Spoken English Learned Quickly is the world's most widely distributed English language course.


Summary: All English language course publishers who sell—and probably most who give portions of their course available for free downloading—prevent outside individuals and organizations from distributing their course apart from stringent licensing agreements. Spoken English Learned Quickly has done just the opposite. We encourage both individuals and groups in any country to distribute our course on CDs (compact discs) for their own profit. We also encourage others to actually reproduce the Spoken English Learned Quickly course with the organization's header and link to their own website. This includes Internet Cafes, Cybercafes and Lan Houses, tourist agencies, and bookstores. We recently added a very important new link to MP3 manufacturers offering Spoken English Learned Quickly as a free Built-in English course. Our only restriction is that none of our material may be loaded on other websites.

    Encouraging the distribution of CD versions of our course in all countries of the world is our best and least expensive means of advertising our website www.FreeEnglishNow.com. Using the CD to advertise for another organization (for example, a bookstore which is selling the course), assures that a large volume of the CDs will be sold or distributed. In no case does any individual or organization pay us money for their use of Spoken English Learned Quickly.

    As a result of this policy, individuals and organizations are downloading, duplicating, and distributing Spoken English Learned Quickly around the world in high volume. We make no attempt to determine who is distributing our course, nor in what quantity.

    Needless to say, as the course grows in popularity, increasingly high volumes are being distributed.

    Without hesitation, we can say that Spoken English Learned Quickly is the world's most widely distributed English language course. This statement considers both the large number of distributors outside of our control, and the diversity of company or organization names (website headers on CDs) under which Spoken English Learned Quickly appears. As a result, in a very short time it will also become the world's most frequently used English language course.



    In order to know how many of their English language courses are distributed each month, other suppliers only need to count the number of lessons shipped. We can't do that because we don't sell anything. You must do the math.

    Look at our Growth Page. If you divide the total KBytes downloaded each month by 95, you know the total number of pages which were downloaded from our website. (For a more complete explanation, see the linked paragraph on the Growth Page.)

    The complete Spoken English Learned Quickly course including both audio and text pages consists of 558 pages when downloaded for MP3 use, and 330 pages when downloaded for computer (.wma) use. However, since most downloads are for MP3 use—and because other pages may also be downloaded at the same time—we figure that the average download for the entire course is 600 pages. Therefore, divide the total number of pages for any month by 600 and you will see the "equivalent" courses which were downloaded. (Of course, many visitors to the website only download small portions of the course, so this is only a measure of equivalence. What really happens is that some people visit the site, view several pages, listen to an audio session in .wma format, and then leave. However, others come directly to the download page and take large amounts of material on a single visit in .mp3 format. Our statistics indicate both patterns.)

    Now use this formula to compute the number of courses downloaded from www.FreeEnglishNow.com for any given month. Since at this posting (March, 2006), we see that October 2005 was the largest month with 281,782 pages downloaded, we will divide that number by 600 which equals 469 complete English courses.

    That is a lot of English courses to give away in one month! Especially considering that each course contains 15 hours of recorded audio English exercises.

    However, our statistics only show the number of visitors who downloaded material during the month. The actual number of students using Spoken English Learned Quickly is the total of all students who are studying from lessons downloaded in any previous month, plus all the new students who are using material downloaded during the month we are evaluating.

    There is another advantage with Spoken English Learned Quickly. We are teaching our students how to speak English. Most other courses seem to be teaching their students how to listen, speak, read, and write. (Most of our students are professional and university students who have already spent years learning to read and write English. They want to concentrate now on learning to speak English.) But when they study reading and writing they must study with a computer or a printed lesson. Even though our students can use a computer to study Spoken English Learned Quickly, they can also study using only an iPod™ or MP3 player. (All our audio lessons are fully downloadable in either .wma or .mp3 format. Because they are also free, we permit the student to load them on an iPod™ or burn CDs for use on an MP3 player. Our CD can be used in either a computer or an MP3 player.) With Spoken English Learned Quickly the student can study anywhere an MP3 player can be used. Using others' lessons, the student is limited to a computer or a written text, and cannot download the exercises to an iPod™ or MP3 player.

