Spoken English Learned Quickly is the world's most widely used spoken English language course


Summary: All English language course publishers who sell — and probably most who make portions of their course available for free downloading — prevent outside individuals and organizations from distributing their course apart from stringent licensing agreements. Spoken English Learned Quickly has done just the opposite:
  • Individuals and groups in any country are encouraged to distribute our course on CDs (compact discs) for their own profit.
  • Others are encouraged to actually reproduce the Spoken English Learned Quickly course with their organization's header and link to their own website.
  • Finally, we are now offering a website edition of the entire course which others may post on their own websites.

    Encouraging the distribution of CD versions of this course in all countries of the world is the best and least expensive means of advertising the website www.FreeEnglishNow.com. In no case does any individual or organization pay royalty fees for their use of Spoken English Learned Quickly.

    As a result of this policy, individuals and organizations are downloading, duplicating, and distributing Spoken English Learned Quickly around the world in high volume. As of October, 2008, the website was downloading the equivalent of over 50,000 CDs of the entire course each month. In addition, approximately 9,000 TXT with accompanying MP3 lessons are downloaded each month for use on handheld devices. No attempt is made to determine who is distributing the course, nor in what quantity.

    Needless to say, as the course grows in popularity, it is being distributed in increasingly high volume.

    Without hesitation, it can be said that Spoken English Learned Quickly is the world's most widely used spoken English language course.

    In order to know how many of their English language courses are distributed each month, other suppliers must simply count the number of courses sold or licensed. We can't do that because we don't sell our material.

    In stead, all we can do is monitor downloads on our website statistic pages. From the following information compiled in October, 2008, we know that the approximate equivalent of 650* CDs are downloaded on dial-up connections each month. From our dedicated ISO IMAGE websites for high-speed internet connections, the equivalent of 50,000* CDs of the entire course are downloaded each month. Therefore, we know that the approximate equivalent of over 50,000* CDs containing the Spoken English Learned Quickly course are made each month. However, since we encourage others to reproduce and sell the CDs, this number will grow significantly larger. In addition, there are approximately 145,000 monthly visitors on our own website, and an approximant equivalent of 9,000* TXT lessons and chapters downloaded to handheld devices each month.

    In October, 2008, we added a downloadable Short website version containing all lessons and mp3 audio in both American and British accent which may be posted on others' websites. We cannot possibly monitor how many students may be using the Spoken English Learned Quickly course from these remote websites.

    Thus, approximately 600,000* CDs a year and 107,000* TXT lessons for handheld devices (the equivalent of almost 6,700 complete courses) are downloaded from our websites each year. We can add to that the estimated hundreds of thousands of students per year who are actually studying on the website itself. But we cannot know how many are studying Spoken English Learned Quickly from CDs they have purchased from others or from the Short version of the website on other websites.

    Yet, from just these numbers alone, we know that we distribute 606,700* complete courses a year from just our websites, without estimating the number of Spoken English Learned Quickly CDs which have been sold by others, or trying to calculate the number of visitors to other websites posting the Spoken English Learned Quickly course. Does all of this mean, however, that Spoken English Learned Quickly is the world's most widely used spoken English language course? Even though other companies selling English courses do not advertise their profits for the year, if you multiply 606,700* times the cost of the heavily advertised "advanced" courses, you will see how much they would need to earn each year in order to match our distribution.

*The number of actual CDs produced, or TXT lessons downloaded, will be somewhat smaller than these numbers indicate. We divide the download total by the size of the CD or TXT lesson to get an "equivalent download" number. In the case of TXT downloads, they are very small (15 to 30KB) and are probably seldom aborted. However, when a large CD file (334MB) is opened and then aborted, the CD cannot be written even though the bandwidth number has increased by the amount downloaded. However, the smaller number of CDs which are therefore actually produced, would be greatly offset by the additional number of CDs which are duplicated and sold by others. As an example, we know of one case in which a single CD was duplicated and sold on a North African university campus. The original seller sold about 20 CDs in the first week, and pirates who bought several of his CDs, reduplicated them and sold an additional 70 copies toward the end of that same week.


The Two Fish Markets:  A fable about competition.

    Once upon a time in Naples, Italy, there were two fish markets on either side of a busy street.

    The two fish markets were in fierce competition with each other.

    If the market on the south side of the street posted a sign listing the price of their fish, the market on the north side would post a sign giving their price as one lire less.

    If the north side market posted a sign saying their fish were fresh, the market on the south side would post a sign saying that their fish tasted better.

    If one market said their fish were caught the night before, the other market would say their fish came from the best fishing water. If one market said they would prepare the fish for their customers, the other market promised to give customers oil in which to cook their fish at home. So fierce was the competition that some customers even stood in the street to watch as a south market fishmonger would post a sign, while the north market's manager watched from his door. Sure enough, just a few minutes later a north market fishmonger would run out the door, hurriedly rip down yesterday's sign, and post a new one with an even better offer. Back and forth it went between the two fish markets — one posting a sign, the other answering with a new sign.

    And so it was, day after day — week after week. There was always the competition. Customers bought their fish each day at whichever market gave them the best price, the best tasting fish, or the most garnishes to include with their meal. The competition was so great, in fact, that there were no other fish markets near by.

    Yet strangely, for a reason no one quite understood, when the price was best for half of the customers at one fish market, something else was best for the other half at the market across the street. Both fish markets always sold all their fish every day.

    It was said by some who had lived on the street for a very long time that people now ate much more fish than they did in the past.

    One day a curious old woman asked a fishmonger in the south market, "Who owns this fish market?" "Matteo Fiorani," the fishmonger told her. Because the next day the fish was sold for one lire less across the street, the old woman went to the fish market on the north side of the street. Again, she asked, "Who owns this fish market?" "Matteo Fiorani," was the reply.

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