How to Speak a New Language with Confidence

“You’re going to feel like an idiot. You’re going to feel self-conscious. But you’re going to learn a lot quicker” -Benny Lewis

Afraid of having conversations in a new language? Unsure how to get started? Benny Lewis will get you chatting with the locals in no time.

Benny is known as the Irish Polyglot and speaks more than ten languages. He runs the language learning blog fluentin3months and is the author of the Teach Yourself series Language Hacking. His method is all about learning by doing, embracing your mistakes and having conversations in your new language as fast as possible.

This brand new series of the Language Podcast is a toolkit for all you language learners out there - whether you’re learning for the first time, or adding another language to your arsenal.

In this episode you will learn:

• How to overcome the fear of getting things wrong so you can start building connections in months, not years.
• Why moving to a country to learn a language is NOT the best advice.
• How to avoid defaulting to your mother tongue during the learning process.
• The exact methodology Benny uses to get people to conversational level in just 90 days.

Get 20% off Benny’s Language Hacking series with the code BLPOD20.

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Your host is polyglot Richard Simcott.

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