{"id":5883,"date":"2014-03-13T19:56:23","date_gmt":"2014-03-13T19:56:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/edtechandtesol.info\/phd\/?p=5883"},"modified":"2014-03-13T19:56:23","modified_gmt":"2014-03-13T19:56:23","slug":"learn-a-language-in-3-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lantern.humanities.manchester.ac.uk\/?p=5883","title":{"rendered":"Learn a language in 3 months"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I read an article in the Metro today about a guy who has learnt a whole load of languages by travelling around the world, landing in a country and starting to chat to people &#8211; in other words, total immersion. He has now written a book based on his blog called &#8216;Fluent in 3 months&#8217;. I&#8217;m not sure how he defines fluency and am usually completely skeptical about anyone who says you can learn a language that quickly (having taken years to reach the stage where I felt completely comfortable chatting in Spanish in any situation), but it&#8217;s an interesting read. Check out his <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fluentin3months.com\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">blog<\/span><\/a>\u00a0<\/span>if you want to find out how he&#8217;s done it.<\/p>\n<p>You can also access his TEDx talk <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/speakfromday1.com\/tedx\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">here<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I read an article in the Metro today about a guy who has learnt a whole load of languages by travelling around the world, landing in a country and starting to chat to people &#8211; in other words, total immersion. He has now written a book based on his blog called &#8216;Fluent in 3 months&#8217;. I&#8217;m not sure how he [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p865eh-1wT","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lantern.humanities.manchester.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5883"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lantern.humanities.manchester.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lantern.humanities.manchester.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lantern.humanities.manchester.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lantern.humanities.manchester.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lantern.humanities.manchester.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5883\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lantern.humanities.manchester.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lantern.humanities.manchester.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lantern.humanities.manchester.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}