I'm Aaron from Fingtam Languages, and I'm really excited

to announce the release of my own language learning book series on Amazon,

that you can use to learn multiple languages

using the exact same methods that Iuse

when I'm personally learning languages

Now, I've made videos before about how I love using simple books

as comprehensible input

when I'm learning a new language. But the problem is that

usually the only books that are simple enough for me to read are

children's books, which is fine

but there are a few problems with that.

The first being, children's books just usually

are not that interesting to adult language learners.

The second problem is that children's books

are designed to be read by native speakers.

So they usually make no effort at all

to help you learn the language.

And that can make these books more difficult than necessary

because even very young native speakers can usually understand

expressions and colloquialisms

in the native language

that adult language learners might not understand.

So that's why I decided to make my very own

language learning book series.

This series was birthed out of need.

The first book in the series is called "The Little Dragon."

At first it takes the form of a basic storybook with simple sentences

and lots of pictures to help you understand what's going on.

But the same story gets told multiple times.

Once for beginners, once for lower intermediate learners,

and once for upper intermediate learners.

Up to about a B2 level.

It's the same story, but as you move

through the levels of the book,

the plot of the story starts to get a little bit more in depth

and the book starts to focus on more

complex grammatical constructions and vocabulary.

Now let's talk about strategy.

The philosophy here is to get you started using

comprehensible input as early as possible.

This book is designed to

be used with an "intensive reading" strategy, which means

at first you won't understand a lot of it.

But you keep studying, and you keep reading the story

until you're able to understand almost all of it.

And there are some additional resources available after each section of the story

to help you with that.

The stories are really short, and I recommend you

take five to ten minutes once a day every day

to read through the level you're currently on.

And keep doing that every day

until you understand the story, and you're able to

explain the grammar, and the vocabulary in that section.

And then you move on to the next level.

After the beginner story, there's a question and answer section

that's written in the target language. And there's a purpose for that.

That serves the purpose of

making sure you get exposure to lots of different ways

that questions can be formed in the target language.

As well as just giving you a check

to make sure you understood

everything that was happening in the story.

There's also a small glossary

of words and phrases that you might not know yet after each story.

And one of my favorite parts of this book

is that it comes with a link to a free audiobook

that's read by a native speaker.

And there's two recordings of the audiobook for each language.

The first one is very slow so you can

clearly make out everything the narrator is saying.

The second one is read at a normal, conversational speed.

So you can get used to

how native speakers actually talk.

When I personally use this strategy for language learning,

I read it by myself alone

and then I read it while listening to the audio.

And I start off early on listening to

the very slow audio.

Until I start to get used to it, and get comfortable with the speaker,

and then I move up to the faster, conversational audio.

You can also pause the audiobook and repeat

after the narrator if you want to practice your pronunciation.

And practice sounding more like a native speaker.

At first, the story's going to be available in

English, Spanish, French, Thai, and Toki Pona

but I'm hoping to get more translations done

by professional translators in the near future

so I can release it in other languages as well.

I just opened pre-orders for the kindle e-book

And if you order now, you can have your copy by

April 2nd, 2020.

And hopefully, I'll be able to release

paperback copies within the next month or two.

So I'm really excited to hear you guys' input

about how this method works for you.

And I'll include the links to the amazon pages down

in the description below, so you can go check it out.

It's pre-order right now for the next week or so, and then after April 2nd 2020,

And then after April 2nd 2020, it'll be available

for regular purchase.

So thanks for watching the video. Check out the links to the

Amazon page if you're so inclined. And I'll see you guys next time.