Summer language project: Boosting my Irish
After spending years helping others learn languages, I've decided it's finally time to give my own native language the attention it deserves...
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Language Hacking
Benny Lewis and Shannon Kennedy meet real-life language learners and discover smarter, faster ways to learn a language. Learn more at: https://www.fluentin3months.com/podcast/
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20 of 282 episodesCelebrating 23 years of speaking from day one
This week marks 23 years since I first began speaking from day one, and as I celebrate my 44th birthday, I'm reflecting on just how far that...
The Pros of Being Somewhere Touristy
In this episode, I explore the surprising benefits of learning languages in tourist hotspots. While I usually encourage travelers to get off...
You Don't Need a Good Memory to Learn a Language
In this episode, I share why having a terrible memory has never stopped me from learning languages. In fact, I believe it's one of the reaso...
Everyone in the Room Thinks They're the Worst
In this episode, I reflect on conversations at a language exchange event in Guadalajara, where I met learners who were communicating success...
The Instant Community a Language Hands You
In this episode, I share how learning a language can instantly connect you with people wherever you travel. While staying in San Luis Potosí...
Mexico or Spain Spanish? You're Asking the Wrong Question!
In this episode, I explain why worrying about learning the “right” dialect is one of the least important problems for language learners. Whe...
The conversation you're having with ChatGPT doesn't count!
In this episode of the Language and Travel Hacking Podcast, I share a discussion from my language Bootcamp about using AI for language learn...
I forgot I was speaking Spanish
In this episode, I share a moment I had during a dinner in Monterrey where I suddenly realised I’d stopped consciously thinking about speaki...
The Mexican States project
In this episode, I talk about my next big travel project as I prepare to head to Mexico for over two months. After recent language missions...
Major cities vs deeper travels
In this episode, I explore whether it is better to stay in major cities or travel more deeply into lesser-visited places. From my recent tim...
Update and my daily routine during my Chinese project
In this episode, I give an update on my Mandarin progress after spending a month in Taiwan. I explain how I quickly regained enough confiden...
Are you not ready yet, or is the situation what’s wrong?
I shared how reactivating my Mandarin has put me in an unusual stage of language learning: I am far beyond beginner level, but still rusty e...
Why My First Mandarin Project Almost Broke Me (And How I Fixed My Approach)
In this episode, I look back at my first Mandarin project in 2012, which became the most stressful language challenge I had ever faced. I se...
Wrapping up Malaysia and Brunei
In this episode, I look back on the final weeks of my journey through Malaysia and Brunei before starting my new adventure in Taipei. Malays...
Benny's next language project
In this episode, I’m announcing a return to one of my core languages: Mandarin. Earlier this year I focused on a short-term project in a bra...
My 50th country! But, what's the right number to visit?
In this episode, I mark my arrival in my 50th country and reflect on what that number really means. After more than two decades of nomadic l...
Life challenges that made me a better language learner
In this episode of the Language and Travel Hacking podcast, I share how two childhood challenges, hearing issues and speech difficulties, ul...
How ADHD made me a better language learner
In this episode of the Language and Travel Hacking Podcast, I share how ADHD, something that once made me feel like I was terrible at langua...
Kicking off my Malay/Malaysian adventure
In this episode, I’m checking in from Kuala Lumpur to kick off my first language and travel project of the year: using Malay to enrich my ex...