Benny Lewis

Brendan Richard "Benny" Lewis is an author, polyglot, language teacher, and defines himself as a "technomad language hacker". Born in Ireland, he graduated in electronic engineering and then spent six months in Spain struggling to learn Spanish. His frustration with conventional methods led him to take a different approach, as described in his book and website Fluent in 3 Months. He has given two talks on TEDx In 2013, he was named a "Traveler of the Year" by National Geographic magazine.

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He suggests that American entrepreneurs learn foreign languages and notes that "In Ireland, we grow up hearing a range of Englishes.".

Attempts at learning Fluent Japanese and Chinese in three months

Lewis claims to be able to learn a language in three months,. His method has apparently assisted him to learn some languages closer to English, however his attempt at learning Japanese to a fluency level in the time period was not successful. Lewis made the claim that he was going to learn Japanese to the level of fluency (stating he would achieve N2 level, the second highest level in the Japanese-Language Proficiency Test), in the space of three months. This was met with some scepticism, by fellow polyglots/language bloggers including fellow polyglot Steve Kaufmann who said it was not possible to achieve fluency in Japanese in that period of time After starting the project, Lewis initially pushed the deadline for achieving fluency back by two weeks to give himself more time, and then ultimately stopped the project, only ever achieving a basic level of Japanese.

Similarly, his attempt at learning Chinese to fluency in a short period of time was not successful. Lewis announced on the 4th of Jan 2012 that he would undertake a project to learn Mandarin to fluency, specifically stating he would attain C1 level in the European Language level Framework in the space of three months. After endeavouring to learn the language, he was assessed by a Chinese Language teacher after 5 months (28 May 2012) who assessed his ability in detail, stating that his spoken ability was only at a B1:lower intermediate level, and his reading and writing was at a level below that.

Awards

He was awarded a "Language Ambassador of the Year" award in 2012.