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aussie_mate··on Rules for Learning Foreign Languages in Record Time
it's true that some people learn faster then others and that some people can understand notions and ideas that no one else can (at last not as quickly) but there is no way in hell.....i repeat NO WAY IN HELL that one can have a conversation in polish after studying the language for 1 hour (regardless of how bad their pronunciation or choice of vocabulary is). take it from a polish native who is also a polyglot. i guess some people like to believe scams like these and would be quite happy to also accept the fact that you can become a millionaire in 3 months if you only follow my technique etc. or you can learn how to advance your stock market analysis skills if you only try hard enough/have a knack for it/follow me blindly etc. put it that way......if it's so easy, how come nearly every school in the world offers some sort of foreign language curriculum yet after years of studying the given language 99.9% of students will not remember anything past counting to 10 and 'how r u'-type phrases? seeing is believing but not in this case. good luck learning.....i suggest starting with polish :)
aussie_mate··on Rules for Learning Foreign Languages in Record Time
this guy is a fake. i am polish and i can guarantee that there is no way in the world that one can speak the way he spoke in the video in just 1 hour of learning. polish is very hard to learn (ask my wife, she's an Aussie and after 10 years she still cannot pronounce my name/surname correctly). great PR stunt but hardly believable. i speak 5 languages but it took me 20 years to learn them (excluding polish) and it's not a walk in the park......definitely not 3 months......just ask any linguist or foreign language teacher. it's just like saying that you can read a programming book or watch a video tutorial and get a job hacking for google or facebook. what a load of bullshit! btw, i work as a programmer and used to work as a teacher