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Has anyone said “Thank you” to you today? If not, we’d like to be the first!
And we’d like to say it in 26 different languages.

So listener, thank you for being a part of the Innovative Language family and for learning with us! Even though Thanksgiving isn’t celebrated in many parts of the world, everyone, everywhere loves hearing “thank you.”

Click here to visit our Thank You Page and get your Free video lesson:

‘Learn how to say thank you in 26 different languages.’ One day, when you travel the world, that’s the one phrase that will put a smile on other people’s faces.

Click Here For Your Free Thank You Video Lesson

But…that’s not all!

Looking to learn more Cantonese?

From November 20th to the 25th – Get 30% OFF any subscription of your choice! 30% off is a big $54 off 1 year of Premium. Start speaking Cantonese like it’s your own language!

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Better than Black Friday. That comes once a year.

This offer is once in a millennium.

Good through Monday:

Click here to get 1-Month Premium for $11.11
(55% OFF the regular price)

or

Click here to get 1-Year Premium for $111.11
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That’s every single one of our audio and video lessons, PDF Lesson Notes, My Flashcards, My Word Bank, Core Word Lists, Lesson Quizzes, Review, Dialogue and Expansion tracks and so much more – for $11.11 for a single month, or $111.11 for an entire year!

Don’t let this once in a millennium chance pass you by – it expires Monday, November 14th at midnight! Just pick your deal and get started with our fun and effective Cantonese language learning system today!

Click any of the links below to upgrade before it’s gone!

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or

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Hello Listener,

Seen that iPhone 4S? It’s pretty smart and all.
But is it making you smarter?

Our new MyFlashcards are smarter now – but their goal is to make you smarter in too! If you’re a Premium Member, you know all about our spaced repetition system for learning lots and lots of vocabulary. However, we’ve recently made some BIG changes to the MyFlashcard system.

Quick Overview: The Good Stuff
In short MyFlashcards eliminates the “Where do I start?” “When should I study?” and “How much should I study?” by assigning you the words and dates.

MyFlashcards 2.3 Update makes learning more efficient by:

“Wait. You’re going to STOP me from studying?!”

Yes.

To remember better, you need to space out your study sessions in intervals. Studying once won’t imprint the word in your brain forever. Cramming for final the night before might work in college, but not for long term language acquisition. Study that particular deck in a week, then in 3 weeks and it won’t leave your brain!

Updated! Try Out My Flashcards! Click Here!

Here’s the detailed scoop!

My Decks:
Aside from starting a new deck, get quick overview of all your decks and their progress. Look for the “Due Today” notification to know just how many cards you have to study today! Yes – it gives you homework, it’s that smart!

Create New Deck – Deck Manager
This takes you to the brand new Deck Manager. This is the deck master tool letting you pull words from any lesson, core word list or from My WordBank into any deck of your choice. If you want to combine the words from multiple lessons, just hold shift and click to select several lessons.

(sample screenshot from RussianPod101)

Edit
Feeling brave? Set the maximum number of flashcards per session in case you’re an overachiever and wish to study more. Just below the study modes, there’s a Manage Items section that shows all the words in the deck – and their progress. Remember, you must master the 3 study modes – recognition, production, and listening before a word is mastered 100%.

Also, feel free to merge decks or add new cards here.

(sample screenshot from RussianPod101)

(sample screenshot from RussianPod101)

Press Study or Launch Deck
The new dashboard breaks down just exactly how many words are in a deck, the ones you mastered, learned, started and the ones you haven’t started. The progress bar on top tracks your overall process for this deck.

Start New Session
The cards have been slightly redesigned so they’re easier to read. Go ahead and go through your deck. After one session, you’re not quite done yet! You must master all 3 modes, remember? After going through a few sessions, MyFlashcards will recommend you to study at a later date. Don’t worry – you’ll remember better if you spread your studying out instead of cramming in one shot.

(sample screenshot from JapanesePod101)

Take some time and go through your decks. My Flashcards will track your progress to figure you out and serve you better as you go on. All you have to do is follow along and master the vocabulary. Simple!

Click Here To Try Out My Flashcards!

Click on it! It’s super effective!

