my fluent podcast - SoundSage

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Sarah tells the origin story of her YouTube Channel (reading series), where she started out reading out loud a book in Italian.

At the time she started reading on YouTube, she had only been studying Italian for 2 months!

First Video: Reading in Italian until I'm Fluent

of the Reading in Italian Series

The Book Sarah is reading out in her series: Come Una Notte a Bali by Gianluca Gotto

Italian Book Club (Facebook Group)

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Bob talks about his language learning methods and how he ended up in Argentina to learn Spanish. He has been tracking his language learning progress in form of videos in which he speaks in Spanish.

Video Version.

Some of the topics we cover:

Why Argentina?
What is Comprehensible Method?
Messi
Inspiration for Making Language Update Videos
Watching Argentinian Videos To Learn The Language

Check out Bob's YouTube Channel.

My Fluent Podcast was selected by Feedspot as one of the Top 15 Intermediate English Podcasts on the web.

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India is a very enthusiastic learner of German from Ireland. She tells us about her language journey in which she mainly used the immersion approach to become fluent in German. The most important part of this whole method of immersion learning is obviosly your immersion. You absolutely need to have fun! India watched a lot of TV series, movies, listened to podcasts, read books and in general had a lot of fun in the process!

➡️Video Version of The Interview (with full shownotes: https://youtu.be/PZFnwsVkYo8?si=8AQd8KIR84fI7O-j

Learn from her experience and become a better language learner! India even kept track of her journey in form of different stats she wrote down and through recording herself in her lovely YouTube Channel:

https://www.youtube.com/@indih.244

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This is part 1 of 2. Antonello Zanini from Italy is quite an inspiration to me. He is a software engineer and technical writer and is a succesful writer on Medium.

Spreading knowledge through writing is his mission

Daniel and Antonello discuss the importance of building a writing habit in order to improve your English writing skills (and other skills as well). Spending a lot of hours writing is not necessary to become good at it, but rather consistency and daily practice are key.

Antonello shares his experience using ChatGPT as a language learning tool to replace Italki, which he feels has become more focused on selling courses and buying hours with teachers. He wrote his daily notes on ChatGPT and asked for feedback, finding that the responses are similar to what he would receive from a human.

Antonello Zanini – Medium

Antonello Zanini | Software Engineer and Technical Writer

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In the second part of our chat with Cara Leopold. (Link to first part), we discuss the movie Groundhog Day. The episode is meant to be like a Movie Club.

Cara Leopold is the creator of the Leo Listening Movie Club where she helps film-loving English learners understand and discuss movies together so they can master conversational English.

Back-to-School Movie Challenge

From September 13th-20th Cara is organising the Back-to-School Movie Challenge, a 1-week taste of what it's like to be in a movie club. By watching and discussing school-themed movies together, you’ll learn new vocabulary, catch fast-spoken English and practice your speaking and writing skills with other movie-loving English learners. The challenge includes access to a discussion forum as well as a live Zoom session at the end to chat with me and other film lovers about the movie clips.

Time stamps

0:00:01 Introduction to Groundhog Day and Movie Challenge

0:02:00 Groundhog Day

0:07:16 Childhood Impressions and Expectations

0:07:57 Hilarious Moments that Cracked Me Up

0:08:09 Appreciating Comedy and Bill Murray's Humor

0:09:28 The stages

0:11:34 Making the best of any situation

0:13:20 Profound Character Development

0:15:32 Speculations on the Length of Phil's Time Loop

0:17:32 Phil Murray's Versatility in Comedy and Drama

0:19:03 A Subtle and Brilliant Performance by Phil Murray

0:22:36 Discussing the usefulness and cultural context of certain expressions

0:25:25 Appreciating memorable scenes and lessons from the movie

Links

Cara’s website: https://leo-listening.com/

Cara’s YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@LeoListening/

Cara’s Linkedin profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/caraleopold/

Back-to-School Movie Challenge

https://leolistening.podia.com/back-to-school-movie-challenge

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Cara Leopold is the creator of the Leo Listening Movie Club where she helps film-loving English learners understand and discuss movies together so they can master conversational English.

Cara's challenge:

https://leolistening.podia.com/back-to-school-movie-challenge

Cara’s website: https://leo-listening.com/

Cara’s YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@LeoListening/

Cara’s Linkedin profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/caraleopold/

Cara’s Pinterest profile: Coming soon.

Spotify Playlist (Cara Leopold Interviews)

Leo Listening Youtube Channel:

Time stamps

0:00:02 Introduction and passion for interviewing

0:06:48 Learning French through Observation and Listening

0:08:54 Lack of focus on listening skills in education

0:11:02 Contrasting traditional language learning methods with contextual learning

0:19:08 Misconceptions about TED Talks and Transcripts

0:25:42 Overcoming Cultural References in Movies

0:28:23 The Importance of Movie Analysis and Resources

0:38:48 Challenges of Sound Mixing in Cinema and Home Entertainment

0:41:47 Translating Subtitles and Cultural References

0:44:55 American Actors Tackling South African Accents

0:46:11 Frustration with movie accents and Leo Listening's mission 0:47:52 Where to Find Cara's Online Presence

Other Links

Evernote (note taking app/website)

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3ncx0nPt9IrclOCyh77Ozv?si=ce218cfa3a854b26

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Martin Johnston loves to teach English through personal stories (storytelling) and through non conventional methods. It's great to learn from him and his podcast. He really knows a thing or two about learning a language, especially British English.

His "unfiltered" podcast (Rock N'Roll English, first episode aired in 2016) with real life stories is there to improve our English.

In this interview, we learn more about Martin's language story, how he ended up in Italy and went back to the UK and how his podcast came to be. It's inspiring and educational at the same time. Big shout out to Martin Johnston!

You don't have to be great to start, but if you want to be great, you have to start.

Time stamps:

04:02 Who is Martin Johnston?

09:24 Italian vs Regional Dialects (e.g. Sicilian Dialects)

12:26 The Origin Story of Rock N'Roll English

15:12 The First Episode

24:47 Rock N'Roll Vocabulary Bible

28:25 The Importance of Listening

39:01 Introducing the Jungle Listening Course

40:11 Module 1: Learning New Movements (the 44 Sounds of English)

43:30 Module 2: Learning to Differentiate Between Smilar Sounds

44:46 End of Module 2 / Modul 3: Transcribing Practice

46:47 Module 4: Connected Speech and Word Changes

54:55 Rock N'Roll Family

59:08 Making a Living Out of Podcasting is Hard work!

01:03:33 Preparation

01:10:03 Favorite Word

Links:

Check out Martin's Jungle Listening Course https://www.rocknrollenglish.com/courses/junglelistening

Check out Martin's Rock N'Roll English Podcast!
The brilliant Rock N'Roll English Vocabulary Bible
- https://www.rocknrollenglish.com/f/rnr-vocab-bible

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Video version of this podcast.

You'll find the link to Sheila's Podcast (All About You Podcast) here:

https://open.spotify.com/show/38xZM7ID8vP1aJR5KuFrQS?si=eaed93c8d9004870

All About You Podcast on YouTube.

The Vocab Man Podcast:

▶ 113 To Be Off The Hook (Ft. Lingo Junkie) | Spreaker

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Christina's Language Journey Christina has been learning many languages such as

Latin
Spanish 🇪🇸
Finnish 🇫🇮
Russian 🇷🇺
Turkish 🇹🇷
Catalan
Ancient Greek 🏛️
French 🇫🇷
Italian 🇮🇹
Albanian 🇦🇱
Sign language 🤟
Swahili 🇰🇪

In this interview, you'll learn about how Christina learn these languages. We also talk about

dialects, twitter for language learning, Toki Pona (constructed language) and more.

Some quotes: * "all my English teachers for all my school years were German. So that's why I say learning from native speakers is overrated because I learned my English completely from German people." * "Nothing improves your language skills faster than a captivating story." * "you don't need to learn a dictionary by heart. You just read a book. Let the story grip you. And you'll have to look up a word now and then, of course, but it doesn't feel like studying."

Table of Contents: * Intro by Daniel Goodson (0:00) * Start Interview (01:40) * Glossika challenge - snippet from episode 120 (5:21) * Grammar is important (6:35) * Horror of Learning Spanish (Blog) (12:33 * Have the courage to abandon a book (15:16) * Dialects are beautiful (18:26) * Toki Pona, a language with 120 words (27:53) * Using Twitter to learning languages (42:17) * Favorite idioms/expressions (45:54) + To Lose One's Marbels

Vocabulary: * "That's one nifty thing". = Stylish or smart.

More to come...

Links and Resources: * The Pluriglot: Christina's Twitter account.🐦For language enthusiasts. * The Horror of Learning Spanish: Nothing improves your language skills faster than a captivating story. Christina's Blog on Substack for Spanish leaners.

Contact Daniel: MyFluentPodcast@Gmail.com

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Welcome to my inspirational language learning podcast. Where I interview other language lovers.

Currently, I strive to enhance my Italian skills. One podcast that has become my go-to resource is "3' Grezzi" [grezzi means raw, unedited] by Cristina Marras.

Join me in this episode as I sit down with Cristina, the talented host of "3' Grezzi," a very useful podcast in Italian with a wide range of topics (the podcast is not scripted and comes with Italian transcription and English translation. On YouTube with rolling English subtitles.). In our conversation, Cristina shares her personal language journey, her passion for podcasting, and more.

Resources and Links:

To discover more about Cristina Marras and her artistic pursuits , visit her website, "Cristina Marras - Art, in all the wrong places."
Explore "3' Grezzi" and other captivating content on Cristina's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@m.cristinamarras]
Music: Scott Holmes - Upbeat Party licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.

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How Max From Argentina Overcame His Struggles and Became an English Teacher 🇦🇷 Feeling stuck in your language learning journey? Don't worry and never give up! In this episode, we share Max's language learning story and how he became an English teacher, despite struggling at first.

Table of Contents: * Bumpy start (0:00) * Paralyzing fear of speaking English (4:09) * The time after Max dropped out of school (6:04) * Speaking practice came later (8:05) * Learning English as an introvert (10:30) * Tips and tricks for introverted learners (13:00) * Couch Surfing to learn a language (16:54) * English teacher, private tutor, YouTuber, Video creator(18:33) * What to expect on Max's YouTube channel (23:07) * Favorite expressions: Off The Top Of My Head / To Do Justice

Vocabulary: * Mate 🧉: Mate is a South American herbal beverage with a bitter taste, known for its stimulating properties and social tradition. * To plug sth.: to promote or advertise sth., often in a self-promotional manner. + if you will allow me to plug my YouTube channel. It is called I'm Max and I will teach you English * To leave your/a mark (on): to make a lasting impact or impression on something or someone. + I want them to experience the world fully in English and leave their mark in it. * Vanity metrics: vanity metrics refer to superficial or meaningless statistics that may appear impressive but hold little actual value or impact. + Daniel: And where do you see your YouTube channel in five year? Max: Well, I mean, hopefully a lot bigger and with a lot more subscribers and really, I don't care about the numbers really. Those are vanity metrics. * Wishy-washy: feeble or insipid in quality or character.

