Benny's retreat was a magical experience. At first I didn't think it could work, but by the end I found I was fluent in Proto-Indo-European! I've become a source of endless fascination for the scientific community, with a constant stream of requests from linguists who want to study me. Sadly for them, I was so moved by Benny's method that I've continued my vow of silence even after learning the retreat. Right now I'm fluently not-speaking in over a hundred different living and dead languages. Thank you Benny!

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I had my doubts at first, but after only 3 short months at Benny's silent language retreat, I have now reached fluency in both Spanish and Italian! I was a bit confused at first, because my target language is Japanese, but Benny assured me that this was merely a result of variance of kilometrage, and could be rectified if I booked another session. I booked it for next week and I can't wait!

April Fools!!! Well done. Although I prefer to practice silent language immersion on Italki, albeit it really confuses the person on the other end of Skype. Great antithesis of your core principles Benny.

Benny's silent retreat was a game-changer. What he's too modest to mention is how many languages I picked up-a full three in 30 days. I also grew a tiny set of the most beautiful gossamer wings, but your mileage may vary. Thank you, Benny!!

I am mistake-phobic, so I of course had to sign up for Benny's revolutionary retreat. It was amazing! To never make a mistake in my target language was so absolutely freeing, and to not make a mistake for such an extended period of time was life changing! After the retreat, the magic has stayed with me and I am 'silenting' my way through the end of the year with my language to attain even greater linguistic heights!

Works perfectly. After three months as promised I'm now fluent in English! Thank you Benny!

That's the most positive video I've watched so far. Keep up the good work, Benny! It looks like you're already moving up in the world. A big admirer of your channel! Thank you for being such a lovely human being!

This was so much fun to be in and it was awesome meeting Benny and two other awesome people on their own journeys to learn another language!

Lol! When I first saw the email for this, I thought, "Has Benny gone crazy?!" Glad I watched and waited for the punchline! Lol

Hey Benny, this was truly an amazing experience. I had my doubts, but after attending this language silent retreat, I can definitely recommend it to anyone struggling with language learning!

For many years I thought learning a new language would be far to difficult and would ultimately be something that I could never do. However, after taking the Silent Language Retreat I can say without a shadow of doubt that anyone can do it! To give this method a test I chose a very complex language to learn, one that had been my dream to speak since I was a small child, and I can now finally say that I am 100% fluent in Pig Latin! Anksthay ennybay you'reway ethay estbay!

I was having trouble getting my coffee table to speak in English, but after sending it to Benny's retreat, it was able to speak it silently as well as everyone else at the retreat!

After this retreat I can speak the the extinct Tasmanian Creole language (palawa)! Even though most evidence for this language has been lost to history thanks to the rapid decline in the native Tasmanian population after the British took over, I was able to learn it and now I'm fluent in it! Thanks Irish Polyglot!!!

This silent retreat really really took my language skills to the next level. Due to my 100% mistake free silence, people ask me all the time if I even speak English, my first language! Perfect way to completely erase any sort of accent!

I can personally attest to the effectiveness of this method! It changed my language learning experience as well as my life!

i went to this retreat and guys i must say, it was absolutely amazing. after the first day i could truly feel the fluency soak in to me. i now know about 0.3 words in Italian and that's all thanks to this amazing retreat. it's also really worth the money, just make sure you pay with fake money like i did because otherwise it isn't really worth it. it's a 10/10! :)

At first I thought this was just an April Fool's joke, but then once I saw the video I remembered how I got to be fluent in Esperanto! This retreat changed my life and it can your's too.

It's difficult to express how powerful Benny's retreat was. I truly spent three months not making a single mistake in my French pronunciation or my French grammar. #Magical

I could never find a good course that offered pre colonial Navajo so the Fi3m silent retreat was a unique find for me. Now I find that I've unlocked the doors to a language I had simply been unable to speak from day one in.

This retreat really jumpstarted my learning process. At the beginning of the retreat, I could only think in English. By the end, through the power of silence, I could think in the language of all languages: silence! Now my silence is in Russian, now Arabic, now French, now Aymara, now Swahili! Thanks Benny for unlocking my silence!

lol! In the description, "notice the upload date if you are confused", notices the upload date, 31st March! Not April 1st! Haha! Good video.

Truly and amazing retreat and worth every penny!! Would recommend to anyone with money!!

I love each year's installment of your new inventions

I also use this method, specifically for the languages that I haven't learned. Thanks, Benny! 😂

This is a great joke, but this seems like a kick ass way to learn sign language! Could you imagine, just signing all day? Anyways, great video!

I have to say, this retreat was amazing! I was able to achieve fluency in very little time, and my accent is beyond perfect! If only I could use telepathy...

loved it! cheers

I no speak the Inglish pretty good and after the "silent period" I no speak even better, but thanx to Benny, he done proved it will be the only one I ever speak. But I silently speak 49 other languages.

Also BENNY! I've been waiting to be a part of a general q+a for weeks now... I need my Lewis fix 😂

Best retreat I have ever been to!

I can't believe this! this is awesome where do I sign up? 😂

Funny video, but im not agree with it. Dont want to offent nobody, I´m a Spanish teacher , I taught myself Russian language and now i´ve got a B2 level on it. And just wanted to write my opinion on the topic. In my case was incredibly useful to spend 6 months to 1 year just listening and listening, and studying some grammar, then later the speaking part came easy because i had a massive passive vocabulary. Of course it took time to activate all my passive vocabulary later, but i believe it was the best method for me. Most of Benny´s advice is to speak from day 1. But my experience on that it has been always awful. It results in having stupid conversations kindd of "where r u from", "have you got brother/sister"? Of course you can make your way through it, and try to say something more interesting, but the native speakers dont have the time and patience to listen to somebody who doesnt know their language good. Even trying to say something meaningful becomes very stressful, specially when they talk to you and you cant answer back because you dont understand anything. In my opinion the best way is to learn first TO UNDERSTAND and spend some months just listening like a crazy, massive input, and then follow Benny´s methods and SPEAK a lot! But to be honest in my Spanish classes i follow the communicative method, which also makes you speak from day one and practise everything you learn. I guess for Spanish you can do that. But for Chinese or Russian good luck with that.

How does it work ❤ ?

Happy Fool's Day, folks ! I've learnt Russian after watching this magic video !!! С Первым Апреля, друзья ! You may see yourselves. :-)

LOL!!! Freakin Hilarious Benny!

Shut up and take my money. And my house...Here, take my first born!!!

My review: .... .... .... *thumbs up* ...!

Just Silence - That is all you need to be fluent in anything. Best experience ever. Check it out. Benny - You The Man !

ROFLMAO!!! Well played!!!

Well, if you have "...the Explorer" as part of your name, what else were ya gonna be?! :-P

It's a miracle!

don't relly get it does anyone wanna explain to me something of what this guy is saying ?

i want learing english languge who helpin me ?

Not April the first is it?

April 1...

Yeah, great retreat...

Is this real or was it just an early April fools. Just checking don't want to get fooled

Wait wait.. so this was all April Fools? And why was I investigating FI3M's website, looking for the 'hidden' pixel to activate the 'new feature', just to find nothing?

Why is there a religious Hindu symbol on the video when you search for it ? Is this making fun of the Hindu religion ?