Booze and Schmooze: German Meetup NYC May 9th!

German Meetup NYC Night!
Thursday, May 9th at 7:30pm

Schmooze and booze with a group of young working professionals visiting from Frankfurt, Germany. Fluent City is hosting a bilingual German meetup at Harefield Road and wants you to join! Come practice your German, meet a few penpals and have a drink or two! Non-German speakers also welcome. 21+

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Why take a language class? Cheeky answers via Twitter.

Brooklyn Exposed asked readers to share on Twitter why they would want to take a class in French, Spanish or 8 other languages at Fluent City. We love the answers we received! Congrats to contest winner @Pocohannah who responded, “I want to win @FluentCity Italian class fr @BrooklynExposed b/c I’ll convince my Italian CEO, in Italian, to give me a raise.” Check out some of our other cheeky responses to why take a language class at Fluent City. Thanks to everyone for participating!

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The Art of Literary Translation

Fluent City is pumped for our panel on the art of literary translation going down at WORD (126 Franklin St, Brooklyn, NY 11221) this Friday, March 29th at 7pm. The panel was originally cancelled due to a storm (silly New York weather) but it is finally happening and we want you to join! Fluent City sits down with moderator and award-winning author Jordan Schnee to get a preview of the discussion that will happen this Friday.

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Join us for a Spanish game show taping on April 9th!

Join Fluent City for a live taping of Spanish game show Minuto Para Ganar (Minute to Win It), hosted by Marco Antonio Regil, host of the Mexican editions of Family Feud and Dancing with the Stars! Fluent City will be in the live audience on April 9th at the 1pm taping. The taping should go until about 6pm and guests are welcome as long as you RSVP!

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Pie Recipes from Around the World

In honor of PI Day, that oh so glorious day where 3.14 becomes a nerdy pie eating mandate, we have gathered a few of our favorite pie recipes from around the world. We strongly encourage you to sample a few and bring the remainders to class for everyone to enjoy! Oh March 14th, we heart you dearly.

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Mary-Kate Olsen Takes Class at Fluent City!

Well, sorta. CollegeHumor used Fluent City’s Brooklyn classrooms to film an episode of Very Mary-Kate (a parody of Mary-Kate Olsen) that aired today. Have a film shoot or other rental needing space? We have 10 classrooms available in Brooklyn during the days and love coworkers and other creative types milling about our space. Contact us! rentspace@fluentcity.com.

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Fluent City Says Thanks and Goodbye To Staffer Ross!

In the past three years, Fluent City has grown from private French lessons taught out of a living room to an incredibly successful business that now teaches group classes in 10 languages and has locations in 4 US cities (New York, Boston, Washington DC, Philadelphia). While there are several factors that have contributed to the company’s success, one of the biggest players in the company’s continued expansion has been Business Manager Ross Johnson. After three years of incredible dedication, Ross is leaving Fluent City to move onto the next opportunity. However, we are incredibly grateful for his time with the company. Marketing gal Mandy sat down with Ross to learn a bit more about how the company and his role have shifted and just how many hats Ross has worn including professor, marketing strategist, operations manager and more!

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Fluent City’s 12 Favorite Moments of 2012 in Pictures

by Mandy Menaker

It has been a terrific year at Fluent City. During 2012, Fluent City added Japanese, Russian and Hebrew classes. Our 10 Brooklyn classrooms and rented Manhattan classroom spaces were filled to capacity. We secured a convenient and terrific Manhattan space by Times Square. In addition, we raised over $1000 for Sandy relief and the New York Food Bank through our commitment to donate a percentage of signups in the weeks following Sandy. Our Williamsburg space became home to several orphaned organizations in the aftermath of Sandy including the Bellavue Survivors of Torture. We got closer with our regular coworkers, the funny folks over at Hypervocal. We even became a film set used by College Humor, Practical Jokers and Brooklyn Independent Television! Yep, 2012 has been pretty excellent. Here are 12 of our favorite moments of 2012 in pictures:

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Top 10 Chanukah Songs of All Time

by Mandy Menaker

The weeks between Thanksgiving and Christmas are my absolute favorite weeks of the year. The reason: It’s socially acceptable to listen to holiday music. If you have been around Fluent City’s Williamsburg studio space anytime in the past two weeks while I was on DJ duty, you have most likely heard Mariah Carey, Bing Crosby and Glee Christmas playing over the speaker system. In the spirit of Chanukah starting this week and my excitement over signing up for Fluent City’s Hebrew 2 class (beginning January 9th), here are my top 10 Chanukah songs of all time:

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Fluent City Crush of the Week: Matthew!

Fluent City has long joked that we run a dating service, since many of our students will continue their language practice over drinks once a class ends. Our crush of the week is Fluent City Spanish student Matthew, who decided to use our awesome database of available sexy linguists to find his next boyfriend. Says Matthew…

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