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

Hyperpolyglot: When One Is Just Not
Enough
Take language learning to the next level. Speak multiple
languages without mixing them up or forgetting the one(s) you’ve
already mastered.
U
sing the tools from previous chapters, you should be able to progress
toward fluency and on to that elusive mastery level in a single language,
and even sound and look convincing as a speaker of that language.
While reaching the B1/B2 spoken level is certainly possible in a matter
of months for someone dedicated and putting in considerable hours each
day, reaching the mastery stage requires a longer investment to tidy up the
mistakes picked up along the way, learn specialized vocabulary, improve
reading and writing skills, and absorb the culture intentionally through
many sources. Ultimately, after lots of such investment, you’ll be as
effective in that target language as you are in your native one.
But many people dream of doing so in multiple languages. In this
chapter, I’ll share the techniques that have worked for me and for other
people to be able to converse in several foreign languages.
The Catch–22 of Wanting to Be a Polyglot
Not to be confused with a linguist, someone who studies or specializes in
linguistics, a polyglot is a person who can speak multiple languages well.
Trying to become a polyglot, however, is a terrible goal! While you can
keep this goal at the back of your mind, in my travels, meeting other
polyglots and interviewing them about their language learning processes,
and in my own experience becoming one, one thing has become blatantly
clear across the board: you can only become a polyglot if you are passionate

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about each language, and not because you want to “collect” a large number
of languages.
While it may sound impressive to know Chinese, Arabic, French, and
German, if you are not eager to live your life through each language or
discover different cultures, fascinating literature, or wonderful and
interesting people—also in each individual language—then it’s clear you
are interested in the wrong things. The same rules apply: if you’re not
willing to put in the work, your chances of success drop.
That’s why you need to pick your languages carefully.