Become a Discoverer.
Discover more about your world by living in it. Learn languages, arts, and sports through total immersion. Go where you feel uncomfortable until strangers become your friends and you feel at home. This is what we do at Discover Discomfort!
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About Us
We’re on a mission to become more connected with the people of our world. We believe in living like a local, learning languages and arts, and doing local things. As we go, we share resources about what we learn.
So far we’ve learned Egyptian Arabic (see us speaking it here) in Egypt, then spent time in Israel/Palestine (see my notes on what to call that place, plus me speaking Hebrew), learned Swahili across East Africa (watch videos of us speaking Swahili after two months!) and gone running in Kenya’s “Home of Champions“. Coming soon: Latin dancing in Colombia, Chinese martial arts, and more. Join us!
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The Gift of Acceptance
The greatest gift we can give to strangers is acceptance.… Read More
Swahili in Two Months: 60 Day Videos and Recap
Learning Swahili in 60 days – our 60 day recap, plus how we learned Swahili in two months, what resources we used to learn Swahili, and what we’d do differently.… Read More
English Doesn’t Belong to White People
Judging another country’s English as not perfect is at best ignorant, and at worst, racist.… Read More
The Joy and Pain of Travelling While Non-white
I’m called lao-wai in China. We’re called agaanib in Egypt and wazungu in East Africa. But even those we’re those things, we’re other people, and we’re ourselves.… Read More
Living in Zanzibar: Seven Things We Didn’t Expect
Did you know that to say “7am” in Zanzibar, you say “one o’clock”? That’s called Swahili Time. It’s just one of many things we learned about living in Zanzibar.… Read More
“This Part of the World Between Egypt, Jordan, Syria and Lebanon”
The complicated politics of nation, cultural identity and religion in Israel, Palestine or whatever you want to call “this part of the world”.… Read More