Brendan Richard Lewis is an Irish author and blogger who defines himself as a "technomad language hacker". He is best known for his website Fluent in 3 Months, on which he documents personal attempts to learn languages within short time periods, typically three months.
Lewis is the author of the book Fluent in 3 Months (2014)[5] as well as a language courses series titled Language Hacking, including Spanish, French, German, and Italian.[6]
Born in Ireland, Lewis has described himself mediocre in languages at school,[7] getting a C in German and just managing to pass his Irish language exams.[8] He graduated in electronic engineering from University College Dublin[8] and then spent time struggling to learn Spanish in Spain[9] where it took him over a year to learn the language.[10] His frustration with conventional methods led him to take a different approach to language learning, as described in his book and website Fluent in 3 Months.[5]