About language transfer
Hi, I’m Mihalis Eleftheriou, creator of Language Transfer & The Thinking Method!
Whilst I used to talk about LT as ‘we’, there never has been any team. I chose to speak about LT in the plural as for one part, at a time when vanity projects named after individuals were popping up all around me, I wanted it to be clear LT was no such thing - possibly a vane consideration in itself! The first website didn’t contain my name or image, and I didn't name the project or the method after myself. On the other hand, I also liked the idea that Language Transfer was ‘our’ collective project and I wanted to include the learners and occasional volunteer in that. I much prefer this branding, it’s more about you than me (as it should be), but at the same time, it’s probably been detrimental that people quite naturally assume I have the resources at my disposal to afford a team! Language Transfer is not a team of people working leisurely - it’s one guy doing the unthinkable. The main reason it’s so important for people to know this is that if the energy people put into requesting more material from me went into pressuring those in high places to help me do their jobs for them(!), it might have a much greater effect.
Learners can by joining the Patreon campaign and/or pressuring those in/with power to help LT do more. The potential of this project to help obliterate so many wildly varied social ills is tried and tested. From prejudice and xenophobia to renewing learning confidence, from tackling both mental and brain health to increasing consciousness of and control over our own thinking, it’s all here, and 15 years of feedback consistently show that this is the transcendental experience the courses so often impart.
Language Transfer is always looking for a home where it’s valued and supported and so if you’d like the LT headquarters in your city, maybe knock on some doors! Meanwhile, I’ll be heading back to Cyprus to do some door knocking myself!
Key facts
The free model reflects a desire to play a cooperative and nurturing 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. Genuinely free.
LT is an independent project.