In just 100 hours, Speakly says they’ll have you speaking confidently in a foreign language

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

You’ll speak confidently, confidence born of ignorance.

You also won’t understand a word that is said back to you.

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Right?

And as with so many skills, there’s often a big difference between speaking confidently and speaking well.

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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.

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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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