Fluent in 3 Months: Language Missions

written by
Benny Lewis

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So you'd like to see my Fluent in 3 Months language missions?

You've come to the right place!

I set up Fluent in 3 Months to share language hacking tips and to tell the real, gritty stories of how language hacking works for me.

For over a decade I travelled around the world, and whenever I was in a new country for more than a few days, I set myself the mission of learning and speaking as much of the language as I could in that time.

In 2009, I began sharing these stories on my blog.

These are “case studies” in language hacking, if you like.

Later, I started sharing missions where I’d learn the language of one country while living in another country – such as learning Arabic while living in Brazil, or learning Japanese while living in Spain.

Below are all my language missions for the first years of the blog – and some of the Fluent in 3 Months team's language missions – with all the glory and all the “failure”. Remember that a cornerstone of language hacking is the willingness to make mistakes – and I'm completely open about where things went well, and where they went wrong.

More recent language missions tend to be shared on my social media, especially my language learning YouTube channel, and my Instagram.

I’m sure you’ll find something in these missions to inspire your own language learning.

Benny's Czech Mission (2009)

Benny's “Become Brazilian” Mission (2009)

Benny's Hungarian Mission (2010)

Benny's Thai Mission (2010)

Benny's Advanced German Mission (2010)

Benny's Tagalog Mission (2011)

Benny's American Sign Language Mission (2011)

Benny's Dutch Mission (2011)

Benny's Klingon Mission (2011)

Benny's Turkish Mission (2011)

Benny's Mandarin Mission (2012)

Benny's 10-Language Mission (2012)

Benny's Arabic Mission (2012)

Benny's Polish in 5 Hours Mission (2013)

Benny's Japanese Mission (2013)

Benny's American Accent Mission (2013)

Scott and Vat's “Year Without English” Mission (2013-2014)

Holly's Portuguese Mission (2016)

James's Month Without English (2017)

Benny Lewis

Founder, Fluent in 3 Months

Irish polyglot, nomadic since 2003 and an international best-selling author. Benny believes the best approach to language learning is to speak from day one. See where Benny is travelling right now, or give him a consultation call!

Speaks: Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Esperanto, Mandarin Chinese, American Sign Language, Dutch, Irish