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How I turned my guerilla-style language-learning method into a course you’ll find in bookshops around the world

written by Benny Lewis

I learned my first foreign language, Spanish, mostly by hanging out with Erasmus students during the gap year I spent in Valencia, Spain. In other words, I learned Spanish through speaking it. My second language project was Italian. And I learned it quickly — surprisingly quickly — in just a few months while I worked […]


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How Many Languages Can One Person Speak?

How Many Languages Can One Person Speak?

written by Benny Lewis

Did you know there’s no Guinness World Record for “most languages spoken” Why this omission? The answer lies in the curious story of Zlad Fazah.


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A Year Without Speaking English

A Year Without Speaking English

written by Scott Young

How fast could you learn a language… if you totally avoided speaking English? How difficult would it be to live completely outside your native tongue, starting with just the basics of a brand new language? Could you become reasonably fluent in just three months? There are the questions my friend Vat and I set out […]


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