You can be fluent in one year or less

More beautiful than the Mona Lisa!

Hello, and welcome to my new blog “Fluent Every Year“. I am creating this web site in order to share my experiences and learning techniques. After having studied Spanish, German, and French in high school, and later reaching fluency in Spanish I thought I had learned a lot about languages.  But my proudest accomplishment is going from nothing to speaking fluent Russian in one year.

If you can do it once, you can do it again.  So I’ve decided that I will learn a new language to the point of fluency (and beyond!) every year, and I will share it here with you, so that others can benefit from the tricks and techniques I learn along the way.

Most of my friends call me gifted at language-learning, but I insist that there is nothing special about what I do. The only thing that separates my learning success from the failures of many others is my curiosity. I am fascinated with the versatility of “language” and it’s my hope that I can share that  fascination with you, so you will be successful too.

Obviously, I can only write about what I know, and mostly I will be writing about the current year’s language study, but I will try to make my posts useful to everyone, even if you’re learning a language that I haven’t learned (yet).

So wish me luck.  I’m starting this first year one month late, but I hope to make it.

In my next post, I’ll tell you which language I’ve decided to study.  Stay tuned!

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  • MaiseRandom

    You've got my support! I just hope I can keep up and not disappoint myself (or you! Haha) :)

  • MaiseRandom

    You've got my support! I just hope I can keep up and not disappoint myself (or you! Haha) :)

  • http://www.randem.net/ Randy

    I hope you'll stick around and help me make this a successful web site.

  • http://www.randem.net/ Randy

    I hope you'll stick around and help me make this a successful web site.

  • http://twitter.com/de3euk Gert Beukema

    A very interesting premise and judging by the goobly-cook that sometimes comes by on your twitter it seems to really work for you. I would be a great subject to test your methods. I did have French, German and English at high school but dropped the first two as soon as I could because I just could not get it. English was easier because I heard it on TV and when I moved to the States from the Netherlands I spoke it well enough to work. Now that we moved back to the Netherlands I have seen my wife learn Dutch in about 18 months, I won't call her fluent but she can easily hold a conversation on any subject. But it took her a lot of time and dedication.
    I will follow you here this year and would love to pick a language for 2011 and join you.

  • cristinag

    We've discussed this in the past. You ARE gifted in language learning but you're also gifted in just learning in general. Your brain fascinates me. Remember you learned ASP in 4 days. Who does that!? :)

  • http://www.ikindalikelanguages.com lyzazel

    Ну, удаче тебе. О ты будешь раскаывать как ты изучил русски язык загод?

  • http://www.randem.net/ Randy

    Конечно буду. А нелегко было!

  • http://blog.lanaglot.com/ Patrick

    Good luck!

  • http://www.streetsmartlanguagelearning.com/ Street-Smart Language Learning

    I myself effectively tackled seven languages between the ages of 18 and 23. I get the same “gifted” crap, but, like you, I'm an ardent believer that anyone can do what I did.

    However, I'd argue that it takes more than curiosity. Curiosity is a great motivator, and motivation is an absolute necessity, but the way you go about it is the most important thing. If curiosity leads you to taking a class at your local community college, you're language learning efforts are unlikely to go anywhere. But if they get you to dive headfirst into the language, then you'll be cooking.

  • http://www.randem.net/ Randy

    I think you and I are in agreement about signing up for classes. As far as I'm concerned, anything for which your solution is signing up for a class is probably something you're not really serious about. In fact, having a teacher and a schedule and a bunch of new factors to blame for your failure only assists you in accepting that failure from the start.

    I think you and I simply see “curiosity” in a different way. For me, curiosity is that thing that pulled Alice into the hole, rather than signing up for a class about what's inside of holes. :-)

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  • Chiliblossom

    ¡Buena suerte!

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