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Hi Emanuel! I just purchased a year-long membership a minute ago, but I realized that I might want to switch to a different payment method to avoid being charged a transaction fee. Is it possible to cancel and repurchase the membership? Thank you so much! Best, X
Hi Xuehuai, No problem in general, but are you sure that you were charged a fee? Because normally, that’s mine to carry. Could you double check? Because I did get charged a fee for your charge, so if there was another one on your end, that’d be quite sneaky by the bank.
Hi Emanuel, I am sorry this gets you charged too, but it seems like I am getting charged a foreign transaction fee in addition. I have no clue why, since it is a USD card paying USD… I would probably try to pay with a different card that doesn’t have foreign transaction fee instead, if that does not cause you too much trouble! Also, I cannot seem to find a place to cancel it on my end, so I wonder if it is possible on your end. Thanks again!
Hi Emmanuel, I’m logged in and my profile shows an active membership, but on lesson pages the PDF download says “PDF downloads are included with membership” and asks me to log in again and then the cycle continues. Could you check my account?
Hi Sayda, I forgot to activate this for sponsored memberships. Should work now.
lostkitten
hello first of all i love the website but im a student so i cant afford the price. can you guys can help me please. Im in new at Deutchland strugging with to understand German
Herzlichen Glückwunsch, Emanuel, genieße die Zeit mit deinem neuen Baby!
Samrat
Hello sir I’m a medical student in India and I plan to relocate to Germany in future,so I’m starting early to make my language strong,aber ich habe kein geld und ich will echt Deutsche lernen.Welche Möglichkeiten habe ich? Kann ich mir das jetzt erst mal sponsern lassen und dann, wenn ich in etwa einem Jahr anfange, Geld zu verdienen, eine lebenslange Mitgliedschaft abschließen? Consider this as an investment.
I’m a 12 year old apart of the assembly’s of god and he has called me to be a missionary in Germany but as a 12 year old I can aford that much is there any way I can get sponsored
Send me an email or a contact via a contact form here and I’ll make it work. No need to share your name there either.
Vicky Waqas
Hallo Emanuel,
I’m a student and can’t afford the membership right now. I’ve been learning from YouTube, but it’s not structured and I usually get stuck with grammar.
I’m seriously planning to move to Germany and really want to learn properly. Could I get a sponsored membership? I will use it seriously. Thank you!
Waqas
tyff
hey there! if I were to start with the one-year membership for now for financial reasons, is it possible to get a discount to switch to lifetime? the goal is to get the lifetime membership since I find your material quit valuable, but I can’t get that right now.
I want to renew my current 3 month membership, but I can’t see where to do it. I clicked on “Renew” but got taken to this page and 3 months isn’t an option.
Yeah, I have retired the 3 months option. Does any of the current options work for you? If not, could you send me an email? You’ve been a long time member so I’d be open to making an exception.
Hi me again. So I just saw that you signed up for a membership, so I guess you mean the newsletter you want to subscribe to, right? The floating field for that is not on here for technical reasons and you won’t see it at all when you’re logged in. But the membership does automatically add you to the newsletter as well. I just sent you a confirmation email again. You have to click okay there and you’re good to go. Let me know if you have any questions.
Yeasir
Hi, i am from a family where we live hand to mouth. Please can i join without money. I want to learn. I want to win and go high
Hello Emanuel , I used to learn a lot from your blog articles in 2015-2016, it used to be free and now I again wanna refresh my rusty German language but I’m absolutely broke and cannot pay for the subscription for at least 4 months. With a promise that Im gonna pay whatever I can for your contribution after 4 months I wanna apply for the membership .
JenniferConvertible
hey Emmanuel. your way of thinking about language really helped me with my English teaching. So what i am trying to say is:you better watch out, i am coming for your gig
Better lawyer up then, I ain’t goin’ down without a fight. :)
pmonkelban
My membership page says…
Your Current Membership:
Lifetime … You’ll get a reminder before it expires, so don’t worry.
