This is a totally cool video and definitely worth sitting through twelve minutes of a shaky camera and poor audio. Even my wife, who is not a language enthusiast, loved this video. If you are a language lover or want to be one, please watch it.
Benny (the Irish Polyglot) Lewis has the playful attitude and lust for life that that his compatriots are famous for. In his case, this includes a love for languages and travel. Benny has been traveling the globe for eight years and got his language learning method down to a system. He’ll even sell you a book about that system. He likes focusing on a language for three months and striving to speak it fluently by the end of that period. We can thank this video in large part to his world travels, especially coming to Ohio (that’s a state in the USA). A point that Benny makes in this video, that I really like, is that shyness is probably not a lifelong stamp and often becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Moses McCormick is the other language enthusiast in this video with an Irish last name. He, like Benny, also has language services that he would be happy sell you. If you watched the video you cannot help but be impressed with Moses. I know I can’t. With the soft relentlessness of a door-to-door salesman, Moses lets nothing stand in his way to have a positive language experience. In this video, he gives us all a fabulous example to follow: get out there and use your languages! He also gives us a great example of learning and using the languages in your community. Moses has never visited Cambodia and perhaps never will, but that doesn’t stop him from interacting with Cambodians in Columbus, Ohio.
Benny has also written a post about his experience on his blog which includes another video not seen here. I suggest you give a look. Thanks for the video guys!
Filed under: Language Learning, Polyglots
“A point that Benny makes in this video, that I really like, is that shyness is probably not a lifelong stamp and often becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.”
Agreed. I actually thought that was the most important point of that whole video; the language stuff, though interesting, was actually secondary to the “don’t be afraid of people” point.
Fi3M is an excellent site, useful regardless of which language you’re learning.
Cheers,
Andrew
I’ll have to check it out. Thanks for the tip Andrew.
Fi3M = Fluent in 3 Months, that’s Benny’s site, sorry for the confusion.
Thanks for the clarification. Yes, I’ve seen Benny’s site and it’s pretty cool.
Hey, thanks for sharing this!! Really appreciate it and glad you liked it
No problem Benny. I am really impressed with the progress you made with Mandarin a while back and I think you and Moses did something really cool in this video.
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