Key Take-Aways:
- Don't compare yourself with others in the sense that you are beating yourself up. Instead, focus on your targets and compare to your younger self.
- Having a clear goal in mind can help you become the person you want to be.
- Reviewing and consolidating knowledge is crucial to establish a solid foundation for future progress.
- Don't be too focused or obsessed with the idea of becoming fluent.

Links and Resources: * I'm Max and I'll teach you English: Max's YouTube channel📱 * Couch Surfing: A website where you can connect with locals. You can stay with locals and meet travelers.🌍A perfect method also to make a language exchange or to learn a language. * Learn English with TV Series (RealLife English): + https://youtu.be/soZc03vH_qQ (Learn English With Rap Songs / Eminem + https://youtu.be/o82oNazflnc (Lern English With Queen)

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Asish Dutta: The Super Learner! Asish is a determined language learner who is dedicated to improving his English skills by taking one-on-one online lessons with different teachers. At the same time, he uploads all of his sessions on his YouTube channel so that other learners can learn with him. We call that a win-win-situation.

Recently, one of his videos took off🚀 and reached over 1.2 million views, which is unbelievable.

Imagine, million of people watching you how you progress in your language journey!

➡️ Do you have a story to tell? Do you have a book about languages 📖? Then it's time to get interviewed on My Fluent Podcast! Drop me an E-Mail: myfluentpodcast@gmail.com

Key Terms: * Language: Language learning takes more than just learning vocabulary. It's about food, culture and many more * Having different teachers will help you grow: Every teacher or language partner is different. You'll learn different methods and learn about different types of characters. This will help you in your language journey. * Stop being afraid of making mistakes: Asish overcame his fear and uploads his learning sessions. It sort of gave him an extra boost. He doesn't care what others are thinking about him and his errors.

Vocabulary: * Coming soon

Table of Contents: * What does Language mean to Asish? (00:06) * English Language in India (3:42) * The Languages Asish Speaks (4:19) 🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️ * The different learning methods (8:56) * Writing and Correcting Process (9:53) * Asish Dutta's YouTube Channel (11:31) * The Video that got over 1.2 Million Views (14:30) * Meditation in Language Learning (17:13) 🧘🧘 * Long-term Goal (19:06) * Acting and Cartoons in Language Learning (20:29) * Having your own Talkshow to Improve in your Target Language (21:53) * The Researcher (23:20) * Favorite English Word (26:37)

Links and Resources: * William Wordsworth: 📜William Wordsworth (7 April 1770 – 23 April 1850) was an English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature. He attended Hawkshead Grammar School, where his love of poetry was firmly established and, it is believed, where he made his first attempts at verse. He is best known for Lyrical Ballads (1667), which he wrote with Samuel Taylor Coleridge. * Clapingo: ☎️Clapingo is a platform that allows users to practice conversations with various speakers across the country. It provides a judgment-free space for people to improve their English speaking skills through 1-on-1 video calls. 📱 * Cambly: ☎️A website that connects language learners with native speakers for language exchange. 🌍 * Quillbot ai: 🤖QuillBot is an AI-powered paraphrasing tool designed to help people rewrite and enhance any sentence, paragraph, or article. It uses artificial intelligence and machine learning to rearrange word order and natural language understanding (NLU) to understand the context of the text.📝

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Quitting your regular job for your English dream! Nyssa's son helped her to start learning English again and she grew to enjoy it and even love it! In this episode, you'll learn more about Nyssa's journey, not only how she improved her English within a short period of time but also how she is helping other English learners to boost their English. 🚀

Nyssa has a lot of plans for the future and we will certainly hear more about her in the next episodes.

Www.nyssanai.com

Key Terms: * It's never too late to start learning a language or to reinitiate your language journey 📖 * Challenge yourself by speaking (and recordiny yourself) spontaniously might boost your language skills to the next level! * Don't be afraid of making mistakes. It's always important to get going, to start doing something, even though you might not be prepared. The ideal moment does not exist!

Vocabulary 🖊️:🎤

Off the cuff: (idiom) Without preparation
Pursuing your dreams: (idiom) To work toward that which one most desires or hopes to do, have, or accomplish in life.

Table of Contents / Time Stamps ⌛: * Intro - Nyssa's English journey(0:58) * Languages at school (3:47) * Passion of English (4:28) * Christian Saunders (6:52) Christian is/was quite an inspiration to Nyssa. YouTube Channel * Off the Cuff 🗣🎙️ - Speak spontanuously and improve your English (12:39) + Listen to Roberto, the inventor of the game on episode 66 - Speak English fluently through GAMIFICATION * Mistakes (18:18) + Dialects and accents of Italy (20:45) * Pronunciation is a challenge (24:54) * Consume different podcasts, videos etc. to get used to different ways of speaking (26:38) * Books (29:00) 📚 + Tip: Word Wise on Kindle(30:50) * Learning tools (37:32) * Future English projects (38:04) * Favorite English expression (40:28) * Start before you are ready (42:49) 🎬 * Excuses (51:20) * Outro (1:03:30)

Links and Resources: Www.nyssanai.com

Instagram: @nyssa.sbloccailtuoinglese

Facebook: Nyssa - Sblocca il tuo inglese

LIVE | English class with Canguro English: Canguro English is a YouTube Channel hosted by Christian Saunders. With his channel, Christian is trying to change the way the world learns English. Canruo English has also a podcast, which is one of my go-to podcasts relating linguistics.
The Chat Box: A facebook group which helps you become a more active English learner so that you speak/record more ofen. 🌍
MAOFEN Masters of English: Very active Facebook English learning community.📝
- Check out Ep. 69 Masters of English with Gabriel from Spain
- Music: Scott Holmes: Scott Holmes Music - Upbeat party - Free Music Archive
- Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.

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Personal storytelling can be used to improve language skills.

On the last episode 121, we learned from Lucia that we can learn through listening to other personal stories. Everyone has a story to tell.
On this episode (122) it's all about telling your own stories in order to improve in your target language.
Even though Fabio Cerpelloni's personal language learning journey did not involve storytelling, he fell in love with telling stories from his own life and has even started to integrate it in his teachings. The book "Story Worthy" by Matthew Dicks inspired Fabio's podcast (Stolaroid Stories) and focus on personal storytelling. Best stories are about failure and can impact others.
Fabio is currently writing a book about his personal journey of learning English and how to learn the language in an organic way, We hope we can have him for a second round so that we can learn more about his inspiring journey. Thank you Fabio!

What are you waiting for? Share your own ancecdotes relating to language learning and contact myfluentpodcast@gmail.com

Topics / Timie stamps

0:01 Introduction

1:32 Clip from Ep. 121 (Lucia Matuonto listened to more than 250 guest's stories)

2:55 Start

4:52 Fabio's story in 60 seconds

7:56 Fabio did not use storytelling in his English journey

10:18 How to start learning through storytelling

14;10 Fabio's personal language journey did not involve storytelling

17:00 Toastmaster (Public speaking) (Urmi Hossain on Fabio's Podcast, Ep. 41)

20:13 Home

23:03 The book "Story Worthy" inspired Fabio to start a podcast (Stolaroidstories) and focus on telling personal stories. Fabio is writing a book about his personal journey of learning english and how to learn the language in an orccanic way.

28:19 Fabio deleted his own social media (instagram)

30:45 Book Club (Book Discussions - Fabio Cerpelloni)

36:43 Fabio's favorite expressions: "Alright" and "No worries"

39:48 Fabio's next challenge

Links:

https://fabiocerpelloni.com/

Fabio Cerpelloni | Facebook

Fabio encourages language learners to try the "3 2 1" game to practice storytelling and language skills

3 2 1 game by Matthew Dicks: The "3 2 1" game involves choosing three concrete nouns and telling a one minute story about one of them in two minutes

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Lucia from Brazil was having self-doubts about her English.

Not even 2 years later, she interviewed more than 250 guests on the Relatable Voice Podcast (of course in English)! Various newspapers wrote about her. "The Star Podcaster: Lucia Matuonto" (New York Today)

According to Listennotes.com her podcast is among the 0.5 % most popular podcasts. "This podcast is one of the top 0.5% most popular shows out of 2,985,974 podcasts globally, ranked by Listen Score (the estimated popularity score", date: december 2022.

Listen to this episode and learn more about her astonishing journey, which has just started.

Links:

Linktree with all the links related to Lucia Matuonto.
The Relatable Voice Podcast
Lucia's book: Zoe the Crab
Lucia Matuonto
Linkedin
Lucia interviewed Daniel on The Relatable Voice Podcast
www.relatable-media.com

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7 brave language learners accepted the challenge to do 3000 repetitions in one month in the October 2022 Glossika Challenge.

Glossika is an AI based app/website. (Leran more about Glossika on episode 119)

This is the video teaser.

Don't forget to CHECK OUT #GlossikaChallenge on Twitter.

The 7 brave participants are:

Victoria
Heidi (twitter:@LoveJoy_Lang): Podcast Love, Joy, and Languages
Kenny(twitter:@Kenny_DB1983): www.somethingpolyglot.com
Christina (twitter: @vuorille): C. Widmann (nouw.com)
Elise Cutts (twitter: @elisecutts https://www.monoglotanxiety.com
Kuba (twitter: @kubacki_): www.langatu.com
Daniel (twitter: @DanielGoodson12): www.myfluentpodcast.com

(Just so you know: My Fluent Podcast is not an affiliate to Glossika)

Glossika: https://ai.glossika.com/

Attributions:

Living Life by Scott Holmes Music is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.

Indie Rock by Scott Holmes Music is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.

Kenny was also a guest on ep. 108

myfluentpodcast@gmail.com

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Ep. 119 is meant to be the intro to the Glossika Challenge which is going to be covered on ep. 120.

Kenny from somethingpolyglot.com is explaining Glossika and how he experienced the challenge so far.

The Glossika challenge (#GlossikaChallenge) is almost over.

You were supposed to make it to 3000 repetitions in October in order to win the challenge.

On episode 120, you will listen to 7 learners who went through this Glossika challenge. Who made it? Who dropped out? Tune in and learn more about it very soon!

https://somethingpolyglot.com/

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We are joined by the experienced English teacher and Spanish learner Craig Wealand. He is the host of the Inglespodcast and he knows his onions! (Inglespodcast – Los audio podcasts de La Mansión del Inglés)

We talk about disfluencies:

What are disfluencies?
What are cruch words?
How to reduce disfluencies?
Why do we make disfluencies (crutch words etc.) while speaking?
How can we become fluent speakers?
Craig has been helping the English community for more than 10 years! (inglespodcast.com & mansioningles.com)
How podcasting (or just recording yourself) helps you to become fluent in your target language.

YouTube version of this episode

http://www.inglespodcast.com/437 (Craig's version of this episode, with different intro and outro)

inglespodcast - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcb1AE_IC4Dg3Hshab06Rxw

Time stamps:

00:00 - Intro

01:06 - What is "My Fluent Podcast"?

3:09 - Listen to Podcasts to hone your language skills

5:37 - Oxymoron

06:05 - Podcasting as a language learning tool - Where to begin?

