Today we’re bringing you the man who owns the word polyglot. He wasn’t raised multilingual - he spoke English, but after 10 years spent in a life of travel, he now speaks 12 languages fluently. After working as a freelance translator, he started his youtube channel and successful blog and created a business for himself that supports his travel lifestyle while helping others learn languages and actually have fun doing so. He has a course called Speak in a Week, and recently he published his book, Fluent in 3 Months, named after his website, fluentin3months.com. The book dispels the reasons why you ‘can’t’ learn a language, and provides practical tips and tactics for doing so. So let’s get right into it and welcome Benny Lewis to the Daily Travel Podcast. Explorer Quotes: "From the very first day that you start learning a language, get in touch with a native speaker and start speaking to them... Make as many mistakes as possible." - Benny Lewis What We Cover: Why the Gap Year is an important opportunity to get a better sense of ourselves, experience the world, and make a more informed decision about what direction we want to go in. Why traveling makes you MORE hirable, not less. Why learning language matters, helps you travel, and how language can make for the best stories. Why anyone can learn a language fluently, and what's broken about the way we're currently learning. Explore Further: fluentin3months.com Get Benny's book, Fluent in 3 Months: How Anyone at Any Age Can Learn to Speak Any Language from Anywhere in the World Get Benny's course, Speak from Day 1 Like the show? I’d love a rating and review! Take action and please share the show! All you have to do is click one of the social sharing buttons at the top of this post. Also please leave a rating or review on iTunes! It just takes a second and you can help the show increase its rankings on iTunes just by this simple and quick gesture. If you do, click here to let me know so I can personally thank you! Thank you so much for your support! See you next time! The post 49: A Better Way to Learn a Language with Benny Lewis appeared first on The Daily Travel Podcast.