Enroll in Fluent & Fab in 60 Days!

Yes, I am! And here’s why. 

Just by reading this, I know you’re a curious human being. I know you have big dreams and you’re willing to put in the time and effort to realize them. I know that you, at some level, believe you’re capable of this. You want to believe you can do it. 

I also know that you’re scared. I know that you’re scared that it might not work out, that you might not have the time, and all of these fears and anxieties swell up and feel overwhelming. 

But listen—I’m scared too. I’m scared all the time. But the only reason I have what you don’t is because I didn’t let being scared stop me. 

So…can I ask you to do something for me? Can you pull up a chair and sit your fear down in it? And then I want you to say to it: thank you, Fear. Thanks for keeping me safe. You’re working really hard, and I appreciate you. But. 

You are not going to stop me from chasing my dreams today.

(We’ll do this exercise a lot inside Fluent & Fab.) 

But in practical terms, guess what? You’ll have a community. You’ll have access to a Facebook group where you can ask questions. You have the Q&A sessions with me. You have the hotseat group coaching sessions. You have the training videos. You get the bonuses. And you get lifetime access to everything. You can go through the program as many times as you need to.

There is no “behind” in Fluent & Fab. Sure, some people might progress faster than others, but it’s all a journey. It’s always a journey. You can take as much time as you need. You have lifetime access to the course. 

And here’s another thing: at some point during your family’s history, somebody was bilingual. I guarantee it. Whether they emigrated or got conquered by another nation or were a merchant or fell in love with somebody from another place, you come from a long, long line of bilinguals. This is your pedigree. Who are you to think that you’re not capable of the same things as your ancestors? 

This is a great question and I love your willingness to jump in with two feet. The answer is: you will be able to have fluid conversations at your level by the end of 60 days. 

This means you’ll be able to speak with confidence and you’ll be able to speak with a good degree of fluidity. If you’re still a beginner—you just haven’t been at it for very long—then you’ll be at the beginner level at the end of 60 days. Maybe you’ll be intermediate. That’s okay. 

Now, you might be saying—but Jake, that isn’t fluency. And you’re not wrong. There will be words you don’t know and grammar you haven’t mastered. But guess what? I’m fluent in English. And I screw stuff up all the time. Fluency is a journey. 

The good news is that you get lifetime access to this program. While the live component only lasts 60 days, you have lifetime access to the training modules, to the PDF worksheets, to the Q&A recordings, to the hotseat coaching sessions, and anything else you’ll get in the course. You’ll get any updates to those materials for free. 

So, at the end of 60 days, you can expect to be limited by your knowledge of vocabulary and grammar. What you WON’T be limited by is your comfort speaking and communicating, even if it’s about concepts that you don’t have the words for. You’ll have systems and habits in place to learn new vocabulary words and new grammar constructions. You’ll have the tools to continue acquiring fluency. 

But if you’re just looking for a silver bullet, sorry, but this isn’t it. (And anybody who’s selling that is definitely peddling snake oil.) You gotta show up and do the work.

This is a great question and there are a few parts to it, so let’s address each. 

> Fluency

Fluent & Fab in 60 Days is designed to get you conversational fluency, not grammatical perfection. That’s an important distinction. 

Before you can be perfect, you have to be good. That’s what this program is designed to get you to do. Let’s get you good and comfortable, THEN worry about perfection. One of the mindset shifts you’ll make inside the program is that “fluent=perfect” is not the goal. “Fluent=fluid” is. 

(And what does “fluent” really mean, anyway? Is it measured by a test? By vocabulary and grammar knowledge? By my ability to speak/listen/read/write/think/dream? You see how this is such a nebulous concept?)

The only way to get fluent in, say, French, is to first speak really bad French. There’s no way around that. Where you likely are now is that you’re struggling to speak bad French. You want to be fluent=perfect and you’re letting that desire for perfection stop you from first getting good.

I designed Fluent & Fab in 60 Days to get people out of that fluent=perfect mindset and into a fluent=fluid mindset. You’re going to speak a lot of shitty French (or whatever you’re learning) because you have to before you can become fluent. That’s a necessary step.

