Spoken English Learned Quickly is the world's most widely used spoken English language course


Summary: All English language course publishers who sell — and probably most who make portions of their course available for free downloading — prevent outside individuals and organizations from distributing their course apart from stringent licensing agreements. Spoken English Learned Quickly has done just the opposite:

  • This entire course is free and downloadable from the website.
  • Individuals and groups in any country are encouraged to distribute our course on CDs (compact discs) for their own profit.
  • Others are encouraged to actually reproduce the Spoken English Learned Quickly course with their organization's header and link to their own website. This includes Internet Cafes, tourist agencies, and bookstores.

    The only restriction we make is that none of our material may be altered or used on other websites.

    Encouraging the distribution of CD versions of this course in all countries of the world is the best and least expensive means of advertising the website www.FreeEnglishNow.com. In no case does any individual or organization pay royalty fees for their use of Spoken English Learned Quickly.

    As a result of this policy, individuals and organizations are downloading, duplicating, and distributing Spoken English Learned Quickly around the world in high volume. No attempt is being made to determine who is distributing the course, nor in what quantity.

    Needless to say, as the course grows in popularity, it is being distributed in increasingly high volumes.

    Without hesitation, it can be said that Spoken English Learned Quickly is the world's most widely used spoken English language course.


    In order to know how many of their English language courses are distributed each month, other suppliers simply count the number of lessons sold. We can't do that because we don't sell our lessons.

    However, as of this update (January, 2008), an average of almost 10,000,000 Kbytes are being downloaded from the website daily. The average is approximately 280 Gbytes each month.

    Since we know that 86% of the audio download bandwidth is in MP3 format, and that MP3 is used for burning CDs and uploading to iPods and Handhelds, we know that the course is being widely used apart from our website.* (In one case, we know the history of a single CD which was copied for re-sale. Counting the original copies made by the seller — and the copies made and sold by "pirates" who purchased his copies — almost 100 copies of this single CD were sold in one week on a northern African university campus.)

*The audio used on the website is in WMA format and equals only 14% of the total downloaded audio bandwidth.

    From our statistics pages (January, 2008), we know that we download the equivalent of over 540 complete courses to Handhelds, iPods, and smartphones each month. We also know that 480 CDs of the complete course are made each month. If we estimate that only 10 copies on average are made of each CD, we then distribute 4,800 CDs each month. We have approximately 70,000 visitors each month who are using the website for some purpose. Of course, because so many now have copies of CDs and txt and mp3 files they are using on Handhelds, our website statistics only count a small portion of the students who are actually using Spoken English Learned Quickly each month.

    We cannot count the number of CDs we sell as others can. However, we can be certain that we are distributing the equivalent of 4,800 CDs and 540 Handheld downloads per month. In addition, there are thousands of students who are studying our lessons on their computers each month. We could not imagine that any of our competitors are "selling" more English courses than this.

The Two Fish Markets:  A fable about competition.

    Once upon a time in Naples, Italy, there were two fish markets on either side of a busy street.

    The two fish markets were in fierce competition with each other.

    If the market on the south side of the street posted a sign listing the price of their fish, the market on the north side would post a sign giving their price as one lire less.

    If the north side market posted a sign saying their fish were fresh, the market on the south side would post a sign saying that their fish tasted better.

    If one market said their fish were caught the night before, the other market would say their fish came from the best fishing water. If one market said they would prepare the fish for their customers, the other market promised to give customers oil in which to cook their fish at home. So fierce was the competition that some customers even stood in the street to watch as a south market fishmonger would post a sign, while the north market's manager watched from his door. Sure enough, just a few minutes later a north market fishmonger would run out the door, hurriedly rip down yesterday's sign, and post a new one with an even better offer. Back and forth it went between the two fish markets — one posting a sign, the other answering with a new sign.

    And so it was, day after day — week after week. There was always the competition. Customers bought their fish each day at whichever market gave them the best price, the best tasting fish, or the most garnishes to include with their meal. The competition was so great, in fact, that there were no other fish markets near by.

    Yet strangely, for a reason no one quite understood, when the price was best for half of the customers at one fish market, something else was best for the other half at the market across the street. Both fish markets always sold all their fish every day.

    It was said by some who had lived on the street for a very long time that people now ate much more fish than they did in the past.

    One day a curious old woman asked a fishmonger in the south market, "Who owns this fish market?" "Matteo Fiorani," the fishmonger told her. Because the next day the fish was sold for one lire less across the street, the old woman went to the fish market on the north side of the street. Again, she asked, "Who owns this fish market?" "Matteo Fiorani," was the reply.






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