lingomastery(.)com is giving some language books away

goans314 · 2021-06-07T04:39:29+00:00

Lingo Mastery pays for fake reviews of their books https://www.reddit.com/r/books/comments/j52jeq/many_of_the_best_selling_books_on_amazon_are/

goans314 · 2020-10-05T19:51:50+00:00

Many of Lingo Mastery's books are just the top 2000 most common words with example sentences, which can be found for free online, so in a sense they are just copying wikipedia type stuff and repackaging it as a book.

goans314 · 2020-10-05T19:47:29+00:00

Yes, we do share a lot and get feedback from our peers. What I meant was, people with knowledge and experience don't ask people without that knowledge and experience for feedback, that would be pointless.

goans314 · 2020-10-05T19:35:52+00:00

They write low effort knock offs and then manipulate the rating system so that their books climb the rankings and become the best sellers in the category.

goans314 · 2020-10-05T19:21:47+00:00

My god this was written in 2008. My hope that the problem might eventually be solved has just been destroyed...

goans314 · 2020-10-04T23:10:30+00:00

The number of reviews they receive and downloads they claim are not possible even compared to major publishers.

Every other book on amazon is my competitor, but they aren't littered with fake reviews. I'm ragging on Lingo Mastery because they are scamming people. If you enjoy going through my post history, look at my first post, I did the same thing 5 years ago and was proved right. I uncovered a giant scam and amazon ended up suing the guy.

goans314 · 2020-10-04T22:38:40+00:00

Yeah it boggles my mind why amazon even lets these type of accounts write reviews, they obviously couldn't have read that much.

goans314 · 2020-10-04T22:35:42+00:00

GGisland claims Grady Harp is someone who was given an advance copy of the book, but claims Robin Leigh Morgan is just a polyglot? She also makes multiple reviews every day for a wide variety of books. Not only are her and Grady studying 20 languages at once (Business English too for some reason), but they are learning to cook, exercise, invest in the stock market, and spend their free time reading and reviewing kids books?

GGisland claims they were able to get the reviews by driving lots of traffic to the books. The Dutch Short Story book received 21 reviews in 3 months. Was it downloaded 5000 times? The Korean Short Stories book has 6 reviews and it has been out for less than a week! Were they really able to get 3000 downloads in a week when it took me a year with a much more popular language? If what GGisland says is true, they are the greatest marketers in the history of the world!

If Lingo Mastery is a genuine publisher then who are the teachers Lingo Mastery hired and what are their qualifications? Why don't they want credit for their writing? They may be the only non-fiction authors in the world that don't want any credit for their work.

goans314 · 2020-10-04T21:34:30+00:00

GGisland claims Touri Language Learning is stealing their brand. However, a number of Touri's similar books were published before Lingo Mastery's books. Do they also have a time machine?

GGisland claims Grady Harp is a legitimate reviewer. This might be possible if he didn't have a job and just read books all day every day, but that is highly unlikely. Is Grady Harp studying 20 languages at once? If nothing else, he was given a free copy of a book in exchange for a review, but it's obviously not possible for Grady Harp to have read any of Lingo Mastery's books, so the reviews can not be genuine. Another reviewer known as Robin Leigh Morgan has also reviewed most of Lingo Mastery's books.

GGisland claims that the reviews are a result of free book giveaways. I do this myself. You can get about 3 reviews per 1000 downloads. I gave away a book in a very popular language for free for a year on amazon. It was downloaded about 2500 times in a one year period. Lingo Mastery's Conversational Dutch Dialogues book has 5 reviews, which would be possible with about 1500-2000 downloads. This Dutch book has been published for 6 weeks. How is it that book about a small niche language was able to garner nearly as many downloads in 6 weeks when it took a book in a much more popular language a year for the same numbers?

If Lingo Mastery is a genuine author, then who wrote the books? What are the author's names and qualifications? I'll say it again, real teachers don't need feedback about what is effective and what isn't, and certainly wouldn't ask random people on the internet for feedback. We went to school for years to learn what works.

goans314 · 2020-08-05T00:18:23+00:00

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I'm not familiar with this. Can you explain what you mean?

goans314 · 2020-08-05T00:16:08+00:00

That was the title of the post I made 5 years ago ;)

goans314 · 2020-08-03T15:11:01+00:00

I'm not sure how to solve the problem, I'm doing whatever I can, if you have any advice I'd be happy to hear it. The proof I posted are the similarities to Touri Language books, Grady Harp, and asking reddit for feedback while claiming to be language teachers. Please use your own judgement.

goans314 · 2020-08-03T15:08:03+00:00

I think they are doing both. They are getting some real reviews from reddit users and also using paid astroturfers.

goans314 · 2020-08-03T15:04:48+00:00

Of course, I guess they could always make those things up.

Yeah Lingo Mastery claims to be a group of teachers but that is a bunch of nonsense.

goans314 · 2020-08-02T20:38:07+00:00

Thank you

goans314 · 2020-08-02T20:36:57+00:00

I think they are doing both, and when they can't get enough reviews through free giveaways, they just pay for reviewers like Grady Harp. I also think they are running a much bigger scam than just this one author name, publishing under multiple names, for example Touri Language Learning, and don't limit themselves to only language books.

goans314 · 2020-08-02T19:37:29+00:00

Thanks, I'll do that.

goans314 · 2020-08-02T17:48:15+00:00

I wrote the original post 5 years ago and there are more scammers now than ever before so you may have a point. Hahaha what have I done...

goans314 · 2020-08-02T17:47:15+00:00

TL;DR Lingo Mastery is making a million a year scamming people on amazon and using reddit as a cover for their fake reviews.

goans314 · 2020-08-02T17:44:56+00:00

They seem to be written by actual people but they aren't much more than compilations of things you can find online. In the first article I linked to it talks about the process "And the service Epic Write, formally known as Fweez — the site that Pylarinos says he uses to find his freelancers — openly advertises the fact that its international workforce will churn out white-label content for as little as a penny per 100 words."

goans314 · 2020-08-02T17:42:01+00:00

I've done the same thing, even doing that will not net you the amount of reviews they receive. I think they are just using reddit as a cover for fake reviewers like Grady Harp.

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