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I started this at the very end of 2012, and save for a few months contracting have been working on it full time since, doing everything myself.…",{"id":58,"by":11,"text":59},"9710697","Only if your native language is not English. There's been a uservoice suggestion to allow it to work in monolingual mode for ages…",{"id":61,"by":11,"text":62},"9710682","Learning a language is going to take a lot of time and effort, no argument there. But not all methods are equally effective so anything that reduces the time or effort required,…",{"value":64,"source":52,"evidence":65},"Intermediate and advanced language learners",[66],{"id":67,"by":11,"text":68},"9710533","Apart from that one Harry Potter article, I haven't found content marketing to be that effective in attracting new users, mainly because I haven't invested enough time in it. 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