7:26 - The Vocab Man (A podcast about practical English Expressions)

9:46 - How long has Craig been podcasting?

11:00 - Did Craig's prediction from about 8 years ago come true?

12:44 - Receiving Feedback from listeners

13:33 - Aprendeingles Podcast

14:33 - How to learn from Podcast interviews?

15:38 - What are evergreen podcast episodes?

17:10 - What are disfluencies? (Daniel's view)

18:20 - What are crutch words?

18:57 - What is the definition of disfluencies?

20:00 - Some examples of crutch words

20:14 - Every language is using diffent crutch words

20:56 - Why it is not wise to edit out every crutch words (ums, ahms)

22.15 - What are some other disfluencies apart from crutch words?

22:57 - Not noticing crutch words while speaking / listening

24:12 - What are the negatives of disfluencies? (Crutch words can distract you)

26:06 - Excerpt of Aprendeingles Podcast

HOW TO OVERCOME DIFSLUENCIES

26:35 - Be aware of your disfluencies (first step to overcome them)

27:54 - Don't be afraid of silences

27:59 - Practical expressions (buy yourself time)

29:31 - Use technology to improve your fluency

30:40 - Descript (Video/Podcast editing software)

29:00 - Work on your proununciation

31:55 - Interview Keanu Reeves

32:32 - Using too many crutch words

35:07 - Text to speech apps (Siri, Google Assistantl, Alexa) to overcome crutch words

37:03 - Why stress will affect your fluency

39:09 - Did Craig never felt comfortable at public speaking

40:53 - Communicatoin can be difficult even for native speakers (bear this in mind)

42:10 - Start out with your own podcast and become fluent!

42:53 - Outro

43:24 - Blubbers and other mentions

Interview with Luke Thompson:

E28 – interview with Luke Thompson / Luke's English podcast - my fluent podcast / https://www.myfluentpodcast.com/e28-interview-with-luke-thompson-lukes-english-podcast/

I can’t put my finger on it: (The Vocab Man) https://www.spreaker.com/episode/51374444

Video Clip : https://youtube.com/clip/Ugkx9HUPTB5DOHN29MB84d5TRfJHYpdFmM4f

Music: Scott Holmes - Upbeat Party

Scott Holmes Music - Free Music Archive

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This is the second part of the interview with Urmi.

For the first part, head over to 117A.

What do you think will language learning look like in 10 years time? (3:57)
Are you an Italiki teacher? (5:29)
Why should we talk lessons with you? (English/Italian)
Can the students choose the topics? (6:39)
Being someone who already learned a lot of vocabulary but never has spoken the language what would you recommend that I should focus on? (8:23)
Do you have a podcast recommendation for us to learn Spanish?
Favorite expression (14:56) Eat one elephant at a time.

Do you want to be part of My Fluent Podcast?Drop me an email: myfluentpodcast@gmail.com

Urmi's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZoiI0SGU0Xo9_lNjtLWtgg

Blog: https://www.myways.ca/

YouTube: 5 Ways to Learn ITALIAN on a BUSY SCHEDULE:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9fmxrdOFPY

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Urmi Hossain is a full-time female worker in the financial services industry.

She has been working in this industry for about six years and she comes from an educational background in Finance. She is currently pursuing her CFA designation.

In her free time, she volunteers for causes such as women's empowerment and giving back to the non-privileged.

She is a big proponent of self- investing and continuous learning. Indeed, one of her passions is learning languages

She is a side hustler. She has her own blog and Youtube Channel, and she has also written her first book, Discovering Your Identity: A Rebirth From Interracial Struggle, where she talks about her own struggle in finding her identity. She considers herself to be Italian- Bengali.

Ambitious and Go-Getter are two words that describe her the most. Indeed, one of her big ambitious goals is to deliver a TED Talk

Some fun facts: She is a polyglot. She can speak Italian, Bengali, English, and French fluently and Spanish at a more intermediate level.

Version with transcript: https://share.descript.com/view/r907jL2yYaO

Time Stamps:

0:01 What does language learning mean to Urmi?

0:56 What language does Urmi think in?

1:23 Urmi dreams in Spanish

2:44 Be comfortable with the uncomfortable.

4:12 Italian

7:19 Urmi Hossain's YouTube Channel

10:10 Fear is the dearest friend of all

12:03 Public Speaking

Links:

Urmi's LinkedIn: https://ca.linkedin.com/in/urmi-hossain
Urmi's book: https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B0B75X14G7/ref=sr_1_2?crid=38ODHSOSYZ3W8&keywords=urmi+hossain&qid=1658373403&sprefix=urmi+hossain%2Caps%2C98&sr=8-2
Urmi's blog- https://www.myways.ca/
Urmi's Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZoiI0SGU0Xo9_lNjtLWtgg

If you want to be a guest on My Fluent Podcast, drop me an e-mail to myfluentpodcast@gmail.com

Cheers, Daniel

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This is a bonus episode. I just couldn't help myself. See for yourself.

A special thank goes to Jesus who's intro was fantastic. He manages to inspire and motivate other learners.

Please, follow his instagram:

Jesus Mtz (@jessuss.mtz) • Instagram-Fotos und -Videos

https://www.instagram.com/jessuss.mtz/

Thank you all.

Your Daniel Goodson.

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English learner Asyraaf from Malaysia tells his language learning story and how he managed conducting more than 100 interviews on his podcast called Content Marketing Hacks. Making the podcast helped him tremendously to become a better English speaker.

YouTube version

Time stamps:

4:39 Hone your English through Podcasting

7:05 Communication problems (Just roll with it!)

7:27 Getting better after every interview

08:19 Arabic, Polish, English and Malay

8:58 Serious English learning

10:06 The challenge of speaking in English

11:10 Talk to yourself / record a podcast to improve in your target language

14:03 Perfectionism in language learning

14:25 Public speaking

16:10 Future goals

17:57 English learning challenges (using the same words)

21:50 Where can we find Asyraaf

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Luciana decided to leave her country (Argentina) to become bilingual. Learn more about her journey in which she ended up being in Denmark.

Here is the YouTube version of this episode: https://youtu.be/mbvQ_gxty4Q

What is the BRAVE85 series?

Learn more about it here:

85 - The BRAVE 85 - five interview excerpts

What is the WISBOLEP competition?

Learn more about it here:

https://youtu.be/mhIoNh8YiVE

Other Interviews of the BRAVE85 series on My Fluent Podcast:

84 - How Alvaro overcame his stuttering by speaking English

83 - Turn your EGO into an EGG and break it! Learn like a child!

All the Competition Entries on 692. WISBOLEP

Photo Cover art background: by Derek Oyen on Unsplash

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Enrique from Spain talks about his experience when he attended several live English lessons on Teacher Zdenek's YouTube Channel. What did he like about it? What was difficult? What did he learn?

We touched on several other topics such as

Enrique's English journey
Perfectionism in language learning.
Podcasts for language learning
Reading books to improve your language skills
Attending a movie club

YouTube version: https://youtu.be/4OXpJkkdyi4

On ep. 113 we talked about the teacher's perspective when giving a Live English Lesson. Go back and listen to Zdenek's interview first to make the most out of it.

Tell your friends if you liked this episode. That will help My Fluent Podcast to grow. Thank you guys. Cheers, Daniel.

Live English Lesson N°17 with Enrique - 20 October 2021 - Dogme method

https://youtu.be/Ax2V5qQCMTk

Live English Lesson N°27 with Enrique 29/12/2021 || Conversation || Feedback || Dogme:

https://youtu.be/LPB4MeEnBWI

Photo of the Cover Art by Les Argonautes on Unsplash

Music: Scott Holmes

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Should we throw our course books and grammar books away??? Well, maybe....

Dogme language teaching is considered to be both a methodology and a movement. Dogme is a communicative approach to language teaching that encourages teaching without published textbooks and focuses instead on conversational communication among learners and teacher. (Wikipedia: Dogme language teaching - Wikipedia)

Teacher Zdenek:

https://www.teacherzdenek.com/

Live English Lesson with Zdenek, The Playlist:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgB1EsC_Zo8&list=PLTF3BphrUaC2J2qtAkU4p_5c00bCUHljB

Teacher Zdenek - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/c/TeacherZdenek

Learn English Online (Zdenek's Discord channel):

https://discord.com/invite/5hq6vB8WYw

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Learn more about Dorota's English journey and how she became a proficient speaker who is about to run her own English School called "Dragon Dorota Słomiana". Thank you so much Dorota for shareing your experience with us! The langage community can be glad to have you! Get inspired and listen to ep. 112.

Dorota: https://www.facebook.com/DragonDorota/

🗣️The Chat Box (Facebook Group to hone your English): https://www.facebook.com/groups/worldenglishchatbox/

🗣️MAOFEN, Masters Of English (Facebook Group to hone your English skills); https://www.facebook.com/groups/maofen/

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Trilingual English speaker Vince from the Philippines shares his valuable tips and tricks on how he became a fluent English speaker.

YouTube version (without pictures): https://youtu.be/R9XySsmxYfE

YouTube version with pictures: https://youtu.be/YFR13RnpWqE

Transcript version: https://share.descript.com/view/cvDEBobDlD4

E-Mail: Myfluentpodcast@gmail.com

Time stamps / Topics:

0:01 Introduction - Vince from the Philippines

1:28 Japanese

1:44 Sumo wrestler

2:45 Spanish and Vietnamese

4:27 Working on your enunciation

5:43 Hadar Shemesh / Rachel

6:16 Shadowing

7:22 Picking up the Argentinian Spanish

9:22 Did Vince reach his language learning goal?

9:56 Masters of English (MAOFEN) / The Influency Community (by Hadar Shemesh)

11:21 Speedlistening to improve in your target language

16:33 What helped you the most to becoma a fluent speaker? (Immersion)

17:51 Back chaining (Method by Gabriel Wyner, author of the book Fluent Forever)

19:11 SRS Space Repetition Software (ANKI)

20:43 Watching Animes, TV Shows, SciFi and real life conversations

21:28 For the love of podcasts (Tim Ferris, Stuff you should know, Lex Fridman)

22:06 Build your habits (App Habitica)

22:54 Challenge yourself

23:29 Language exchange

26:03 Outro

Vocabulary

0:13 It was a nerve wracking experience (causing a lot of worry or anxiety)

0:29 It was a haphazard thing (not having an obvious order or plan)

0:38 I receded, kind of became shy (to move back or away)

0:38 I would be bullied (to bully: to treat (someone) in a cruel, insulting, threatening, or aggressive fashion)

1:01 So in effect, I am trilingual (in practice, even if not formally acknowledged.)

1:01 Trilingual (to be fluent in 3 languages)

2:0 My angle for Japanese

I also took it up

it was a regression because the Japanese that they had at that college was just not advanced enough.

