🕹️ Video-game addict & college dropout turned 👨🏫 English teacher then 🌎 polyglot. Channeled my passion for creating by becoming a 👨💻 full-stack developer.
🛠️ Currently building Gliglish: Your AI language teacher to learn languages from speaking. Try it free! 👉 gliglish.com/free 👩🎤 Or follow along on Twitter as I build it in public! My goal is to make the joy of learning a language through speech available to everyone.
Welcome to my personal site! I've been learning and teaching languages for decades, and running a language business as an indie maker for years. I hope you'll find something you like!
- 🆕 Newer projects
- 🚀 About my startup to learn languages
- ⭐️ My products and sites to learn languages
- ✨ Language notes
- 📒 Random Notes
- 𝕏 Stories for another day
🆕 Newer projects
- 🌊 gifPaper – Live wallpapers for Mac. Beautiful 4K wallpapers that loop seamlessly.
- 🧸 Kromimi – Virtual pet experiment. Think Tamagotchi, but cute and HD.
- 👙 TryThisFit – Virtual try-on and outfit extraction. Why go to the store when you can try new looks from the comfort of your pajamas?
🚀 About my startup to learn languages
Might share blogposts here when not too busy building and growing the product:
What I learned from being #2 on Hacker News for a split second – and how I messed up⭐️ My products and sites to learn languages
Most products are for learning English but Gliglish is for learning dozens of languages.
Project Name | Site | Description | Since |
|---|---|---|---|
👩🎤 Gliglish | An AI-based language teacher to learn from speaking. | November 2022 | |
Listglish.com | Learn sentences from daily life. A beautiful English–French phrasebook with 200 illustrations created with DALL·E. | 2022 | |
FrequencyList.com | A list of the most common words in spoken American English. These top 5,000 words cover 96% of the vocabulary in English. | 2019 | |
AmericanIPAchart.com | An interactive chart of the 39 sounds of standard American English. Used by English teachers the world over. | 2018 | |
⭐️ Click & Speak | Learn the top 5,000 words in American English, with the correct pronunciation and grammar, through meaningful sentences you will remember. The top users spend 1 to 3 hours on it every day! Broke €540,000 in sales. | 2015 | |
How-to-Learn-English.com | Modern ways to practice English and become truly fluent (book.) How I learned English as a foreign language (and then Spanish, Russian, Hungarian.) | 2010 | |
🤟 BilingueAnglais.com | A newsletter, blog, and products for French people learning English. 80 to 120K monthly visitors. | 2007 |
✨ Language notes
📒 Random Notes
Notes about productivity, self-help, business, coding and whatnot...
Internet HeroesGet rid of distractions (regain your focus)How to run macOS Classic𝕏 Stories for another day
- Starting an ezine at age 15
- Starting a business at age 16
- Starting a fight club at age 17
- 3 years of gaming
- Experience doing a 10-day fast
- How to survive an abusive childhood
- Becoming ambidextrous
- What I learned from years of self-help & personal development
- How I went from being a shy geek to being super social
- Good communication for
dummiesnerds - How to come up with a good name for your kid, product, company or dog!
- What I learned from years of improv (in three languages)
- Experience with ten-day silent meditation
- Raising multilingual kids
- How to learn anything
- What I learned from spending thousands of dollars on accent training
- Dev productivity: little improvements to speed up and aim for 10X
- Biggest business mistakes
- The impact of growing up poor and getting out of it