Unconventional language hacking tips from Benny the Irish polyglot; travelling the world to learn languages to fluency and beyond!
It’s time for a new language mission! DUTCH! I’ve just arrived in Amsterdam, and I plan to speak fluent Dutch by May 31st (so technically not even 2 months; actually in 8 weeks). There’s many ways to define fluency and I’m very precise about mine. There are some obvious advantages I’ll have and some big […]
Quick note: In case you missed the announcement for what my next language mission is in the e-mail list, don’t forget to “like” Fluent in 3 months to see it in your Facebook stream tomorrow! I’ll also announce it on twitter tomorrow. On Saturday I went to the Deaf Night Out here in Austin, where […]
I’m on the last week of my American Sign Language mission! This has turned out to be one of my most interesting language projects yet! So interesting in fact, that I am pretty sure I’ll come back to the states for another month (after I’ve tackled my fourth language this year) to continue my progress […]
I’ve been in Austin a few days and I can already see that it’s going to be a fun month here!! I have actually intentionally not been out so much, in order to do some writing and ASL learning in preparation before the city explodes into a social frenzy from next week when the immense […]
I’ve already settled into Austin and am well into my ASL mission (first impressions & hopefully another video in ASL coming on Saturday!) but I thought I should wrap up the story of my time in the Philippines first! The last time I updated I had just moved into the cottage on White Beach in […]
Hello from Austin, Texas! 😀 It may seem like there aren’t that many options for an English (and Spanish) speaking Irish guy to learn a new language in the United States of America, but I see opportunity everywhere and here is no exception 😉 You can always learn a language no matter where you are, […]
In this post, I’d like to give a summary about some cool features of Tagalog and my impressions of it for those of you curious! Best news: Encouraging locals When describing features of a language if you leave out context of how it’s spoken and who’s speaking it and focus just on grammar and vocabulary, […]
It’s time for my first update from the Philippines! (No language learning tips in this post 😉 ) Most of what I’ll write here is covered in this video I recorded. Unlike most of my videos, this one isn’t so exciting; just me talking to the camera in bad lighting (and bad quality, due to […]
It’s time for the first language mission of 2011! I am actually hoping to work on four new languages by September, so this is going to be one hell of a year, and I hope you’ll subscribe and read along to get some tips for your own language missions 🙂 So, in a few short […]
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