2:49 Latinx population (Latinx is an American English neologism, sometimes used to refer to people of Latin American cultural or ethnic identity in the United States. The gender-neutral ⟨-x⟩ suffix replaces the ⟨-o/-a⟩ ending of Latino and Latina that are typical of grammatical gender in Spanish) Latinx - Wikipedia

I wanted to better fit in (To belong to a group)

Colonial past

If I am not mistaken (If I am remembering correctly)

It just so happened (an idiomatic expression implying that the event happened in due course without outside influence.

a fateful incident

lo and behold (Look and see)

some enunciations (to enunciate: to say or pronounce clearly)

The number one person that I would attribute to my success too

reciprocate (to give and take mutually)

The most prevalent Spanish

To pull people up

Don't quote me on this because...

Not Being able to speak English would have been detrimental to me (harmful, damaging)

it soared (increase rapidly above the usual level)

Just keep on inching towards the beginning (to move very slowly or in a lot of short stages)

One thing that I was dabbling on before was SRS spaced repetition software, but I kind of dropped it.

Do you use Anki?.Yeah, I used to use it. It was my go-to, but then...

Hiragana and Katakana

Kanji

Anime (is hand-drawn and computer-generated animation originating from Japan. Outside of Japan and in English, anime refers to Japanese animation, and refers specifically to animation produced in Japan) Anime - Wikipedia

Sci-Fi (science fiction)

I fell out of the wagon

Revamping (to change or arrange something again, in order to improve it)

Guilds

I am all ears (is used when you want to show somebody that you’re listening and ready for them to tell you something.)

I sound like a fricking kid (f*ing)

I'm stilll trying to get a grasp

Anki

Habitica

Tim Ferris:

https://open.spotify.com/show/00ySquPOB5twdRuFvEEc0m?si=efb2c1482bd5448d

Lex Fridman:

https://open.spotify.com/artist/1Jla6HHJjjdWaWUXQdiGTr?si=OIO2I5_gSzygXL_DOLsp5A

Stuff You Should Know

https://open.spotify.com/show/0ofXAdFIQQRsCYj9754UFx?si=_NqYMqdFTKuyvUq21QPoVQ&utm_source=copy-link

Rachel's English

https://youtu.be/SJOnhWiJArM

Hadar:

https://youtu.be/ljEP_ywBm7I

Music:

Forces of Attraction and upbeat Party by Scott Holmes Music is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.

E-Mail: Myfluentpodcast@gmail.com

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In this episode, Tchales from Brazil and Daniel from Switzerland are going to share 4 steps on how to make the best out of Social Media in order to level up one's target language skills.

We will break it down in these 4 topics

Defining a goal
What social media plattform to choose?
What should I know before using social media?
Strategies to use social media

Transcript: https://share.descript.com/view/ma826A4R8LY

Time Stamps / Topics

2:03 STEP 1: Defining a goal

2:57 Daniel: Short-term and long-term goals

5:12 Tchales first goal (when he started out with his English journey)

6:53 Daniel's first goal was to pass the exams

8:11 Don't avoid having conversations

8:49 STEP 2: What social media plattform to choose?

9:16 YouTube / Discord

11:23 Film Club / Movie Club

13:39 Instagram

14:14 The Power of Facebook Groups

14:59 The Chat Box (Facebook Group)

16:48 Some ideas to use Instagram

20:15 STEP 3: What should I know before using social media?

20:38 Set up a meaningful bio

24:52 Use your target language in your social media

25:47 Let others correct your posts

28:07 STEP 4: Strategies to use social media

28:13 Making vocabulary based comments on YouTube with a time stamp.

32:32 Align your goal with the strategy

35:15 Create posts / Start recording videos

35:49 Medium to improve your writing skills

39:05 Calendly to organize your calls

40:58 Join Communities / Challenges

45:35 My Fluent Podcast community.

46:06 Outro

Stories Of Language Learners Podcast

The interview with Tchales on My Fluent Podcast:

https://youtu.be/QnxIKDLFBdU

Interview Playlist: The Klingon Language / Interview with Polyglot Andrew from Germany #103 - YouTube

Also mentioned in this episode:

Yes Theory - YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/c/YesTheory

Music: Scott Holmes:

Free Music Archive - Scott Holmes Music - Upbeat party

Upbeat party. Creative Commons — Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International — CC BY-NC 4.0

Photo (Instagram) by Alexander Shatov on Unsplash

blue and red square logo photo – Free Icon Image on Unsplash

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It's never too late to better yourself!

Dyslexic Spanish learner Charlie from the USA (Texas) keeps track of his Spanish journey in form of a YouTube channel.

In this podcast interview, we talk about various methods on how charlie became fluent in Spanish (Italki online lessons, Omegle, VR Chat, Duolingo and more).

Charlie is a super learner and I appreciated the time with him. I could learn a lot and you might as well. If you are into Spanish learning or if you need some inspiration for your language journey, this interview will be something for you.

YouTube Version:

https://youtu.be/cuAUU3aXLYo

🖊️ Transcript version: https://share.descript.com/view/KCPV9WcoFn2

🕒🕒🕒Time stampts:

1:01 Intro

1:40 Start Interview

2:22 What inspired you to learn Spanish in 2019?

2:55 Growing up with dyslexic without knowing

4:02 Dyslexic in more detail

4:57 Finding out about being dyslexic

6:17 Over 250 one-on-one online lessons

9:36 Inspiring other Spanish learners

10:40 YouTube channels that inspired Charlie

12:50 Shadowing / Copycatting

Simple Stories in Spanish.

15:24Doing the shadowing technique (example)

16:50 VR chat (Virtual reality chat)

21:58 Fortnite

27:35 Almost having a 800 day streak (Duolingo)

34:25 Omegle

49:06 It's never too late to better yourself - Charlie's favorite expression

56:34 Where to find Charlie's Spanish journey?

Charlie's Spanish Journey

https://www.youtube.com/c/CharliesSpanishJourney

Small Town Spanish Teacher

Small Town Spanish Teacher - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCphBwJqFg4cbpRM_6uuBZxg/featured

Simple Stories in Spanish: The Podcast:

Simple Stories in Spanish: The Podcast

What is dyslexia?

https://youtu.be/zafiGBrFkRM

https://www.duolingo.com/

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Kenny is a multilingual online teacher on ITALKI. He is also a passionate language learner himself.

In this interview, we talk about leaving our comfort zone in order to level up our language skills. How can we make introvert learners at ease so that they can speak up and improve their speaking skills? We talk about finding the right online teacher and we touch on language learning on Twitter (#Langtwt) More details in the time stamps further below.

YouTube Version: https://youtu.be/dCmuvMHCR-k

Transcript: https://www.myfluentpodcast.com/108-something-polyglot-kenny-from-belgium/

everyone is always simultaneously a student and a teacher -Jay Shetty

Time stamps:

1:20 Are you more passionate about teaching or learning a language?

05:36 The moment when you feel like you know your students better than your friends

7:17 What is the most important when you are looking for an online teacher?

Feeling at ease with the teacher. (the role as a teacher)

9:45 How to reach out and go about it before having the very first online lesson?

11:20 Kenny's language journey (Greek)

13:37 Making connections in your language journey

14:11 Example -> aphasia (a = not, phasia = utterance, speak)

16:52 The Speaking part of a language is often times neglected (Catalan)

19:48 Language tips for introverts (How to speak more often?)

24:04 What does the hashtag #langtwt on twitter mean?

30:12 Language learning can be a safe environment for introverts

31:30 Sbgliando si impara (While making mistakes, you can learn)

34:05 Being a perfectionist / Perfectionism doesn't help you

36:53 Teaching style

38:07 Connecting with other introverts in language learning

40:28 Italian lesson didn't work out

44:38 Avid podcast listeners can use their passion to learn languages

49:50 Producing your own language podcast

53:12 What is your favorite expression? (touched by the mushroom)

54:35 END of Interview

54:36 Outro with Daniel Goodson

55:29 Trailer of next epsiode with Charlie who is learning Spanish in a very special way

Other interviews with Kenny:

Kenny also got interviewed by English teacher Ryan:

https://youtu.be/gvbLlf-avzc

Here is a clip from the Language Come Up YouTube channel:

Trying to become a polyglot can give you language learning burnout

https://youtu.be/h3XWthAdLQU

something polyglot 🇪🇺🇧🇪🏳️‍🌈 (@Kenny_DB1983) / Twitter

https://twitter.com/Kenny_DB1983

something polyglot – Languages and language learning:

https://somethingpolyglot.com/

Italki - profile of Kenny:

https://www.italki.com/teacher/8639713/english

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Stephen Devincenzi, founder and host of SEND7 interviews Daniel Godson!

Topics are: Swiss language, Swiss food, Swiss military, Argentina and more...

YouTube Version: https://youtu.be/BZMFFcaM8Dk

Transcript version to read along while listenig:

https://share.descript.com/view/rayvXsN27c9

Time Stamps:

0:00:01 Why is Stephen interviewing Daniel?

0:00:45 The bad, bad Swiss citizen

0:04:44 Weird Swiss dialect

0:06:16 The official languages of Switzerland.

0:07:59 Do Italian speakers understand Romansh?

0:08:14 Do Romansh speakers speak another Swiss language?

0:09:33 The difference between Swiss German and Standard German

0:10:20 Is Swiss German a language or just a dialect?

0:11:40 Where does Daniel live nowadays?

11:52 Did Daniel's dialect become more understandable over time? (THE TRAITOR)

13:42 Can you have a conversation in French? (Communication first)

14:46 Languages that Swiss people learn in School

15:22 Are most people successful in learning a second Swiss language?

16:25 The language situatoin in Basel

18:16 How do Swiss people speak to each other?

19:48 Swiss neutrality and the Pope guarded by Swiss guards

24:58 Direct democracy in Switzerland / Referendum

31:35 Is it true that on Sundays by law, you can't make a lot of

33:12 What is the typical Swiss dish?

38:28 Argentina

40:40 Do you like mate tea? Did the COVID situation have an effect on the mate culture?

44:47 Daniel and Maradona

46:29 Do you travel much into the other countries? Have you traveled much around Europe?

48:15 Tuscany and Barcelona

50:26 My Fluent Podcast

52:42 The future of SEND7

57:38 The Vocab Man Podcast

1:01:26 Stephen's passion about the news

1:02:24 Outro - Simple English News Daily podcasts overpassed 1 million downloads!

1:02:38 Interview with Stephen (Luke Thompson from Luke's English Podcast)

Simple English News Daily | SEND7 podcast:

https://www.send7.org/

Is The News good for learning English? (From LEP#766):

Stephen was features on Luke's English Podcast in April 2022. Take a listen here:

https://youtu.be/tn-W1x7nRSE

92 - How to learn English with a News Podcast - Simple English News Daily: This is the interview I conducted back in 2021 with Stephen. https://youtu.be/Au8tUE8jxw0

Some remarkable Swiss referendums that came to mind after recording:

Exemplary Swiss work ethics:

In March 2012 Swiss people voted against extra holidays. The idea was to go from 4 to 6 weeks paid holiday a year. (Swiss people really must love working!)

Monthly income of 2,500 Swiss francs for every adult? No thanks!

Swiss people have rejected a proposal in June 2016 to introduce a guaranteed basic income for all. Suggested was a monthly income of SFr2,500 ($2,555) for adults and SFr625 for each child.

