Hello Listener,

What’s your New Year’s Resolution for 2016? Learn more languages? Save money? Read more books? Can you tell us in the language you’re learning?

We asked our listeners on Facebook what their resolutions were and here are the Top 10 New Year’s Resolutions based on the responses. 52% of our listeners chose saving money. Is yours on the list?

This phrase list will take you 3 minutes and you’ll be able to say what your New Year’s Resolution is. If yours isn’t on there, leave us a comment!

Learn The Top 10 Resolutions in 31 languages:

• Top 10 New Year’s Resolutions in Arabic
• Top 10 New Year’s Resolutions in Bulgarian
• Top 10 New Year’s Resolutions in Cantonese
• Top 10 New Year’s Resolutions in Chinese
• Top 10 New Year’s Resolutions in Czech
• Top 10 New Year’s Resolutions in Danish
• Top 10 New Year’s Resolutions in Dutch
• Top 10 New Year’s Resolutions in English
• Top 10 New Year’s Resolutions in Filipino
• Top 10 New Year’s Resolutions in Finnish
• Top 10 New Year’s Resolutions in French
• Top 10 New Year’s Resolutions in German
• Top 10 New Year’s Resolutions in Greek
• Top 10 New Year’s Resolutions in Hebrew
• Top 10 New Year’s Resolutions in Hindi
• Top 10 New Year’s Resolutions in Hungarian
• Top 10 New Year’s Resolutions in Indonesian
• Top 10 New Year’s Resolutions in Italian
• Top 10 New Year’s Resolutions in Japanese
• Top 10 New Year’s Resolutions in Korean
• Top 10 New Year’s Resolutions in Norwegian
• Top 10 New Year’s Resolutions in Persian
• Top 10 New Year’s Resolutions in Polish
• Top 10 New Year’s Resolutions in Portuguese
• Top 10 New Year’s Resolutions in Russian
• Top 10 New Year’s Resolutions in Spanish
• Top 10 New Year’s Resolutions in Swahili
• Top 10 New Year’s Resolutions in Swedish
• Top 10 New Year’s Resolutions in Thai
• Top 10 New Year’s Resolutions in Turkish
• Top 10 New Year’s Resolutions in Vietnamese

Here are some handy ways you can master the phrases with this lesson:

• Press the sound icon to hear each phrase and read along
• Review all phrases in a slideshow by pressing “View Slideshow”
• Listen to all the phrases in one lesson with “Play Audio”
• Add the phrases to your Word Bank or Flashcards
• Print the entire list out for your personal review
• Leave us a comment in Japanese for practice – we read them all!

Speak and master your target language with 100s of audio and video lessons made by real teachers. Click on “Browse Lessons” in the top menu to access our massive library. Just start, we’ll do the teaching and you’ll start speaking minutes into your first lesson.

Happy New Year!

Team InnovativeLanguage.com

Hello Listener,

The Holiday Season’s upon us! So here’s a quick Holiday gift from us to you – the Top 10 Holiday Greetings in 31 languages. You’ll need these as a language learner.

Take 2 minutes to review the list in your target language and you’ll be able to say them all.

Learn with this FREE Holiday Lesson. Just click on the link below and you’ll come out knowing and speaking more!

Click Here To Get Your Free List:

• Holiday Greetings in Arabic
• Holiday Greetings in Bulgarian
• Holiday Greetings in Cantonese
• Holiday Greetings in Chinese
• Holiday Greetings in Czech
• Holiday Greetings in Danish
• Holiday Greetings in Dutch
• Holiday Greetings in English
• Holiday Greetings in Filipino
• Holiday Greetings in Finnish
• Holiday Greetings in French
• Holiday Greetings in German
• Holiday Greetings in Greek
• Holiday Greetings in Hebrew
• Holiday Greetings in Hindi
• Holiday Greetings in Hungarian
• Holiday Greetings in Indonesian
• Holiday Greetings in Italian
• Holiday Greetings in Japanese
• Holiday Greetings in Korean
• Holiday Greetings in Norwegian
• Holiday Greetings in Persian
• Holiday Greetings in Polish
• Holiday Greetings in Portuguese
• Holiday Greetings in Russian
• Holiday Greetings in Spanish
• Holiday Greetings in Swahili
• Holiday Greetings in Swedish
• Holiday Greetings in Thai
• Holiday Greetings in Turkish
• Holiday Greetings in Vietnamese

