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    Thread: Benny Lewis Fluent in Japanese in 3 months?
Post: Benny Lewis Fluent in Japanese in 3 months?

TsugiAshi Wrote:He's a polyglot in a technicality sense of the definition. He's a language learner who is familiar with more than two languages. By definition, that's technically a polyglot. And it wo...
fabriciocarraro General discussion 856 195,551 2014-10-30, 4:05 pm
    Thread: Benny Lewis Fluent in Japanese in 3 months?
Post: Benny Lewis Fluent in Japanese in 3 months?

TsugiAshi Wrote:Although he essentially does what he claims to do, which is become a form of conversational in a short amount of time for leisurely travel purposes, and the product he sales mirrors th...
fabriciocarraro General discussion 856 195,551 2014-10-24, 6:33 pm
    Thread: Benny Lewis Fluent in Japanese in 3 months?
Post: Benny Lewis Fluent in Japanese in 3 months?

john555 Wrote:For instance, I could be talking with my brother-in-law (over a beer in his backyard) about what kind of electric staple gun he recommends and what specific features are good vs. bad or ...
fabriciocarraro General discussion 856 195,551 2014-10-21, 3:52 pm
    Thread: Skype lesssons
Post: Skype lesssons

I pay around 8 dollars an hour for my teacher on Italki.com, but I've seen cheaper ones, like 5 or 6 dollars.
fabriciocarraro General discussion 4 1,095 2014-08-31, 2:51 pm
    Thread: 500 frames and counting! ROOOOARRRR!!!
Post: 500 frames and counting! ROOOOARRRR!!!

Hey guys! It indeed feels great to be here, about 25% of the way. I've started using RTK nearly 2 months ago, and I'm pretty happy with the results! Now going for 1000!
fabriciocarraro Remembering the Kanji 526 167,173 2014-08-19, 10:07 am
    Thread: Benny Lewis Fluent in Japanese in 3 months?
Post: Benny Lewis Fluent in Japanese in 3 months?

TsugiAshi Wrote:You're proficient/fluent in both German and Spanish? In Spanish, yes. In German, no, but I have close friends who are and told me that. Also, I'm a native Portuguese speaker and I can ...
fabriciocarraro General discussion 856 195,551 2014-08-07, 3:07 pm
    Thread: Benny Lewis Fluent in Japanese in 3 months?
Post: Benny Lewis Fluent in Japanese in 3 months?

TheVinster Wrote:NightSky Wrote:I for one quite like Benny. There I said it. Just because it takes us so long to learn Japanese, we shouldn't let it upset us that he can learn Spanish or German so...
fabriciocarraro General discussion 856 195,551 2014-08-05, 10:22 am
    Thread: Japanese Movies -- Community Reviews.
Post: Japanese Movies -- Community Reviews.

Yume uru futari I think this was the best Japanese movie that I watched. The filming is great, the story is really really interesting and different from anything Japanese I had watched before (for ex...
fabriciocarraro Learning resources 54 12,204 2014-06-20, 8:18 am
    Thread: Travelling to Japan in 5 months. Best way to improve my Japanese?
Post: Travelling to Japan in 5 months. Best way to impro...

meeatcookies Wrote:Go through Assimil Japanese with ease. At least that's what I would do, because it will give a good enough ability to communicate and you'll still have time after you're done with i...
fabriciocarraro The Japanese language 7 2,060 2014-06-06, 5:13 pm
    Thread: Learning Arabic
Post: Learning Arabic

I recommend Michel Thomas for Arabic, as the best way to start! One thing you have to define is what variety of Arabic you want to learn. Modern Standard Arabic (Fusha) is the official Arabic that's ...
fabriciocarraro Off topic 5 1,372 2014-06-06, 5:12 pm
    Thread: How many new Kanjis per day?
Post: How many new Kanjis per day?

I'm doing one lesson every 2 days, and using this website for SRS reviewing every evening.
fabriciocarraro Remembering the Kanji 13 3,532 2014-06-02, 8:55 am
    Thread: What do people on this forum think of "Japanese For Busy People"?
Post: What do people on this forum think of "Japanese Fo...