77% opposed the plan

only 23% backed it.

Source:

https://qr.ae/pvsuMU

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John Stedman speaks 10 languages. Listen to this interview based episode of My Fluent Podcast. John, the author of the book (which is titled "The Language Secret") spent many years as a linguist in Africa and frequently met people who spoke up to ten languages. Some of them could not even read. All of them had stumbled upon The Language Secret. The Language Secret is the name of the book, that came out in 2021.

I had a blast reading the book. I had a blast interviewing John as well.

John was so kind and gave more background information about his journey to the Ivory Coast and to Congo in a very interesting interview. On top of that, he shared some useful learning tips with us.

Now living in Germany, John specialises in teaching accelerated language-learning techniques. We wish him all the best and are eagerly awaiting the next two books.

Video version of this episode:

https://youtu.be/5Uc7XB5IF9g

(The video comes with English subtitles, and there is a vocabulary list on a google document: https://docs.google.com/document/d/12GQ3YDyjvG7IC0MWDyXLwN4mTp62MnB3bq9bLI88SbQ/edit?usp=sharing )

The Language Secret - Our Book: The Language Secret

https://www.thelanguagesecret.com/our-book-the-language-secret

Tunnel

Lötschberg Basistunnel Nordportal - Lötschberg-Basistunnel – Wikipedia

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%B6tschberg-Basistunnel#/media/Datei:L%C3%B6tschberg_Basistunnel_Nordportal.jpg

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You're gonna learn

why using podcasts is a great way to learn languages and
how you should use them to get the most out of it.
With the help of podcasts you can easily level up your target language - in an interesting way.

We got Alastair Budge (creator of the English LEARNING For Curious Minds PODCAST) onto My Fluent Podcast to talk about using podcasts as a means of learning a language.

The whole philosophy behind Leonardo English is to help people improve their English in a more interesting way. In over 250 episodes, Alistair shares stories about people's lives and how things work. He kind of explains how things work.

Video version of the podcast:

https://youtu.be/VdheWK7u11w

Time stamps / topics

1:47 Alastair learning Italian

6:05 Why learning languages with podcasts?

13:27 What podcast apps we should use to learn languages

18:02 Language skills that can be improved by listening to podcasts

19:57 The shadowing technique

23:36 Alexander Arguelles and shadowing

24:46 The IPA system (International Phonetic System)

29:32 What inspired Alastair to creat Leonardo English - English Learning for Curious Minds Podcasts

36:40 How Alastair comes up with new episodes

38:13 How an episode gets created

40:33 Why Alastair interviewed 250 members.

43:41 Is the podcast too hard for beginners?

46:29 Start out with your own podcast!

48:16 The word "set" in English has 430 different meanings

49:40 Least favorite words

52:39 Outro / some last words of Alastair

Vocabulary list:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Oii-iRiLhchDJ4ZrfVWv7N9eQmAojGoCOUWHe9PX-5Y/edit?usp=sharing

Alexander Arguelles YouTube channel.

Creative Commons — Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported — CC BY-SA 3.0

Leonardo English - English Learning for Curious Minds Podcasts:

https://www.leonardoenglish.com/podcasts

Episode 236 - How To Use Podcasts To Improve Your English [My Favourite Strategies] | English Learning for Curious Minds (leonardoenglish.com)

Do you want to share your language learning story?

Drop me an e-mail at:

myfluentpodcast@gmail.com

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Sadie Ryan, linguist and host of the Accentricity podcasts shares her insights into different linguistic topics.

Sadie has been learning Gaelic and Polish. She is currently a university lecturer in linguistics.

Sadie has a podcast called Accentricity I highly recommend listening to:

www.accentricity-podcast.com

Twitter: @accentricitypod

🎞️You'll find the YouTube version of this episode here: https://youtu.be/-qMwvOTlAZo ✍️You'll find the show notes here as well (with the transcript) ⏱️ Time stamps / different topics:

0:05 Introduction: Who is Sadie Ryan?

1:08 How people react when they hear of Sadie's profession as a linguist/sociolinguist

2:52 The term "Linguist" has more than one meaning

7:20 How Sadie got involved into linguistics

10:26 Speaking with a posh accent (ep. 1 of Accentricity)

14:33 Remember: Everyone has an accent!

18:19 Schools should teach more the listening skill

29:27 The best thing Sadie learned about language (Ep. mentioned)

34:40 Sadie's PhD research

40:01 Podcast recommendations (Linguistics)

42:58 Language documentation (a specific branch in linguistics)

47:23 The Podcast Accentricity - Every voice is valid

50:38 Speaking of a specific episode of The Podcast Accentricity (Sadie interviewed her mother)

5246 Sadie's language journey (Polish/Gaelic)

53:42 Is it easier to learn a language as a linguist?

58:20 Accentricity got an award!

0:59:37 Future seasons of the Accentricity podcast

1:02:01 Sadie's favorite expression: not my circus, not my monkeys.

If you want to share YOUR favorite expression, click the link below:

https://www.videoask.com/fwegskglw

Recommendations and mentions:

Superlinguo (a compilation of links to a lot of linguistics podcasts and other sources - a must for linguist lovers)

https://www.superlinguo.com/post/158448074588/linguistics-and-language-podcasts

The linguistic atlas of Scots: https://scotssyntaxatlas.ac.uk/

Podcasts:

Lingthusiasm

The Vocal Fries Podcast

Field notes

Others:

The Accentism Project

Vocabulary (not finished yet)

I work at the university of Glasgow as a lecturer in languages and intercultural studies: a person who gives lectures, especially as a profession

(Syn.: university teacher)

Sociolinguistics: Sociolinguistics is the descriptive study of the effect of any and all aspects of society, including cultural norms, expectations, and context, on the way language is used, and society's effect on language. It differs from sociology of language, which focuses on the effect of language on society.

Gaelic: Gaelic is an adjective that means "pertaining to the Gaels". As a noun it refers to the group of languages spoken by the Gaels, or to any one of the languages individually. Gaelic languages are spoken in Ireland, Scotland, the Isle of Man, and Canada.

multilingualism: Multilingualism is the use of more than one language, either by an individual speaker or by a group of speakers. It is believed that multilingual speakers outnumber monolingual speakers in the world's population.

If you're to ask what a linguist does, day-to-day it varies an incredible amount.

Linguist: someone who studies the structure and development of language, or someone who knows several languages.

Black and white: in a way that involves a simple choice between two opposite things (such as good and bad or right and wrong) She sees everything in black and white.

(I missused the expression by saying white and black instead of black and white)

A compulsory class: a compulsory course is a course within a major, minor or specialisation, which must be satisfactorily completed to fulfil the requirements of that major, minor or specialisation

And our teacher was like a little bit sheepish because I think she knew that we wouldn't really necessarily all want to be learning posh French.: embarrassed or bashful / in a refined or upper-class way. --> elegant or stylishly luxurious.

To have a stake in: To have a strong interest in something.

The first ones that spring to mind: same as come to mind.

prestigious: inspiring respect and admiration; having high status.

Scots language: read the Wikipedia article

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In this episode, you'll learn about the constructed language called Klingon. Why did André learn the language and where shall we start learning the Klingon language? This and many more...

Please give your Feedback

Share your opinion with us by sending a video, voice recording or text message! https://www.videoask.com/fr5wdrqki

For example, you could tell us if it is likely that one day you will learn Klingon.

Show notes are also available here: https://www.myfluentpodcast.com/103-klingon/

Time stamps:

2:49 What is Klingon?

3:37 Who invented the Klingon language?

4:15 Whas it Scotty who invented Klingon?

5:54 What inspired you to learn Klingon?

9:22 How do people react when they learn that you are fluent in Klingon?

11:05 Is Klingon based on an existing language?

11:06 Is Klingon a constructed language?

11:35 The features of the Klingon languages.

15:33 How many people speak Klingon?

16:34 Is Klingon a difficult language?

18:32 Some weird features of the Klingon language.

21:42 Where to start learning Klingon?

23:57 What sort of people were attending your Klingon classes?

26:26 The Klingon community

29:56: About Klingons (and humans) eating worms, bugs and the like

33:35 Creating a language on your own

39:08 Klingon sayings

41:08 Other constructed languages

47:30 Linguistic mission in Myanmar

***V******o******cabulary:***

Pick up: Here: in the sense that you can pick up a language, to pick up an accent etc.

Right away: immediately

PhD: PhD is short for Doctor of Philosophy. This is an academic or professional degree that, in most countries, qualifies the degree holder to teach their chosen subject at university level or to work in a specialized position in their chosen field.

Let's get off the ground: to begin to operate or proceed in a successful way. (I did a mistake there and said "to" instead of "off"

The Klingons: The Klingons are a fictional species in the science fiction franchise Star Trek.

A Linguist: has two meaning: a person skilled in foreign languages. a person who studies linguistics.

For brevity. "I left it out for brevity": because of shortness of time.

A phoneme: a speech sound in a language

Pocket money: a small amount of money given to a child by their parents, typically on a regular basis.

If I hadn't met Klingon, I wouldn't have studies: If I hadn't passed the test, I wouldn't have had/wouldn't have the opportunity to... | WordReference Forums

An agglutinative language: you have a root of a word, and then you add suffixes little endings one after another, like for example in Turkish, in Hungarian and Finnish.

The causative: to cause someone to do something (a suffix or a function that you can apply to a verb)

A geek: an unfashionable or socially inept person.

A nerd: a foolish or contemptible person who lacks social skills or is boringly studious.

To derive words from other languages: have (a specified word, usually of another language) as a root or origin.

"the word ‘punch’ derives from the Hindustani ‘pancha’" Names and other stuff:

Scotty: James Doohan

Marc Okrand: the linguist who constructed the language Klingon:

Leipzig: a city in E central Germany, in Saxony

Zürich: is the largest city in Switzerland and the capital of the canton of Zürich. It is located in north-central Switzerland

B'Elanna Torres: B'Elanna Torres /bɪˈlɑːnə/ is a main character in Star Trek: Voyager played by Roxann Dawson. She is portrayed as a half-human half-Klingon.

L'Rell: Mary Chieffo. Mary Elizabeth Chieffo is an American actress who played the Klingon L'Rell on the series Star Trek: Discovery.

Voq: Voq was a 23rd century Klingon warrior who fought in the Federation-Klingon War in the 2250s. Played by Shazad Latif.

Links:

Language crash course: Klingon - André Müller | PGO 2020 - YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i79zoCzvYFg

André speaking 18 languages, watch the video here:

https://youtu.be/H6tSJkR5B1w

(1) Learn Klingon | Facebook

https://www.facebook.com/groups/LearnKlingon

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This is PART 2 of the interview with Eugeniu aka Lingo Junkie from Moldova.

Full transcript

YouTube Version

Vocabulary list further below!

Time Stamps:

04:28 Working as a business analyst in the US

05:48 Becoming an English teacher

08:05 What is the CELTA certificate?

