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01:29
August 3, 2011
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How did you come to find Benny the Irish Polyglot and FI3M? I was looking for reviews of the Live Mocha website and *BAM*, there was his blog in my Google search. I added it to my Google Reader feed and been following ever since. That was, hmm, about a year ago?
I'm just curious, especially since we have such a diverse group of people here (although it seems that the one thing we all have in common is that we speak English to some degree).
02:12
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June 1, 2009
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I'm also very curious about this! I have Google Analytics to tell me broadly where people come from, but don't know individual stories, which are always much cooler 
Thanks for sharing!
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02:36
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August 2, 2011
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I have been making a research about listening comprehension and found link at Google somewhere. I got interested. I am reading the blog from the start and I have already discovered many interesting sources for languages. I haven't any special chance to use Benny's speaking immersion method so far (rejective foreigners, blah) but I am going to give it a chance!
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04:46
August 9, 2011
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I found it on a Google alert email. It picked up a key word I was searching for in one of the forum posts.
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05:23
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July 15, 2011
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I found out about Fi3m by word of mouth. A mutual acquaintance in Medellín by the name of David Lee told me about it. After reading three articles I was hooked and bought the Guide. Benny, you owe David a thank you!
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There will definitely be more that follow!
06:18
July 19, 2011
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I came to the site by searching in Google for German language grammar, and haven't left yet! Lol. It fascinates me that so many people know so many different languages! I have a Polish lady in my office that I am itching to pick the brain of now…so, that'll be my "next" mission. I'm thinking I may focus on my German first, though! I was running into issues learning my German, but this website really inspired me to just go with it. That's SO valuable! Wish I'd found the website before I'd shelled out so much money on materials, though, because now I have to wait to buy the guide.
Overall, awesome site, and I am glad that I found it!
11:14
July 5, 2011
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I found FI3M from a mail that I received it from Marcin Samsel's mail list (or newsletter, something like that). I thought that I should check it out and I did. This is the best decision of my language learning life. I'm really glad that I found it. Thanks a million Benny!
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14:51
June 29, 2011
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I was debating with a fellow Canadian-living-in-Germany about whether or not kids learn languages more easily than adults. I was trying to argue that given the same hours of exposure, etc., adults would actually learn faster. This was based on nothing but my own experience, but I was totally convinced anyway. I was googling, trying to find actual facts to support my position, when I found Benny's blog. Meanwhile this colleague was sending me links to stuff like that TED talk about the linguistic genious of babies.
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17:04
June 30, 2011
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I was spending a few weeks desperately trying to improve my awful Spanish last Summer. I found Fi3M through a Google search for the 'Pimsleur' course review. Instantly hooked, language learning would never be the same again.
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21:33
August 3, 2011
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I found this website on the facebook profile of an Italian polyglot, who speaks 8 languages, and there was a link on a Benny's article about something that now I don't remember. Well, I immediately joined the forum, wonderful
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July 28, 2011
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Stumbleupon
Best Stumble I ever made
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23:41
June 28, 2011
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I had been following his Blog for about a year.
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13:55
August 11, 2011
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Via Couchsurfing! Been following for ages
14:09
July 5, 2011
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Interesting topic! I've been following Benny for years, even before http://www.fluentin3months.com existed. I'm not sure where I first heard about him, it might have been in the forums at http://www.proz.com (a website for translators) and I discovered his old website http://www.irishpolyglot.com. It's the fact that he was working as a freelance translator while traveling full-time that got me interested, as I'm also a freelance translator that travels a lot (although not as much as Benny).
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14:36
August 11, 2011
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I have been searching the fluency in languages, from where i find this website.
which really attract me very much..
01:53
July 23, 2011
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I woke up another day and was open at my brother's computer this blog..so i started reading it since then…
16:50
August 21, 2011
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I found my way here from the How to Learn Any Language forums.
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17:51
July 8, 2011
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Élan said:
I found my way here from the How to Learn Any Language forums.
Same here. The first post of his that I saw was in a topic where someone had asked for advice about becoming a translator. I was thoroughly impressed not only with Benny's achievement of becoming location-independent, but also with how helpful and enthusiastic he was in sharing his experiences. I clicked over to his blog from there and got hooked
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01:17
August 19, 2011
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A few months ago I was inspired to pick up French and I did lots of searching online. I read quite a bit of Scott H Young's blog because my obsession was more along the lines of becoming a super organised person. I remember seeing Benny's name there and on a few different sites but I didn't bother investigating him further…
Then a few weeks ago I was re-inspired and googline and came across his post about Niall Doherty and thought – YES this is for me
So here I am.
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06:54
June 28, 2011
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I was browsing the "linguistics" section of xkcd forums, and someone linked to the FI3M in one of the posts about language learning. Not even to a specific article, just to the main page of Benny's blog. I immediately subscribed and read as much as I could; I had been studying Dutch for a while on my own, but I didn't really like any of the language-related websites I had found until this one…
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