If you guys aren’t familiar, Pimsleur is a language learning methodology and system.  It was developed by Dr. Paul Pimsleur who studied how people learned languages.  His research led to his theory of graduated recall which basically said that not only was repetition important for memorizing vocabulary, but equally important is at what time intervals you were asked to recall something.  The general principal being the more spaced out you are asked to remember something the more that something gets transferred into long term memory.  Not exactly something you wouldn’t expect, but still useful for figuring out what’s the best way to learn something.

The actual Pimsleur learning system only comprises a set of audio cd’s.  There are no workbooks or flashcards to memorize.  They promise that you can learn a language by simply listening to their audio cd’s.   I’ve tried it before and it’s not bad.  At first it might seem a little repetitive, but you actually do remember stuff after listening it (I tried the Vietnamese and to this day I still remember the phrase “Ba go huoh do ang hum”…which I’m sure I’ve butchered in spelling…it means something like “Excuse me old lady”).

Anway, this is something Randy came across and sent to the rest of us.  An ad he got via email.

We loved the bold slogan, “Learn any language in 10 days! Just sit back and listen”

Maybe if you are really smart you could pull off learning a language in 10 days, but I know for sure I didn’t learn Vietnamese in 10 days (actually I never learned it at all).  But we’d like the confidence and inspirational tone of the message.  So in similar fashion Randy suggested our own bold slogan for Q Racer…

That’s right, “Learn anything in 2 minutes!” just by sitting back and playing our game Q Racer.  Why anything?  Well, we allow you to choose different content lists to learn so it could be anything from Spanish vocab to celebrity spouses.  Why 2 minutes? Right now we’ve set our race time to 2 minutes…so in those 2 minutes you will have learned everything!  OK, so maybe not.

All joking aside.  We are similar to Pimsleur.  Actually Pimsleur was one of the initial inspirations for Q Racer.  We wanted to create a game that would help us learn stuff effortlessly and more importantly while having fun.  We’ve been spending a lot of time tweaking and improving the engine to make sure this is actually the case (which is also partly the reason Q Racer has been delayed).  So anyway…we can’t wait to release the game and empower people to learn anything in 2 minutes!

Oh yea, don’t worry, it won’t be $9.99…but there will be free shipping!