Think in Italian

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Thank you Suzanne! You've been with me for a long time. :) I totally agree on "self-delusion". But don't worry, my AI tutor is there to support you. ;)

Ciao Suzanne! You've been with me for a year. Never stop learning! :) I removed the forum because it was both technically and practically difficult to run and only a few members were using it. Now, you can ask AI and get the best answer right away. The AI tutor is a revolutionary tool that took 400 hours of my time. Have you tried it yet? Glad to hear that support helped. Ciao ciao!

Grazie Jill!

1. There's nothing wrong with the courses you paid for. 2. There's nothing wrong with the free quizlets embedded from quizlet.com ̈on my free grammar notes. 3. I didn't make those quizlets 4. Even if there were anything wrong with the quizlets, they're but a marginal addition to my contents and not an integral part of my courses 5. The grammar notes are publicly available for free, i.e. are not part of the contents you paid for. 6. You're not eligible for a refund because 4 months from your purchase you're way past the 30-day guarantee. 7. The private answers to your grammar questions are not included in your membership. You may ask questions in the comments. 8. You'd better understand what you paid for and what you didn't

Emily! Happy that you're still with me. :)

Grazie Maria! Keep going with the audio course "Ripeti con me!" :)

Grazie Jess!

Right Colett! It's better to invest in one course that works than play with many apps that won't. ;)

Bene Sue! Keep going with the audio course "Ripeti con me!" :)

Ciao Theressa! Keep going with the audio course "Ripeti con me!" :)

Keep going with Ripeti con me! :)

Ciao Bill! I'm happy to read your follow-up. I remember your email about the "strange experience" you were having of thinking directly in Italian. That's simply what happens when you take my lessons as recommended. Not bad for a week or so, no? :)

Grazie Emily! I'm glad that you can tell the difference between apps. ;)

Ciao Brian! I'd have been happy to address your doubts personally, but this is the first message I see from you, so I'll reply here. :) -- Q1 "I don't believe that passive spoken repetition of a teacher is the best path to spoken fluency." A1 There's nothing "passive" in my course. You're continuously prompted to speak, especially in Sequence B of the audio lessons "Ripeti con me!", where a long pause gives you the chance to actively _recall_ the sentences (instead of speaking along with my audio). It's like removing for a moment the small extra wheel of a kid's bicycle to enable them to keep balance by themselves. Here's a simple explanation of the difference between "active recall" and "passive review". https://getatomi.com/blog/what-is-active-recall-and-how-effective-is-it/ Q2 "I prefer methods where you are prompted to think of a correct reply and then to speak it." A2 The "correct reply" _is_ the sentence you just heard. You're prompted to think (recall) it and say it. The sentences work as reference (study) material and practice (review) material at the same time, with the advantage that you already have everything you need to practice. If you were to build sentences from scratch, you'd need to come up with an answer, look up words, etc. That easily breaks the flow and keeps you silent instead of speaking. Indeed, there are many courses, apps, and books that teach like that, but I don't use or recommend them. Q3 "At least one well-known course teaches languages this way." A3 Is it the course that I see in your other review? I just tried their lessons and that's the kind of materials that will never make anyone fluent. The only valuable material is their conversations, but they're not put in a way that enables you to speak, but rather to play games as in many other apps. -- I just checked your activity. You've been a member for one month today. I noticed that, although you've been browsing lesson pages almost daily, you haven't marked any lesson as completed. This could just be that you didn't know how or didn't feel the need to do that, but from the lesson pages that you visited, I can tell that you didn't follow my advice to take one audio lesson of "Ripeti con me!" per day, every day. Besides that, there's no way to know if you repeated what you heard and went through the lessons as recommended. While you still have access, why not do this experiment? Take 3 consecutive lessons of "Ripeti con me!" over 3 days, then go back to the first lesson on Day 4. You'll realize that you already understand and speak along more than you did before. Please do repeat everything as recommended, or else it really becomes passive. If you're still not satisfied with the results, I have a 30-day money-back guarantee policy that I'm ready to honor. Just drop me an email. :) Ciao ciao!

Happy to hear that Michael! Keep going with the audio course.

No worries Nancy! You're young as long as you're learning something. :)

Thank you Anke! Keep going with the audio lessons Ripeti Con Me! :)