Contact me

Please read these instructions carefully before messaging me!!

All e-mails are welcome and I love getting in touch with new language hackers, but please note a few things before writing to me!

• I am very keen to talk to anyone working in media or interested in conducting an interview for any decently sized website or otherwise (written or audio) so that I can get my positive language learning message out to as many people as possible. Please put “media” or “interview” in the subject of line the message and I’ll try to get back to you as soon as possible.
• If you have a simple question about Fluent in 3 months or my language learning missions, it’s likely you’ll find it on the Frequently Asked Questions page! I also wrote up another FAQ page about the main travel questions I get asked. Please make sure your question wasn’t already answered there before contacting me! Also please just use the search tool to the right first too! It is Google powered and searches the entire site. Most of my e-mail replies require pasting in a link – please save me the trouble
• If you would like to talk with me directly for some Skype/phone-based based language learning consultations, please use this page instead. Looking forward to talking with you directly!
• If your question is How do you learn so many languages? How can I too? What’s your secret? Best ideas for me to learn Spanish/French etc. then I can’t give you a useful answer in an e-mail since it’s a complex process. However I did write 32,000 words (which have been translated to 23 languages by natives), and interviewed some well-known language learners to explain precisely how I changed from a monoglot (at 21) to a polyglot and I highly recommend that you check it out! Otherwise, please read a few of my blog posts and you’ll get the basic idea of the core principles behind my method.
• If after all that, you still have questions about language learning, it’s best to use the site’s forum rather than e-mailing me. Someone in the community can likely answer it better than me and you won’t have to wait as you would by e-mailing me. I also reply to language learning questions quicker there than by e-mail.
• If you are copying and pasting SEO sales pitches, or promotion request templates obviously copied and pasted to many people, please skip this site! I click those messages to add to Gmail’s spam database and that will work against you for people who would be interested.
• Advertisers: You will notice that there are no ads on this site. If you want yours here then it’s a small once-off fee of seventeen million dollars per ad. Too expensive? Then don’t write to me!
• Want me to promote an interesting link with my readers? Please don’t use this form – it’s better to @ me with it on twitter. No guarantees though.
• If you are interested in earning commissions on sales of the Language Hacking Guide, check out details on my affiliate info page.
• Want me to promote your site/product? Want to do a link exchange? I am not doing that right now, sorry! Please don’t ask. However, I will consider guest posts – but only if you have read a decent amount of my blog to understand the message and types of things I discuss here. If I don’t reply to your guest post suggestion, it’s because it was not appropriate for the Fi3M audience.
• Want to suggest a language to me? Don’t. I get several e-mails every day that show they don’t understand how I choose my next language.
• Curious about what my next language mission is, or where I’m going next? I like to keep a little suspense about that so I won’t be giving that answer in replies to e-mails! Keep reading the blog to see when I introduce it, or join the e-mail newsletter (Language Hacking League) on the right to get notification several weeks in advance! This also includes language hacks and useful links not mentioned on the site. For the first few days in the list you’ll get caught up with my favourite tips and links.
• Note that the message form limit is intentionally 1,000 characters, so please be concise! Also keep in mind that it may take me several days or weeks to get back to you, depending on the message and my current travel situation! :=) The e-mail will get sent fine and I will read it, even if I don’t end up replying, so please don’t “remind” me that you have sent it on twitter/Facebook/forum etc. unless it’s urgent, as I find that terribly annoying!
• ALL other messages – especially those of encouragement – are welcome!