irishpolyglot

Klingon, yes!! :) Watch this video of me giving a tour of the place I was renting in Chicago, in costume! http://www.fluentin3months.com/klingon-vid/

I learned C++ in school, but use PHP more than anything nowadays for my blog, although I don't know it so well.

Here's a review on my blog: http://www.fluentin3months.com/duolingo/ My thoughts on it are near the end. In general, it's a fantastic idea, but needs a bit of tweaking.

I'd mix languages up in the learning stages, but way less frequently when I speak it fluently.

My favourite word is "saudades", a sense of longing or missing deep in your soul. It's Brazilian Portuguese and you understand exactly what it means after you leave the country and wish you were back!

Edit: OK, it's Portuguese for any country. I only speak Brazilian Portuguese and wasn't aware of this.

I used to - I worked as an English teacher, Mathematics teacher, Youth Hostel receptionist etc. for many years. Then for about three years I worked as a freelance translator. This was all email based, so I could take it anywhere and earn in euro.

Now, because my blog gets 400,000 visitors per month, I just need 0.01% of them to end up on http://speakfromday1.com (separate to my blog) and invest in the multimediate package. It's expensive, so I only need to sell one or two a day and I'm doing great. I never tell people to buy it as a necessary step - only if they are really curious to see my best tips without blog stories and other distractions.

For the moment I'm earning off sales from that product. Since my blog is so huge, I don't even promote it so much - no banner advertisements etc. I'll do a promotion once a year and that's about it.

So my work is really blogging and sharing my language learning tips for FREE. Getting shared on Reddit is fantastic because this is more people who will check me out. I want 99.99% of them to never pay me anything and learn as much as they can from what I write, and the 0.01% will support me so I can continue to do this.

Spanish students came to my home town in Ireland when I was growing up and I liked how much fun they were. I never learned Spanish from them because they were there to improve their English. After graduation, I thought I had worked hard enough at my degree and deserved some "fiestas". I had initially only planned to move to Spain for the summer, but spent an entire year there and came back later for a further six months.

My favourite country in the world is Brazil. I wrote why here.