11:09 Taking the CELTA online: his experience

29:03 Some last important words about the CELTA

32:17 YouTube channel Lingo Junkie

38:57 Happy Friday (song)

42:06 Other projects of Eugeniu

45:44 Favourite English expressions (you're off the hook)

52:09 To take sth. with a pinch of salt / with a grain of salt

47:58 Expression And All That Jazz

54:30 Outro / Happy Friday song by Lingo Junkie

Links

Lingo Junkie

https://youtu.be/2AUXf8Alb6M (Oatmeal)

Lingo Junkie Diaries (my vlog) - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQlaKuPsI6rteFggX4Y1SGiQa7Ll8_tOb

thelingojunkie

lingojunkie

https://lingojunkie.com/

https://soundcloud.com/eugeniuprodan/popular-tracks

Happy Friday Song:

https://youtu.be/ifeLMFLbyVI

Vocabulary:

Exchange program: an arrangement in which people from different countries visit each other's country, perhaps to strengthen links between them or to improve foreign language skills.

An acceleration: increase in speed or rate. So that your language skills will improve faster.

TEFL: Teaching English as a Foreign Language

SAT: Scholastic Aptitude Test, later: Scholastic Assessment Test

The ACT: originally an abbreviation of American College Testing, is a standardized test used for college admissions in the United States.

TOEFL: Test Of English as a Foreign Language

Jargon: special words or expressions used by a profession or group that are difficult for others to understand.

"legal jargon" At a certain point: some day, at some point.

Altruistic (/altruːˈɪstɪk/): showing a disinterested and selfless concern for the well-being of others; unselfish.

CELTA: Certificate in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages

A fee: a payment made to a professional person or to a professional or public body in exchange for advice or services.

To refund: to pay back (money)

In air quotes: also called finger quotes (see also "scare quotes"), are virtual quotation marks formed in the air with one's fingers when speaking. (more information on Wikipedia)

In that sense: In this sentence "in that sense" means "because of what I just said, it's true that..."

Down the road: in the future (informal, used especially used in North America)

Hands-on: practical

To touch on something: deal briefly with a subject in written or spoken discussion.

Technologically savvy people: f you describe someone as having savvy, you think that they have a good understanding and practical knowledge of something. [informal] (see. Collinsdictionary)

Supervised: watched over by someone.

Deliverables: a product of a development process. The product that you produces you need to deliver to the school.

Graded: give a mark to (a student or a piece of work).

Just kind of a side note here: a marginal note in a text. (Eugeniu wanted to add sth. that might not be as important as the other things mentioned before)

An assessor: a person who evaluates the quality of a person or thing

An accreditation body: An accreditation body is an organisation delegated to make decisions, on behalf of the higher education sector, about the status, legitimacy or appropriateness of an institution, or programme

This is a legitimate certificate: conforming to the law or to rules.

Dunno: = I don't know (slang)

Associated with: (of a person or thing) connected with something else.

Messed up: to make a mistake / to do something incorrectly

An ESL teacher: English as a Second Language teacher. Teachers specialize in helping non-native speakers of all ages and levels learn the formal grammar, vocabulary, and pronunciation of spoken and written English.

On point: relevant and appropriate to what is happening or being discussed.

Busy work: work that keeps a person busy but has little value in itself. (negative connotation)

Submit a lot of, forms: To send in a lot of documents.

Community feeling: better: Sense of community: a feeling that members have of belonging, a feeling that members matter to one another and to the group, and a shared faith that members' needs will be met through their commitment to be together."

Liaising: act as a link to assist communication between (people or groups).

The better way to put it: What a nice way to put it!: That's a very pleasant way of saying it!

A transition: the process or a period of changing from one state or condition to another

A backstory: a history or background created for a fictional character in a film or television programme (here: the history of the story: detailed information)

Affordable: inexpensive; reasonably priced

A hobbyist: a person who pursues a particular hobby

You're off the hook: no longer in difficulty or trouble

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This is Part 1 of the interview. Vocabulary list further below!

The full transcript is on my website.

Lingo Junkie

thelingojunkie

lingojunkie

https://lingojunkie.com/

Vocabulary list

0:11 Cheesy: cheap and of low quality.

0:19 To jot sth. down: to write briefly or hurriedly

0:33 And all that jazz: informal. used when speaking to mean "and other similar things":

3:50 To graduate: successfully complete an academic degree, course of training, or (in North America) high school.

4:20 Superb: admirably fine or excellent; extremely good: a superb performance. sumptuous; rich; (note: this was not the best choice of word which was used in the interview by Daniel but it was the only word that came to mind at that moment. A better choice would would have been: excellent, fantastic)

4:35 To get in the weeds: Totally immersed in or preoccupied with the details or complexities (of something)

5:32 To shoot for the moon: to try to do or get something that is very difficult to do or get an ambitious

6:10 A scholarship: a sum of money granted to a student, because of merit, need, etc., to pursue his or her studies

6:10 A host family: a family which provides board and lodging to students, usually for a fee

8:24 Albuquerque: New Mexico’s largest city, sits in the high desert.

7:31 Breaking Bad: Critically acclaimed American series.

Balloon fiesta: Fiesta is like a festival.

8:04 Diplomatically: tactful in dealing with people

8:11 To stand out: If something stands out, it is much better or much more important than other things of the same kind. He played the violin, and he stood out from all the other musicians.

8:17 To evolve: develop gradually.

9:01 To blend in: to look like things nearby

10:48 Intricacies: the quality or state of being complex or having many parts

12:25 Melting pot (of languages): a place where different peoples, styles, theories, etc. are mixed together.

14:07 To pretend: to behave as if something is true when you know that it is not, especially in order to deceive people or as a game

14:29 To juggle (juggling three languages at the same time): to keep (several activities) in progress, esp with difficulty. You might know the other meaning, when you throw 3 balls in the air and juggle with them.

15:57 US citizen: an inhabitant of a particular town or city.

16:25 To set foot somewhere: Enter, as in I'll never set foot in this house again.

16:31 Heritage: features belonging to the culture of a particular society, such as traditions, languages, or buildings, that were created in the past and still have historical importance:

17:08 Air quotes: imaginary quotation marks that you make in the air with your fingers, to show that you are using a word or phrase in an unusual way or repeating exactly what someone has said

18:12 Oatmeal: a thick, soft food made from oats boiled in milk or water, eaten hot for breakfast

18:51 Internship interview: the position of a student or trainee who works in an organization, sometimes without pay, in order to gain work experience or satisfy requirements for a qualification.

To check the balance:

19:28 The representative: a person chosen or appointed to act or speak for another or others.

19:28 A statement: here in the episode: a document setting out items of debit and credit between a bank or other organization and a customer.

19:52 Unorthodox: contrary to what is usual, traditional, or accepted; not orthodox.

21:41 Twofold: so as to double; to twice the number or amount.

22:25 To embark: begin (a course of action). // go on board a ship or aircraft.

22:27 Immerse yourself... : Here: integrate yourself into the language.

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Video version of this episode:

Vocabulary to focus on in in this episode:

01:06 hypnotist: person who uses hypnosis as a form of treatment, or sometimes entertainment: I went to a hypnotist to try to give up smoking.

02:17 God hypnos: God of sleep

02:54 to have a minor in Psychology: An academic minor degree is a university or college student's secondary declared academic discipline or field of study for their undergraduate degree. Minor degree refers to a supplemental second discipline of study and concentration that often complements the major.

01:05 anxiety: anxiety is an emotion characterized by an unpleasant state of inner turmoil and includes subjectively unpleasant feelings of dread over anticipated events.

03:37 "rural part of the US": living in or characteristic of farming or country life. Oposed to living int he city / urban life.

03:37 mind blowing: something that is so shocking, surprising, unexpected or wonderful that your brain cannot comprehend it.

08:45 to stutter: talk with continued involuntary repetition of sounds, especially initial consonants.

09:37 the stakes are high: a high-stakes activity or situation involves a lot of risk or serious consequences.

In the podcast the sentence "The stakes aren't really that high for us" was used.

10:12 fundraiser:

1. One, such as a person or an organization, that raises funds.
2. A social function or activity, such as a raffle or musical concert, held for raising funds.

a raffle:
a means of raising money by selling numbered tickets, one or some of which are subsequently drawn at random, the holder or holders of such tickets winning a prize. For example: "a raffle ticket"

10:33 It started to click: Occasionally, people use click with something. This means that they like a new idea immediately or that they understand it very well and support it. The word click comes from the Dutch klikken. It has existed in English since the 1500s. It’s main meaning is the sound of a clock, which sounds like click.

10:40 trance: a state of hypnosis, the way or passage through

11:44 a suggestion: an idea or plan put forward for consideration.

Time Stamps / questions topics:

01:02 Who is Doug Sands, Hypnosist and language learner?

01:40 The etymology of "hypnosis" / the meaning of "hypnosis"

02:50 How Doug ended up being a hypnotist.

02:50 What inspired Doug to become a hypnotist.

04:35 Is it difficult to become a hypnotist?

05:26 Doug's mentors (Mike Mandel and Chris Thompson) and where to find a podcast about hypnosis (brain software podcast).

05:58 How hypnosis can help you to get fluent in a language or get better in a language.

11:04 Did Doug hypnotize himself before an upcoming stage show?

11:35 What are the differences between hypnosis on stage and hypnosis for therapy or change work purposes?

13:13 Can we book a hypnosis session with Doug online?

13:51 How much does a session with Doug cost?

14:33 What do people who want to be hypnotized need to prepare?

15:12 Could Doug enjoy the horror movie "Get out"?

16:21 Doug's language journey (Spanish)

17:17 Doug's language learning tips and tricks

17:47 Does Doug recomend to meditate in order to learn languages better?

18:19 Doug's favorite English expression "You can have your cake and eat it too"

18:44 Doug's favorite expression in Spanish

19:16 Where to find Doug Sands -the hypnotist. How can we learn more about hypnosis?

20:01 Doug's favorite podcasts

20:57 Blubbers (OUTRO)

Doug's Website: Anywhere Hypnosis

https://anywherehypnosis.com/about-us/

Meditation - Headspace

https://www.headspace.com/meditation

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Spanish Podcast Episodes - Duolingo

https://podcast.duolingo.com/spanish

My Fluent Podcast's YouTube channel: My Fluent Podcast Daniel Goodson - YouTube

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Omar from Ecuador tells us about his English journey and his experience in being a host and member of the Facebook Group Masters of English (MAOFEN).

Don't forget to take a look at Omar's Instagram profile:

Instagram: knowawa_english

Omar Llamba – Medium

https://medium.com/@alex.omar.llamba

Did you like this episode? Then you might also like Ep. 96 with Gabriel from Spain.

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Other links:

What you say in English Podcast: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9hbmNob3IuZm0vcy8yZTI4MTcyNC9wb2RjYXN0L3Jzcw==

Canguro English (with Christian Saunders): https://canguroenglish.com/

Stephen Krashen – Wikipédia: https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Krashen

Beniko Mason: http://www.benikomason.net

LingQ:

https://www.lingq.com/de/

Beelinguaapp:

https://www.beelinguapp.com/

www.myfluentpodcast.com

About MAOFEN.

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In this episode, I'm going to introduce a new theme:

Let's Podcast Together.

