90-Day Personalized Coaching Program
With Bootcamp, at the end of the 90 days you will have a 15-minute conversation in your new language, or your money back.
Just45 minutes a day
4,000+ learners coached since 2014
Hi, I'm Benny Lewis. I've learned to speak eight languages by doing exactly what you'll do in Bootcamp: speaking from day one.
Does this sound like you?
You've put real time into this language, maybe years of it: classes, apps, a shelf of books that each felt like the answer. You can follow along when other people speak, and you'd do fine on a test, but when someone turns to you and waits for a reply, the words vanish. That doesn't mean you're bad at languages. It means everything you've tried so far trained you to study the language rather than speak it, and speaking is the skill the next 90 days are built around.
“[When I started] I could fit probably everything I knew into less than 30 seconds. And at the end of the 90 days, I went past my 15-minute goal. I had a 30 minute conversation after 90 days!”
Tina Crouch, Fi3M student
No sitting on the sidelines
Join today and everything opens straight away: the kick-off modules, your Conversation Countdown bonus course, the coaching DMs and the weekly group coaching calls. There's no waiting room and nothing to twiddle your thumbs over.
The one thing that starts later is the cohort itself. On August 3, 2026, the next group begins the 90-day program together in the private community, learning alongside you through to around November 1. Join now, get a head start on the modules, and you'll walk into day one of the cohort already moving.
How Bootcamp actually works
There's no rigid timetable to build your life around. Four things carry you through the whole 90 days.
Weekly group coaching calls
A live call every week, run by the coaches, in a small group where you bring any question and ask it in person. Every call is recorded (for our community only), and you can submit questions in advance. Across a month that's four calls: two with Benny, one each with Elizabeth and Laëtitia.
Modules and missions, weekly
A clear plan of action plus curated resources for whatever language you're learning, opened up week by week so you're never buried. Built from years of restructuring the ebooks and courses Benny used to sell for around $2,000 in total.
1-to-1 coaching in the DMs
A group DM with all of the coaches, for the full 90 days. Stuck on a resource, a grammar wall, or a wobble in motivation? Write to us, and at least one of us replies within a day.
Your private community
Learning alongside the other members of your cohort: accountability, encouragement, and friends on the same road. The cohort community kicks off August 3. And it has an end. Ninety days, one real conversation, done.
Included bonus: Conversation CountdownNew ($197 value). Our standalone course for getting you to your very first conversation with a native speaker, yours from the moment you join.
This is a detailed video course that guides you through absolutely all my best techniques to get speaking in your target language immediately, with examples, fun hacks and an easy to follow process.
“I had never had a conversation in Spanish before this challenge as I never thought I was ready. Doing this challenge and having the support & encouragement of everyone pushed me to do the thing I was too scared to do, talk!”
Danni Fowler, Fi3M student
“I have no time. I have no talent. I'm scared of looking stupid.”
We've asked thousands of language learners about their biggest barriers to speaking a new language. Here's what they tell us:
“I have no time to learn a language”
“I'm not talented at languages”
“I don't know how to find the courage to talk to people”
“I bought a million and one books but I don't have the motivation to use them”
“I get nervous when initiating a conversation”
“I have no idea where to begin”
“I'm scared of making mistakes and looking stupid”
Do you identify with any of these? I certainly do.
When I moved to Spain in my early 20s, I could only speak English. I lived there six months and was still terrified of starting a conversation in Spanish. I took Spanish classes, and even then I didn't have the confidence to go out and talk to people.
Then something changed, and fairly quickly I became fluent in Spanish and confident speaking it in real conversations. The lightbulb moment was discovering the right method. With it, you can:
- Become a motivated learner who always has time for languages
- Find the grit to stick with it when the novelty wears off
- Make new friends from around the world
- Hold a 15-minute conversation in a new language after just 90 days
If you'd told me any of that was possible while I was hiding from Spanish in Spain, I'd have said it was too good to be true. So don't worry if you're thinking exactly that right now. Try the method for yourself, with a full money-back guarantee behind you.
Benny Lewis
Fluent in 3 Months
Meet your language coaches
Benny Lewis
The Irish Polyglot · speaks 8 languagesI'm Benny Lewis! You might know me as the author of the #1 bestseller Fluent in 3 Months, or you might have seen me profiled in National Geographic, speaking at TEDx, or making viral videos in multiple languages on YouTube and TikTok. My book, Fluent in 3 Months, has sold more than 150,000 copies worldwide. Over the past 23 years I've travelled to more than 50 countries and learned to speak eight languages fluently, with another twenty or so I've dabbled in along the way. Thanks to those adventures (and the charm of my lilting accent) I've been given the nickname Benny the Irish Polyglot.
