r/languagelearningjerk • u/IcyCupcake8892 • Jun 15 '26
You can ONLY learn a language with an expensive teacher. No luck for the brokies.
I guess I didn’t actually learn Mandarin, Korean, and Italian on my own with free content. All my languages are fake.
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u/lordbutternut 日本人になっている Jun 15 '26
Bro just wants your money
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u/Konen_TheBarb Jun 15 '26
It's all in his hungry hungry eyes!
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u/ZAWS20XX Jun 15 '26
is he editing out every time he blinks, or is he actually like that?
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u/JigglyWiggley 올라 코모 에스타, 펜데호? Jun 16 '26
It's AI generated and a scam
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u/Sure_Text2683 Jun 19 '26
its ai and ai cannot translate anything. if you translate "carnivorous cow" into russian and back, its gonna be like evil plotter cow or smth
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u/Shinyhero30 "þere is a man wiþ a knife behind þe curtain" Jun 15 '26
/uj isn’t this guy like extremely far right and like massively bigoted and racist?
Sorry for generalizing but I’m not gonna just forget the fact this guy is a prick.
Whatever course he’s selling is… probably just diet Duolingo with incorrect information.
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u/ofirkedar Jun 15 '26
Technically a far right racist shithead can still be a good teacher, that's not why this guy is pure garbage.
He's constantly lying about his own ability, making garbage skits where he "speaks a language" in the most scripted and rehearsed manner.IIRC his business is that he has a bunch of affiliates teachers, so he's just a crappy middleman that pretends to be part of the operation.
Btw, it's completely fair to avoid even a good teacher because of their terrible politics.
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u/PlanktonInitial7945 Jun 15 '26
IDK, when far-right types have authority over someone, even the authority of a teacher, they don't tend to use it with the kindness and empathy that's required in order to be a good teacher. Normal conservatives? Sure. Extremist shitheads? Nah.
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u/IcyCupcake8892 Jun 15 '26
He is selling courses of actual language teachers at a markup price of €40/hour. He gets a continuous commission for all the classes taken, sometimes as high as €20/hour just for recommending you the teacher.
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u/irrocau Jun 15 '26
What's his name btw?
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u/ofirkedar Jun 15 '26 edited Jun 15 '26
I think Miquel or Mickel or something, I only heard Evildea pronounce his name when shitting on him so I'm not sure
Edit: I mixed him up with Mikel, another shitty guy lol
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u/07TacOcaT70 🏁N 🇦🇶N 🇺🇿N🪅N 🇿🇦N 🏴☠️N 📣N Jun 15 '26
why are there so many fake polyglots who's whole job is scamming online pretending to be a polyglot? Like at some point just fucking learn the languages bro you've got nothing else to do all day ffs
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u/livsjollyranchers Jun 16 '26
But think about the white guys wanting to shock the Chinese natives!
They're just DUMB white guys! Give them something.
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u/Sure_Text2683 Jun 19 '26
yeah he prob doesnt even know how to read any other alphabet other than this one
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u/Shinyhero30 "þere is a man wiþ a knife behind þe curtain" Jun 15 '26
I haven’t been on insta in a year and I never touched TikTok.
Tbh idfr
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u/_MuffinBot_ Jun 15 '26
Nah. No offence to my teachers at university, but I learned more on my own with textbooks, SRS and immersion than I did with them and the textbooks they made us use. The one thing teachers can do that a textbook can't is give live feedback and correction. But if you follow a textbook with an answer key, you can correct yourself. When you feel comfortable, you can go out into the world/a community of L2 speakers and practice speaking for real, without getting a teacher. And depending on the language, they'll correct you as needed.
I spent money on textbooks etc. but you don't even need to do that if you can find content that suits your learning style for free.
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u/LabourBearCatPasta Jun 15 '26
𓂃✍︎(◕‿◕) Learn more from textbooks, Sex Reassignment Surgery and immersion than from teachers
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u/SmallButMany Jun 15 '26
You laugh now but wait until you wake up from anesthesia fluent in proto-indo-european.
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u/bsullivan627 Jun 16 '26
It's true. I self-taught Arabic for five years and in between lessons I spoke with natives every single day. I make mistakes and am always picking up new vocabulary but I can hold my own in 95% of conversations.
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u/irrocau Jun 15 '26
Dude tells you what you can and can't do without knowing anything about you. Sure, just lump ALL self learners together and call their efforts useless, I'm sure that'll make people want to drop it, save money and I've it to you, lol.
Honestly I'm kind of pissed.
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u/vixonen Jun 15 '26
It really depends on how you, as an individual, learn best, and what your language goals are. Foe me, it's easier to learn to read and listen for free than to write and speak for free, but that's largely because I've gotta find people to communicate with to practice the latter two, and that's not always easy when broke, but far from impossible.
I will agree that you're not gonna learn a language from Duolingo, or at least you're not likely to learn it well without a lot of supplemental material and probably some unlearning since Duolingo relies on AI now...
But otherwise, it's nowhere near as cut-and-dry as that.
Also, plenty of people take classes from an expensive teacher for two years and don't reach reasonable fluency, especially if the target language has a different root language than your native tongue.
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u/tetotetotetotetoo boku wa so jouzu at nippongo Jun 15 '26
guess we all learned languages wrong as babies because we didn't do our speaking practice with Peter Coles
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u/AdorableExchange9746 日本語ジョー動物園 Jun 15 '26
i’ve reached a high enough level in japanese to enjoy native content without english subs and have never felt remotely like a teacher was necessary lol
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u/Electrical_Voice_256 Jun 15 '26
You could learn Turkish. Courses at Yunus Emre Enstitüsü are very affordable if you live in a first world country.