Please don’t tell me when I’m going to die! I’d like it to come as a surprise. :)
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I like getting the emails and want to subscribe but I have a question. If I join for 3 months and later decide I would like to go Lifetime before the subscription expires, Can I get credit for the 3 month subscription and just pay the additional $80 for the lifetime?
You’d get a renewal discount for $10 for the lifetime subscription. If you go for three months and then two weeks later decide you want to change, just email me and I’ll give you a discount for $20, but if you decide after 3 months, then it’s just the $10 :)
Hi Lois, I can’t really pause the newsletter, so you could just unsub for the Advent Season and then resub in January. It is independent of your membership, so that would remain as it is.
okay. I will. I don’t find it so easy to navigate on computer because I’m from an earlier paper and pencil era and although I can do it, albeit haltingly up to a point, subscribing and unsubscribing can get me to goodnessknowswhere and I’ll try and thank you your explanations and spirit are sehr appealing and helpful
Isabelle
Hi Emmanuel, I am one of the very grateful jobless high school students who could not afford membership, but had it provided at the beginning of the year. It has been so helpful and I wanted to let you know that I received an award for getting the best grades in German at my school! I couldn’t have done it without the help of your website. Vielen, vielen Dank für deine Hilfe dieses Jahr.
Lisa
Every time I access your newsletter I am told that I have already accessed it in that week, but I haven’t. Can you help? I click on an email I receive, and access it from a link in the email.
So if that happens to you, you absolutely shouldn’t click anything in the newsletter but instead copy paste the link at the bottom. Now that you’ve already had the block, you need to clear your cookies and reload and that used to help but now it’s gotten shaky.
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Hi Emanuel! I just purchased a year-long membership a minute ago, but I realized that I might want to switch to a different payment method to avoid being charged a transaction fee. Is it possible to cancel and repurchase the membership? Thank you so much! Best, X
Hi Xuehuai, No problem in general, but are you sure that you were charged a fee? Because normally, that’s mine to carry.
Could you double check? Because I did get charged a fee for your charge, so if there was another one on your end, that’d be quite sneaky by the bank.
Hi Emanuel, I am sorry this gets you charged too, but it seems like I am getting charged a foreign transaction fee in addition. I have no clue why, since it is a USD card paying USD… I would probably try to pay with a different card that doesn’t have foreign transaction fee instead, if that does not cause you too much trouble! Also, I cannot seem to find a place to cancel it on my end, so I wonder if it is possible on your end. Thanks again!
Hold on, I’ll send you an email :)
Hi Emmanuel, I’m logged in and my profile shows an active membership, but on lesson pages the PDF download says “PDF downloads are included with membership” and asks me to log in again and then the cycle continues. Could you check my account?
Hi Sayda,
I forgot to activate this for sponsored memberships. Should work now.
hello first of all i love the website but im a student so i cant afford the price. can you guys can help me please. Im in new at Deutchland strugging with to understand German
Can you please email me to [email protected]?
Herzlichen Glückwunsch, Emanuel, genieße die Zeit mit deinem neuen Baby!
Hello sir I’m a medical student in India and I plan to relocate to Germany in future,so I’m starting early to make my language strong,aber ich habe kein geld und ich will echt Deutsche lernen.Welche Möglichkeiten habe ich? Kann ich mir das jetzt erst mal sponsern lassen und dann, wenn ich in etwa einem Jahr anfange, Geld zu verdienen, eine lebenslange Mitgliedschaft abschließen? Consider this as an investment.
Please send me an email about this.
Guten Abend, ich bin arbeitlos und ich kann leider bezahlen aber ich muss meine Aussprechen besserung machen
Schick mir bitte eine Mail
I’m a 12 year old apart of the assembly’s of god and he has called me to be a missionary in Germany but as a 12 year old I can aford that much is there any way I can get sponsored
Send me an email or a contact via a contact form here and I’ll make it work. No need to share your name there either.
Hallo Emanuel,
I’m a student and can’t afford the membership right now. I’ve been learning from YouTube, but it’s not structured and I usually get stuck with grammar.