In Bootcamp you get me live: two group coaching calls a month with me personally, and I'm in the coaching DMs alongside Elizabeth and Laëtitia.
Elizabeth Bruckner
For anyone who's failed beforeElizabeth is the coach for anyone who's tried before and it didn't stick. She tried and failed to learn a language roughly ten times over the decades: Russian, Spanish, Chinese, and three years of school French that earned her good grades and not a single real conversation. Then, in her 40s, it finally clicked. Speaking from day one, a daily habit, weekly tutoring and an Instagram account she ran entirely in French took her to conversational French in about 18 months, and she has since added German and Spanish.
A licensed acupuncturist and writer by background, she coaches by her Rule of 80%: work at around 80% of your capacity rather than an unsustainable 110%, so you're still moving on day 90 while the sprint-and-crash learners have long since stopped. If you've failed before, Elizabeth is living proof that past failure isn't a verdict.
Laëtitia Leneveu
The perpetual beginnerLaëtitia is a proper language nerd, currently working on Vietnamese, Russian and Malagasy while dabbling in Korean and Dutch. If anyone knows what it's like to sit down with a language as a complete beginner, it's someone who does it this often! You'll meet her on her monthly group call and in the coaching DMs.
Born in France and based in Japan for the past decade, she's not afraid to tackle a different script or challenging grammar. She always draws on her experience both as a language teacher and a seasoned language learner to offer individualized tips and tricks, encouragement, and practical advice to our challengers.
“I truly believe it is one of the best methods by which to go about learning a second language, third language, fourth language even. It's fantastic.”
Eamon Gilligan, Fi3M student
The “secret” of why the method works
There are two things you need to do to learn a language. Just two. Do these and you'll be having confident conversations before you know it.
1. Speak from day one
Even as a complete beginner. You're practising the exact skill you actually want to end up with, and honestly, it's the most rewarding part of the whole experience.
2. Stick with it
The harder one. What looks like a “gift for languages” is almost always someone who's learned to keep going no matter what. Most of us need help with that part, and there's no shame in it.
The weekly loop Bootcamp puts you in
Repeat weekly, a little better every time
“The [program] helped me see that anything can become possible. I took another leap of faith and signed up to travel abroad next summer. So big thanks to the [program] and all the participants. You all helped me see that I can do it.”
Rechanne, Fi3M student
Is Bootcamp right for you?
Bootcamp is right for you if…
- You're ready to commit 45 minutes a day for 90 days
- You want new friends who love languages as much as you do
- You're willing to be coached and given feedback
- You're keen to experiment with new methods
- You're willing to step outside your comfort zone
- You're age 18 or over
Bootcamp is NOT for you if…
- You want a quick and easy fix
- You can't give 45 minutes a day
- You believe learning can only happen in a classroom
- You want to learn alone and won't join the community
- You want to stick with the ways you've always learned
- You like to stay well inside your comfort zone
“I wanted to talk to people in a different language, and that's definitely what this challenge will get you to do.”
Brandon Santos, Fi3M student
Everything you get when you join
No subscription. You pay once, you cross the finish line, and the outcome is yours to keep. No renewal, no meter running.
“I've improved an incredible amount over the last 90 days. I've come even further than I thought I would.”
Connor, Fi3M student
One price. One finish line.
A subscription rents you progress: you pay monthly until “someday”, and there's no finish line built in.
Bootcamp is the other way around. One price, one finish line (a 15-minute conversation in your new language), and one refund if you don't cross it.
Plenty of monthly tools are well made and sincerely run. It's just that a business billed monthly isn't punished when you never finish. We are.
“I know I never would have accomplished what I did these past 90 days without this formidable combination.”
Stacy, Fi3M student
Join the Fluent in 3 Months Bootcamp
One price, everything included: the full modules and missions, 13 weeks of group coaching calls (two a month with Benny), 1-to-1 DM coaching, the private community, and Conversation Countdown. Nothing more to buy and no subscription to cancel.
Hold a 15-minute conversation in your new language by the end of your 90 days, or ask for your money back.
“Without a doubt THE best thing I've done in my French learning journey.”
Debs, Fi3M student
A couple more from recent Bootcampers, straight off our coaching calls:
“I thought the language islands were brilliant… my teacher thought I was actually quite good. So he started me off at a higher level than I actually was.”
Pauline, Bootcamp student
“The Bootcamp has honestly got me to the point where I know where I'm going, I'm advancing. I'm actually able to carry on conversations… I'm really delighted with the decision I made.”
Meg, Italian learner
Will this Bootcamp make me fluent in 3 months?
“Fluent in 3 Months” is the name of my blog, my book and this whole company, and it's a flag I've flown for over 20 years. It was never a promise about what Bootcamp does to you in 90 days, though, and I'd rather tell you that now than have you find out after you've paid.
