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=== Founding Story: === In 2004 [https://www.linkedin.com/in/gabriel-wyner/?original_referer=https%3A%2F%2Frepublic.com%2F Gabe] was a mechanical engineer with a passionate hobby for singing opera, requiring him to sing in German, French, Italian, and more. Wanting to further explore his passion, Wyner spent a summer in Vermont at the Middlebury Languages School in a German immersion program. After just five weeks, Wyner was singing in German and decided to pursue a professional opera career. He set out to become fluent in the languages demanded by the craft. With Wyner’s love for languages and fervor for fluency, he moved to Vienna, Austria, where he lived from 2007 to 2013 and attended the Music and Arts University of the City of Vienna. There he earned a master’s degree in song and oratorio in 2012 with honors. While living in Europe in 2008, Wyner spent two months in Perugia, Italy, where he learned Italian. Two years later, he completed a French immersion program over the summer at Middlebury Language Schools in Oakland; and in 2012, returned to Middlebury Languages School in Vermont for the third time for a Russian immersion program. That same year, Wyner published a Lifehacker article that went viral about his groundbreaking formula to fluency and garnered a publishing offer within two hours. In August 2014, Wyner’s first book “Fluent Forever: How to Learn Any Language Fast and Never Forget It” was published and has since sold more than 160,000 copies and just became a best seller in May 2018. In September 2017, Wyner launched a Kickstarter campaign in support of developing the Fluent Forever app, which has gone on to be the most funded app in crowdfunding history, raising a total of $1.7 million. Wyner has various levels of fluency in Spanish, German, French, Russian, Italian, Hungarian and Japanese. He has a dog named Norbert, who has an impressive 19,000 followers on Instagram and serves as Fluent Forever’s mascot.
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