As requested by users, we’re introducing Explore Curriculum, and it is indeed super effective! That’s because it answers two big questions users have:

1) What is this series about?
2) What will I learn?

Whether you want to preview, view, or review a season and the lessons inside, use Explore Curriculum.

How’s it super effective, you ask? It addresses a big issue in learning language: spending time on something you’ve already learned before. If you already know it, isn’t the time better spent on something you don’t know? You can’t skip what you already know in a classroom, but at CantoneseClass101, you can!

Explore Curriculum does just that. It provides a snapshot of seasons and their lessons down to the grammar, conversation, vocabulary, and more. Know it already? Great, move on! Or, better, quickly review the concepts so they stay fresh in your mind.

This is perfect for beginners who would like to see a road map of what they will study. Similarly, it’s great for experienced students who want to spend their time wisely and skip what they know, and study material they don’t know.

Click Here To See A Sample

Good Luck!

Before Michael Jordan was great. Before Bruce Lee was great.
And before your favorite actor was great, do you know what they did?

They sat around hoping to be great.
Wait, no. They practiced their basic skills every day.

This is why it’s important to get back to the basics of Cantonese and reinforce your listening, speaking, writing, grammar, and vocabulary. But we’re not talking about the easy stuff, man. We mean the necessary basics! If you learn just the Cantonese verb conjugation rules but can’t conjugate any verb immediately, on the spot, without looking it up?…

…You need to get back to basics!

Being great in Cantonese requires knowing your basics 100%.
With 25% OFF Basic, its time to get back to basics, and go from good to great. The Back To Basic Sale is the perfect chance to do just that.

Click Here! Save 25% OFF on All Basic Subscriptions

Why Basic?
Basic is the most affordable plan. And now, at 25% off, it’s even more affordable.

As a Basic member, you get the core basics of our learning system – every single audio and video lesson we’ve ever made and the lesson notes. Users love these features the most and they’re what makes us so popular with language students around the world!

Most Affordable Plan Even More Affordable – 25% OFF Now!

Our Premium plan offers the fastest track to fluency. With Premium, you get EVERYTHING. But the Back to Basic sale is the perfect option for those who just want the basics at a lower price. This deal ends on Friday, October 28th, 2011 so you must act fast!

Click here & Save $24 on 24 months of Cantonese

Start speaking from the very first lesson with Matt, Nicole and the Gang and Get Back to Basics!

Hello Listener,

Once in a while, we like to pop in out of nowhere and ask:

How you doin’?!

As in, how is your Cantonese progress going? How has CantoneseClass101 helped you with learning Cantonese, school, traveling abroad, or with your Cantonese grandmother?

We love stories from our listeners about why they started learning Cantonese, the adventures they’ve been on, and how Cantonese has become a regular part of their lives. Similarly, we also want to hear about your results and progress!

Whether you have a crazy story for us or just want to drop a few thoughts on how CantoneseClass101 improved your language skills – we want to know.

Tell us your story – email us at testimonials@cantoneseclass101.com

Oh. Don’t act cute with us. We both know WTF means Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday. In fact, it’s a holiday that was recently invented by us. Why? September is a relatively dry month – it marks the beginning of a new school year. It is the Monday of Months.

We’re celebrating the WTF Holiday with a 30% OFF Sale on all premium subscriptions.

WTF means the Wednesday, Thursday, Friday 30% OFF Sale from 9/21 until 9/23. By sheer coincidence, it also means Where’s the Fridge, and Welcome To France. Strange, we know.

Click here and use Coupon Code WTF for 30% OFF.

The fun and educational audio lessons are what our subscribers love the most! At 30% OFF for all premium accounts, you get to enjoy your favorite series with more of the benefits, at a lower price. Get access to our huge audio and video lesson library, lesson documents, memory building flashcards, 2,000 must-know words (that’s 80% of all conversation), and more.

Users are ready to speak from the first lesson, But – the catch is – this big discount only lasts 3 days because not every day of the week is W.T.F. And nobody is excited about Mondays or Tuesdays. But if you are, let us know in the comments below!

The WTF Sale lasts from 9/21 to 9/23. Get 30% off all premium accounts and lock in at a cheaper price. That’s smart.