I started using the first book but gave it up after 3 or 4 lessons. I found it extremely slow!!! I left it at the moment when I saw that the structure for "I like..." (すきです) was only in the last lesso...
fabriciocarraro The Japanese language 20 4,742 2014-05-26, 9:53 am
    Thread: My video story with Japanese
Post: My video story with Japanese

Thanks a lot, guys! =) I'm really really glad that I could inspire at least some of you to try talking with people in Japanese! You guys are great!
fabriciocarraro General discussion 7 1,473 2014-05-07, 8:53 am
    Thread: My video story with Japanese
Post: My video story with Japanese

Hello my friends! So, do you guys know the Add1Challenge? It's a "video-based challenge" created by Brian Kwong to help people with motivation, for those wanting either to learn a new language or imp...
fabriciocarraro General discussion 7 1,473 2014-04-30, 1:57 pm
    Thread: Benny Lewis Fluent in Japanese in 3 months?
Post: Benny Lewis Fluent in Japanese in 3 months?

afterglowefx Wrote:That language certainly wasn't Japanese. Maybe it's possible in a closely related language. Not really that close, it was Arabic.
fabriciocarraro General discussion 856 195,551 2014-04-14, 2:56 pm
    Thread: Benny Lewis Fluent in Japanese in 3 months?
Post: Benny Lewis Fluent in Japanese in 3 months?

As I've mentioned before, as well as in HTLAL, the "haters" are always the same ;)
fabriciocarraro General discussion 856 195,551 2014-04-08, 11:03 am
    Thread: Benny Lewis Fluent in Japanese in 3 months?
Post: Benny Lewis Fluent in Japanese in 3 months?

qwertyytrewq Wrote:Yes, I am bumping the Benny thread. Some of you people said you were going to buy his book. Did you read it? I did! The first 60 or 65% of the book is clearly aimed at people who...
fabriciocarraro General discussion 856 195,551 2014-04-07, 4:15 pm
    Thread: Benny Lewis Fluent in Japanese in 3 months?
Post: Benny Lewis Fluent in Japanese in 3 months?

Hirakana Wrote:Isn't there a rule against mentioning Benny at HTLAL? Or am I wrong? You're wrong. But just like here, when he goes on a "new adventure", some members of the polyglot community go up i...
fabriciocarraro General discussion 856 195,551 2014-04-02, 1:20 pm
    Thread: Benny v2.0
Post: Benny v2.0

andikaze Wrote:I doubt you can learn that in only 6 months, but after a year, maybe 1,5, you can survive on the street with that. Well, I'm sure it can take less time (or much more) depending on the p...
fabriciocarraro General discussion 83 18,613 2014-03-27, 1:39 pm
    Thread: JFBP x Genki
Post: JFBP x Genki

Yeah, but apparently it moves at the pace of a snail. =P Btw, how do you guys like "Tae Kim's Guide to Japanese"? Would you say it's better than a textbook?
fabriciocarraro Learning resources 9 2,715 2014-01-20, 7:49 am
    Thread: JFBP x Genki
Post: JFBP x Genki

Thanks for your kind answers, guys! I was just going through "Japanese for Busy People" to have a better notion about it, and I just found out that it's indeed reaaaaaaaaaaaally slow. They only start...
fabriciocarraro Learning resources 9 2,715 2014-01-09, 1:24 pm
    Thread: JFBP x Genki
Post: JFBP x Genki

Hey my friends! I've been taking the lessons with "Japanese for Busy People", which I like very much so far, but I'm thinking on changing to "Genki". I feel that I'm only learning the formal part wit...
fabriciocarraro Learning resources 9 2,715 2014-01-08, 10:16 pm
    Thread: Getting the "useful" Kanji and ignoring others
Post: Getting the "useful" Kanji and ignoring others

Thank you all for the quick responses! You guys are great! =) So, you all managed to convince me to follow Heisig's method and do all the Kanji. So how do you usually go around it, especially with th...
fabriciocarraro Remembering the Kanji 10 3,223 2014-01-02, 3:55 pm
    Thread: Getting the "useful" Kanji and ignoring others
Post: Getting the "useful" Kanji and ignoring others

Hello my friends! I know that this type of topic must pop a lot around here, but I search for keywords and didn't find anything that matched what I wanted. I started learning Japanese with "Japanese...
fabriciocarraro Remembering the Kanji 10 3,223 2013-12-30, 3:30 pm