About

Lingafy: is a global collaboration between master linguists and native teachers. Developed with the intent to teach intelligence agents languages as quickly as possible, we have decided to make it a project available to the public instead. The knowledge being shared here is far too important to keep locked away for the rich and powerful. More than 50 master linguists, teachers, translators, and presenters have already come together to develop Lingafy.

What Lingafy does:

Lingafy is designed to lead people on a straight path to functional fluency in a language in 90 days as simply and straightforwardly as possible while maintaining motivation. When you see how quickly you are progressing, you get the thrill and excitement of knowing another language which leads to more consistency and more progress.

Instead of pinballing around the internet looking for answers, or confusing, boring, and expensive textbooks, Lingafy leads you exactly where you need to go in the shortest time we have ever seen. We explain how below:

Why Lingafy?

Knowing another language has long been the desire of many, if not most people. It is taught in most schools, because it is universally recognized as one of the most important life skills. The founders, who themselves are business people, realized that knowing multiple languages was the biggest key to their success. Realizing this, over the course of years they became acquainted and they decided to put their language learning experiences and expertise together to develop this system for assimilating languages as quickly as possible. They found all the commonalities for success, and the pitfalls for failure that are endlessly taught by schools, universities, apps and online programs. Thus, Lingafy was born.

Each of us has found the shortcuts to language mastery at an incredible speed. We have had years to repeat the process of teaching ourselves languages. There is a time-testest invincible method for being able to have conversations within days of starting to learn.

We are disappointed by the current education system, and even the online environment and apps that are designed to simply take people's money.

Ok, so why do most people graduate, even at the university level not knowing much in a language they studied for years?

It's all about the methods. We have the best method, explained below.

We exist because there are too many problems with other methods:

These companies do not solve the primary problems facing learners, which leads people to either not start, or give up too soon.

This is because learners:

Think it’s hard.
Think it’s too expensive.
Think they don’t have the time.
Think it takes too long.

There are too many companies pretending to solve the problem by teaching you slowly, charging you month after month. Think about it, the longer it takes you to learn, the more money they make. We won't name names, but you probably know. And we commend you for trying to use any of the methods below if you have, but these methods are slower, harder, inefficient and do not lead to fluency.

Apps, don't work, again, they are designed to take your money slowly by entertaining you while you're basically playing a mindless game. While you learn a few words here and there, you're just collecting XP in an app. We have never met anyone who said they got fluent with an app.
Learn like a child?! Would you rather hire a child or an adult to learn how to do a task at your workplace? There is a company making 100's of millions of $ a year pushing this narrative. Yet, again, we've never ever heard of someone who wasn't paid to say they learned with it, actually learn with this method. Fancy marketing does wonders!
Random Youtube/Internet searching: There are 2 kinds of YouTube lessons. Showoffs - Those by people who either think they are special, and, or, they want you to think they are special. And those who teach good lessons, but there is no structure to the order, they teach whatever was on their mind that day, and this schizophrenic way of watching lessons does not produce good results.
University. There are advantages and disadvantages. Let's start with the main advantages. Accountability. You have a professor taking attendance, and grading homework and tests. So you had better study! An opportunity to be social.
University - The disadvantages: stress, less free time, and the inability to go at your own pace when other life events happen. A class full of students slows the learning pace. Travel time to and from class. The necessity to go to class. And the cost! Languages are usually 5 credit hours per semester x 8 semesters. Look up the cost of a credit hour at your nearest University. On average it's thousands of dollars every 4 months. And it takes 4 years to learn a language. Ouch!
And then there's the actual class and study time. 15 weeks x 5 = 75 hours per semester. And at least an equal amount doing homework. 150 hours!

Typical Complaints of those other methods:

Apps:

“I finished all the daily lessons and have the badge collection to prove it. Too bad I still have no idea what anyone’s saying in real life.”
“I’m now the proud owner of hundreds of digital points and a vocabulary that’s completely useless outside of the app.”
“Honestly, the most advanced skill I picked up was how to ignore the app’s push notifications.”

Youtube:

Started with “Learn basic phrases in 10 minutes!” Somehow ended up watching a guy build a swimming pool out of mud. Zero new words, but now I want a shovel.
“Learning a language on YouTube: step 1, open a beginner lesson. Step 2, accidentally binge ten unrelated videos. Step 3, repeat tomorrow.”

University:

Tuition bill: $3,500. Actual phrases I remember: “My name is…” and “Where is the library?” Money well spent.
My degree says I’m proficient. My brain says, “Try Google Translate.”

Our method:

There are 3 main parts to learning a language.

Understanding your native language.
Knowing HOW to learn a language, any language.
Learning your target language.

These 3 parts need a solution: Lingafy

Lingafy teaches you other languages while simultaneously teaching you about what you're replacing in your own language. As master linguists, we actually learned more about our own native languages by learning a foreign language, than we ever did before. You need to understand your native language, to know what the equivalent of it is in another language. Lingafy does this lesson by lesson.
Lingafy teaches you HOW TO LEARN A LANGUAGE. If you know how to learn a language, you will learn any language much faster.
Lingafy teaches you your target language in the most concise, logical way possible with all of the resources you need to progress quickly.

Firstly: You should understand that you are walking around with 2 mental jars full of language. Everyone is walking around with the same 2 jars. One jar is filled with 1054 pebbles. The other jar is filled with sand. Each rock and grain in the jars represents a word.

To communicate, everyone constantly reaches into the pebble jar all day long, they pull out the same pebbles as everyone else to communicate the core of anything they want to say. (I have, You want, Let's go, Where?) Then everyone takes a little pinch from the sand jar - the rarely used words, and they put the rocks and sand on the speaking table for others to understand them. One person talks about baseball, another about porcelain dolls, another about finance and the zodiac, and so on. In order to talk about all these different subjects, which are the sand, you need the pebbles - the core words of every language. (I like cars, You like archery, She wants to play the cello - the bold words are the core words.

