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| dragon32 Newbie United Kingdom Joined 4952 days ago 12 posts - 21 votes Speaks: English* | Message 1 of 5 30 March 2012 at 4:16pm | IP Logged |
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I enjoy computer programming and am currently working on a piece of software which will teach the usage of German verbs. This is just a personal project for me, but given the fact I've spent a considerable time developing this resource, I would like to investigate the possibility of selling my product, not in the hope of making lots of money but just to get something back in return....a few beers would suffice.
Has anyone attempted their own course and had any luck promoting it? I know we're all part of a wider language-leraning community but, then again, why should I spend hundreds of hours creating materials only to give them away for free? 1 person has voted this message useful | |
 Iversen Super Polyglot Moderator Denmark berejst.dk Joined 6701 days ago 9078 posts - 16473 votes  Speaks: Danish*, French, English, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Esperanto, Romanian, Catalan Studies: Afrikaans, Greek, Norwegian, Russian, Serbian, Icelandic, Latin, Irish, Lowland Scots, Indonesian, Polish, Croatian Personal Language Map | Message 2 of 5 30 March 2012 at 6:11pm | IP Logged |
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I suppose my Guide to Learning languages here at HTLAL could have been rewritten as a book, but I doubt that it would have made me a millionaire. I have also made morphological overviews in the form of 'green sheets' and mini grammars and things like that as part of my own language learning, but without any intention of using it commercially. Some former and current members here have actually build a business around their language learning methods, but I prefer keeping it as a hobby without any obligations at all - except keeping my log thread running.
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| TerryW Senior Member United States Joined 6355 days ago 370 posts - 783 votes Speaks: English* | Message 3 of 5 30 March 2012 at 7:32pm | IP Logged |
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Years ago, I came up with what I thought would be a killer application to learn verbs.
I was on the Learning Spanish Like Crazy email list, and constantly getting emails from LSLC's Patrick Jackson, so I wrote him about my idea. After working with them on the interface design and features, they programmed it, and have been marketing it for a while now. Maybe if you bug them to come out with a German version, it will save you a lot of time and effort. ;-) Here's my demo vid on Youtube: VERBARRATOR Demo 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| druckfehler Triglot Senior Member Germany Joined 4866 days ago 1181 posts - 1912 votes Speaks: German*, EnglishC2, Korean Studies: Persian | Message 4 of 5 31 March 2012 at 1:27am | IP Logged |
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The only real learning materials I make are for teaching German - grammar drills, dialogues, you name it. I don't expect to sell those, they're just necessary for the course I teach, because all the available material isn't suited well to this group of students and because I want to teach grammar points in the order I find most useful. (I mean who really cares about adjectives in front of nouns when you can't even use modal verbs yet?!)
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| Expugnator Hexaglot Senior Member Brazil Joined 5164 days ago 3335 posts - 4349 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, Norwegian, French, English, Italian, Papiamento Studies: Mandarin, Georgian, Russian | Message 5 of 5 13 April 2012 at 1:47am | IP Logged |
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I do plan on writing my own language books, for specific niches.
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