronunciation Trainer

Gabriel Wyner — Sat, 11 Jun 2016 03:46:14 +0000

In December 2013, I ran a Kickstarter to fund development of a series of revolutionary pronunciation trainers. They allow you to train your ears in the pronunciation system of a new language in a couple of weeks, and thereby make that language a lot easier to learn in the long run, since you stop struggling to hear sounds you’re not familiar with. I’ve written about these trainers in my book, my blog and in an article for Scientific American Mind, but it’s probably easiest just to watch the original videos from the Kickstarter:

The Kickstarter Video

The Research behind the trainers

Discounted Bundle 3: 4 Pronunciation Trainers, 2 Word Lists and the Kickstarter Goodies

Gabriel Wyner — Fri, 18 Mar 2016 05:02:39 +0000

First, some background. In 2013, I launched a Kickstarter to fund the creation of my pronunciation trainers. At the time, I was trying to raise $10,000, but a lot of people were interested, so it ended up raising $96,000. During that Kickstarter campaign, I added a lot of stretch goals. Some of those turned into word lists, some turned into additional language support, and a couple turned into these Kickstarter goodies.

Kickstarter Goodies

PDF of the first chapter of my book. You can get this for free on the Fluent Forever website elsewhere, so don’t buy the goodies if this is all you want.
Exclusive webinar (3 hour, 45 minutes). It covers the research underlying the Fluent Forever method and a detailed discussion about how to learn your first words.
The Quick-start guide to learning any language. It’s basically an 11-page, Cliffnotes version of my book – a detailed overview of every step of the language learning process, condensed as much as I can condense it.

Note, the Kickstarter goodies are not available to purchase on their own in the shop, so if you do want to get hold of them, you will need to go for one of the discounted bundles we offer.

Discount Bundle 2: A Pronunciation Trainer, A Word List and The Kickstarter Goodies

Gabriel Wyner — Fri, 18 Mar 2016 04:59:27 +0000

Kickstarter Goodies

PDF of the first chapter of my book. You can get this for free on the Fluent Forever website elsewhere, so don’t buy the goodies if this is all you want.
Exclusive webinar (3 hour, 45 minutes). It covers the research underlying the Fluent Forever method and a detailed discussion about how to learn your first words.
The Quick-start guide to learning any language. It’s basically an 11-page, Cliffnotes version of my book – a detailed overview of every step of the language learning process, condensed as much as I can condense it.

Note, the Kickstarter goodies are not available to purchase on their own in the shop, so if you do want to get hold of them, you will need to go for one of the discounted bundles we offer.

Discount Bundle 1: A Pronunciation Trainer and a Word List

Gabriel Wyner — Fri, 18 Mar 2016 04:49:52 +0000

The Bundle Deal

The Most Awesome Word Lists You Have Ever Seen

Gabriel Wyner — Fri, 18 Mar 2016 04:10:28 +0000

The Most Awesome Word Lists You Have Ever Seen (in 30 language combinations): These are professionally translated lists of my 625 words, arranged in an order that makes them 10% easier and faster to memorize than a randomized list, and nearly 200% easier to memorize when compared with a thematic word list (where you learn colors, then professions, then parts of the body, etc.). Lots of research behind these, too, which you can learn about on this page. The lists are beautifully typeset and contain 90 illustrations by 10 famous web artists. View the sample pages above to get an idea as to what this looks like. Here’s our list of amazing contributing artists:

Sandra Salsbury – known on Reddit as illustratingreddit – will be the primary illustrator on the project. Then we have some guest spots:
Zach Weiner, creator of Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal.
Michelle Czajkowski, creator of Ava’s Demon.
Christopher Hastings, creator of The Adventures of Dr. McNinja.
Katie Tiedrich, creator of Awkward Zombie
Chris Jones, the artist of Captain Excelsior and Snowflakes (colored by Anthony Clark, the artist of Nedroid)
Andrea Tsurumi, artist of a wide array of awesome comics and books
Der-shing Helmer, artist and author of The Meek
Jess Fink, creator of Chester 5000 XYV.

The International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) Anki Deck

toweradmin — Sat, 19 Jul 2014 07:51:59 +0000

The International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) Anki Deck will help you quickly learn the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). IPA is a sound alphabet that gives you a symbol for each type of sound found in the English language and therefore provides the foundation to understand how to properly pronounce words in English.

What will you learn:

• Easily recognize the IPA symbols in English – It will help you memorize the IPA symbols and give you the basic foundation to pronunciation in English.

• Understand how to go to and from the written IPA and spoken/heard sounds – This deck will help you recognize the IPA symbols and hear them in your head. So if you see a word in IPA for example in a dictionary, you should be able to hear what it sounds like and be able to go from sounds that you hear back to the IPA.

• Be able to compare English to your target language – Understand what English does in terms of pronunciation and to therefore see the differences in other languages. For example, if you see an English word written in IPA and a French word in IPA, it’ll be really clear what the differences are because the vowels will be different or the consonants will be different.

What you receive in this deck:

This deck contains 121 cards that cover the following topics:

• Each sound in the English language (50 facts, 100 cards) with a recording, examples of each sound, the IPA symbol, and notes (for the consonants) about Place/Voicing/Manner. Vowels are based on General American pronunciation, though I include the main vowels/diphthongs of Received Pronunciation (“British” English).

• Three utility symbols of the IPA (symbols for long, primary stress, and syllable mark)

• The places used in English (9 of them, with pictures)

• The manners (9 of them, with written descriptions/examples)