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“Never before have I seen a language-learning method—or method for learning anything!—that synchs up so perfectly with our current scientific understanding of how memory works. I now understand why my past attempts to learn other languages (Spanish, German, Latin) have left me with little more than a smattering of near-random vocabulary words, and I’m inspired to try again.
—Karen Schrock Simring, contributing editor at
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—Nelson Dellis, 2011 and 2012 USA Memory Champion
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“This is the book I’d use next time I want to learn a new language.
It employs an intelligent mix of the latest methods for learning a language on your own using the Web, apps, and voice-training tips in an accelerated time frame. ”—Kevin Kelly, senior maverick at
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—Joel Saltzman, author of
“An excellent book … Wyner writes in an engaging and accessible way, weaving in his personal language journey. His method, proven by his own achievements, is clear: focus on pronunciation, avoid translation, and use spaced repetition extensively. And he offers lots of specific techniques to make sure you’ll never forget what you’ve learned. I’d recommend this book to anyone who is serious—not just aspiring but really serious—about becoming fluent in a foreign language. ”
“Mash up the DNA of Steve Jobs and Aristotle and add training in engineering and opera, and you get Gabriel Wyner, whose ingeniously elegant system helps us knuckleheads learn not just foreign languages but, well,