I’m seriously planning to move to Germany and really want to learn properly. Could I get a sponsored membership? I will use it seriously. Thank you!
Waqas
hey there! if I were to start with the one-year membership for now for financial reasons, is it possible to get a discount to switch to lifetime? the goal is to get the lifetime membership since I find your material quit valuable, but I can’t get that right now.
That’s okay, just take the year now and email me whenever you’re ready. We can treat it as a payment in installments basically.
yay! thank you so much!
I want to renew my current 3 month membership, but I can’t see where to do it. I clicked on “Renew” but got taken to this page and 3 months isn’t an option.
Yeah, I have retired the 3 months option. Does any of the current options work for you?
If not, could you send me an email? You’ve been a long time member so I’d be open to making an exception.
That’s kind of you, Emanuel. I think I just need to brace myself and go for the 12 month option. I did like the three month one though!
I have some quite amazing learning games and tools in the pipeline, so it’ll really be worth it, I promise.
How come I can’t unsubscribe under membership
Not sure what you mean, to be honest. Please help me understand what you’re trying to do.
Hi me again.
So I just saw that you signed up for a membership, so I guess you mean the newsletter you want to subscribe to, right?
The floating field for that is not on here for technical reasons and you won’t see it at all when you’re logged in.
But the membership does automatically add you to the newsletter as well. I just sent you a confirmation email again. You have to click okay there and you’re good to go.
Let me know if you have any questions.
Hi, i am from a family where we live hand to mouth. Please can i join without money. I want to learn. I want to win and go high
Email please!
Who are the premium members? Any recurring fees with lfetime?
Anyone with an active membership is premium. Lifetime is a one time payment, no recurring fees :)
Oh, goody!
Hello Emanuel , I used to learn a lot from your blog articles in 2015-2016, it used to be free and now I again wanna refresh my rusty German language but I’m absolutely broke and cannot pay for the subscription for at least 4 months. With a promise that Im gonna pay whatever I can for your contribution after 4 months I wanna apply for the membership .
hey Emmanuel. your way of thinking about language really helped me with my English teaching. So what i am trying to say is:you better watch out, i am coming for your gig
Better lawyer up then, I ain’t goin’ down without a fight. :)
My membership page says…
Your Current Membership:
Lifetime … You’ll get a reminder before it expires, so don’t worry.
Please don’t tell me when I’m going to die! I’d like it to come as a surprise. :)
I like getting the emails and want to subscribe but I have a question. If I join for 3 months and later decide I would like to go Lifetime before the subscription expires, Can I get credit for the 3 month subscription and just pay the additional $80 for the lifetime?
You’d get a renewal discount for $10 for the lifetime subscription. If you go for three months and then two weeks later decide you want to change, just email me and I’ll give you a discount for $20, but if you decide after 3 months, then it’s just the $10 :)
I am a happy member. I don’t want Advent Calendar stuff. Otherwise, I don’t want to unsubscribe. Please keep me subscribed!
Lois S
Hi Lois,
I can’t really pause the newsletter, so you could just unsub for the Advent Season and then resub in January. It is independent of your membership, so that would remain as it is.
okay. I will. I don’t find it so easy to navigate on computer because I’m from an earlier paper and pencil era and although I can do it, albeit haltingly up to a point, subscribing and unsubscribing can get me to goodnessknowswhere and I’ll try and thank you your explanations and spirit are sehr appealing and helpful
Hi Emmanuel, I am one of the very grateful jobless high school students who could not afford membership, but had it provided at the beginning of the year. It has been so helpful and I wanted to let you know that I received an award for getting the best grades in German at my school! I couldn’t have done it without the help of your website. Vielen, vielen Dank für deine Hilfe dieses Jahr.
Every time I access your newsletter I am told that I have already accessed it in that week, but I haven’t. Can you help? I click on an email I receive, and access it from a link in the email.
So if that happens to you, you absolutely shouldn’t click anything in the newsletter but instead copy paste the link at the bottom.
Now that you’ve already had the block, you need to clear your cookies and reload and that used to help but now it’s gotten shaky.