My sense from other case heavy languages is that you solve for this by making sure that people are comfortable with the most common usage patterns, and thatās enough to get into conversations, and then exposure gradually solves for the extra variations (which is really pretty much the way children acquire linguistic complexities, so should be a fairly solid approach, fingers crossed!).
Hope youāre all keeping well, and getting occasional bits of sleep here any thereā¦
Best thing is to do SSiGerman first, then Russian and then Finnish. That way I get the courses I want first and SSiBorg gets experience with increasing case complexity.
I would like to have French language here. I have also gone through the basic learning of French from college-essay-writing-service and now studying more in-depth regrading the language and its really fun.
Hello! Itās me here, the broken record
Polyglot gathering is getting under way later in the first half of this year (both online and in person for the first time since Covid!). Invariably, the topic turns to āwhat languages do you speak?ā. Invariably, the response to Welsh is āhow did you learn THAT?ā. And invariably there is huge interest when I explain the SSi method. There are some that have done Pimsleur and have been super bored when it comes to the lack of practicality of many parts of the course. They are always impressed with SSi.
Most donāt want to learn welsh, although Iāve sent a couple of people here who have. Is there any good news I might be able to share with them about upcoming courses? Even English (although most speak it already) or Chinese (very popular right now) or Portuguese? Of course Iām still waiting for German
Iām contemplating joining Pimsleur again. They now have a polyglot option with all 51 languages for A$29 per month. Thatās a lot of money but thatās also a lot of languages. But Iād rather give it to you!
Iām not in any way being rude, but why is it all taking so long to bring out more languages in the SSI series? Iāve been waiting many years for more, but nothing seems to materialise
I happen to know that there are actually a few languages being developed, and some of them in a quite advanced phase*.
I have no knowledge of all the exact reasons of why it took/itās taking/it will take a bit more time to release new languages.
But one thing for sure is that thereās some big technical improvements being made and tested to allow more flexibility and customization to each learner (and their needs/preferences).
And this just takes time. But Iām very curious to see the end result because it seems well worth the wait!
*Edit @Liam.Q including Mandarin and/or English for Mandarin speakers, as far as I know
Are they really preparing Mandarin? Because I WANT to learn it but have been spoiled by SSIW so that no other course will do. Iāve tried a few, none of them suited me so well.
Donāt worry, not taken as rude at all - and sorry for not seeing this before - I think it probably boils down to two key issues - one is that itās been really tricky to reproduce the method reliably in multiple languages, and two is that weāre looking to be able to produce a course for every language, rather than just the usual suspects.
That means that when weāve been able to produce a certain amount of new stuff, but itās been slow and painful, weāve wanted to keep on working to build something more robust.
Itās really only been the startling improvements in ChatGPT (particularly from 3 to 4) and some strong additions to our tech team that have given us line of sight for some rapid production towards the end of this year/start of next