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The Language Hacking Guide is ready!

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After seven years of working hard to improve my language learning strategy, almost a year of blogging about my learning approach, and six weeks of full-time writing and research for it… the Language Hacking Guide is ready for download!

Click here to see a funny 8-language video I made to talk about it, and to read all about what you can find inside the 40MB download!

If you’d like to browse through the first few pages of the e-book part (to see the table of contents and get a feel for it), join the Language Hacking League e-mail list on the right of my site and you’ll get it free in your first e-mail. (You can unsubscribe immediately if you don’t want any more e-mails with language hacking tips after that) If you are already in the list you should have received it this morning ;) .

Only the first ones to download the guide will get a bonus for the next day or two! To see what that is, check out the description!

My hopes with this guide are to share the core of what has helped me to achieve the faster progress that I have in languages. The guide is separated into six parts: Mentality, Plan of Action, Communicating from Day One, Speaking with natives, Learning resources and Particular language issues. It is a mixture of positive attitude and particular techniques with examples and worksheets to help you try to do the same. There are also several interviews with some amazing language learners that some of you will certainly know!

This is only version 1.0 – there will be updates with full translations, and more sections added. I will even likely include updates in the next week, as people are already giving me their interesting suggestions (e.g. not just one PDF file for reading on a screen, but also a printable version and an ePub format version). These updates will be free.

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When I started this blog, I had no idea I would be heading in this direction! But I have literally gotten hundreds of e-mails from people asking me to go into more detail into my method and to present it in an easier to read format than a blog with random articles. So the Guide is my attempt to do so. In seeing the popularity of the site, if I can actually earn a little money from the traffic (up until today I received €80 in donations over the year – nice, but not enough to help me pay off debts :P ) then I would have more free time to be able to write much more articles here :)

Everyone won’t buy the guide and that’s OK – the small amount of people that do will be helping me out, so that I can keep writing these posts to help people who need free tips! Any of my “secrets” currently in the guide will be shared in the blog in one form or another, but over a very long time and in a somewhat random way. I have a huge amount of ideas for posts that I want to write!

Hopefully, the support from the Guide will give me more free time to be able to write here more regularly :) . I usually write only twice a week (recently only once), and I’d like to do it more :D

So check out the description and video and let me know what you think of it!

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But that’s not you, so don’t worry! Can’t wait to see what you have to write… don’t be shy!! :)

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  • Christopher O'Donovan

    I'm reading the guide right now and it's brilliant so far :) Thanks Benny, it was well worth the wait!! :)

  • http://www.fluentin3months.com/ Benny the Irish polyglot

    Thanks Chris!! Glad to hear you are enjoying it :D Updates coming soon ;)
    See you in the webinar next week!

  • http://www.renegadeyogi.com/ Eric Normand

    Benny,

    I wish you good luck in this venture! I hope a million people learn to speak a new language.

    You are doing something totally awesome. A gift to the world.

    Eric

  • Bruno Oliveira

    Eu também o estou lendo agora. Muito bom!

  • floyd_online

    Pretty expensive… ;-)

    But worth its money, to be honest. Although not everything is completely new for me.

    Good Luck with your sales. And I' expect some updates soon. ;-)

    More Feedback via mail probably, after i finished it.

  • http://www.fluentin3months.com/ Benny the Irish polyglot

    Very nice of you Eric! Thanks :D

  • http://www.fluentin3months.com/ Benny the Irish polyglot

    Valeu! :D

  • http://www.fluentin3months.com/ Benny the Irish polyglot

    Thanks! Looking forward to your e-mail! Enjoy ;)

  • http://languagebubble.com/ Andee

    nice video Benny :) ..good to hear your progress in German

  • http://www.streetsmartlanguagelearning.com/ Street-Smart Language Learning

    Wanna barter your book for mine (when it comes out)?

  • Ulo

    Ŝajnas ke la prezo iomete multekostas, ĉu eble vi povus enretigi ekzemplan ĉapitron por ke ĉiuj povas legi ĝin antaŭ ol elspezi ilian monon? Mi certas ke la prezo indas sed estus bone antaŭvidi iom de la libro!

  • http://www.fluentin3months.com/ Benny the Irish polyglot

    Ĉu vi ne legis la priskribon? :) Senpaga versio disponeblas – vi nur devas eniri la “Language Hacking League” retpoŝtan liston, kaj vi ricevos PDF ;)

  • http://www.fluentin3months.com/ Benny the Irish polyglot

    What's your book about? :) I'm sure we could make a deal!

  • Ulo

    Ha! Mi estas stultulo! Iel mi ne rimarkis tiun fakton kiam mi unue legis la priskribon. Ĉu eble vi povas aldoni simplan retligon al la dosiero anstataŭ esti devigata aliĝi al la retpoŝtlisto?

  • http://www.fluentin3months.com/ Benny the Irish polyglot

    Vi povas aliĝi kaj anuli subite ;) Mi ne aldonos retligon al la dosiero en la blogo.

  • http://www.streetsmartlanguagelearning.com/ Street-Smart Language Learning

    You'll be utterly floored when you find out what I'm writing about. You'd better take a seat.

