Forget memorization, grammar drills, and frustration. With LingoLina™, you can learn a language the way your brain naturally wants to—through magical stories, fascinating facts, and pure joy.

We sat down with Camille Sharon Kleinman, award-winning writer, educator, university course creator, polyglot, and linguistic theorist, to talk about how her free platform LingoLina™ is revolutionizing language learning. Built around her patent-pending NeuroFluent™ Immersion Method, the program offers immersive, bilingual stories and podcasts that make learning feel effortless—and actually stick.

Why do you believe stories are the best way to learn a language?
Because the brain is wired for stories. Since childhood, we’ve evolved to learn through narrative.

Stories activate multiple areas of the brain at once: not just the auditory and language centers, but also emotional centers like the amygdala, the visual cortex, and parts of the brain responsible for memory and pattern recognition.

When you’re emotionally engaged, your brain forms stronger, more lasting connections.

That’s why stories are more memorable than isolated facts or lists of words. They create context, rhythm, anticipation, emotion. You don’t just “study” the language—you live it.

What exactly is the NeuroFluent™ Immersion Method?
It’s a neuroscience-based method I invented, now patent-pending, that mimics how we naturally acquire language as children—but with an adult twist.

Here’s how it works: every sentence is first spoken in your native language, and then immediately in your target language. This diglottic pairing creates an instant mental link. Your brain doesn’t have to guess what’s going on or work hard to translate. It just… understands. That creates synaptic linking, forming strong neural pathways between the languages without conscious effort.

Over time, the method engages implicit learning and procedural memory, the same systems responsible for learning how to ride a bike or play a piano. You stop translating. You just know.

How does this method differ from traditional immersion or vocabulary drills?
Traditional language immersion throws you into the deep end—no context, no support. That can be useful at an advanced level, but for beginners it triggers stress, confusion, overwhelm, and dropout.

Vocabulary drills rely on rote memorization, which mostly uses your short-term memory and is easily forgotten. It’s like cramming for a test—useless long-term and stressful for most learners.

With LingoLina™, we bypass all that. You hear comprehensible input first in your own language, so your brain feels safe. That lowers the affective filter—the psychological barrier created by stress or frustration. And when you’re relaxed, you learn faster.

We use passive implicit learning, which means your brain picks up patterns, grammar, and vocabulary without you consciously trying. It’s the same way you learned your first language.

What parts of the brain does your language learning method activate?
Quite a few! Here are some of the most important:

• Wernicke’s area and the auditory cortex process what you hear.
• The prefrontal cortex forms connections and processes meaning.
• The hippocampus stores new information—but more importantly, the basal ganglia and semantic memory networks support long-term language acquisition.
• The amygdala is involved when the stories are emotional or surprising, which helps with memory encoding.

Dual coding theory also kicks in—because your brain is linking verbal and visual information through the story context.

That’s why the content matters. A story about a dragon guarding a mango farm will stick with you much more than “This is a pen. That is a dog. This is a farm. This is a dragon.”

You mentioned this method is subconscious. Can people really learn while multitasking?
Absolutely! That’s one of the key advantages.

When you’re doing housework, walking, or commuting, your auditory processing system is still active. You don’t need to focus 100% to absorb language. It’s called effortless passive learning. The more you listen, the more your brain internalizes patterns. It’s background learning that builds up over time—and the results are profound.

How fast can someone expect results?
It depends on how often they listen, of course. But many beta testers noticed noticeable improvements in vocabulary and comprehension within just three to four weeks.

Because the stories are vivid and fun, they’re easy to replay. That repetition reinforces memory naturally. And since you always understand what you’re hearing (thanks to the native language cue), it doesn’t feel like “study”—it feels like entertainment.

What kind of content is available on LingoLina™?
A lot! We’ve launched with bilingual stories and podcasts for English and Spanish learners, and we’re adding more languages soon.

Our current content library includes:

• Magical fairy tales and stories for children
• Simple fantasy stories for beginners and intermediates
• Fun fiction, fantasy, action, adventure, spy, thriller, and mystery stories for teens and adults
• Fast-paced fiction for advanced levels
• Biographies, folktales, and Classic stories

Nonfiction episodes about science, psychology, history, culture, biographies, nature, travel, and more

We offer content available in two formats: diglottic NeuroFluent™ Immersion and full target-language immersion for more advanced learners.

We’re also publishing free eBooks and printable materials, all designed to be fun, story-based, and brain-friendly.

What are your future plans for LingoLina™?
We’ll add a lot more content. We already have 150 original stories in production and 200 Classic books we’ve modernized.

We’re expanding into more languages—German, French, Japanese, and more. I’m also developing AI tutors that speak in the same NeuroFluent™ paired-sentence format.

My mission is to create a universal, joyful language learning platform that works for kids, adults, retirees, and even people who’ve struggled with language learning for years.

Where can people try it?
They can listen for free on LingoLina.com or find us on Spotify. All content is free. I really wanted to create something helpful for the world.