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How do you get spoken practice in a less common language, when you can't find native speakers?

How Do You Get Spoken Practice in a Less Common Language?

written by Benny Lewis

How do you get language practise when native speakers are genuinely hard to come by? Simple idea, but very effective: Find other learners My friend Brandon initially had this very issue with his project to learn Icelandic. It’s a country of just 300,000 people, and they are not so likely to be on language learning […]


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The Unglamorous Side of Being a World Traveler

The Unglamorous Side of Being a World Traveler

written by Benny Lewis

“I wish I could travel all the time – it seems like a dream come true!“ I read something along these lines on Quora the other day, and all I could think while reading it is that while travel is one of the most worthwhile things I’ve done in my life, travelling ALL THE TIME is […]


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Time to Level Up! Examples of how you can use your language anywhere

written by Benny Lewis

The most famous example people know of me (and my friend Moses) levelling up, is when we went to a mall in Columbus Ohio and spoke over a dozen languages. I’ve had people email me to ask where are good places to level up, as if a list can be compiled. Actually, you can do […]


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Benny’s New Year’s Resolution: NOT learn a new language this year(?!)

written by Benny Lewis

A belated Happy 2014 to everyone! And a สวัสดีครับ (hello) from Thailand – my temporary stop before I head to Japan in a couple of weeks to begin my language and cultural immersion experience there. I can’t wait! This post is an update of my plans for the year, but it’s not the big news […]


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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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The American Accent mission: Learning about phonetics and sentence rhythm in English to help with OTHER language projects!

written by Benny Lewis

Time to reveal what my fun part-time language mission for the summer is, and you may be surprised by how genuinely practical it is!! Basically, rather than learn a new language, as I normally tend to do (or maintain my current languages, which I am doing anyway this summer), I’ve decided to learn a new […]

The many reasons (32 so far) why we DON’T succeed in learning languages

written by Benny Lewis

Today’s post is my serious attempt to list every possible reason why we don’t learn a language, and to offer possible suggestions to overcome them. (Note that in the post after this, I am looking for the opposite to reasons why we can’t and I want to hear your success stories that could potentially inspire millions […]


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