TEDxSanAntonio - Benny Lewis - Fluent in Three Months - Rapid Language Hacking

This independent Irish Polyglot and author gets honest about overcoming his fear of learning new languages in his talk - "Fluent in Three Months? Rapid Language Hacking."

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• United States
• English
• Education
• TEDxSanAntonio
• San Antonio
• texas
• Bennie Lewis
• language
• foreign
• hacking

[irishpolyglot]

@maokize Ah the joys of anonymous Internet commenting, where nobody can point out YOUR obvious flaws ;)

[ToxinMortalis]

I always has a suspicion that it was a practice vs. studying issue.

[Thulfeqar]

TEDxSanAntonio needs to invest in some carpeting. Can you say that in a different language?

[GalaxySuperGirl]

You take after some Dicaprio's face features. Are you sure you're not his relative?

[GalaxySuperGirl]

It works easily!!!!

[orangeroomstudios]

The only attempted hacking going on here is that on our reason and the logic of learning. Inspirational? Yes. But neither accurate, honest, or recommendable.

[AnonaNicole]

@aethelwulf19 The point is still relevant. I studied Japanese and lived there. From an English speaker perspective there are a lot of words at your disposal due to the influx of English words in the language. I have recently started Chinese so I don't know yet.

[AnonaNicole]

@Mixarenan What were they?

[Genktarov]

All you haters, go try this before you bash it. It works.

[EthanCaineDotCom]

Go Benny! Nice Talk...

[Mixarenan]

Wow. There are numerous logic flaws in his technique, which was explained in a half-assed manner.

[r3bol]

I went to McDonalds in Spain and asked for a dick sandwich instead of a chicken sandwich.