Benny Lewis spoke only one language, English, in 2003, and even that one had given him trouble, as he had to have speech therapy. Benny barely passed German in high school and was so poor in the Irish language that he had to drop down to the lower-level examination just to get into the university. He moved to Spain after graduating with an engineering degree, and six months into his stay there he still couldn’t speak or understand Spanish beyond the most basic level. Today Benny is the known as the Irish Polyglot and speaks an amazing ten languages fluently. He also runs the largest language learning blog in the world, which receives more than 400,000 unique visitors every month. |