Click here: Pay LESS this WTF for 30% OFF.

Hi Listener,

Remember getting smileys on your homework? Where have those days gone? Smiley face stickers in first grade evolved into nasty red-inked comments from college professors. Learning should be fun and rewarding.

Here’s your chance to practice Cantonese and win prizes with CantoneseClass101! You won’t get stickers, but something bigger and better to help you be awesome in Cantonese.

There’s no such thing as too much practice. So, if you’ve been studying hard or easily breezing through, we want to give you an extra push.

Join the Facebook Cantonese Only Challenge & Win Prizes

Why?

1. You’ll become amazing with lots of practice.

2. Hint: Big Prizes for participants

3. Why not?

On Facebook only, join the 5-day Cantonese only challenge!

The Cantonese Word of the Day is posted daily on our Facebook page. The challenge is to put your Cantonese to use for the next 5 days using the daily vocabulary words.

For each daily word, from Monday (9/12) until Friday (9/16), your job is to create a sentence with that word. These sentences must be…

* Creative – most creative sentences get extra prizes
* Unique – not copied from the guy that commented before you!
* Consistent – you have to post every day this week

Ready? Jump on over to our Facebook page and start with the daily word for Monday, September 12th! The last day of the challenge is Friday, Sept 16th and users who participated for all 5 days will win a mystery prize that we promise you’ll love!

Winners will get instructions on how to claim their well-earned prizes once the contest ends.

Good luck and get writing!

Hello Listener,

(For maximum impact, read in Old Spice Guy’s voice)

Look at our homepage. Now back to us.
Now back to our homepage. Now back to us.

Look different? It should! With the help of our wonderful users, like you, we’ve listened to your feedback and came up with this. Designing the homepage has been like watching a baby grow.

Our iTunes logo has also changed. You can see it on our Facebook and Twitter accounts!

So when you download our free audio lessons on iTunes and see a new logo… do not be alarmed. It’s still CantoneseClass101.

The New

We’ve decided it was time for a change here at CantoneseClass101.
Why the change? Well, We’re not just a podcast website – but a language learning system.

This design makeover is just one small step towards one giant leap to becoming a complete online learning system.

Thoughts on the design? Feedback? Please let us know in the comments below.

But Wait!
What’s that? Look below. There’s a link.
To our 18% OFF Back To School Sale that you’ve always wanted. Look again!
It’s still there but only until August 26th. Sadly, schools don’t lower their costs and neither do student loans. However, we do.

18% OFF any premium subscription. Use Coupon 2COOL4SCHOOL and save!

If you’re taking Cantonese this semester, you’re more than prepared. Just don’t sleep in class, unless you’re dozing off to the sweet sounds of a CantoneseClass101 audio lesson.

And If you’re not in school (lucky!) – you’re still a student of Cantonese. Join in on the discount too!

Note: The Back to School Sale Ends in 48 hours. Save 18% OFF now because your school never does this.

Google is the world’s biggest Search Engine.
Apple is the world’s biggest smart phone maker.
The Blue whale is the world’s biggest animal.

And now, our little Innovative Language Learning family has become the world’s biggest language learning app maker! Apple verified this themselves. Surprised? Us too!

In about 5 years, we’ve made over 600 apps across 40 languages that available on the iTunes store for the iPhone and iPad alone. Not to mention, our Android and Mac desktop apps.

Can you imagine? That’s more language packed in one spot than a United Nations conference. Except you could learn them all. Or some. Mastering 600 apps is only for insane overachievers.

Some of our most popular mobile apps include Survival Phrases for brushing up on essential phrases when you visit Hong Kong, Gengo FlashCards for multi-sensory vocabulary learning, and the recently updated WordPower that gives you the core 2000 words and phrases necessary for daily conversation. The language is directly at your fingertips – you’re touching words and sentences as you learn them!

In fact, you can download some for free or unlock all features with our premium apps.

Head over to our Apps page for the complete list of apps and more information. You can also search the Android Market and iTunes store for “Innovative Language Learning.”

Try them risk free!

Let us know what you think. We update them regularly based on your feedback!