Discover Discomfort

Become a Discoverer.

Discover more about your world by living in it. Learn foreign languages through immersive study. Master new skills by going to where they do them best. Go to where you feel uncomfortable, until strangers become your friends and you begin to feel at home.

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About Us

We’re on a mission to help people become more connected to the world around us. We believe in immersive travel — living like a local, learning the local language and the things local people do. As we go, we’ll share what we learn, with guides on how you can do it, too.

We’re currently in Egypt, learning Egyptian Arabic. In 2019 we’ll also learn Swahili, Latin dancing, Chinese martial arts, Shaolin meditation, guitar/drumming and ocean swimming — all in different places, in compressed time frames and on limited budgets. We’ll get creative, sometimes succeed and often fail, but share what we learn and always make it fun.

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