Gabe Wyner - How to be Fluent Forever, Sing Opera, and Learn French in 3 Months

Extra Pack of Peanuts Travel Podcast

Travis Sherry

Society & Culture:places & Travel, Society & Culture, Places & Travel

4.6 • 890 Ratings

🗓️ 18 February 2025

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

Gabe Wyner has been called "a mashup of Steve Jobs and Aristotle" - and that's just one of the interesting tidbits about him (another includes the fact that he's an opera singer).In this episode, Gabe shares his unique journey from a mechanical engineer to an opera singer and polyglot to an app founder and author. He discusses the methodology behind his app, the challenges of entrepreneurship, and the personal growth that comes from stepping back from leadership roles. 00:00 Introduction and High Praise 04:39 Gabe's Fascinating Background 09:00 Language Learning and Middlebury Immersion 15:10 The Middlebury Language Immersion Program 22:17 Reaching C1 Fluency in French 25:08 Epiphany and the Potential of Language Learning 25:37 From Language Learner to Tech Entrepreneur 27:05 Becoming a Tech Entrepreneur 29:04 Writing a Book and Getting a Book Deal 32:00 The Process of Writing a Book 38:55 Fluent Forever and Language Learning Methodology 46:14 Language Learning at Middlebury 50:50 Language Maintenance and Recall 54:36 The Shark Tank Experience 55:26 The ROI of Learning a Language 56:33 The Fluent Forever App and Custom Content 58:00 Building the App Company 59:28 The Best Language Learning Method 01:00:23 The Main Business: Fluent Forever App 01:01:07 The Future of Fluent Forever 01:03:23 Life After Fluent Forever 01:06:13 The Journey of Letting Go 01:07:54 Exploring New Projects 01:11:56 The Thrill of Unlocking Potential 01:13:51 Personal Priorities: Language Learning and Travel

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0:00.0	Hello, podcast nerds, and welcome to the Extra Pack of Peanuts Podcast.
0:05.5	I'm your host, Travis Sherry.
0:06.7	And with me today is Gabe and Gabe.
0:10.3	I'm going to ask you, can I steal your bio?
0:13.5	Because I take pride in writing good bios, but can I steal the bio that you have on your website from Jay?
0:18.6	Is it Heinrichs?
0:20.6	Oh, sure. Yeah.
0:21.8	Because this guy, I need to figure out a way to get him to write me a testimonial.
0:27.1	Here's what Jay Heinrich says about Gabe. He says, mash up the DNA of Steve Jobs and Aristotle,
0:33.9	add training and engineering and opera, and you get Gabe Gabe who's ingenuously ingenuously
0:42.1	elegant system helps us knuckleheads learn not just foreign language but well everything
0:48.5	Gabe that's some high praise it's a lot that's a I like, I like writing bios game and I went and I
0:57.9	looked at your site and I saw this and thought, the mashup of Steve Jobs and Aristotle,
1:04.8	high praise for Mr. Jay there, huh? It's true. Although, to be fair, like, Jay's book is what, like, we'll get into
1:12.2	the writing stuff, but like, he's the person that his book taught me what a nonfiction,
1:17.5	a good nonfiction book could be. Okay, so high praise back to him. And what, which book? Because I know
1:23.6	he has a few. So which one was to you? Thank you for arguing. What was it? Thank you for arguing.
1:28.6	It is a nerds guide to argumentation and just someone who is obsessed with
1:34.8	argumentation as a topic like in the way that like a stamp collector will be obsessed
1:39.3	with stamps.
1:40.9	Awesome.
1:41.7	All right.
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