Fluent in 3 Months: How Anyone at Any Age Can Learn to Speak Any Language from Anywhere in the World

by Benny Lewis

“A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.”

Also, keep in mind

there is no room for doubt: you decide your own success.

Way too many of us waste endless hours watching TV, browsing Facebook and YouTube, shopping, drinking alcohol, and countless other activities.

Make the time and change your priorities.

Spending more does not guarantee you’ll succeed any more easily than someone who works with a much tighter budget.

I don’t know about you, but my English isn’t perfect. I hesitate when I’m nervous, I forget precisely the right word

every now and again,

Unfortunately, this wasn’t the case.

There is no simple one-size-fits-all solution to this problem.

Unfortunately, burnout is one of the biggest reasons people give up on learning a language entirely.

Discipline is choosing between what you want now and what you want most.

(when I was sixteen years old and finishing school, I got bad grades on my final German exam).

“What does that mean?”

“Why are you learning this language?”

“The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page.”

Couchsurfing.org, InterNations.org, Meetup.com,

“Could you repeat that?” (Or the shorter “Again, please.”)

“What does [fill in the blank] mean?” (Or “What does that mean?”)

conjugation

“Don’t just stand there, say something!”

as best as you can, then

With this in mind, when you are ready to improve your

You live a new life for every new language you speak. If you know only one language, you live only once.

Collins, Berlitz, or Assimil phrase book.

Pimsleur and Michel Thomas,

How-to-Learn-Any-Language.com

“Thanks for asking. To tell you the truth,

“To tell you the truth, I’m from England. Thanks for asking. Let me ask you:

Apologizing Don’t be upset, but . . . It was a slip of the tongue. I said it by mistake. I am sorry that . . .

(Dis)agreeing One hundred percent. Without question. Exactly right. Most certainly. Without doubt. In no way . . . That isn’t true at all. That is an exaggeration. I really can’t believe that. In principle that is true, but . . . Admittedly that is true, but . . . That’s one way to say it. Only up to a certain point. Certainly. Why not? I agree.

Closing That is all there is to say. That is all for now. To sum up . . . And there is the problem. I hope it is only a matter of time. That remains to be seen. Filler Understandably. Frankly speaking . . . Between you and me . . . Anyway . . . Well then . . . Well, as a matter of fact . . . How can I put it?

I must say that . . . First . . . Second . . . I would like you to know that . . . I am afraid that . . . Now and then it seems to me that . . . After all . . . As far as I am concerned . . . More and more . . . Actually . . . All joking aside . . . Now seriously . . . Elaborating To be more precise . . . And what’s more . . .

Since I am already talking about it . . . I would like to emphasize that . . . Should I explain in greater detail? Allow me to say it another way. That is to say . . . Nevertheless . . . Even though . . . That sounds like . . . And that is why . . . Opening Thank you very much. That is a goo...

Passing Can you tell me please . . . ? Would you be interested in us talking about something else? And what do you think? Qualifying To tell you the truth . . . I presume that . . . I hope that . . . In my opinion . . . If that is true . . . I don’t know exactly. I would like to think that . . . The way I see it is that . . . As you may know . . .

I don’t have a big interest in that. If I understand correctly . . . As you already know . . . That isn’t such a big problem. That is a matter of opinion. As far as I know . . . I have the impression that . . . It is usually true that . . . You never know, but . . . I haven’t thought about it before, but . . . If I am not mistaken . . . I am not certain whether . . . Like every other man/woman . . . I have my own opinion on it, but . . . I am not an expert, but . . . Quoting She said something like . . . My wife/husband pointed out that . . . Recently, I heard that . . . My better half said . . . Switching Now it occurs to me that . . . By the way . . . I have an interesting story about it. And besides that . . . Oh, I nearly forgot . . . And one more thing . . . On the other hand . . .

“The best time to plant a tree is twenty years