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He was barely awake when I stumbled into his apartment at 2 a.m.
I had just landed in Medellin, Colombia, where I’d be spending the next week working alongside and hanging out with my friend Connor Grooms, CEO of BaseLang and filmmaker behind “Spanish In A Month – A Language Learning Documentary”, which comes out December 1 on YouTube. This was the third country we’ve crossed paths so far, after the United States and Spain, where we had previously flown around Manhattan’s skyline and made friends with strangers who had docked their boats in one of Barcelona’s piers.
Somewhere between using my “survival Spanish” to order an arepa de choclo con quesito and hitting the dance floors to reggaeton, I became one of the first five people on the planet to watch how Grooms learned how to speak Spanish in just one month.
Before I get into details, you need to know a few things about Grooms.
Grooms is a digital nomad who has lived in five different countries and visited over 35 countries. He has a love affair with meta-learning, and over the last year has taken on various month-long challenges in order to prove his ability to learn new skills to himself and, more so than ever before, the public. Previously, he ran a blog called One Month Master, and taught himself web design, DJ’ing, filmmaking, and now Spanish, all in one month intervals. His self-experimentation attempts also include a 30 day period of time in late 2014 in which he put on 26 pounds of muscle. This prompted him to become an author as well as he detailed his “geek to freak” process in an expert-acclaimed fitness book called Eating For Mass.
So
how exactly did Grooms go about learning Spanish in a month, and how
can we all learn pretty much any skill set in record time?
I had just landed in Medellin, Colombia, where I’d be spending the next week working alongside and hanging out with my friend Connor Grooms, CEO of BaseLang and filmmaker behind “Spanish In A Month – A Language Learning Documentary”, which comes out December 1 on YouTube. This was the third country we’ve crossed paths so far, after the United States and Spain, where we had previously flown around Manhattan’s skyline and made friends with strangers who had docked their boats in one of Barcelona’s piers.
Somewhere between using my “survival Spanish” to order an arepa de choclo con quesito and hitting the dance floors to reggaeton, I became one of the first five people on the planet to watch how Grooms learned how to speak Spanish in just one month.
Before I get into details, you need to know a few things about Grooms.
Grooms is a digital nomad who has lived in five different countries and visited over 35 countries. He has a love affair with meta-learning, and over the last year has taken on various month-long challenges in order to prove his ability to learn new skills to himself and, more so than ever before, the public. Previously, he ran a blog called One Month Master, and taught himself web design, DJ’ing, filmmaking, and now Spanish, all in one month intervals. His self-experimentation attempts also include a 30 day period of time in late 2014 in which he put on 26 pounds of muscle. This prompted him to become an author as well as he detailed his “geek to freak” process in an expert-acclaimed fitness book called Eating For Mass.
Connor Grooms, 20 (photo courtesy of Connor Grooms).
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