Learning a new language as an adult is difficult, requiring years of work to progress. Or does it? Today’s discussion is with Chris Lonsdale, the creator of Kungfu English, a system designed to mimic his success in learning Mandarin and Cantonese as a 20-year-old.
Chris is a language educator and psycho-linguist whose system has been teaching Mandarin Chinese speakers how to speak English since the early 2000s. I have started working with him to integrate my brain-based AI solution with a more general version of his language learning application — the result? Introducing Speech Genie!
The first available languages will be English and Mandarin.
The magic of the Genie is in using your brain’s capabilities to learn language in a way that mimics your mother tongue’s adoption. Using an avatar to be your ‘language parent,’ exercises allow steady progress towards your goal, a new language.
Unlike other systems that require the memorization of hundreds or thousands of phrases in the new language, your learning journey focuses on the mastery of sound recognition, and then object recognition, and then sound generation (speech) on a course designed to take you to fluency. The goal is to reach fluency in only 6 months.
To find out more about our progress, you can sign up for our upcoming program with an optional VIP membership for its product launch.
Do you want to get more involved?
If you want to get involved with our upcoming project to enable a gamified language-learning system, the site to track progress is here (click). You can keep informed by adding your email to the contact list on that site or become a VIP.