Glossika Product Updates

[sfuqua]

This morning my old login to glossika seems to have disappeared. glossika.com now points to ai.glossika.com, at least for me.

Therefore I was unable to reach links to the courses I purchased (and have already downloaded).

I don't know if this is a sloppy website update or a change in policy.

By looking in my browser history, I was able to get a link to my old courses by using
https://glossika.com/account/library

There also doesn't seem to be any link to buy the old courses, which were there just a couple of days ago. Hopefully they haven't gone the same place as Michael's early Youtube videos, which disappeared a few years ago (mysteriously deleted by Youtube with no backups).

I hope this is just a website issue, not a change in policy.

I can always daydream that my old courses will reappear with a bunch of superior new material, or at least that they will offer new mp3/pdf courses incorporating their new material.
edited to fix some wording.

[sfuqua]

Ah... I found the old courses; they are now called books.

Michael mentioned that they would return to publishing after some adjustment to the new system.

This actually looks good.

When you click on "books" and then your username, a link to already purchased courses appears.

I guess this is just some website weirdness.

[Brun Ugle]

To find old courses you've bought, go to the bottom under "Resources" and click "Download." A new page will open. Under "My account" you will find "Library" and there are all your old courses in case you need to download them again. It's not very easy to find, but they are still there.

[crush]

Word on the (FB) street is that those who signed up for the discounted monthly rate are now being charged the full ($30) monthly fee. That happening to anyone here?

I got charged $30. Got an e-mail yesterday or the day before though for a $12 off coupon for the next month, essentially $6 off the first three months.

Maybe the algorithm is useful if you're dealing with a non-transparent language that you want to put a lot of effort into in the short term (I could imagine if I wanted to prioritise Mandarin, learning it almost from scratch, this system would be a really useful supplement to a more structured course) but if you just want to activate a language you already understand fairly well it doesn't seem to be particularly helpful.

That's been my experience, the old GSR/GMS systems were good for reviving or activating languages that you had studied before or were related to a similar language you spoke. The new system traps you into the GSR schedule where you advance X sentences a day and review them for 4-5 days afterwards, so if you just want to run through the system quickly you're kinda out of luck. Right now it's better for languages you want to put a lot more work into.

[IronMike]

Word on the (FB) street is that those who signed up for the discounted monthly rate are now being charged the full ($30) monthly fee. That happening to anyone here?

I got charged $30. Got an e-mail yesterday or the day before though for a $12 off coupon for the next month, essentially $6 off the first three months.

Let us know if you still get charged $30 next month.

[vermillon]

Here's their latest post on Facebook (contradicting a lot of what they claimed in the past few weeks and that's been reported here):

2017 Glossika Annual Sale

Starting now through November 12th, enjoy our biggest discount of the year – and your last chance to get Glossika fluency 123 series, module courses, and triangulation packages!

Fluency 123 & Modules
• Ebook Package: 40% OFF
• Pro Package: 30% OFF (limited availability)
https://glossika.com/courses

Triangulation Package
• Build your own course: 30% OFF
https://glossika.com/courses/custom

★ Sale ends 2017/11/12 (SUN) at 23:59 PST
★ All Fluency 123 and module courses will be discontinued after the sale.
★ You may continue to download files from your account until 2018/03/01. After that, old accounts will be closed permanently.

So not only will they not return to publishing, they will also actively close that section of the website.

[sfuqua]

Well, at least that is some clear direction. I resent that fact that they are not clear about their plans.
I believe they have been intentionally unclear. However, Hanlon's razor may apply here.
I wonder if somebody else could start producing a course like the old glossika.
I don't see what the advantage is to closing this section of the website and ceasing sales, except to force people into their new system.
I know that one thing Michael wants to do is to move away from the idea that every language has to have the exact same sentences.
I would be happy enough to buy 3000 sentences with audio and an mp3... Whatever they call it.

edited to mention Hanlon's razor

[reineke]

A good portion of the example sentences in "Le Bon Usage" are from works that are in the public domain. Rhinospike advertises foreign language audio on demand.

[Xmmm]

Here's their latest post on Facebook (contradicting a lot of what they claimed in the past few weeks and that's been reported here):

2017 Glossika Annual Sale

Starting now through November 12th, enjoy our biggest discount of the year – and your last chance to get Glossika fluency 123 series, module courses, and triangulation packages!

Fluency 123 & Modules
• Ebook Package: 40% OFF
• Pro Package: 30% OFF (limited availability)
https://glossika.com/courses

Triangulation Package
• Build your own course: 30% OFF
https://glossika.com/courses/custom

★ Sale ends 2017/11/12 (SUN) at 23:59 PST
★ All Fluency 123 and module courses will be discontinued after the sale.
★ You may continue to download files from your account until 2018/03/01. After that, old accounts will be closed permanently.

So not only will they not return to publishing, they will also actively close that section of the website.

Thanks for the heads up on this. I'll buy my Indonesian two years early this weekend. I'll have permanent access to it for the cost of two months of the new system.

[sfuqua]

For anybody interested in glossika's old product, it is a good discount.

Sadly for me, I've already bought everything I can afford from glossika, at full price.