Here are some handy ways you can master the words with this lesson:

• Press the sound icon to hear each word and read along
• Review all words in a slideshow by pressing “View Slideshow”
• Listen to all the words in one lesson with “Play Audio”
• Add the words to your Word Bank or Flashcards
• Print the entire list out for your personal review
• Leave us a comment in your target language for practice – we read them all!

Speak and master even more language with hundreds of audio and video lessons made by real teachers. Click on “Browse Lessons” in the top menu to access our massive library. Just start, we’ll do the teaching and you’ll start speaking your target language minutes into your first lesson.

Happy Holidays!
Team InnovativeLanguage.com

Hello Listener,

Did you know that every new Innovative Language lesson is yours free?

Fact: All new lessons are open to everyone for 3 weeks after the publish date. This is one of the major benefits of having a Free Lifetime Account at any one of our 31 Learning Programs. Just sit back and learn. High-quality audio and video lessons come out every week.

But here’s what’s new…
You now get the newest lessons on your mobile device, anywhere, anytime!

• Click here to download Innovative Language 101 for the iPhone & iPad!
• Click here to download Innovative Language 101 for the Android!

Users requested this. We listened. Innovative Language 101 for the iPhone, iPad and Android – the App that gives you your lessons on the go – has an awesome new update: Newest Lessons.

If you’re learning a language and want to get all new lessons all the time, you absolutely can’t miss out on this. With this update, you get:

• Access to lessons from the past 3 weeks
• Access to every single new lesson that comes out
• …and you can download them to your device for extra study! 

When you log in to the App, simply tap on the “Newest Lessons” icon for all the latest and greatest lessons. Every time a lesson is published, you will find it here. High-quality audio and video lessons come out every week.

• Click here to download Innovative Language 101 for the iPhone & iPad!
• Click here to download Innovative Language 101 for the Android!

Remember: Every new lesson is yours free. This a major benefit of the Free Lifetime Account. New lessons are open to everyone for 3 weeks after the publish date. High-quality audio and video lessons come out every week.

If you run into any bugs or issues with this new update, feel free to send us a quick email at mobileapps@innovativelanguage.com.

To new free language lessons for life,

Team Innovative Language

P.S. Start Mastering a Language with New, Free Lessons Every Week!  
Want free lessons for life? Start speaking a language minutes into your first lesson. Choose any one of our 31 language programs and sign up for your Free Lifetime Account. You’ll instantly unlock real lessons by real teachers. Then, just sit back and learn at your own pace, anywhere, anytime.

Click here to choose a language and sign up for a Free Lifetime Account! 

Hi Listeners,

Done with a lesson? Take a look back at the new conversation, grammar, and vocab you’ve mastered.

It’s always great to stop and see the results in your language learning! Or rather, hearing the results when you’re speaking a new language!

Likewise, for us, it’s great to know that someone’s language is progressing with the help of our lessons.

This past July, we’ve been graciously listed in Top 10 US podcasts for road trip listening in TheGuardian.com, one of the most read newspapers in the UK.

Below is an excerpt:

ItalianPod101.com

I’m sure people think I’m crazy when they see me talking to myself as I drive. Imagine what they’d think if they knew I was doing it in Italian? Listen to native speakers conducting conversations, and imagine yourself sipping un doppio cappuccino at a cafe in Piazza Navona. After you’ve ordered in Italian, of course! Go at your own pace, pick subjects or phrases you need to know for an upcoming trip or for a conversation with a friend, and repeat lessons as often as necessary.