The goal is to discuss different language learning topics and practice English together. Let's grow together!

Have fun.

The video version of this episode (with transcripts) is also available on YouTube!

My Fluent Podcast Daniel Goodson - YouTube

https://youtu.be/Kyr44gglgY4

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Alvaro is an English teacher from Spain. I had the possibility to catch up with him and go deeper into the topics. So it's basically a continuation of episode 84.

The episode is also available on YouTube!

https://youtu.be/hyMaV4awBDg

McCourtain: English Booster (@mc_courtain) • Instagram-Fotos und -Videos

McCourtain's Pills - YouTube

To be continued...

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Interview with the host of the news Podcast SEND 7, creator and speaker Stephen Devincenzi from the UK:

Here is the YouTube video version with transcripts in it:

https://youtu.be/Au8tUE8jxw0

Dear listeners, let's give Stephen a joy and send him an audio message :)

Send a voice message to send7 (speakpipe.com)

Luke from Luke's English podcast interviewed Stephen! Here ist the Link to the YouTube version.

https://youtu.be/J3fAAuqDKBE

Links:

Stephen's recommendations:

Podcast 04: Why (Sometimes) Pain is Necessary When learning English – Harris English (harris-english.com)

http://www.harris-english.com/podcast-04-why-sometimes-pain-is-necessary-when-learning-english/

Today, Explained - Vox

https://www.vox.com/today-explained

Axios Today

https://megaphone.link/AXIOS5023373491

‎Axios Today: The House vote on the stimulus bill on Apple Podcasts

Journal en français facile (rfi.fr)

https://www.rfi.fr/fr/podcasts/journal-en-fran%C3%A7ais-facile/20210227-journal-en-fran%C3%A7ais-facile-27-02-2021-20h00-gmt

www.myfluentpodcast.com

Stephen's favorite English expression:

#57 - To look forward to - Special Guest Stephen Devincenzi form SEND 7 Podcast | Spreaker

#SEND7

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Interview with Rachel Smets - Clarity Coach and language learner/teacher. Her main passion is living abroad.

Here is the video version with the English transcript/subtitles:

https://youtu.be/kuL21ew7uDM

Chapters:

0:26 Intro with Daniel

2:38 Start Interview - Who is Rachel Smets?

6:39 Why Rachel doesn't have a podcast

7:19 What is a Clarity Coach?

8:30 How can we imagine a "Clarity Coach Session"?

11:50 Is English really Rachel's first language?

13:00 Which languages has Rachel taught?

13:33 What does learning a language mean for Rachel?

14:28 What topics did Rachel cover in her lessons?

15:45 Conversation classes...

16:30 Which languages is Rachel fluent in?

16:55 TEDx Talk: Don't compare yourself. "stop comparing". Be the best of you,

18:54 Luck is a loser's word!

21:51 Teaser/advertisement: The Vocab Man Podcast:

#40 - Don't take no for an answer - I won't take no for an answer | The Vocab Man - Fluent Vocabulary | Spreaker

22:42 Rachel Smets is the Author of the book "Awaken Your Confidence"

29:49: Do you remember the very first interview you conducted for your book? Were you nervous?

31:48 Learning languages abroad...

32:55 The biggest obstacles when it comes to learn languages

34:18 Language learning tips

36:40 Rachel doesn't use learning apps

38:25 Outro / Where can we find Rachel Smets online?

Links:

https://www.rachelsmets.com

FB GROUP Clarity & Confidence: https://www.facebook.com/groups/CreateClarity/

LINKEDIN: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rachelsmets/

Get out of the crab bucket: https://youtu.be/T8w8HipXEIU

How to Quit your 9-5. Escape the rat race: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOeCvFiCDr6xipelvHQo-iiQ0rTLiKEy6

The video Rachel mentioned with Gary Vee:

GARY VEE. LUCK is a LOSER word.

https://youtu.be/0Pyw71h_xGs

Rachel is also an author of the book Awaken Your Confidence: https://www.amazon.com/-/de/dp/B01KLZY1VM/ref=sr_1_1?__mk_de_DE=%C3%85M%C3%85%C5%BD%C3%95%C3%91&dchild=1&keywords=awaken+your+confidence&qid=1614194867&sr=8-1

Living Abroad Successfully:

Ted Talk:

Rachel Smets: Stop comparing! Be the best YOU! | TED Talk

https://www.ted.com/talks/rachel_smets_stop_comparing_be_the_best_you

Your next step | Rachel Smets | TEDxDelftSalon - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6045pUmDqCo

American Slacker Podcast - EP132- Rachel Smets on Stitcher

https://www.stitcher.com/show/american-slacker-podcast/episode/ep132-rachel-smets-58348000

Music:

Scott Holmes (Upbeat Party)

Upbeat Party Scott Holmes Music

https://www.scottholmesmusic.com/tracks/upbeat-party/

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Awaken Your Confidence: 15 People Share Their Journey To Success

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Interview with Lena Livinsky.

Here is the video version with transcripts: https://youtu.be/bwda8HAOFSE

Chapters:

0:00 Teaser: excerpt from the interview.

1:07 Introduction with Lena Livinsky - She first was afraid of sharing her voice and speaking up

2:12 Start Interview

2:55 Lena shares her thoughts what comes to her mind when she hears different "expressions/words" Daniel is saying to her.

4:05 Excerpt of the Office (season 5, episode 12 The Duel)

4:30 Lena introduces herself

5:38 Lena's first struggle when it comes to learning English in the USA coming from Poland

8:09 One of Lena's top tips on how to reach fluency

9:30 What does "accent" mean to Lena?

14:50 How did Lena change her accent?

16:40 Did Lena manage to pick a Spanish accent, too?

18:11 When Lena is speaking in Polish, can people from Poland make out an American accent??

22:10 What is Lena's podcast the "Accented World Podcas" all about?

23:55 Then it's not the typical language learning podcast, right? It's more to inspire people and to get new ideas and new perspectives?

27:23 So was there any person or maybe a podcast which inspired Lena to start out with her podcast?

29:24 What could Lena learn from their guest? Is there any particular story which stuck with her in particular?

31:34 What is a speech language pathologist?

34:41 What is an accent coach?

36:48 Lena's accent course launched in January 2021

38:13 Who can participate in the course? For whom is the course?

39:55 How does a free accent coauch consultatoin looks like?

41:05 Which accent error patterns did Lena spot from Daniel's speech from this interview?

41:50 Where can we find Lena's content? How can we get in touch with Lena to improve our accents (or our speech)?

42:43 End of the Iinterview

42:44 Outro with music from Scott Holmes (Upbeat Party)

Links:

Lena Livinsky (@lena.livinsky) • Instagram-Fotos und -Videos

Home - Lena Livinsky

Mini Guide For Speaking English With Clarity and confidence:

A Mini Guide to Accent Modification - Lena Livinsky

(10) Lena Livinsky | Facebook

Vocabulary / expressions from this episode to tackle on

6:42: on top of that

7:27 it was a blessing in disguise

7:52 I was enrolled in English as second language program

9:12 "Majority of my day"

I spend the majority of my time working.

vernacular

11:46 A vernacular, or vernacular language, is the speech variety a term generally used to refer to a local language or dialect, as distinct from what is seen as a standard language. The vernacular is contrasted with higher-prestige forms of language, such as national, literary, liturgical or scientific idiom, or a lingua franca, used to facilitate communication across a large area.

23:05 I wanted to showcase that

23:21 some things that people strive towards is, you know, being a doctor, which is beautiful or a lawyer, there's so many amazing opportunities out there.

32:31 The umbrella is very wide, so that's what a speech pathologist is.

33:43 we'll have like a G tube, a tube for eating, and then we work to try and wean them off that tube and getting them to eat by mouth

32:54 aversions to eating,

35:59 You work on the prosody, so like the melody of the language and learning all these aspects

If you liked this interview, you might also like the interview Lena gave on another podcast show called "Accented"

https://www.buzzsprout.com/586573/7288903-e26-lena-polish-american-accent-speech-pathologist

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In this episode, we had a fantastic interview with Leo from Italy.

The BRAVE 85 series goes on :)

Time stamps:

4:12 What is your English learning goal?

5:46 What does it mean to you to be fluent?

8:10 Why did you chose an imput based method to learn the language?

10:19 Why did you participate in the WISBOLEP competition?

14:03 Is it a good method to record yourself if you are a beginner?

15:46 Do you ever wanted to start out your own language learning podcast?

19:31 Stephen Krashen

21:09 How can you remember vocabulary by just reading to a lot of content?

23:28 And how about you? What do you prefer or do you do both methods equally (intensive and extensive listening)?

24:25 Do you use transcripts to learn from podcasts? How do you learn from podcasts?

25:44 By any chance, do you have any recommendations when it comes to reading a book

29:04 Do you know about the internet page called youglish.com?

30:25 Learning German

36:30 What kind of movies do you like to watch? Leo asks Daniel

38:32 About accents

41:57 End of the interview

42:03 Excerpt form Luke's English Podcast episode 703.

42:49 Outro: Special thank goes to Luke Thompson

43:19 Teaser/preview of BRAVE 85 episodes (spoken by Luke Thompson)

703. Walaa from Syria – WISBOLEP Competition Winner

Improve your English pronunciation using YouTube (youglish.com)

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In this episode, we have an interview with the great Wafaa from Iraq.

If you like the podcast, don't forget to subscribe so you won't miss any tips and tricks and get inspired for your language journey!

Learning together makes more fun!

1:27 short intro by Daniel Goodson

2:10 Is it common that people from Iraq speak English or learn English?

3:44 How long have you been listening to Luke's English podcast?

5:20 Wafaa tells about the methods to learn English by having regular Skype meetings.

7:29 Is this group open for everyone or is it a closed group?

8:09 Does this group session need to be prepared beforehand?

10:29 When will Wafaa see her "virtual friends" from the Skype group?

11:43 What method did Wafaa help the most to improve in her English?

12:12 Program in USA for Iraqi teachers

13:59 What goals in terms of English learning does Wafaa have?

15:29 One of Wafaa's top tips for learning a language

16:15 Shout out to Wafaa's Skype group

18:16 Teaser of episode 84 - Intervie with Alvaro from Spain How he overcame his stuttering

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Music:

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Nastya from Russia - Linguistics student from Moscow - talks about:

0:40 Who is Nastya? (introduction)

3:12 What does Linguistics mean? (granted, that question was a bit hard)

4:20 What is Nastya's grammar thesis all about? (Nastya is going to graduate next year)

6:14 Why did Nastya choose to read Stephen Krashen's book "language acquisition"?

7:57 Book challenge

9:17 Nastya shares her experience reading the book "language acquisition" by Stephen Krashen

13:20 Some methods Stephen Krashen covers in his book to become fluent

15:20 Do we need to look up every single word when listening to a podcast?

19:19 Nastya is an English and German teacher

21:25 Nastya's experience teaching during the pandemic

22:40 Let's talk about culture shocks

25:56 Podcast/YouTube recommendations

26:44 Adept English Podcast

27:57 Culips (Canadian English podcast)

28:54 Words and Their Stories

30:12 Rock n'Roll English

31:04 Today's main message: ENJOY!!!

