Dear
@Spotify
Once again, I received an email this morning from a user of my project about someone stealing my material to host, and make money from, on your platform.
I am ONE PERSON, who has worked an insanity-inducing amount to create this project from nothing. I have
FINALLY! After years of writing to ministers of education all over the world, offering to help replace (for free) our systems of indoctrination with real education, with an education system that aims to solve problems in our civilisation instead of use them as solutions for the
SHARING Language Transfer is so important. It's strange how there are so many thousands of users, and every one of them who makes contact was convinced by someone to try the course. All the algorithms are set against this project, maybe because of the money it loses the industry
Welcome to Language Transfer,
@Duolingo
's unofficial complaint department! 😂
Anyone making money off of education has a RESPONSIBILITY to make sure they are not teaching people they in fact can't learn.
I'd love to see the big names put as much into pedagogy as they do marketing
@Spotify
"Thieving F****** B******" would be my three words.
Spotify, you continue to host my FREE learning material illegally, whilst making money from it, and despite petitions to take it down. Shame on you.
...is 'Language Transfer Spanish' really the 8th autofill for 'language' on YouTube? That's mad! Or does my computer know it's me even when I'm signed out??
What do you see?
So I started breeding chickens!
After a week, you “candle” the eggs. This involves holding a light up to the egg to reveal if it’s developing.
This odd use of ‘candle’ hung around in my head for weeks until I realised why. “Vela” is candle in Spanish, but even though “reveal”
It's been over a week since this post to the shameless folks at
@Spotify
, and the illegal links with LT courses are still active. In fact, more links have been brought to my attention (below). It is the same uploader as before, with the same image. I refuse to police Spotify
Dear
@Spotify
Once again, I received an email this morning from a user of my project about someone stealing my material to host, and make money from, on your platform.
I am ONE PERSON, who has worked an insanity-inducing amount to create this project from nothing. I have
Coming soon: Roundtables!
I'm always looking for ways to get more people course writing with the Thinking Method, to make this way of learning more mainstream, and I'm currently rewriting part of The Thinking Method Guidebook to account for the soon-to-launch Platform for new
Congrats to
@joerogan
on his new $250 million Spotify deal!
Spotify stills hosts Language Transfer free material illegally, making money off of it as they do so.
Imagine spending just a little bit on real effort to not violate creators’ rights on your platform,
@Spotify
!
Between YT, the app, and the plug-ins the site connects to, that's well over 1,000,000 learning minutes a month! A special thank you to those compulsive & enthusiastic sharers who can't stand to think people might try to learn a language in any other way! I see you! ;)
Some months ago I casually noticed that "casa" (house) just means "case", just like how a "cassette" is a "little case/house". And it has stuck with me!
I look at the animal abodes in the countryside where I live, semi-delapitated sheds and barns. Their houses aren't like ours.
Italians are often accused of being passionate, and of loving pasta! Could the two things be connected? Linguistically they are!...
'Grass' in Spanish for example is 'pasto', and of course pasta is pretty much grass, it's wheat. Just like pastry in English.
Conserved in some
@Spotify
"Thieving F****** B******" would be my three words.
Spotify, you continue to host my FREE learning material illegally, whilst making money from it, and despite petitions to take it down. Shame on you.
Still no word from
@Spotify
, and all links for the illegally hosted LT courses are still active.
It's not complicated what myself and other creators are asking for. There are many solutions available to Spotify, from creating a database of non-permitted material for creators to
Dear
@Spotify
Once again, I received an email this morning from a user of my project about someone stealing my material to host, and make money from, on your platform.
I am ONE PERSON, who has worked an insanity-inducing amount to create this project from nothing. I have
LT is now offering free teacher training in the Thinking Method to schools & educational institutions the world over, for any subject! For a workshop on how the method can be applied to your language/discipline/teaching context, get in touch and tell me a little about your needs!
Just finished proofing some Tagalog classes for the LT Platform for new course writers! And a pretty good effort at that!
I look forward to sharing them along with my feedback for improvement with the launch of the new Platform, coming very soon!
Guess what? Language Transfer finally has an app! And I almost can't believe it!