• Tune in at italianpod101.com

Crazy or not, talking to yourself is one effective way to boost your speaking skills and remember the language you’ve learned!

We’d like to thank Salena Lettera at The Guardian for putting us in her top 10 Podcasts. This motivates us to produce more fun, fast, and easy language lessons.

To read the complete article, click here.

If you’d also like to share how our 101 language sites have helped you learn a language, please leave us a testimonial here at the link below!

http://www.innovativelanguage.com/forms/testimonial

To your fluency,

Team InnovativeLanguage.com

Hi listeners!

Looking for new language to study?

Currently, there are 27 InnovativeLanguage.com languages that you can learn the fast, fun and easy way! And now that we’re done updating our lesson layouts, we’ll be adding even more languages!

There are 2 new language sites and a whole lot of new content on EnglishClass101 coming July 1st and we’re revealing them here first!

What are they? Based on user requests, we’re introducing British English, Persian, and Swahili. These new additions will bring the Innovative Language family to a total of 29 sites!

British English? That’s right. We have EnglishClass101.com just for our English learners.

British English itself has over 58 million speakers in the UK and opens you to over 780 million English speakers worldwide. It’s the world’s lingua franca! This July, you’ll find British English lessons on EnglishClass101.com as an alternative to the current American English lessons. However, if you’re a native speaker and want to brush up on your British accent, feel free to stop by as well!

British English Lessons start July 1st. Click here to visit EnglishClass101!

Persian is also known as Farsi. The good news? It has no articles, no cases, and nouns have no gender. In short, grammar will be easy and breezy. It also opens you up to over 110 million speakers in Iran, Afghanistan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan. And since it’s part of the Indo-European language family, it’ll help you get a head start on Arabic (ArabicPod101.com) and Hindi (HindiPod101.com) as well! The bad news? You need to wait ‘til the site is launched!

PersianPod101.com Coming Soon! Click here to sign up for the wait-list!

Swahili is the easiest African language to learn for English and Arabic speakers. There are no lexical tones and it’s spoken just as it’s written. With over 140 million speakers, Swahili is the official language of Tanzania, Kenya and is the lingua franca of East Africa. We’re happy to have it as our first African language at InnovativeLanguage.com. And if you know what Hakuna Matata means (it means no worries), you’ve already started learning!

SwahiliPod101.com Coming Soon! Click here to sign up for the wait-list!

P.S. July 1st is the day! Stay tuned for PersianPod101, SwahiliPod101 and new British English lessons!

Starting in June 2013, InnovativeLanguage.com takes flight with British Airways, one of the world’s leading airlines.

Travel and language learning have always gone hand in hand. Knowing just a few key language phrases can be a powerful tool in opening up new opportunities abroad, staying safe and making the most out of your trip. That’s why we’re proud to announce that InnovativeLanguage.com is now flying the friendly skies thanks to a new agreement with British Airways, one of the world’s leading airlines.

Starting in June 2013 on British Airways long haul flights, you’ll find our fast, easy and fun language lessons on board BA’s inflight entertainment system. No matter where you’re flying, we’ve got you covered! Choose from over 20 languages and start learning from our popular beginner level lessons.

Languages Available on British Airways

No matter what language you’re learning, our effective lessons will get you speaking from the very first lesson. You’ll learn very simple grammar and vocabulary from Native Speaking teachers, with clear explanations and breakdown from our English speaking co-host. You’ll also learn important cultural tips and insights that will give you a head start on your trip.

Be sure to tune into these audio lessons on your next trip abroad with British Airways! And remember that a little bit of language goes a long, long way.

For a sneak peek at what you’ll find on British Airways, sign up for a Free Lifetime Account at InnovativeLanguage.com!

Hi Listener,

There’s only one thing missing from making your language absolutely perfect. 

A native speaker. 

Someone to practice with. Someone who’ll fix every language problem you’ll ever come across.

