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Benny Lewis

Founder, Fluent in 3 Months

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

Fun-loving Irish guy, full-time globe trotter and international bestselling author. Benny believes the best approach to language learning is to speak from day one.

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Verbling Review: One-to-one Online Language Classes with a Native Speaker

written by George Millo Ayancan

There's only one way to get better in a foreign language: practice. If you're not having regular conversations in your target language, ideally with a native speaker, you will struggle to make progress. Books, apps, games, and all the other hacks and tricks can help, of course, but they're only supplements. To rely on them [...]

How to speak Portuguese as if you were from Rio

written by Benny Lewis

For those of you who followed my Portuguese mission, I was successful in convincing several Cariocas (residents of Rio de Janeiro) that I was one of them. This involved working on two parts of how I interacted with people; my body language/outward behaviour and my spoken Portuguese. In today's post I am going to go [...]

My First Week Speaking, Reading and Writing Chinese

written by Benny Lewis

It's the end of week 1 of what has definitely been the mission that has stirred up the most interest and discussion since I started the blog! I can confirm that after this initial exposure to the language, I have not quite been “humbled” into saying what I'm attempting is impossible just yet, despite [...]

First month learning Japanese: How things are going so far, initial impressions of Japanese, and Burning Questions for Benny

written by Benny Lewis

Last week on Wednesday, I reached the one month point of my Japanese project. After an excellent start, I had a little bit of a bumpy final bit of my first month that slowed me down a little, but am back on track now to hopefully make up for lost time by the end of [...]

30 Ways to Start a German Conversation

written by Benny Lewis

You’ve decided you want to learn German and you’re going to start speaking from day one. This is great news! The next question is, how do you start a German conversation? If you studied language while at school, chances are that your learning consisted of reading page after page from a textbook. While you may [...]

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