    Sitting yet?

    OK, it's about language learning.

    Betcha didn't see that one coming, didja?

    We (my wife is a co-author) are hoping to get it out the door this summer. As you can see from the link above, it's been on the burner for quite some time.

  • http://www.streetsmartlanguagelearning.com/ Street-Smart Language Learning

    By the way, I just realized that your Disqus avatar is that multi-flag icon of yours. I always thought it was some protruding eyeball on a stick, sort of like the one on that thing that lives in the trash compactor on the Death Star.

    Of course, I don't think I ever actually consciously thought about how little sense that would make until just now…

  • Nicholas Frank

    This is basically phony. You knew English and Irish from growing up in Ireland. Then you learned all of the Romance languages together (once you know one, it's very very easy to learn the other; once you know two, it's a piece of cake to learn the rest). And does Esperanto even count? Come on. I thought you spoke more than just Romance languages (Germanic, Sanskrit, Russian, Oriental).

    Maybe you did sit down with your Rosetta Stone and learn all Romance languages over summer vacation but don't tout yourself as a polyglot just yet.

  • Pdee

    Sounds like a recommendation, but I have to ask, are you going to be selling it? I say this – cynically – because in looking for reviews of the book I have, so far, come across just two: 1 by neverendingjourney who seem to be marketing all over lonelyplanet.com and 2languagehacking.org wad still in the pre-release mode! i.e let me tell you about this amazing book (I've not yet read).
    This is a problem with affiliate marketing I guess.Benny, why not get it published in the old-fashioned style if its good? (Do you think you could 'get it published'?) Or if you insist on affiliate marketing, why not give it to some people you respect to review/critique?

  • http://www.fluentin3months.com/ Benny the Irish polyglot

    hahahahaha :D Rosetta Stone :P
    Sorry you think speaking 8 languages isn't enough to be a polyglot! :)

  • http://www.fluentin3months.com/ Benny the Irish polyglot

    Best of luck with your book! :)

  • http://www.fluentin3months.com/ Benny the Irish polyglot

    Hi Pdee – I'll update the site whenever I can with testimonials from people like Christopher who have bought the book, and who have nothing to gain from it being up, but are still (clearly) very happy to share their enthusiasm for it.

    I might go for “old-fashioned” publication in a year or two, but releasing it online first is the best precursor so that I can gain a reputation and have sales figures to impress publishers with.

    You will see many other reviews – for example, one non-affiliate frank and honest review is here (but it's in German) and I'm sure more will appear soon (give it time, the guide has only been out for 2 days ;) )

    I respect Erin from neverendingvoyage. She writes on lonely planet forums to share many of her posts. She is also very serious about learning Spanish and is applying my advice intensively so I think her review definitely counts for something.

    You're welcome to wait and see testimonials from readers and wait for other reviews (both affiliate and non-affiliate) to appear. You are also welcome to write your own review after reading it ;)

  • Blaise Rio

    génial ta vidéo, bravo!
    bonne chance

  • http://odierno.wordpress.com Dominick

    Non dare da mangiare ai troll!!

  • http://www.fluentin3months.com/ Benny the Irish polyglot

    Merci Blaise !! Abraços pra o pessoal do CS no Rio!

  • http://twitter.com/RainedogKitty Alysia Raine

    There are a lot of similarities between the different romance languages, but I wouldn't say that they are all basically the same. They are all different enough and learning each language still takes a lot of effort and energy.

    p.s. Rosetta Stone certainly does not automatically make you fluent in a language. Far from it. Trust me, I've tried it.

  • http://www.streetsmartlanguagelearning.com/ Street-Smart Language Learning

    Benny, my review of the Language Hacking Guide is up. I look forward to hearing your comments on it!

  • http://www.fluentin3months.com/ Benny the Irish polyglot

    Done ;) I'll be linking to your very-much-appreciated in-depth review along with some other ones in a post about it to allow people to read about the good and the bad about it. I liked your balance!

  • http://chriscccp.wordpress.com/ Chris

    Well, I bought the guide, started the blog (as suggested by Benny – see my website link on this comment) so let's see where I go from here!

    Now, to get back to the guide…

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  • http://twitter.com/stephanie1839 Stephanie Reinhardt

    I was ridiculously happy moments ago when I finally got to buy my copy! Enough paychecks finally came in. lol Thanks for writing this Benny!

  • Quiche lorraine

    Salut!!

    Tu m'as vraiment impressionné, tu sais parlais plus de 5langues, couramment!

    moi à peine si je sais dire 2-3 mots d'anglais.

    En faite si je suis ici c'est grâce à ta video que tu as tournés à rome je m' interesse à l'italien et je dois l'apprendre rapidement car d'ici 1 année je m'en vais là bas
    Je voulais m'inscrire à des cours d'italien en septembre prochain, mais tu as dit étudier une langue ne servait à rien :( je ne sais plus vraiment quoi faire

  • http://www.fluentin3months.com/ Benny Lewis

    My system isn’t quite for those in 8th grade! I write the guide for adults who have the flexibility to actually meet up with people or speak a lot online. Best to invest somewhere else – I’d recommend a live in au pair for example.