A fantastical way to learn a language

Frank Kabangu
2 min readJul 2, 2020

Let’s say you wanted to learn Spanish, wouldn’t it be nice if all you had to do was watch Spanish movies and magically develop Spanish speaking abilities?

. . . but that is a fantasy though, right? Everyone knows learning a language requires dozens of hours of dedication and hard work.

What if it didn’t?

What if I told you that it’s possible to learn Spanish fantastically.

Hello, my name is Frank and I am the founder of a company called Cascade Languages. Two years ago, I set out to make the ideal language teaching service and I have done it. I have made an app that teaches Spanish fantastically. The app is called Cascade Spanish and it works using a two-phase process:

Phase 1:

Phase 1 consists of interchanging lesson segments and Spanish stories. The first lesson segment is 20 minutes long. The segment will teach you a few Spanish words and also give you the opportunity to practise them. At the end of the segment, you are given a short Spanish story written using only words you were taught in the lesson segment. Since the story only consists of words you have been taught, your comprehension is expected to be 100%. Then you move on to the next lesson segment and the process repeats. Phase 1 goes on like this teaching you Spanish concepts in short lesson segments and providing you with stories written using words it teaches you.

Phase2:

Unlike Phase 1, Phase 2 only consists of stories. This is where it gets fantastical. Phase 2 is designed to progress your Spanish by means of consumption of Spanish stories. Phase 2 can do this because the stories have two special properties:

  1. Most (~90%) of the words in any Phase 2 story will be words you have been taught up to the point.
  2. New words are introduced and repeated through Phase 2 stories at a high rate that is designed to teach you the words from you just consuming the stories. The stories are essentially Spaced Repetition Systems in story-form.

There you have it. What was previously a fantasy is now reality. For more information on Cascade Spanish, click here.

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