The sand words are also the ones you often have at the tip of your tongue, you'd know it if you heard it, but sometimes the word doesn't come to you, because you use them so rarely.

Learn the pebble jar, which is, by the way, the easiest part of the language, and you will be fluent in no time.

These are the fundamentals of language. You can learn these words extremely quickly when you have the right method. The Lingafy method.

Surprisingly, most people are only 90-95% fluent in their native language. Functionally fluent means 85% fluent. Lingafy can make you 85% fluent in 90 days. Yeah... really. That was the whole point of spending years perfecting the method. No apps are claiming that. Why? Because they want you to take years to learn! THE LONGER IT TAKES YOU TO LEARN, THE MORE MONEY THEY MAKE. Earning XP is not learning. It's earning XP.

A major problem with many language teaching courses, if you can even call them that, is they choose random words, and they give sand the same weight as the pebbles. And this is what causes so much frustration. You don't make progress learning the sand words like abacus and pendulum and cusp.

Rapid Success =

Knowing which 1054 words are in the pebble jar. Focus on learning them in your target language first.
Use the best system to learn them as quickly as possible. (Lingafy's Proprietary Contextual Method.)
Learn how to use them correctly to communicate effectively without stressing about it. This is where Lingafy excels.
Contextual additions to what you already know. Using the most important and most used words to make you functionally fluent.

Knowledge is added to knowledge.

A Clear path and view of your progress. Know how fluent you are with each lesson.

From 1% fluent to functionally fluent. Each lesson is in order and tells you its fluency level.

We are not simply selling this list of 1054 words.

Every lesson should have been designed by a master linguist and then taught by a native speaker of your language who has learned the target language and a native speaker who has learned and speaks your language.

We have created a system to teach them to you contextually. Including how to use every word together with every word. That is what makes you fluent.

Lingafy teaches this vocabulary in the most effective method, through 7,000 sentences that contextually build your knowledge in the correct order in 400 short manageable lessons that encourage consistency in your language goals.

The sooner you understand something, the more motivated you are to continue. When you don't understand, you become frustrated, and amazingly many programs work off of this frustration principle. That's why their products are not used long.

Besides the primary program, we have created additional optional tools to help reinforce your learning, according to your own favorite activities.

We have Description Videos, Stories, Dialogues, Flashcards, dictionaries and "crash packs" that are not mandatory to take the course, but are included to offer a variety of ways to learn additional vocabulary and retention skills.

100's of Description Videos. When you think like a linguist, you first break things down into their simplest parts. Describing the parts of a simple scene, and then incrementally adding to its complexity allows for instant understanding.

Here is an example of a description video: (phone format) that allows you to actively learn, and then use what you have learned. Description videos are optional, and consumed by personal interest. The videos are narrated with the audio in the target language.

Why even learn a language?

Oh, there are so so many reasons! People have various motivations for learning a foreign language, and these motivations can be influenced by individual goals, interests, and circumstances. Some common reasons are:

Communication: Learning a foreign language enables people to communicate effectively with native speakers, whether for personal or professional reasons, such as traveling, working, or studying abroad.
Cultural understanding: Gaining knowledge of a foreign language often leads to a deeper understanding of and appreciation for the culture, customs, and traditions associated with that language.
Career opportunities: Proficiency in a foreign language can open up new job prospects and make a candidate more attractive to potential employers, especially in industries such as international business, diplomacy, and tourism.
Cognitive benefits: Studies have shown that learning a foreign language can improve cognitive abilities, including problem-solving, memory, and multitasking skills.
Personal development: Language learning can be a rewarding experience that promotes self-confidence, self-discipline, and patience, as well as fostering a sense of accomplishment.
Educational purposes: Some individuals learn a foreign language as part of their academic studies, while others may be interested in pursuing further education or research opportunities in a foreign country.
Social interaction: Learning a foreign language can help expand one's social circle and facilitate connections with people from diverse backgrounds.
Hobbies and interests: Some people enjoy learning languages as a hobby, driven by a passion for linguistics, literature, or media in the target language.
Immigration or relocation: People who plan to immigrate or relocate to another country for personal or professional reasons often learn the local language to facilitate their integration into the new society.
Heritage or family connections: Individuals with a family background in a particular language or culture may be motivated to learn the language to connect with their roots or communicate with family members.

These motivations can overlap and interact, and individuals may be driven by multiple factors when deciding to learn a foreign language. Some of our favorites, though are:

Brain power! Learning a language actually makes you smarter, the way weight lifting makes you stronger.
There’s a reason that “knowledge is power”. “Know how is money”.
Increased Income: The average person who speaks more than one language, gets paid 15% more for the exact same job. Take your salary and multiply it by .15; that's how much more money you could potentially be making.

It's the new social currency. People are no longer impressed by all those travel photos. Can you speak the language of that place you visited? Or of many of your customers and coworkers?

The program has taken years to perfect with the collaboration of master linguists, language-specific native teachers (who themselves are fluent in multiple languages), input from experienced learners, translators, proofreaders, voice and video presenters for each language, as well as multi-lingual video editors, website developers, designers, programmers. We have had a lot of input and tweaks a long the way working with this amazing team to create the best possible product for you.

The method is already tried and true. Tested with students from all around the world in many languages.

Once you sign up, You may also choose to receive reminder emails to keep you on track, (as often a distraction in life can pull you out of your developing habits, and we're happy to give you reminders to get back to your language learning).

We decided to use several teachers for each language so that you can be exposed to a variety of different voices, accents, and personalities.