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With 30-Day Mastery: Amazing Adjectives & Adverbs, you'll learn through example and context, just like native speakers do! The magic of learning through story is that your main focus is actually not on memorizing anything...you concentrate on understanding and enjoying the story! As you're listening, you will find that the rules surrounding Japanese adjectives and adverbs, as well as their meaning, will begin to lodge themselves subconsciously in your brain.

Master all the tricky aspects of German declension in the next 30 days, with this innovative, story-based immersion method. Just listen to one chapter per day, complete the exercises, and watch as your command of German improves dramatically, and without a hitch!

Most Japanese students try to learn Japanese through memorization, especially when it comes to learning new vocabulary or the all-important conversational connectors (and, or, however, therefore, for example, etc.). This doesn't work, and is extremely stressful for you as a learner. Why? Because there is so much vocabulary to learn and it's impossible to hold it all in your head while you're speaking. It's also not a natural approach.... Native speakers don't learn new words with memory tricks, after all!

For high-beginner to low-intermediate learners. Master Japanese honorifics in the next 30 days, with this innovative, story-based immersion method. Just listen to one chapter per day, complete the exercises, and watch as your use of honorifics improves your confidence in Japanese! Keigo is what separates the average Japanese learner from culturally competent speakers, and using it earns you respect from Japanese natives. However, native speakers don’t learn honorifics through rules and memorisation, and neither should you.

For high-beginner to low-intermediate learners. Master Italian conditionals in the next 30 days, with this innovative, story-based immersion method. Just listen to one section per day, complete the exercises, and watch as one of the trickiest elements of Italian falls into place and improves your speech without a hitch! In this story, you will follow Sara and Marco, a newlywed couple, as they journey to Thailand for their honeymoon. When Sara goes missing during their honeymoon, Marco will have to set aside his own misgivings to save his wife (and his marriage).

With 30-Day Mastery: Confident Kanji, you'll learn through example and context, just like native speakers do! The magic of learning through story is that your main focus is actually not on memorizing complex rules...you concentrate on understanding the fundamentals and on enjoying the story! As you're listening to the story, you will find that kanji characters will begin to make more logical sense, thus making your learning more organic.

Master 70+ German conversational connectors (or transition phrases) in the next 30 days, with this innovative, story-based immersion method. Just listen to one chapter per day, complete the exercises, and watch as conversational connectors fall into place and improve your fluency without a hitch!

If you're trying to learn Spanish, the hardest thing is making the leap from the textbook to the real world. But in the age of the smartphone, there's a brand new challenge - online Spanish! Social media has a language all of its own – OMG! #mindblown – and Spanish is no different!

Master tricky German irregular verbs in the next 30 days with this innovative, story-based immersion method. Just listen to one chapter per day, complete the exercises, and watch as irregular verbs fall into place and improve your speech without a hitch! In this story, you will hear about how Siegfried, a mathematician living in Bonn and passionate about its history, becomes drawn into the legend of the Steinfield family and their castle, “Der Drachenfels” (dragon rock).