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Would you go a year without speaking English to learn a language? These guys did.


There's this great joke that goes: What do you call a person who speaks two languages? Bilingual. What do you call someone who speaks one language? American.

Obviously, plenty of Americans speak a second, language but there is plenty of truth to the joke, and many of us only remember how to say stuff we learned in ninth-grade Spanish class, like "Donday essta el banyo?" Well, lucky for Scott Young and Vat Jaiswal, they were born north of the border.

Canadian travelers Scott Young and Vat Jaiswal lived an entire year without speaking English so they could learn not one, but four languages: Spanish, Portuguese, Mandarin, and Korean. To achieve this, they traveled to Spain, Brazil, China, and South Korea and spent three months in each country. At the end of his time in China, Young took the country's exam for fluency in Mandarin Chinese and passed by 74 percent. In a guest blog post for language program Fluent in three Months, the duo share some of their secrets on how they achieved this feat. Plus, they got stellar footage of the countries they spent time in.

Watch them put all of us to shame in this video where they banter about their travels, switching between each of the four languages.