Someone who will turn you from a timid basic speaker to a non-stop foreign language speaking machine!

Master Language With Your Own Teacher. Subscribe to Premium PLUS and get the best of both worlds – all of our effective lessons, lesson notes, and Premium study tools. Oh, and all the help you’ll ever want from your very own teacher.

Skip Common Mistakes and Get Personal Help! With Premium PLUS, you get:

• Professional Language Assessment: Most self-taught learners don’t know their strengths and weaknesses. Skip their mistakes. Your teacher will assess your language level, iron out your mistakes and tell you what lessons fit your needs best!
• Personalized 1-on-1 Instruction: Is speaking your weak point? Need a bigger vocabulary? Get a study plan based on your needs. Your teacher will design a plan to turn your weaknesses into strengths! 
• Writing Correction Exercises by Email: Got a question about grammar? Want to have your sentences corrected? Shoot your personal tutor an email and get answers to any language problem you come across within 24 hours.
•  VIP Customer Support: As a Premium PLUS member, you get reliable and timely assistance from our 24-hour Customer Support team. 

And of course, Premium PLUS subscriptions at our 27 sites give you unlimited access to the entire language learning systems. You get instant access to:

• All Audio and Video lessons and the lesson notes with every lesson
• 2000 Core Words and Phrase list
• Smart Spaced Repetition Online Flashcard System
• Line by Line Audio pronunciation breakdown
• Accent-perfecting Voice Recording Tool
• Premium ONLY RSS Feed 
• Mobile Web App, compatible with ANY device…
• …and much much more!

Okay! I Want To Improve My Language. What Can I Expect?

Upon subscription, you’ll receive an Assessment Test via email. Complete the test and your teacher will email you with your results, assessment and personal curriculum within 48 hours.

After Your Assessment Test: Start Learning With Your Personal Teacher

Once you receive your personalized curriculum and begin your studies, you’ll also have access to your teacher by email and get answers to all your questions.

Joining Is Risk Free! Your subscription has a 60-day money-back guarantee. If you’re not satisfied with your language progress within this time, shoot us a quick email for a refund. No hassles. No questions asked.

How Do I Join? Choose from any of our 27 languages and click the corresponding link to start!

Arabic: Click Here To Learn Arabic with Premium PLUS at ArabicPod101!

Bulgarian: Click Here To Learn Bulgarian with Premium PLUS at BulgarianPod101!

Cantonese: Click Here To Learn Cantonese with Premium PLUS at CantoneseClass101!

Chinese: Click Here To Learn Chinese with Premium PLUS at ChineseClass101!

Dutch: Click Here To Learn Dutch with Premium PLUS at DutchPod101!

English: Click Here To Learn English with Premium PLUS at EnglishClass101!

Filipino: Click Here To Learn Filipino with Premium PLUS at FilipinoPod101!

Finnish: Click Here To Learn Finnish with Premium PLUS at FinnishPod101!

French: Click Here To Learn French with Premium PLUS at FrenchPod101!

German: Click Here To Learn German with Premium PLUS at GermanPod101!

Greek: Click Here To Learn Greek with Premium PLUS at GreekPod101!

Hebrew: Click Here To Learn Hebrew with Premium PLUS at HebrewPod101!

Hindi: Click Here To Learn Hindi with Premium PLUS at HindiPod101!

Hungarian: Click Here To Learn Hungarian with Premium PLUS at HungarianPod101!

Indonesian: Click Here To Learn Indonesian with Premium PLUS at IndonesianPod101!

Italian: Click Here To Learn Italian with Premium PLUS at ItalianPod101!

Japanese: Click Here To Learn Japanese with Premium PLUS at JapanesePod101!

Korean: Click Here To Learn Korean with Premium PLUS at KoreanClass101!

Norwegian: Click Here To Learn Norwegian with Premium PLUS at NorwegianClass101!

Polish: Click Here To Learn Polish with Premium PLUS at PolishPod101!