Nobody rides a bike without falling down a few times. You learn to tread water before you can swim. Learning a language is the same. That progression is frustrating—believe, me, I’ve done it: I know—but it’s necessary. I want this program to make it fun and easy for you.

> 60 Days?

60 days—or roughly 8 weeks—is enough to teach the basic skills and mindset shifts. At the end of these 60 days, you’ll have made the mindset shifts and learned the strategies necessary to fix your two biggest problems: your fear of speaking and your ability to stay consistent with your practice. 

In Module 1, you’ll begin by learning a set of basic tools that you’ll do daily—plus one you’ll do weekly. These are designed to get you using and thinking in the language. 

Then, in Module 2, you’ll work on those mindset shifts I mentioned earlier and identify some goals for the end of the course.

After that, in Module 3, you’ll learn how to find practice partners for speaking sessions, how to run a successful practice session, strategies for avoiding slipping into English (which is the #1 way we self-sabotage during speaking practice), and how to talk around words you don’t know so you’re not limited by your vocabulary. 

You’ll learn habit formation in Module 4—how not to quit. This module, coupled with the basic tools from Module 1 and the mindset shifts from Module 2, will give you a very clear, easy roadmap for staying consistent with your practice. 

Finally, in Module 5, you’ll have 3 weeks of projects that mimic real-life scenarios and get you speaking and using the language like you would in everyday or travel scenarios.

Plus you’re supported every step of the way with weekly Q&A sessions with me, access to our Facebook group community, and our hotseat coaching calls. 

Do you see how, by speaking and engaging with the language every day, you’ll get comfortable speaking at the end of 60 days? And you’ll have the tools to (a) continue speaking, (b) stay consistent, and (c) challenge yourself to keep expanding your vocabulary and consume more foreign-language content to learn.

Now, you know this already—but you’re struggling to stay consistent. You’re running up against the resistance. This is the mindset work we’ll do in Module 2. (Which you get before the end  of the risk-free guarantee period.)

> But fluency takes YEARS, doesn’t it? 

Remember that fluent=fluid is the goal here. You can speak 20% of the language and get 80% of the benefits. That is much more than a passing grade. 

And, for the record, the United States Foreign Service Institute says it takes anywhere from 420 – 720 hours to become fluent in a foreign language. You could study and practice for 90 minutes a day and expect to become fluent=perfect in a single year. 

The basic tools will take about 30-60 minutes, plus at least 1 hour per week for your cultural date. This is in addition to whatever you’re already doing to study—so if it takes you an hour in the morning to go through the basic tools and you spend 2 hours on Tuesday/Thursday evenings learning grammar, you’re looking at ~12 hours a week.

As you progress with the basic tools, expect to finish closer to 30 minutes on that daily practice.

“But I don’t have the time!” I know, I know—nobody does.

But you can make the time. Stick with me. Here are a few ways to make this work with your busy schedule:

1. If you’re anything like me, you spend WAY too much on your phone. I spend an embarrassing amount of time doomscrolling through social media and it doesn’t serve it. (It just makes me anxious.) What if you reclaimed that time? What if you set a timer, or hide social media on your phone, or went on social media with clear intentions and limitations?
2. At a meta-level, we’re recognizing where we waste our time. Everybody does this. The reason you’re where you are—wanting to learn a language and yet not learning a language—is because this is a crippling block for you. Maybe you rationalize that time as “brain downtime” or something of the sort. This is a method of playing small and getting in your own way. We will go over this in Module 2: Mindset.
3. In Module 4, I teach habit formation. You’ll learn how to create a habit loop that consists of powerful triggers and rewards to make your practice a routine. We want to build consistency. That’s the thing you need.

If by “all ages” you mean “adults,” then yes. (It’s actually a myth that kids learn faster than adults, or that retirement-age adults can’t learn a new language.)

If you’re asking about small children—elementary school—I genuinely don’t know. And I say that only because I’ve never taught small children!

A high schooler would be fine in this program.

We’ll talk about this in Module 2, the mindset module. 

