Unconventional language hacking tips from Benny the Irish polyglot; travelling the world to learn languages to fluency and beyond!
Want to speak Spanish well, speak French well, speak German well, or any language for that matter? If I can do this with Czech starting from zero, imagine what you can do! I’d like to summarise everything I’ve discussed on the site regarding my earliest intensive language experiment. I was initially aiming for fluency in 3 […]
Today I’m going to share the most important decision I have ever made in learning languages. This choice changed me from a hopeless “I’m not talented with languages” person to eventually become the polyglot that I am today.
There are lots of excuses people make for not progressing in a language; I’m not smart enough, it’s too hard, I can’t remember any words, etc. But the one I’ll almost always hear is I don’t have any time. Time is a funny thing. It can fly, run out, and be up. It can be […]
Continuing from my previous two posts about focussing on specifying your motivations and minigoals, it’s important to have a clear idea of the end-goal. i.e. FLUENCY (for many people). You will find this hard to achieve if you don’t know what you are aiming for, so today I am going to attempt to define this […]
Welcome to my new blog “Fluent in 3 months“! I’ve already been making videos over at my main multilingual site Around the World in 80 Mays for some time, and I will include some language learning videos there soon. I have, however, decided to create this new site specifically for discussing my best language learning […]
For this Innovative Language Pod101 review, Holly studied a language with this course for 20+ hours, then made a video of her results. How did she get on?
The Michel Thomas Method is a popular course for language learners. But does it work? We tried it out - here's our verdict, plus a video of the results.
Today I’m ready to share one of my favourite discoveries for learning a language; italki. Update (August 7th, 2022): my current favourite resource is Preply (our review is here). It’s pretty similar to iTalki in terms of functionality, but I find it much more intuitive. Regardless, if you are interested in the iTalki review, read […]
You can learn a language with Duolingo. But can you get fluent with Duolingo? Not quite. Find out more in our Duolingo review.
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