This week I am joined by YouTube polyglot Aaron Fingtam. He runs the channel Fingtam Languages.

“Pop surrealism is basically a faction of the low brow art movement, which developed in the seventies. It was this movement of artists who were doing darker stuff, but more cartoony, you know. It had branched off from what the traditional art was, you know, like realism and pointillism and abstract. They were taking essentially cartoons and elevating it.”

I spent maybe more than half or half of my life in a few different countries over seas in the middle East and Asia. But I did spend my last few years of high school and university in South Africa. And yes, I was exposed to quite a few, uh, South African languages, but not necessarily from uh, a direct opportunity of being able to learn them. But I always had friends around me who spoke different languages, and I was always interested in asking people like, can you teach me a new phrase in Tswana? Or how do you say this in Zulu? So I think if anything, the multicultural society that South Africa is, uh, inspired me to continue languages and, you know, be curious constantly and ask people about languages.

In part two of Benny’s chat with Elle Benny talks about the mental life struggles he has experienced over the past few years, how he is overcoming them and what he is doing to help people going through anything similar.

He started the Fluent in Three Months blog. He is also a YouTuber and an author, author of the book Fluent in Three Months, and also the Language Hacking series available for French, German, Spanish and Italian. I am joined today by Benny Lewis, AKA Benny, the Irish Polyglot.