๐น๏ธย Video-game addict & college dropout turned ๐จโ๐ซ English teacher then ๐ย polyglot. Channeled my passion for creating by becoming a ๐จโ๐ป full-stack developer.
๐ ๏ธ Currently building Gliglish: Your AI language teacher to learn languages from speaking. Try it free! ๐ gliglish.com/free ๐ฉโ๐ค Or follow along on Twitter as I build it in public! My goal is to make the joy of learning a language through speech available to everyone.
Welcome to my personal site! I've been learning and teaching languages for decades, and running a language business as an indie maker for years. I hope you'll find something you like!
- ๐ About my startup to learn languages
- โญ๏ธย My products and sites to learn languages
- โจย Language notes
- ๐ย Random Notes
- ๐ Stories for another day
๐ About my startup to learn languages
Might share blogposts here when not too busy building and growing the product:
What I learned from being #2 on Hacker News for a split second โย and how I messed upโญ๏ธย My products and sites to learn languages
Most products are for learning English but Gliglish is for learning dozens of languages.
| Project Name | Site | Description | Since |
|---|---|---|---|
๐ฉโ๐ค Gliglish | An AI-based language teacher to learn from speaking. | November 2022 | |
Listglish.com | Learn sentences from daily life. A beautiful EnglishโFrench phrasebook with 200 illustrations created with DALLยทE. | 2022 | |
FrequencyList.com | A list of the most common words in spoken American English. These top 5,000 words cover 96% of the vocabulary in English. | 2019 | |
AmericanIPAchart.com | An interactive chart of the 39 sounds of standard American English. Used by English teachers the world over. | 2018 | |
โญ๏ธ Click & Speak | Learn the top 5,000 words in American English, with the correct pronunciation and grammar, through meaningful sentences you will remember. The top users spend 1 to 3 hours on it every day! Broke โฌ540,000 in sales. | 2015 | |
How-to-Learn-English.com | Modern ways to practice English and become truly fluent (book.) How I learned English as a foreign language (and then Spanish, Russian, Hungarian.) | 2010 | |
๐ค BilingueAnglais.com | A newsletter, blog, and products for French people learning English. 80 to 120K monthly visitors. | 2007 |
โจย Language notes
๐ย Random Notes
Notes about productivity, self-help, business, coding and whatnot...
Internet HeroesGet rid of distractions (regain your focus)How to run macOS Classic๐ Stories for another day
- Starting an ezine at age 15
- Starting a business at age 16
- Starting a fight club at age 17
- 3 years of gaming
- Experience doing a 10-day fast
- How to survive an abusive childhood
- Becoming ambidextrous
- What I learned from years of self-help & personal development
- How I went from being a shy geek to being super social
- Good communication for
dummiesnerds - How to come up with a good name for your kid, product, company or dog!
- What I learned from years of improv (in three languages)
- Experience with ten-day silent meditation
- Raising multilingual kids
- How to learn anything
- What I learned from spending thousands of dollars on accent training
- Dev productivity: little improvements to speed up and aim for 10X
- Biggest business mistakes
- The impact of growing up poor and getting out of it