The daily tools will certainly bring up a lot of doubts within you—they are, in part, designed to do that. 🙂 But you know what? Slow progress is still progress! It doesn’t mean you can’t ever get where you need to go. It only means that you’re learning. 

If you’re stuck speaking bad, say, Mandarin, guess what? You’re still speaking Mandarin! You’re still communicating! And you’re on the path to getting better.

Trust the process. This process has worked for me. Let it work for you, too. 

There is no doubt in my mind that it will work. 🙂 If it doesn’t work, we need to look at your mindset and your adherence to the program.

Your real question might be a fear about whether you’re just “not good at languages.” And the answer to that is really simple. 

(1) At some point in your family’s history, somebody was bilingual. They got conquered. They moved. They fell in love. They were a merchant. Today, you have access to more information and more research on language acquisition than they ever did. What is so special about you that you can’t do what they did, even with all of these advantages? There’s nothing special. 

(2) Some countries have bilingual policies—Singapore, for example, requires that everyone born there speak English and one of the country’s mother tongues. Literally everybody in Singapore is a little bilingual. And in other cities—Montréal, Quito, Tijuana, Brussels, etc—as many as half the population is bilingual. 

The idea that there are “language people” and “not language people” just doesn’t hold. You are a language person because you’re a person. 

(We’ll dig into this in Module 2!)

Fluent & Fab in 60 Days has a few things that differentiate it from other language programs. 

First, the foundation of Fluent & Fab is the basic tools. You’ll use these tools on a daily basis. They’re designed to get you speaking, to get you thinking in the language you’re studying, and to get you to soak up new words and concepts like a sponge. 

The second thing Fluent & Fab does differently is focus on mindset. While other language programs simply teach you how to speak or use a language, Fluent & Fab coaches you to confront what you believe about your own ability to learn a language and how your mindset could be hindering you (when it should be helping you). 

The third thing Fluent & Fab does differently, besides teaching you how to speak with confidence, is getting you to form habits so that you actually stay consistent with your practice.. 

The fourth thing that makes Fluent & Fab different is the emphasis on projects and real-life applications. At the end of the course’s live component, you’ll embark on a series of projects designed to mimic immersion and build confidence not only in speaking, but also in the more complex variations thereof: explaining, teaching, and storytelling. 

Finally, when you join me in Fluent & Fab in 60 Days, you’ll be supported in a lively Facebook community with weekly live Q&A sessions, group coaching hotseats, and plenty of opportunities to get help and 1:1 support. All you have to do is show up and ask. 

It depends. I do my best to point you to the free resources that are already available, but sometimes supplemental materials really are helpful based on your learning style or the language you’re trying to learn. French simply has more resources available than Haitian Creole.

The good news is that once you’re inside Fluent & Fab in 60 Days, you’ll get access to the free bonus guide Let’s Select Your Language-Learning Materials, where we’ll go over exactly what I think is worth investing in, what you can get for free, and where to find them.

And if you need help or extra guidance beyond what that guide covers, you can always submit a question for the Q&A sessions inside our Facebook community.

I can’t answer this question until I know why you’re not interested in speaking another language. So can I ask you a question first?

Are you genuinely not interested in speaking…or are you trying to play small because you’re scared of speaking?

If you’re trying to learn a dead language that nobody speaks anymore like Latin or Akkadian, this is probably not the place for you. Fluent & Fab focuses on spoken conversation.

But if you’re not interested in speaking because you’re secretly scared, then can I ask you to trust me? I get that speaking another language is scary. I get that you might have had a bad experience in the past or that you’re embarrassed about the way you sound.

We WILL cover all of this in Module 2, when you learn about mindset. You get it before the refund period is over! So join me, let me know that you’re scared of speaking, and we will work together, okay? I promise.

Yes, Module 5 does contain a capstone project. But I want to mention a few things about it: 

First, like everything in Fluent & Fab, you can scale this capstone project to fit your level. The point isn’t that everybody does the same thing. The point is that you do something challenging for your level. The capstone project is to get to to find your edge, wherever that may be. 

Second, you have lifetime access to this course. That means you can take it at your own pace and you can repeat the training videos and projects as often as you need to. 

