New member of the Fi3M team: Brandon, your full-time language encourager!
Quick note: I’ve just arrived in Belfast and am starting my Northern Ireland / Republic of Ireland book tour for the next month. Make sure to sign up to a city/town near you here!
Fluent in 3 Months is constantly expanding, and is now reaching almost 1 MILLION visitors per month! This year things are expanding very quickly, since the book hit the shelves and subsequently became an international best seller!
This of course, leads to many questions coming my way from aspiring language learners. It reached the stage where I would get a thousand emails a day sometimes!!
Sadly, I only have so many hours in a day and most of these emails would have to go unanswered, and my blogging and Youtubing frequency has been suffering too with all the extra work from the growth of the blog. This year, because I’m on a book tour and moving city almost every day, offline most of the time, I was starting to realize that keeping up with everything by myself would be simply impossible.
Official Language Encourager
That’s why I’m glad to announce that Brandon Rivington has joined the team! When I made this little request that I was looking for help, I got HUNDREDS of applications from an incredibly wide range of extremely impressive applicants.
It was a very hard choice, but we went with Brandon because we felt he was the best fit for the job.
Here is his own intro:
I am a life-long language learner and enthusiast from New York, NY! I’ve been learning languages since the age of 10 and most of it has been without the aid of teachers. I speak (to varying degrees) English, French, Spanish, German, Portuguese, Latin, Slovak, and Esperanto and I’ve dabbled in many more in the past. When I’m not “languageing”, I love ice hockey and traveling. I’m here to help you get to where you want to be in whatever language(s) you are learning. So if there are any questions you may have about learning languages in general or about any specific language, just let me know!
He will be working every single day to:
Answer your emails to give language learners as much direct one-on-one encouragement as possible, and answer your language learning questions
Researching blogs, news updates, social media, and your suggestions emailed/tweeted to us to send the absolute best language learning news and resources updates to the Language Hacking League email list, every week, as well as sharing a few of them on my social media. I’m really excited about this one, because there was no single good resource for finding the best language learning news until now!
Interact with people through comments on Facebook, Youtube, blog posts and twitter. I hear from so many of you on these streams every single day and am so glad that you can finally get good replies! When you get a reply from “Fluent in 3 Months” on Facebook, Youtube, twitter or Google+ then it could be from Brandon or me (or a couple of other part-time encouragers).
Remove spam and trolling from Facebook/Youtube/forum/blog comments to keep conversations on-topic and friendly
Feedback on the direction the blog and entire brand is moving in, to help me make sure we are expanding in a way that is as helpful as possible to people
Give me suggestions based on his research and emails, on blog posts that need to be written, and videos that need to be recorded
When he replies to you, you can rest assured that it’s similar to something I would have said myself, or better. He gives GREAT advice! He also knows my blog inside and out, and knows what I would say and can refer you to my posts or videos when relevant.
Test him out, and use our contact form (under “Language Encouragement”)! And if you come across any interesting language news yourself, make sure to tweet @fluentin3months or use the “Share a link” option on the contact page. (Obviously, we look at promotional links very critically)
Even more team members joining
Brandon is just one of several people who is going to be working full or part time to help improve several aspects of Fluent in 3 Months, both the back-end, and direct language learner interaction.
I’ll tell you about these other team members soon too!
More time for me to get active again!
Each member of the team has a very important task that they can do better than me, so that I can do what I do best and record more videos and write more fun blog posts, and encourage language learners in person on this book tour.
In fact, since the team has started (and especially since Brandon began this week), I’ve had enough help to catch up on a major chunk of my email backlog, and it has even allowed me to take my first weekend off all year. Yes, I’ve been so busy with book things and constant travel, that I’ve literally not even had a single day off in months! Constant travel isn’t as glamorous as you would think! (More on this soon…)
Now that I’ve got help, I can both make sure the Fluent in 3 Months community gets the interaction it deserves, while I also stay sane by getting help with the workload this site sends me 
As well as this, it also means that I can work on other projects to expand and improve the site, and get back into making new videos, practising all my languages and creating fun new things to encourage the world to learn languages. More fun news coming soon!
I hope you’ll all welcome your new Language Encourager!
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