Portuguese: Click Here To Learn Portuguese with Premium PLUS at PortuguesePod101!

Russian: Click Here To Learn Russian with Premium PLUS at RussianPod101!

Spanish: Click Here To Learn Spanish with Premium PLUS at SpanishPod101!

Swedish: Click Here To Learn Swedish with Premium PLUS at SwedishPod101!

Thai: Click Here To Learn Thai with Premium PLUS at ThaiPod101!

Turkish: Click Here To Learn Turkish with Premium PLUS at TurkishClass101!

Vietnamese: Click Here To Learn Vietnamese with Premium PLUS at VietnamesePod101!

To your fluency!

Team Innovative Language

Hello Listener,

Learning a word a day is effortless, free, and takes less than a minute!

So it’s no wonder the Word of The Day at InnovativeLanguage.com is one of our users’ most loved free features. And when our users started mailing in with feedback, we just couldn’t leave it alone.

The biggest issue? iOS incompatibility. The original Word of the Day Flash Widget didn’t work with the iPhone or the iPad.

After much tinkering, the new Word of the Day Widget is here.

Access the Word of the Day widget on any browser, from any smartphone, or computer. Want to save a word or sample sentences for your own use? Just copy and paste it directly from the widget!

Add the widget to your blog or website!

Choose from 38 languages and customize the widget as you see fit! The Word of the Day widget comes in two sizes, small (160 x 190px) and large (540 x 450px) and 8 different designs. Once you’ve chosen the language, size, and design, grab the embed code and add it to your site!

If you have questions or feedback for us, send us an email here.

Click Here to Visit the New Word of the Day Widget!

Hello Listener,

Last July, the Dashboard made its first appearance. It provides a great place to start if you’re completely new to our 101 language sites and don’t know which level is right for you.

In short, the Dashboard allows you to:

• Start at a lesson appropriate for your level
• Track your learning progress with every lesson completed
• Jump to the next lesson from the Dashboard by pressing “Study Now”

And the feedback? It was incredibly positive and filled with great suggestions. Thank you for reaching out to us!

We listened and this past month, applied the suggestions to your Dashboard.

Your New Dashboard V1.1: Take control of your Language learning!

What’s New?

Want to study on your own terms? Skip the recommended lesson and customize your learning! With the new update, you can now:

• Customize the dashboard with the series you want to study
• Reorganize the dashboard courses
• Set your target course
• Jump directly to the next lesson of your series with the “Study” button

Customizing Your Dashboard

The Dashboard is now fully editable (add, remove, reorganize, set a target series) and there is no limit on how many series you can add. You’ll see the top 3 series that you’re currently working on, while the rest can be viewed by clicking on “See All.”

(sample screenshot taken from JapanesePod101.com)

Add A Series

Go to ”Browse Lessons”, find the series you want and click on it. On the main series page, just below the description, click on the “Add to Dashboard” checkbox. It will now appear in “My Courses” on your Dashboard. If you have more than three series already, you’ll be able to find it by clicking on “See All.”

(sample screenshot taken from JapanesePod101.com)

Remove A Series.

While in the “My Courses” section of your Dashboard, click on “Edit” just below the “Study” Button. To remove it, click on the red No Symbol. Once you’re done, press “Done Editing.”

(sample screenshot taken from JapanesePod101.com)

Reorganize Your Dashboard

While editing your dashboard, click on a series and drag it to your desired location. Once you’re done, press “Done Editing.”

(sample screenshot taken from JapanesePod101.com)

Set Your Target Course

Notice the green target symbol while in “Edit” mode? That is your main course which will appear in the lesson recommendation list below. To change it, simply click on the gray target symbol of a different series and you’ll see a green notification that your target has been changed. Your lesson recommendation list will also be updated.

(sample screenshot taken from JapanesePod101.com)

Quick “Study” Button
Quickly jump to the next lesson of your course! Just like the “Study Now” button in the lesson recommendation list, this will take you to the next lesson of that series.

