Glossika Review – Mass Sentence

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Average cost of the method: USD$94,99 Ebook Package, USD$113,99 Pro Package and USD$99,99 -
249,99 Triangulation for Fluency 1-3 packages, which each include a total of 3000 bilingual sentences
with pronunciation guide in paperback or ebook format + MP3 audio. Aside from fluency 123 Glossika is
now offering Business Intro, Travel and Daily Life modules in Chinese (Mandarin, China), Chinese
(Mandarin, Taiwan), German, Italian and Japanese with 1,000 sentences each, catering to learners’ special
demand. Polish and Spanish (Mexico) also have Business intro modules available.

Available in: 40+ languages and growing.

Type of method: Recommended as a supplement to your other studies, Glossika is primarily an audio
method that contains hundreds of bilingual, natural -sounding and common sentences read by native
speakers. The sentence structures and vocabulary build up as you go. There is no grammar or explanations
included in the method.

Brief Overview
Glossika is a language learning method developed by Mike Campbell, an American linguist and polyglot
based out of Taiwan. Mike is a very impressive polyglot with advanced skills in an astounding number of
languages, and when I heard he was working on the publicati on of his Glossika Mass Sentence (GMS) and
Glossika Spaced Repetition (GSR) methods back a few years ago, I was very excited about it. Now that
I’ve tried the method extensively, I can certainly say that I wasn’t disappointed. But just a quick warning:
this is for serious language learners!
Glossika comes with PDF books, but it’s mostly an audio -based method. You listen to full
sentences being read both in English (or your native language) and in the foreign language you’re
learning. You repeat after the sentences, trying your best to replicate the native speaker’s pronunciation.
Because of this, Glossika is perfect at home, while driving, or even while exercising; as long as you can
repeat out loud after the speaker and focus enough on the meaning of the wo rds and sentences, you
shouldn’t have any problems.

How Does It Work?

In a nutshell, Glossika is an assimilation-based learning program. The idea is that armed with
enough comprehensible input, you eventually get the feel for what is “correct.” In other words, if you
say something correctly enough times, it’s eventually going to intuitively feel wrong to say it incorrectly.
You are expected to assimilate enough sentence patterns and vocabulary to be able to produce new,
original content on your own after having gone through 3000 sentence patterns (i.e. all three modules). 2
hours weekly for a month is all you need to complete one module. However, you are expected to listen to
the files more than once. It’s recommended to spend 30 minutes every day practicing with the method.

Glossika contains no grammar whatsoever nor any explanation about sentence patterns or any such thing.
What you get is, rather, LOTS of repetition of key sentence components an d vocabulary that you are most
likely to find in everyday speech, as used by the native speakers of your target language. Because of this,
Glossika is recommended as a supplement to your other studies, and is aimed at people who already
have some working knowledge of the language. It can also be good for brushing up your skills or
breaking through a plateau in the language you’re learning.

Glossika’s Fluency Modules

Glossika is being published, for the most part, in so -called “Fluency Modules”. One module contains
1000 bilingual sentences (with 3 modules in total, for a total of 3000 sentences). Each module is divided
in three types of files: Comprehensible Input Audio (GMS -A), Interpretation Audio Training (GMS-B),
and Target Language Audio Training (GMS-C). Don’t worry, it’s actually pretty simple:

 In the “A” files you have the sentence in your native tongue repeated once, followed by the
sentence in your target language repeated twice. For example, you could have English-Chinese-
Chinese. When listening to “A” files, you are not expected to repeat after the speaker; just listen.
 In the “B” files, you have the sentence in your native tongue repeated once, followed by a
pause to let your say from memory the sentence in your target language, followed by the sentence
in your target language repeated once. For example, you could have English-PAUSE-Chinese.
When listening to “B” files, you are expected to repeat after the speaker.
 In the “C” files, you only have the sentence in your target language repeated once. There is no
translation.

The sentences included in each of Glossika’s three modules have been carefull y selected to give you a
wide range of expression. The sentences in Fluency Module 1, for example, target the kinds of
conversations that you would have discussing day-to-day activities.

As an added bonus, when you purchase a Glossika package you get the “ Glossika Spaced Repetition”
(GSR) audio files together with the “Glossika Mass Sentence” (GMS) files. GSR files are a little bit less
“ambitious”, shall I put it, than the GMS files, because the sentences are repeated many, many times
throughout the recordings, and so the pace overall is actually a bit slower.

Below, you will find 4 short audio samples of the Glossika method, for both GMS and GSR files:
Mandarin Chinese GMS Fluency 1 [Beginner] A01