Lauridsen's "Fast Phrases"

[tolgylop]

Sorry this is in Spanish only, but it seems to belong in this thread. I would be very surprised to find out that this is anything other than an outright con. Has anyone heard of this or tried it?




http://gran-oportunidad.com/edu/es/gp2/vas-a-dominar-una-lengua-extranjera-cualquiera-en-14-dias/

And the referring page:

http://noticias-de-hoy.com/es/articulos/la-nueva-formula-de-aprendizaje-automatico-de-idiomas-en-2-semanas?utm_source=zemanta&utm_medium=maxcpc&utm_campaign=es-zemanta-maxcpc-ron-2018-02-13&utm_target=b1_adsnative&utm_term=www%2Ewnd%2Ecom&utm_content=2079878

[jeff_lindqvist]

I've seen it before.

"But finally I found an article written by prof. Gawroński, and then I came across the Polyglots’ Phenomenal Formula."

(Source: http://en.fastphrasesapp.com/my/gp5 )

He certainly knew 60 foreign languages, but his contemporaries, friends and scientists, claimed he knew many more. Once, being persistently pestered to reveal the truth, Gawroński replied: "I can speak and write in 40 languages and understand and read in about 100." This means that he could have known 140 languages (or 100, depending on whether 100, meant another 100, or not), among which there were many African, Asian, European, modern and extinct ones. In the library left after his death there were books in dozens of languages. In the vast majority of them there were his notes in the margins, always in the language the book was written in.

(Source: Andrzej Gawroński - Wikipedia)

A little too good to be true.

See also: http://science-journal-asia.com/article ... languages/

It reminds me of someone I read about on HTLAL a few years ago, who taught maybe 40 languages (50? 70?). Does anyone remember it? The web site looked like a typical 1970s ad.