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| Johntm Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5421 days ago 616 posts - 725 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 17 of 20 04 February 2010 at 11:40pm | IP Logged | ||
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| Rikyu-san Diglot Senior Member Denmark Joined 5527 days ago 213 posts - 413 votes Speaks: Danish*, English Studies: German, French | Message 18 of 20 05 February 2010 at 12:09am | IP Logged | ||
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All content in LearnOutLoud's newsletter has this impulse to share resources that make people grow. I really like that. As a subscriber, one receives plenty of free resources that one can download and listen to. They usually package it in this way:
Today's free resource... If you like this title, you might also like... The "if you like this, you might also like..." is typically connected to audio that one has to pay for, and by the same author that is the author of the free resource. However, not this time. The day when the Haitian Creole were the free resources, the "if you like this title, you might also like..." went like this: Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Fight Terrorism and Build Nations One School at a Time The inspiring account of one man's campaign to build schools in the most dangerous, remote, and anti-American reaches of Asia. In 1993 Greg Mortenson was the exhausted survivor of a failed attempt to ascend K2, an American climbing bum wandering emaciated and lost through Pakistan's Karakoram Himalaya. After he was taken in and nursed back to health by the people of an impoverished Pakistani village, Mortenson promised to return one day and build them a school. From that rash, earnest promise grew one of the most incredible humanitarian campaigns of our time---Greg Mortenson's one-man mission to counteract extremism by building schools, especially for girls, throughout the breeding ground of the Taliban. <snip> No mention of Pimsleur language programs you could buy in this email. Only the free Haitian resources. I think they have balanced this in a very good way. I ended the first post with a notion on strengths. That the world needs us to make the best use of our strengths. If these Haitian Creole lessons help us to do this in small and big ways, here, on location or elsewhere, the offer of the free lessons has served its purpose. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Cainntear Pentaglot Senior Member Scotland linguafrankly.blogsp Joined 6010 days ago 4399 posts - 7687 votes Speaks: Lowland Scots, English*, French, Spanish, Scottish Gaelic Studies: Catalan, Italian, German, Irish, Welsh | Message 19 of 20 05 February 2010 at 6:26pm | IP Logged | ||
That's because it's not even LearnOutLoud's offer! They are linking to other people's special offers. They're using other people's freebies as a part of their marketing mails. (Come on! Would you be on their list if it wasn't for the freebies? This is scummy marketing practice whether Haiti's involved or not.) And if you follow the link, you end up on someone else's site where they'll recommend lots of nice Pimsleur goodies and even try to trick you into setting up a full profile (including your credit card details) before giving you the freebie. Oh no, you don't have to do this, but they don't make it immediately obvious. Everything involved in this reeks of opportunism. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Rikyu-san Diglot Senior Member Denmark Joined 5527 days ago 213 posts - 413 votes Speaks: Danish*, English Studies: German, French | Message 20 of 20 06 February 2010 at 2:09am | IP Logged | ||
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One of the hallmarks of the use of strengths is that it tends to inspire and elevate others. This I feel happened to me with the Pimsleur mail.
I am not on the mailing list for the free goodies but because I have bought audiobooks through their sites and want to be informed about free and commercial products that I would most likely not be aware of otherwise. That they want to sell audiobooks shouldn't come as a surprise for that is what they do. But they have a tendency to present work that nurtures, honors and strengthens two of the most central impulses in Creation - the Eros and the Agape impulse (the impulse of transcendence and compassion, respectively). These Pimsleur lessons had an unexpected effect on me, though - I decided to use my own strengths and spheres of influence to alleviate suffering in other parts of the world through future non-profit and low-profit means. Edited by Rikyu-san on 20 February 2010 at 8:40pm 1 person has voted this message useful |
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