Unconventional language hacking tips from Benny the Irish polyglot; travelling the world to learn languages to fluency and beyond!
Reliable and free online dictionaries for your target language This list of resources has been painstakingly researched by my team as part of our PREMIUM language immersion product American Sign Language Chinese (Mandarin) Chinese (Cantonese) Czech Dutch English Esperanto French German Greek (Classical) Hebrew Hungarian Irish Italian Japanese Korean Latin Polish Portuguese Russian Sign Language (Various sorts) […]
To learn a new language, you've got to have different topics to talk about. So start with talking about what you love!
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 […]
Meet Maneesh Sethi. Maneesh is a friend, an inventor, and a fellow language learner (he has been a DJ in Berlin, and spoken on stage in Italian, among other things) with a very particular passion… For years, he has been obsessed with solving the problem of maintaining motivation that we all face in trying to […]
It is way easier than you think to roll your ‘r’s! I’ve put together five ways you can train yourself to roll the ‘r’ from different languages, you’ll find one that works for you!
In this episode, we chat with Katie Harris, the founder of Joy of Languages, about finding the joy in languages, feeling calm while recording yourself speaking another language, and tips for journaling in another language.
This episode features Deb Bensauls, an enthusiastic language learner who learned conversational French AND Italian in just 90 days with the Fluent in 3 Months Challenge. We guarantee that anyone who completes the Fluent in 3 Months Challenge will have a 15-minute conversation in their new language after 90 days of learning. You can find […]
Language educator and author Olly Richards joins Benny Lewis and Shannon Kennedy in this episode of the Language Hacking Podcast. He shares about his “Story Learning” method and how his experience learning languages led him to develop this approach. Featured Resources Spanish Uncovered German Uncovered French Uncovered Italian Uncovered Japanese Uncovered Language Hacking Books Olly’s […]
What’s the best way to meet people while travelling? Perhaps you dream of striking up conversations while travelling on a train across Asia. Maybe you’d love to ride a motocicleta down Latin America, meeting all kinds of characters on your way. Perhaps you’d like to while away an afternoon in an Italian cafe, saying ciao […]
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