This is an interview with Gabriel Clark, a blogger, podcaster, and language teachers. Gabriel is also a language learners, so he's able to give some practical tips that have worked for him.

I split our conversation into two parts because it became fairly long. In the first part of the interview we talk about:

How speaking another language reduces barriers when you're living or working in another country
How speaking your students' language can help you as a teacher
How being a language learner can help you as a teacher, as long as you don't project your own learning style all of the time
How it can be good for your language skills to speak with people who don't speak your first language
3 tips that helped Gabriel with his language learning.

You can find the show notes here:
https://englishwithkirsty.com/podcast/episode175