If you've ever had a nice word to say about LT, please go and say it on the app with a rating! This'll help Language Transfer appear when folk search for language courses! :)
Glad you're posting on X, but this video should be about Language Transfer, and what happens when you're not concerned with user numbers and manipulating people with the conditional love of a disappointed owl.
As an experiment, we're posting a short TED Talk directly here on X. If you like, please spread the word, and more will follow! This is the brilliant
@LuisvonAhn
showing how worthy content like Duolingo can compete online.
I'm getting a few of these lately.
Yes, Spotify illegally hosts and profits from LT material, despite calls to take it down.
If you care about tech giants stamping all over the rights of small projects like LT, delete your
@Spotify
and let them know why!
The remastered audio for Complete Greek is now 50%+ uploaded to
@rumblevideo
! If you gave up on the course in the past because the audio quality bothered you, here's your chance to try again! The AI remastering really does make an important difference!
Did you know that "person" literally means "per sound" or "to sound through"?
According to the word, we don't exist just because there are bodies, in the same way music doesn't exist just because there are instruments to play it on. Apparently, it's all already out there, just
Ok, so for anyone more interested in the truth than this particular self-appointed karma fairy, you can check out the Intro of the TM Guidebook which address the issue in the clearest of terms or this article :)
Two down, one to go!
With the next proper submission I get for a new language course, the LT Platform for new course writers will go live with the initial lessons for THREE new languages!
It's interesting that the bible doesn't name the forbidden fruit although we call it an 'apple', and yet 'apple' can actually just mean 'fruit', and not only in English!
Can anyone think of any more examples, in any language? Would be curious to hear them!
Nearly 350,000 minutes of learner time on YouTube... in just a month!
The last time I shared one of these (last summer!) it was at 260,000, so thank you for all the sharing and caring!
I don't usually do this, but I'm releasing the intro track of 'Introduction to Music (Theory)' all by itself, it deserves a little limelight in its own right!
The following 1.5 hours of course time so far recorded will continue releasing from tomorrow!
I now identify as an angry billionaire.
“What I see all over the place is people who care about looking good while doing evil. F*ck them.” -
@elonmusk
This would also be my summary of the past quarter-century of trying to collaborate with other activists, NGOs, governments and
It all started, or blew up, with that stroke of luck 12 years ago today! When
@Rapidshare
replied to my email asking for a free account to host the LT courses, as I had no money to host them anywhere.
Not only did they grant me that wish - but they also put the courses in their
20 tracks of 'Intro to Music (Theory)' are now online! A unique breed of musical literacy quite like none other awaits you! And all 100% for free...
(also on the Language Transfer app)
The first lesson of Introduction to Music (Theory) has been 'test-released' to Patrons in search of feedback!
So, if you just can't bear the wait for the polished version, join the Patreon campaign at , and be amongst the first to get in on Intro to Music!
Whenever you see ‘gate’ about, it’s not necessarily about a gate!
‘Gate’ just means 'street' in the Old Norse of the Vikings, and so a simpified version of this sign might read: New street street street!
Follow LT on Instagram for more content like this!
AI Remastered audio of the original Complete Spanish course is being uploaded to
@rumblevideo
!
If the old school audio quality put you off the LT courses, now is your chance to try again!
If you would like to help Language Transfer update the app () with an
Here's the updated voting panorama for LT's next languages!
When The Thinking Method Guidebook is released in early 2020, there will be a competition to select new course-writers to form the LT team, and take on more voted languages! More info here:
There's been a small but important advancement for the Thinking Method Platform (where I will be helping new writers get great at the Thinking Method)!
What do you think of the new animated logo? Is it clear what it's meant to represent?
I'm hoping by spring we'll also have
FINALLY! After years of writing to ministers of education all over the world, offering to help replace (for free) our systems of indoctrination with real education, with an education system that aims to solve problems in our civilisation instead of use them as solutions for the
I can't help but think this young course is already my best work yet! 'Introduction to Music (Theory)' is changing the Thinking Method, and what this means for new language courses remains to be seen!
New track released today!