Third, you have plenty of support inside the program! I will be there to help you every step of the way. We have a Facebook community. I will go live to answer your questions twice a week. We have the hotseat group coaching sessions. And you will have plenty of time to work on the capstone projects within our 60 days together. 

You can do hard things. That fact that you’re reading this tells me that.

This program WILL work for you. How do I know that? Because it contains the tools that I use whenever I’m learning a new language…and I speak 5 languages. I’ve done these a few times! 

Now, your situation might be a little unique because some of the things I teach won’t 100% apply to you, because you’re already bilingual. That’s okay! 

The good news is that you will always benefit from revisiting your mindset. You will always benefit from revisiting the basic tools, from learning how to speak with confidence, from going over your goals, from learning how to build sustainable habits, and from practicing your third language with real-life projects. 

The even better news? If you’re struggling with learning a third language as an adult, it’s very very likely that you have a lot of the same issues that your monolingual peers in this program have. You have the experience of speaking another language, so your brain is ahead of theirs—like, neurologically speaking, the language processing center in your brain is probably a little bigger and more active—and that’s an advantage you have. You just need to go back to basics and trust the process.

You’ll need about 45-60 minutes a week to watch all of the training videos that get released Monday morning. You’ll need about 7-9 hours a week to actually implement, so your total investment in 8-10 hours in a week to learn a new language. 

That said, remember that you have lifetime access to this program. While I hope you join me for as many of the 60 days as humanly possible, remember that this program will always be there for you. You have lifetime access. 

So if you have to take it at a slower pace, that’s okay. 

But…can I challenge you a bit? 

If you make the investment and join me in Fluent & Fab in 60 Days, I want you to make the commitment to following along with the program as closely as you can. That means I want you to show up to the Q&A sessions if you can make them. I want you to participate in the hotseats. I want you to post in the Facebook community. I want you asking questions and getting into the weeds. 

Because here’s the truth: learning a language takes time. There’s just no way around that. You have to put in the time and you have to put in the effort. 

The good news is that, if you show up and do the work in this program, you WILL be speaking a second language. You will feel comfortable traveling abroad. You will feel comfortable using a language at work. 

You might have to make the time. That might mean getting up a little earlier than you usually do. It might mean spending less leisure time on your phone and more time focusing on your language practice. It might mean you start meal prepping instead of cooking long meals.

But here’s something I do know. 

People put off their dreams for years—for decades—because they “didn’t have the time.” But we all have the same number of hours in a day. You want to become bilingual? You want to speak a second language? Part of your journey might be learning how to use that time smarter. 

The other thing I know? Sometimes a time concern is really just fear. Fear of the wasted time if it doesn’t work out. Fear that you’ll get behind on things you should be doing. Fear that you won’t make progress as quickly as you like and that you’ll have to spend even more time on this. 

This is 100% a mindset issue. And we will go over those in Module 2, which you will get before the risk-free guarantee period is up. So join me inside the program and voice your concerns. Can you let me help you then?

You will not. I drip the content out on a weekly basis, with a few practice and support weeks thrown in to keep pace. 

I do this because I don’t want to overwhelm you with all of the content all at once. 

I also do this because I KNOW it’s tempting to skip through the foundational stuff at the beginning and rush right into the good stuff in the middle and the end. But guess what? That’s how you shoot yourself in the foot! You’re just cheating yourself at that point. (I’m that kind of person, too. I speak from experience.) 

The good news is that, once all a module is released, you can download it right away. You have lifetime access to this program and you can go back through it once you’re done.

Here’s the schedule: 

Module 1: Feb 1
Module 2: Feb 8
14-Day Guarantee Ends: Feb 14 at midnight EST
Support Week 1: Feb 15
Module 3: Feb 22
Module 4: March 1
Support Week 2: March 8
Module 5: March 15
Support Week 3: March 22
Support Week 4: March 29
Course Ends: Friday, April 2, at 5 pm EST

Yes! You will get a LOT of support in this program. Remember that you get 2 weekly Q&A sessions in the Facebook community, 3 hour-long hotseat group coaching sessions, and that you can always ask questions in our Facebook community and get support from your fellow students.