Baselang has an amazing business model. They offer one on one Spanish tuition, up to four hours a day for a subscription fee of $149 or $199 per month depending on the package you want to buy. They use a video conferencing software, Zoom, and they have the best guide to learning Spanish on the internet, as content marketing. All the Spanish teachers are professional teachers with good English who follow their well designed on house curriculum.
I think their major innovation is in the subscription. If you get one hour of lessons a day that’s good value. At four hours a day it’s anazing value, you’ll be fluent in Spanish in three months. But I doubt most subscribers even use five hours a week. It’s the gym model. The people who swear next month is going to be different, they’ll actually use the service, subsidise the small number of heavy users and are where all the profits are made.
For no reason I can understand they don’t plan to teach any other languages. If you can find a decent curriculum and buy the rights to it, hire some good teachers and set up zoom you can do this for Portugese, French, Russian, Arabic or Chinese. Italki.com is an inferior model.
Alternatively everyone can just stop making 5MB websites. My 1kb/s mobile Verizon connection can't handle it
For example, I use Dillo on my Linux laptop. Anything that is not formatted for HTML is completely rejected. I would prefer to set how stringently filtered I want sites to be.
Try browsing zerohedge.com or any local news site. It is an abomination of autoplay video ads, forced scrolling, 70% toolbars covering screen, photos every 5 sentences...
And like 40kb of text.