Evildea looked into Mikel of Natural Language Learning, and I got interested.
"Learn to Understand & Speak ANY LANGUAGE in 30 Days".
Ok... challenge accepted. I want to learn Basque. He speaks it, so he should be able to teach it. Let's see...
The first day, we are to learn "150 conversation sentences NOW".
Basque is not in the audio files. ("If there are no audio files available for the language you want to learn, let us know in the comments". Where are the comments? I can't find them anywhere... No way to contact anyone.)
And it's Google Translate :-D
And the sentences are... well... not relevant to me, and because the audio files are prerecorded, they don't adjust to the changes in the text file... so I will learn to say I live in Basque country and have worked in Germany. Except that I don't, because they don't have the Basque audio files.
Anyway, he says one should find one's own questions... and then translate
But - I will learn these ~150 sentences today.
And that's it... because only Day 1 is ready. All the rest of the days are "coming soon".
Go to Omniglot and learn those sentences. THERE is an audio file, and even additional information.
Anyway, learning languages is very forgiving. You can learn totally worthless crap that doesn't really make any sense - Babel Fish translations - and try to speak a language using them, you will learn the correct way soon enough, if you understand Google Translate and AI make mistakes, and you might be learning something very wrong :-D
The thing is that when we are new to a language, we will make mistakes, and the people we talk with will correct you. They might not be nice about it, but it's just to admit you have been using these methods, they will understand, and it will become a joke. Just remember, you will be teased about your "favorite bidé" for the rest of your life. (In Finnish, mielipide is opinion, but mielibidé is favorite bidé)
Also, it looks like he has taken "his" method from the same source I've taken "mine" :-D
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