🕹️ Video-game addict & college dropout turned 👨🏫 English teacher then 🌎 polyglot. Channeled my passion for creating by becoming a 👨💻 full-stack developer.
🛠️ Currently building Gliglish: Your AI language teacher to learn languages from speaking. Try it free! 👉 gliglish.com/free 👩🎤 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!
- 🚀 About my startup to learn languages
- ⭐️ My products and sites to learn languages
- ✨ Language notes
- 📒 Random Notes
- Coming up one day?
🚀 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 – and how I messed up
⭐️ 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
👩🎤 Gliglish | An AI-based language teacher to learn from speaking. | November 2022 | |
Listglish.com | Learn sentences from daily life.
A beautiful English–French phrasebook with 200 illustrations created with DALL·E. | 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 | |
⭐️ 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 €540,000 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 | |
🤟 BilingueAnglais.com | A newsletter, blog, and products for French people learning English.
80 to 120K monthly visitors. | 2007 |
✨ Language notes
My notes about learning languages · languages.fabiensnauwaert.com
I speak 🇭🇺 Hungarian (C1/advanced), 🇷🇺 Russian, 🥖 French (native), still understand Spanish, and of course English. Here are my notes, tools, stories, content recommendations, and other favorite resources for these languages!
People seem to like the notes about taking the Hungarian exam.
📒 Random Notes
Notes about productivity, self-help, business, coding and whatnot...
Internet Heroes (WIP 🚧)
Get rid of distractions (regain your focus)
How to run macOS Classic
Coming up one day?
- How to come up with a good name for your kid, product, company or dog!
- How I went from being a shy geek to being super social
- Experience doing a 10-day fast
- Experience becoming right-handed after growing up left-handed
- What I learned from years of improv (in three languages)
- Raising multilingual kids
- Experience with ten-day silent meditation
- How to survive an abusive childhood
- What I learned from years of self-help / personal development
- Good communication for
dummiesnerds - How to learn anything
- What I learned from spending thousands of dollars on accent training
- Using ChatGPT as a journaling tool and debate partner