Idahosa Ness is the founder of Mimic Method, a language learning program with a twist. Actually, a flip. Mimic Method flips the language learning game right around by effectively training your ear from the very beginning. It's currently available for Chinese (Mandarin), English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese (Brazil), Portuguese (Europe), Russian, and Spanish with more languages coming soon. In this podcast episode, Idahosa explains how most traditional language learning today is focused on learning by eye whereas his method begins from day one with the ear. He also touches on why so many would-be bilinguals fail in learning a language because of the traditional approach many textbooks and school programs are based on. Mimic Method students learn the elemental sounds of a language and, in doing so, are able to advance much more quickly conversationally in the long run. In this episode, Idahosa explains how Mimic Method came to be as well as how it works.