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My summer on the Pacific Coastal Highway - a European on an American road trip!

My summer on the Pacific Coastal Highway – a European on an American road trip!

written by Benny Lewis

Next week, I’ll announce my next huge 3 month project in the email list (sign up on the top-right of the site to find out before I announce it on the blog or elsewhere), and you’ll see plenty of language learning updates as I start from scratch, share my struggling progress, and hopefully reach my […]


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Reading time: 18 minutes

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Valencia, Spain: My new home for the next language project!

written by Benny Lewis

Those of you who know my story from TEDx talks or blog revelations, will remember that ten years ago I had graduated university in engineering and moved to Valencia Spain, and after six months of the English-speaking-expat lifestyle changed my ways and started my first language learning project of Spanish and then things really took […]


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Reading time: 4 minutes

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“Hacking language learning”: My new and improved TEDx talk that includes the best polyglot videos online. Please share!!

written by Benny Lewis

I really hope this new and improved TEDx talk will get lots of views, inspire many new language learners and even be considered to be used in the main TED stream to ultimately reach millions!

Even though you may be well aware of my language learning advice, this video shares a new aspect of why I failed at my first attempt to learn Spanish which I have not discussed on the blog yet, and I go through the five most commonly used reasons why adults don’t learn languages and explain ways around them. It also includes clips of the most impressive polyglot videos online within the talk!


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Reading time: 3 minutes

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How we all benefit when women are multilingual

written by Guest Author

Today’s guest post is from Susanna, author of Language is Music, who speaks seven languages and promotes learning languages with music and the media. Susanna and I made a multilingual video together in San Francisco and she also wrote a previous guest post here about listening techniques and how to use songs to learn languages. […]


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Reading time: 10 minutes

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