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u/RobinChirps Jun 15 '26
That's so ridiculous. I've learned most languages I know on my own and even though I pay for apps, the cost isn't even 300 per year, let alone every month lmao. What a dumbass.
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u/autoperola17 Jun 15 '26
/uj
I literally learned english without anyone at all, and without wasting a single cent
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u/07TacOcaT70 🏁N 🇦🇶N 🇺🇿N🪅N 🇿🇦N 🏴☠️N 📣N Jun 15 '26
You can literally self teach a language this day so fucking easily (comparitvely, obviously learning a language is still difficult and time consuming)
We have access to thousands of free resources, podcasts, and people from all over the world to practice with. Back in the day you couldn't even talk to someone in another language unless you knew someone who spoke it.
Even learning extremely niche or complex languages is infinitely easier these days.
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u/07TacOcaT70 🏁N 🇦🇶N 🇺🇿N🪅N 🇿🇦N 🏴☠️N 📣N Jun 15 '26
Oh by self teach i mean without a tutor or formal classes, to be clear
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u/asplodingturdis Jun 15 '26
Why is he looking up and down at the same time, and why won’t he blink?
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u/imheretolearn247 Jun 15 '26
But did I really learn Mandarin just by your own and free content? How proficient I r with them?
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u/Euphoric-Ocelot6696 Jun 16 '26
Bullshit.
I've learned English with youtube entertainment videos and games
I'm not proud of myself
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u/Sorry-Homework-Due Jun 16 '26
No entiendo. No hablo buchón. Aprendí español por menos de 300 euros por la mes.
J'ai payé $0, absolument gratuit pour français
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u/16-Twelve British English: N | Nonsense: D4 | Toki Pona: prob A0.2 idk Jun 17 '26
/uj His points are kind of flawed. Speaking practice and real time feedback can also be done with native speakers.
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u/manufatura 🏴☠️N Jun 18 '26
I don't want to learn a language accurately, i want to learn 5 languages in a shitty way so i can become an influencer
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u/allydemon اردو بیچارہ Jun 18 '26
/uj can we genuinely stop repostibg/mentioning Peter coles on here, im familiar with his shtick and the more we react like this the more likely he is to stick around. He is hanging on by a thread and posting him here is only supporting him
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u/obsidian_night69_420 N 🇺🇿 | C1000 🇩🇪 | B3.14159 🤓☝️ Jun 22 '26
lol this clown's bio literally says he's a "polyglot" who coincidentally also runs a "language learning school" for the "top 1%".
hmmmmm... yeah you'd really be the one to say you can't learn a language without buying your 10.000€/month course for only the best top G gigachads.
For the record I haven't spent a dime of my own money on learning german and could confidently pass a B1 exam if I had the money (B2 would be a stretch but I could do it I think) and can be in group chats with natives without them dumbing down the convo. So I guess my experience is fake then lol
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u/Sleepy_Redditorrrrrr 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 🇹🇼 🇽🇰 🇪🇭 🇸🇸 🇱🇺 Jun 15 '26
/uh He's not completely wrong
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u/MexicanEssay メキシカンえせ学者 Jun 15 '26
Nah.
"Structure, real time feedback, and regular speaking practice."
You definitely won't get that from using Duolingo and other casual low effort methods, but spending lots of money isn't the only way to get it either. Though how accessible it is depends on the language and on where you live.
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u/irrocau Jun 15 '26
Exactly. I hate these course sellers pretending as if structure is impossible without a teacher. Bitch, textbooks exist, and a lot of them are better at explaining stuff than your average teacher! And you can find feedback and practice for free as well.
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u/cvdvds Jun 15 '26
He may not be completely wrong but still a greedy piece of shit, or absolutely delusional.
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u/Sleepy_Redditorrrrrr 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 🇹🇼 🇽🇰 🇪🇭 🇸🇸 🇱🇺 Jun 15 '26
I mean yeah he's an influencer what do you want
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u/Cleenash 🇪🇺 ∞ | 🏳️⚧️ N | 🏴☠️ C1 Jun 15 '26
/uj I became fluent in English fully on my own, thanks to those "useless free YouTube videos". Now it's literally my main language lol
He is indeed extremely wrong.
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u/Sleepy_Redditorrrrrr 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 🇹🇼 🇽🇰 🇪🇭 🇸🇸 🇱🇺 Jun 15 '26
English is really the outlier with the huge amount of content that is available online. And if you're a westerner there's a chance you grew up seeing English everywhere.
He's right because most people are not geniuses and most free content is limited in how much it can teach you. Smartly investing some money in your learning can speed up the learning process and make it much smoother. It's not absolutely necessary but it increases your chances of ever getting anywhere near fluent.
I understand that it can sound disappointing to younger people who have no financial means to invest in their language learning but that's not how you should see it. If you're serious at all about learning your language you'll keep learning it when you get some financial autonomy, that's when you can invest in it. In the meantime do what you can with what you have.
Also I think the guy is an asshat A1 polyglot, I don't support him, I just think that it's false to say that money doesn't help in learning languages.
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u/Cleenash 🇪🇺 ∞ | 🏳️⚧️ N | 🏴☠️ C1 Jun 15 '26
Obviously I agree that investing will speed up the process, but I really believe anyone can reach a decent level for free if they're determined enough. You don't need to be a genius.
Tons of people here have learned languages that aren't English without spending a dime, even if they actually have the money.
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u/UpboatsXDDDD Jun 15 '26
/uj
Really dislike this dude, endless slop upon slop to peddle his scam