Here's what Bootcamp actually promises: 90 days from now, after 45 minutes a day, you'll hold a 15-minute conversation in your new language. It's a real back-and-forth with a real person: not native-level mastery, not passing for a local, and not fluency. If you don't get there, you get your money back.
The missions the brand name comes from were my own full-time projects, 10 hours a day, built up over decades of practice. That's not something I'd push on you when you likely have a much busier life! First, let's get you started on your first successful confident conversations, and then you can do so much more!
Fluency does come, mind you, and it comes from exactly what Bootcamp trains you to do: speak from day one, and stick with it long after the novelty fades. This is where that starts, not where it finishes.
Questions people ask before joining
What exactly is Bootcamp? A course, a community or coaching?
Honestly, it's all three. There's a course (the modules and missions, released weekly), there's coaching (weekly live group calls plus a DM line to the coaches), and there's a community of people doing the same 90 days you are. Each one covers a different way people get stuck, which is why we've never split them apart.
How much time does it really take?
45 minutes a day, for 90 days. That's the number the whole program is designed around, and finding and protecting that time is one of the first things we coach you on.
What if I fall behind, or life gets in the way?
Life happens, and Bootcamp is built for it. The modules are self-paced, and every coaching call is recorded (for our community only), with the option to submit your questions in advance, so a mad fortnight at work won't knock you out of the program. And if something bigger comes up, you can postpone your entire 3-month program to a future start date, once, at any time in your first month. Just ask.
When does it start and finish?
You get access the moment you join: modules, Conversation Countdown, the coaching DMs and the weekly calls, so you can start today. The next cohort community begins on August 3, 2026, and the 90-day program runs from there to around November 1, 2026.
What level do I need to be?
Any level, including absolute zero. Complete beginners spend the 90 days reaching their first real conversation. Intermediate learners use the same missions, coaching and community to push through to a much more advanced conversation than they could hold today. Either way, the coaches meet you where you are.
Which languages can I learn in Bootcamp?
Any language you like, no matter how big or small. The flags at the top of this page are just a few popular examples; Bootcamp works for whatever you're learning, whether that's Spanish, Japanese, Irish or a language with only a handful of speakers. Your coaches curate resources for your specific language and meet you in it, so you're never limited to a set list.
Why not just use a free app, or hire my own tutor?
Do use them! A free app is a perfectly decent way to meet a language, and a good tutor is genuinely valuable; we actively encourage our students to book tutor time. What neither gives you on its own is the whole picture: a method that runs from zero to a real conversation, coaches who can see where you're stuck, and a community that notices when you go quiet. That combination is what carries people to day 90. There's a money difference too: most tools are priced monthly with no built-in end point, while Bootcamp is one price pointed at one finish line, 90 days away.
What's the refund policy?
The short version: give it a genuine go (complete the modules, attend a couple of the coaching calls, attempt at least one recorded video, seen by your coaches only), and if at the end of the 90 days you feel it didn't help you, ask and we'll refund you. The one exception is a refund requested within the first few days of buying because the purchase was simply a mistake, which we'll always honour. The full plain-words version is just above the price, and the formal policy is in the footer.
Can I work on multiple languages at once?
Most students take on one language per Bootcamp, and we'd recommend that for your first time through. That said, we run advanced cohorts for returning students who are continuing a language project or taking on more than one language at a time.
I'm worried I can't give the time, or that I'd rather learn alone.
Both worries sit on our own “who it's NOT for” list, so here's the straight answer to each. On time: the program is designed around 45 minutes a day precisely because most of our students are working, raising kids or studying; the calls are recorded if you can't make one live, and Elizabeth coaches her Rule of 80% for exactly this. On learning alone: the modules are self-paced, so a good chunk of Bootcamp is just you and your language, but speaking needs people, and the community and coaches are where that happens. If you want zero human contact whatsoever, Bootcamp genuinely isn't the right fit.
Your first conversation is 90 days away
Join today and start straight away. Your cohort begins August 3, 2026, and on the other side of the 90 days is a 15-minute conversation in your new language, guaranteed.
Refund policy: If a purchase was made in error, simply reply to any of our emails to let us know you'd like a refund within one week of purchase.
Delivery policy: Upon payment, you'll have access to a digital database of tools, to a community that includes coaches, and other entirely digital product accesses. As such, no return is necessary.
Cancellation policy: After the first week, refunds are only offered to those it was seen have participated in Bootcamp throughout the 3 months, by checking in and participating in calls and attempting the tasks assigned to the best of your ability. If you feel at the end of the 3 months that you did not find it helpful, simply reply to any of our emails to request a refund.