Ryan Doherty

Ryan Doherty is fluent in Spanish, Italian and German, speaks French, and gets by in Portuguese, Greek, Dutch and more — alongside his native English. He studied languages at four different European universities, but credits his fluency to what he learned after the classroom.

Watching language learners repeat the same mistakes school taught them, he wrote Away with Words to reveal the mindset and methods polyglots actually use. He is also the creator of Meditation for Spanish Learners, an imaginative audiobook series that teaches Spanish through guided meditation.