Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2020/12/22/in-just-100-hours-speakly-says-theyll-have-you-speaking-confidently-in-a-foreign-language.html
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You’ll speak confidently, confidence born of ignorance.
You also won’t understand a word that is said back to you.
Right?
And as with so many skills, there’s often a big difference between speaking confidently and speaking well.
Only 8 languages - is that just part of the promotion? If that’s all they support, I’ll wait for reviews on how well this works for learning Xhosa, Greek, Mandarin, and Swahili.
Does dropping Malcolm Gladwell’s name still move merch with the BB crowd? Serious question, not that I expect the “shop” to answer. Not because of the Toobin stuff; I just thought his reputation had gotten a little too woo-ish for the median BoingBoing patron.
Maybe I’m reading too much into the fact that they stopped giving James Altucher a platform.
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