Ok, so I had to do this all manually because YouTube clearly dedicates more of its resources to controlling what you (don't) think than actually making a platform that works as well as it pretends to, but ok, deep breath, the AI enhanced audios for Complete Spanish are now
Yo
@YouTube
, I've spent the better part of the day ordering audios in a play list with your painfully unintuitive features (god that was frustrating)... all to have the site reject my requests to make the videos public!
Can someone help, if you're not too busy with 'the
The last track of Intro to Music is now online!! This wraps up a course writing journey that has spanned years and continents! And in the most unexpected of circumstances, which has lead to unexpected music, and unexpected classes...
The person who sent me this message (Lemire) has
@RAFAlberta
as their Twitter handle on FB. So, is this one of yours and, can we have this out publicly?
Seeking Language Transfer, an odyssey:
"I only found Language Transfer when I tried to figure out who made the Spotify podcast. I did searches on "Knowledge for all" which is what
@Spotify
lists as the publisher, that led me to this list of your podcast's episodes, on
@spreaker
🧵
We've managed to take advantage of the infrastructure created for the new app in order to offer free downloads directly from the website. You can now download all the audios of any course, with just one click!
@elonmusk
"Dictador" 😂😁 "dictadura" which you probably heard around means "dictatorship". Check out for the best Spanish course in the world! (it's free but you can donate me a university if you like it 😎🤭)
@rumblevideo
...and to this person (and whoever else doesn't get it)! Yes, my work does unfortunately involve some ranting, if I charged for everything I might hire people to deal with all the stress and bask in my millions without a care in the world but alas, it was care that led me to make
"The melody...is both the narrator and the story itself, the journey and the traveller alike, subject and object all at once."
Excited to finally be releasing tracks again for Intro to Music, the first non-language Thinking Method course!
Track 21 (NEW):
Yo
@YouTube
, I've spent the better part of the day ordering audios in a play list with your painfully unintuitive features (god that was frustrating)... all to have the site reject my requests to make the videos public!
Can someone help, if you're not too busy with 'the
Vote for the new "How much Spanish can you learn in 90 minutes?" to be hosted at
@sxsw
this coming March! This is a great opportunity to get Language Transfer & The Thinking Method out there. It's time to go mainstream baby!
Feeling embarrassed for
@SamsungMobile
right now. I just made the hugely expensive dive for a Fold5 thinking it’ll do wonders for my work (a lot of my thinking happens on the go). But we lasted 5 minutes. When you set ur lock pattern the programme accepts movements (like doubling
@harari_yuval
But you kinda said “here we mean ‘excited’ in a good way, but sometimes it’s bad, so chose another word in this context where the word is good”. There’s a lot of boring politicians excited about choosing our words for us lately.
Busco anfitriones para talleres abiertos y gratuitos de inglés en Oviedo y Gijón, Asturias!
Quiero presentar Introducción a Inglés para luego seguir desarrollando la parte 'inglés completo' mediante más talleres.
Centros/cafés culturales, bibliotecas, asociaciones civiles etc!
The so-far-released 7 tracks of ‘Introduction to Music (Theory)’ have been digitally remastered for a noticeably better listening experience! The remastered tracks are currently only available on SoundCloud!
@Real__maryk
...A very expensive case!
@Spotify
knows that creators are powerless against their legal team and they can act with impunity, whilst pretending -like all big tech- to be all about the rights.
As mad as much of this stuff sounds, I arrived at many of the same conclusions through the Intro to Music course. I'd love for you
@terrencehoward
to check it out and consider using the TM platform to dissect and share these great ideas, as courses!
@elonmusk
Language Transfer makes a difference, changing 1000s of lives and minds all over the world, and runs 100% on donations. With some real power behind the project, it's incredible to think what might be done! Go on Elon...!
@chamio34
I recommend just using and consuming as much Spanish as you can (as per track 90). Incomprehensible input does work too, the subconscious gets forever more involved the more you speak and expose yourself to Spanish :)
Here's EFF's blog post on the case of LT, including our response to Hodder & Stoughton's lawyers attached as a PDF!
...I promise you'll enjoy reading it! :)
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