We hope you enjoy the brand new Dashboard! We’ll of course continue to listen to our fans and tweak the Dashboard to provide the very best experience for everyone. If you have questions or feedback for us, send us an email here.

Peter here again. Today I want to share with you something I’ve been meaning to write about for a long time. It’s an honest look into why we do what we do here at InnovativeLanguage.com. Thanks for stopping by to read!

Financial Freedom through Teaching Bulgarian

On July 2nd 2012, our team launched a Bulgarian language learning website: BulgarianPod101.com! We worked just as hard, just as long and put in just as much passion on this language site as we did all of our previous websites!

Do we expect a financial windfall now that Bulgarian is live?

The Harsh Business Reality

No. In fact, early indications are that this language will not return our investment for a long, long time. If ever. Growth projections are currently angled at about 1 degree.

The plot thickens. We didn’t just launch 1 niche language on July 2. Our team actually launched 6 new language learning websites. And much like Bulgarian, we worked very hard to bring a good product to market.

But will we turn a profit on these languages?

Good question! We’re not sure quite yet. Each language is unique and the market is always changing, but some are definitely more profitable than others.

 The Danger for Some Languages is that the Economics Don’t Make Sense

I remember speaking with a business mentor. He is beyond successful and one of the savviest business people I have personal contact with.

We went over our bottom-line numbers language by language. He looked at them, and then drew a line through all of the unprofitable languages and circled the profitable languages.

“Abandon these,” he said, pointing to the crossed-out languages.

“Focus on these,” he said, pointing to the circled languages.

Needless to say, there weren’t many circled languages. And the sad part about the situation for many niche languages, is that he was right. It’s not profitable or practical to take on these languages. It’s a better business decision to invest in the bigger, more profitable languages.

Without investment, innovation in language learning material slows. Other, more profitable, languages get more investment. More competition leads to better and more widespread tools, and the number of students increases.

In the end, we didn’t take my friend’s sound business advice, but instead produced content for several unprofitable languages and continue to do so.

So Why On Earth Invest in Small Niche Languages that May Never Be Profitable?

That was a question to which I had to give a lot of consideration. I think the best way to explain it is to explain our thought process, which is kind of like a recipe.

Thought Process Recipe:

1 part passion

1 part competitiveness

1 part emotion

1 part familiarity

1 part business sense

and a dash of arrogance…er…I mean hope.

Add lots of sleep deprivation and do not expose to investors!

A Closer Look At the Parts

1 Part Passion

It’s cliche, but we really do like languages. Almost everyone here at the company speaks two languages, with the average being 2.5. We work with people around the world, and have made many connections and friendships.

1 Part Competitiveness

We’re pretty competitive at our core. If someone is doing it, we often challenge ourselves to put forth a competitive product. Said another way, if someone’s doing it, we’re trying it too. And we want to be the best of breed in the language learning field.

1 Part Emotion

Several of our languages were chosen because of personal connections or relationships. We have created language learning content because team members or fans have made compelling cases for it. We have juggled the order in which a language was created because of a team member.

1 Part Familiarity

Creating awesome content is what we do well. And sometimes it just easier if your team is structured in a way that sticks to what you’re good at.

1 Part Business Sense

In order to be a legitimate language learning company, you need to cover a lot of languages. The big ones will be profitable, but you’ll need some smaller, less profitable and unprofitable languages in your portfolio.

A dash of arrogance…er…I mean hope!

When my business friend told us to abandon some languages, a part of me definitely felt like we could prove him wrong. We didn’t. But…my competitive nature is one of the driving forces behind why we move so fast and cover so much ground.

There has been a lot of good that has come from this, but also a fair share of hiccups. With every new product and website we release, we learn more about ourselves and what’s important to us. On the dark days where we feel like we’re wasting our time, we refer back to the numerous emails from fans thanking us for paying attention to their often neglected language. That helps to rekindle our motivation to drive forward.