This is a guest post from Benny Lewis from Fluent in 3 Months. This new year, many travelers may have made one of their resolutions to be about learning a foreign language. However, experience has told me that if your New Year’s resolution is to “speak Spanish/French/Japanese,” you are probably bound for failure. But fear not! [...]
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18 Lessons from 5 Years Around the World
August 8, 2011 – 2:53 pm
Five years is a long time to be on the road. Five years spent living out of your backpack, with no permanent home or address. I never thought I was going to travel this long. It was only gong to be a year, maybe 18 months tops, and then I’d go back home, find a [...]
Become Fluent in 3 months
May 31, 2010 – 8:14 am
I’ve never really been good at languages. In fact, to put it bluntly, I suck at them. Part of it is effort and part of it is the fact it takes me 3 weeks to learn to pronounce “how are you?” correctly. I’m always amazed at people who can learn languages well and I’m even [...]
One Skill Travel Has Really Taught Me
December 13, 2009 – 3:04 pm
During the summer, I went out to a bar with my new friend Nicole. I didn’t know her that well- we had only met once before. We were going to Mini Bar. Mini Bar is where all the people who want to be hip and trendy go to be hip and trendy. Not having known [...]
Don’t Learn a Foreign Language
February 23, 2009 – 5:08 pm
A few weeks ago, I was at the Taiwan Lantern Festival. I went with my guesthouse owner’s nieces and a Korean guy who stays at the guesthouse long term. We were walking around and they were mostly speaking Chinese. They were discussing one of the niece’s boy problems. I guess all that teenage angst and [...]