About

Welcome to fluentin3months.com, a how-to guide and story of becoming fluent in any language quickly. For a full introduction to this site, please read my introductory post (start of Czech mission) and my introduction to my Brazilian Portuguese mission, and my Thai mission. Also check out a summary of my tips for how to learn a language pretty well in just two months! For my multilingual video site, please check out www.irishpolyglot.com. If you like this page, please add yourself as a fan of the site’s facebook page!

Who is Benny Lewis?

My name is Benny (Brendan) Lewis. I’m a vegetarian from Cavan Ireland, and I don’t drink. I like to call myself a “technomad” – a full-time technology-enabled globe-trotter. I’ve been travelling for over seven years.

My love affair with languages began in 2003, after my first trip to Spain, where I blended in with the culture and discovered that learning languages wasn’t so hard when you apply the right methods! This came as a total surprise for me, since I had just graduated University College Dublin with a degree in Electronic Engineering, and was never good at languages in school.

Such love for linguistics and culture led me to further explorations. 17 countries and eleven languages (7 of which I speak fluently; shown on the right) later, I am now a location independent freelance translator of technical documents. My work is done on-line, which allows me to do further travelling. I enjoy my work as it combines my studies in engineering with the languages I’ve learned in my travels, however I’m going to try to earn money from this website if possible, so that I have more time to write articles for you to enjoy! Contrary to popular belief, you don’t have to be rich to travel the world; learning languages is a part-time project for me! Yes, I do work, but I make time for my current language mission

Subscribe (on the right) to my blog if you want to follow my missions to learn languages (a different one every 2-3 months) and discover my unconventional language learning tips, and make sure to leave comments and share interesting posts with your friends through facebook, twitter or stumbleupon!!

My other pages on the net:

You can check out all of my photos (and some short videos) on my flickr page.

If you would like to hear the kind of music I listen to, check out my last.fm profile.

To see what I’ve been up to lately, have a look at my twitter miniblog (usually updated daily).

You can also learn more about me from what others have written about me in the references on my Couchsurfing profile.