Aleksander Garstka

I recommend this course to its target audience, but I want to be nuanced, so let me say that it is like learning from an older student, not a professor/instructor, which comes with pros and cons. Pros: There is some very good information in this course. I will be using many things in this course for my own language learning in the future, and I think the way thing are broken down will help me quite a bit. Out of respect for the fact that this is a paid course I will share no specific examples here. Cons: As a teacher, Garstka is rough. This course feels incredibly unfocused, and I do feel like I had to hunt for the useful knowledge in it. There are also times where he feels uncertain of the specifics, like he is remembering something offhand rather than having taken the time to be sure of it before beginning his lecture. But most of all, he is a rambler. Boy does this many ramble, repeat himself, and go down rabbit trails. This course has 10hrs of video, but due to his lack of focus less than 5 is devoted to meaningful content. As bad as those cons might sound, I still recommend this course to interested parties because it's all about how to learn a language on your own. If you are going to learn a language in 10 days, or simply make a push to conversationality, then you wont have a teacher holding your hand. If you are the kind of person who is willing and able to use Gastka's methods, then you are probably the kind of person who will be able to sift through his unfocused rhetoric
- Review by Nicholas Keirstead on Speak Any Language in 10 Days - Conversational lvl