The Lt story
Once folk get into the online material, they often become very curious about how all of this came to be, why it’s free, and who Mihalis is!
So first things first, Mihalis (or Michael) is me, hi! That’s because -whilst I often talk about LT in the plural- everything you see on this site is the creation of just one guy; there’s no Language Transfer team, and so no-one to write this for me! LT is ‘we’ for me because it includes you - the learner, the supporter, the sharer, the volunteer graphic designer or native speaker.
I’d resisted temptations to set out any ‘LT Story’ here, finding it difficult to not enter into tumultuous territory. Avoiding that, it’s just too easy to become a contrived whac-a-mole of celebrated buzz terms of the day, like you find on the ‘about’ page of many an organisation, and I didn’t want to lose myself in that either - I have in the past. And so I took a way out:
“How all of this came to be is a long and contrived story whatever angle you take it from, and the motivations for creating LT are many and have evolved since the project’s conception in 2011. For this reason it is so difficult, and maybe even dishonest, to sketch out or frame an ‘LT story’ as might be customary, but seeing that I’m not trying to sell you any brand - I guess I don’t have to!”.
It feels like we’re in a completely different world since I wrote that though, and in this new world it feels imperative to break the fourth wall with the usership, and tell the full story of Language Transfer.
The LT story is coming, and not by halves! Stay tuned for the feature-length documentary in 2024.
The Cyprus Project was a big part of the motivation and story behind LT!
In this 25 minute interview we home in on some of the more unlikely motivations behind the Language Transfer project.
Key facts
The free model reflects a desire to play a cooperative and caring role in society, rather than a competitive one.
The Thinking Method challenges what we think we need to know about learning and teaching, as well as the language/subject at hand.
LT is sustained with learner donations. Donations do not give access to more LT material. Everything is free.
LT is an independent project with no sponsors, advertisers or affiliates.