#1307 - TBT: English Language Game Throws Down Amazon Gauntlet
Side Hustle School
Chris Guillebeau
4.7 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 30 July 2020
⏱️ 8 minutes
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In this week’s “Throwback Thursday / Where are they now?” segment, we hear from an English teacher who turns his passion for verbs into online income.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey what's up, side hustle school friends, listeners, community. |
| 0:08.1 | Welcome, my name is Chris Gallipom. |
| 0:10.0 | Today is our throwback Thursday segment. |
| 0:13.1 | Every week we take an in-depth look at someone who's story has evolved since we first |
| 0:16.4 | featured them. |
| 0:17.4 | Last week we heard from a blogger in India who earns affiliate commissions on financial |
| 0:21.1 | products. |
| 0:22.3 | This is a market that's pretty mature in the US, but still fairly new in India. |
| 0:27.0 | So he's been able to profit from it quite well and also position himself as an authority |
| 0:31.3 | even as the market matures. |
| 0:32.9 | Today in our latest feature we'll hear from Alex Bricker, an English teacher who turned |
| 0:37.4 | his passion for verbs into online income. |
| 0:41.0 | Specifically, Alex made a game to help non-native speakers of English learn phrasal verbs, |
| 0:46.2 | which are verbs followed by a preposition that kind of changes the meaning of the verb. |
| 0:49.9 | So like hop on, come over, come back, go there. |
| 0:54.4 | It's a concept that can be confusing to people learning English as a second language. |
| 0:57.8 | Now, your first featured Alex many days ago, back to it was about two years ago, in episode |
| 1:02.4 | 499. |
| 1:03.6 | So what has happened since? |
| 1:05.8 | Well, a number of things have gone well, but not everything. |
| 1:09.2 | So I'm glad that Alex shared a story of a significant misstep, a big mistake he made |
| 1:13.5 | in addition to some successes. |
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