    If we only counted downloads from our website each month, we may still show a smaller number of English courses distributed each month than the leading supplier.

    However, we expect that the largest use of Spoken English Learned Quickly comes because we distribute CDs to independent individuals or organizations which use them for resale and free distribution. (Encouraging others to distribute our CDs is the primary advertisement for our website.) We distribute CDs to tourist agencies, bookstores and Internet Cafes. All of these CDs can be duplicated and sold or given away free. In addition, we encourage others to make their own CD from our www.FreeEnglisnNow.com website and sell the CDs for their own profit. Since we are not paid for any of the CDs which others duplicate, we have no idea how many CDs are being distributed each month. But the numbers are growing rapidly.

    In addition, we are now allowing MP3 manufacturers and distributors to use Spoken English Learned Quickly as a free built-in English language course. We can only imagine the number of students who will be using our course in the near future. (Built-in English-Chinese dictionaries are quite common in MP3 players manufactured in China.) Nonetheless, the user of a built-in dictionary must know one of the two languages, so a dictionary function is limited. However, a built-in Spoken English Learned Quickly course can be used by anyone because the course was designed to be used in any language.

    We know of no other major supplier of English courses who allows others to copy and sell their course. (Actually, other suppliers are probably doing everything possible to prevent the duplication of their courses.) Yet, we are actively encouraging others to duplicate Spoken English Learned Quickly for their own profit. It is certain that more individuals are distributing Spoken English Learned Quickly than any other English language course. If it is not already true, very quickly Spoken English Learned Quickly will not only be the most widely distributed English language course in the world, it will also be the most widely used English language course.

    But Spoken English Learned Quickly is not growing this rapidly only because it is free. (Though we must admit that our "price" certainly makes it more attractive to professional and university students who don't have money to waste.) The course is growing so quickly because we spent four years developing it to be the best spoken English course available. This is a top-of-the-line course, in which the student can learn to speak English in half the time it requires with ESL or most other courses. That it is free is simply another benefit. (To see why the course is so superior to other courses teaching listening, reading, and writing, see the article A technical comparison of Spoken English Learned Quickly and ESL courses.)

The Two Fish Markets:  A fable about competition.

    Once upon a time in Naples, Italy, there were two fish markets on either side of a busy street.

    The two fish markets were in fierce competition with each other.

    If the market on the south side of the street posted a sign listing the price of their fish, the market on the north side would post a sign giving their price as one lire less.

    If the north side market posted a sign saying their fish were fresh, the market on the south side would post a sign saying that their fish tasted better.

    If one market said their fish were caught the night before, the other market would say their fish came from the best fishing water. If one market said they would prepare the fish for their customers, the other market promised to give customers oil in which to cook their fish at home. So fierce was the competition that some customers even stood in the street to watch as the south market would post a sign, while the north market's manager watched from his door. Sure enough, just a few minutes later a north market fishmonger would run out the door, hurriedly rip down yesterday's sign, and post a new one with an even better offer. Back and forth it went between the two fish markets—one posting a sign, the other answering with a new sign.

    And so it was, day after day—week after week. There was always the competition. Customers bought their fish each day at whichever market gave them the best price, the best tasting fish, or the most garnishes to include with their meal. The competition was so great, in fact, that there were no other fish markets near by.

    Yet strangely, for a reason no one quite understood, when the price was best for half of the customers at one fish market, something else was best for the other half at the market across the street. Both fish markets always sold all their fish every day.

    It was said by some who had lived on the street for a very long time that people now ate much more fish than they did in the past.

    One day a curious old woman asked a fishmonger in the south market, "Who owns this fish market?" "Matteo Fiorani," the fishmonger told her. Because the next day the fish was sold for one lire less across the street, the old woman went to the fish market on the north side of the street. Again, she asked, "Who owns this fish market?" "Matteo Fiorani," was the reply.

    It's time for our disclaimer. It is impossible to know how many English courses other major suppliers are selling each month. If we have underestimated any supplier's distribution, let us know and we will make a correction for the record.






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