32:11 Thank you very much Nastya! :)

Books and Articles by Stephen D Krashen (sdkrashen.com)

Links to Nastya's recommendations:

Learn To Speak English Fluently (adeptenglish.com)

🧠What Happens In Your Brain When You Learn A Second Language💜Ep 398

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Culips:

Chatterbox #259 – TikTok and internet privacy | Culips English Podcast

‎Words and Their Stories - VOA Learning English: Short-lived Success is a 'Flash in the Pan' - January 14, 2021 on Apple Podcasts

The Poland Pod (rocknrollenglish.com)

Spotify – Easy German | Podcast auf Spotify

WISBOLEP Competition Entries – Listen & Vote! | Luke’s ENGLISH Podcast (teacherluke.co.uk)

WISBOLEP - ROUND 1 [No voting]🎙🎉 85 AMAZING LEPSTERS STILL WORTHY OF YOUR ATTENTION - YouTube

her entry (audio message) begins at 2.50.06:

https://youtu.be/rsBttoN1UHA?t=10206

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A great interview with Ricardo from Spain (he originally came from Brazil).

Ricardo made a fake interview with Luke Thompson, the host of Luke's English podcast. Therefore, Ricardo used various audio clips from Luke's English podcast episodes and rearranged them and recorded some questions.

This is a fantastic quite unique approach to learn English! Kudos to Ricardo!

Thank you Ricardo for making us laugh! :)

Here is the full fake interview with Luke Thompson:

https://youtu.be/tXgO2hiXTVk

Ricardos top English native speaker podcast.

Year in Review -Top Stories and Headlines from the Running World in 2020

https://www.marathontrainingacademy.com/year-in-review-2020

12:15

IELTS Energy 981: Don’t Be a Worry Wart with Personality Slang

15 IELTS Slang Words to Describe Personality | All Ears English

Ricardo has made a reference to one of my previous guests, Tchales from Brazil, from ep. 82.

82 - Stories of Language learners - Tchales from Brazil.

https://myfluentpodcast.libsyn.com/82-stories-of-language-learners-tchales-from-brazil

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Let me introduce the BRAVE 85 series, in which we interiview people from all over the world.

Interview excerpts:

02:25 Nastya from Russia - Stephen Krashen - Language acquisition

04:48 Wafaa from Irak - Learn English with a Skype-group

07:11 Alvaro from Spain - How he overcame his stuttering (ep. 84)

09:02 Hamid from Pakistan - English teacher shares his wisdom (Ep. 83)

11:01 The Ricky Sendy show - Ricardo from Spain (Brazil)

16:28 Outro - Thank you

17:01 Call to action:

If you have a story to tell (somehow related to languages) drop me a message at myfluentpodcast@gmail.com

BTW:

We've already covered the method to interview people to become a better speaker on episode 11 "Get fluent by interviewing other people". Check it out!

It can boost your self-esteem :) You can believe me on that!

Listen to the other 85 LEPsters, from the WISBOLEP copetition, the BRAVE 85 , with sumptuous video footage of the UK and other locations https://youtu.be/rsBttoN1UHA

New Competition: Why I Should Be On LEP (WISBOLEP) https://teacherluke.co.uk/2020/09/16/681-new-competition-why-i-should-be-on-lep-wisbolep-story-the-first-time-i-said-fck/

The Ricky Sendy show - full interview with Luke Thompson:

https://youtu.be/tXgO2hiXTVk

Thank you for listening!

The language journey goes on!

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You will hear the following stories from Alvaro (Spain):

How he overcame his stuttering (19:44)
How he became an English teacher being an architect (32:22)
How he raised his children bilingually (biculturally) (42:52)

Don't forget to subscibe to the podcast! That way you are helping my fluent podcast to grow.

See also the YouTube version with subtitles:

https://youtu.be/mKF7qKT62zQ

McCOURTAIN: English Booster (@mc_courtain) • Instagram-Fotos und -Videos

McCourtain's Pills - YouTube

vocabulary I'd like to tackle:

word-of-mouth

turning point

[DOWNLOAD Audio Version of WISBOLEP Round 1 – 85 LEPsters – 310MB]

WISBOLEP Competition Entries – Listen & Vote! | Luke’s ENGLISH Podcast (teacherluke.co.uk)

️🎧 125. The Pink Gorilla Story - Luke's ENGLISH Podcast - Learn British English with Luke Thompson - Podcast (podinstall.com)

Travelling in Indonesia (Part 1) This was the episode Alvaro wanted to recommend, not part 2

https://teacherluke.co.uk/2014/08/29/208-travelling-in-indonesia-part-1/

Travelling in Indonesia (Part 2) | Luke’s ENGLISH Podcast (teacherluke.co.uk)

www.myfluentpodcast.com

Music:

Free Music Archive: Scott Holmes Music - Stomps and Claps

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Did you like this episode? You might also like the last episode 83 with Hamid from Pakistan, who was also a WISBOLEP competitor.

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Here is the YouTube version of the episode: https://youtu.be/rTbuThPqxGA?t=1

(don't forget to follow)

English teacher and lifelong learner Hamid shares with us what he had been learning during the last two decades when it comes to learning a new language.

How should we learn a language? It's quite simple.

Learn like a child!

In episode 83 of my fluent podcast, Hamid shares his tips and tricks in a spectacular way. Gripping. Simple. Understandable.

Let us all turn our Ego into an Egg!

Chapters

11:05

For the first week, Hamid doesn't teach his students English. Instead, he gives them general lectures about language learning - how to learn a language.

11:50

Which group is more successful when it comes to learning a language?

A. Language acquisition of the first language by children or

B. Language acquisition of the second language by adults?

13:40

The child starts listening first and then speaking - if you want to learn a language successfully, you should learn a language like a child. Listen and speak first.

20:08

Vocabulary is more important than grammar. But nevertheless, learn grammar at tha same time.

In the child's case, fluency comes first and then accuracy.

22:57

What could be an effective way to learn vocabulary?

26:05

The child plays, enjoys and learns!

The best teacher you can have is yourself. Do anything you like. Read, listen etc. do whatever you want.

Learn like a child.

28:48

The child is the better learner but still makes mistakes!

We learn by making mistakes.

Don't be afraid of making mistakes!

32:14

The child has no EGO issues.

Turn your EGO into an EGG and break it!

33:53

E comes before D! Remember that!

37:40

Learn English in English!

41:14

The child is playing and is in an ideal envirnonment and still needs about 10 years to command his language.

Is the child a bad learner?

10 years = 20 semesters.

Hamid recommends:

engVid
Luke’s ENGLISH Podcast | Learn British English with Luke Thompson (teacherluke.co.uk)
Oxford Learner's Dictionaries | Find definitions, translations, and grammar explanations at Oxford Learner's Dictionaries

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Full English Transcript.

In this interview based episode, you'll learn more about Tchales from Brazil and his language podcast "stories of language learners". Some things you are going to learn about English learner and future English teacher Tchales...

Tchale's English journey and how he became a podcaster
What helped him to become a confident English speaker
- Tchale's Breakthroughs in 2018
  - Platform cambly, in which Tchales could step out of his comfort zone and began to learn English in an active way
  - Program called connect and communicate by Stefanie, the English coach.
  - Meetup - you can meet people

Links for content mentioned in this episode:

Stories of language learners Podcast | Free Listening on Podbean App

https://www.podbean.com/ew/dir-6775p-bb6f18b

Stories of language learners Podcast - S1 EP 07: Getting a Job with English | Free Listening on Podbean App

Pat Flynn's YouTube video about how to start with podcasting in 2020:

How to Start a Podcast in 2020 - Setup, Strategy, Monetization & Fans - The Income Stream Day 69 - YouTube

The English Full:Time Fluency Breakthrough Challenge | English

Stories of Language Learners (@stories_of_language_learners) • Instagram-Fotos und -Videos

www.myfluentpodcast.com

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Why does Anthony not struggle when he learns languages? Learn more and listen to this interview based episode.

Memory trainer and author Anthony Metivier gave an interview for my fluent podcast. Join us!

You'll find the full transcript of the interview on www.myfluentpodcast.com

exactly here:

https://www.myfluentpodcast.com/81-magnetic-memory-method-podcast-anthony-metivier/

Topics:

What does speaking fluently mean?
How does Anthony get by when speaking German?
Why Anthony doesn't struggle when it comes to learning a language
How to overcome being overwhelmed!
The right mindset and acknowledging your fortune.
Anthony's next book will be about Zen :)

Recommended Magnetic Memory Method Podcast episodes:

How To Combine Mind Mapping And Memory Palaces With Phil Chambers
More are coming soon

Magnetic Memory Method Podcast Website

Recommended book "Victorious Mind":

https://www.amazon.com/Victorious-Mind-Master-Meditation-Well-Being-ebook/dp/B085D8M7S5

Anthony's YouTube Channel:

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Have you ever talked to yourself to learn a language? No? Maybe you should give it a try!

Robin MacPherson's video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxHKkfbcRKQ&t=1s

I'm glad about every feedback I get: myfluentpodcast@gmail.com

Daniel

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Are you thinking of IMPROVING your ENGLISH? Would you be open to doing it a bit DIFFERENTLY? How does learning English with board games sound?

Curious? In this episode I'm gonna give you a glimpse what it could be. I myself am in the waiting line to join the course. After I have participated I will give a indepth review.

Learn more about this unique ENGLISH through BOARD GAMES approach, and listen to my fluent podcast.

English through Board Games" course:

https://youtu.be/iBD3VTHLo3I

Teacher Zdenek's facebook channel:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjnJ9zou1d8ADDDOn0VgAUQ

Join Zdenek's Facebook group called "Leaning English with board games":

https://www.facebook.com/groups/468428644026753/?ref=group_header

Why is "English through Board Games" a great method to learn English?

https://youtu.be/zewXwB3p70Y

myfluentpodcast@gmail.com

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The link to the epsiode where Daniel got interviewed with Frank's feedback:

https://open.spotify.com/episode/78Eia4cHCk3GgSivH3qodJ

Episode 7: Daniel Goodson shows us how good an English learner can get.

"In today’s episode, Daniel Goodson joins us to talk about how much he loves learning languages. We discussed what he loves about learning English, what he finds difficult, and, most of all, what he does to improve. I believe he’s a great example of self-determination and motivation to learn English. We spoke about a lot of things, from accents, receptive and productive skills, code-switching and many more things."

Frank analysed Daniel's speech and gave feedback:

Frank's Podcast What you say in English:

https://open.spotify.com/show/3lJNuNJYccy1yhaU3ozJjN?si=F1G4PsnNQJaUgAYGDaht1A

https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9hbmNob3IuZm0vcy8yZTI4MTcyNC9wb2RjYXN0L3Jzcw==

Frank's Website:

https://whatyousayinenglish.wordpress.com/

You'll find Frank on Quora as well:

https://www.quora.com/profile/Frank-Carrizo-Zirit

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What do people like Kris Broholm, Kerstin Cable and other enthusiastic language learners think about that? Find out in this special epsiode in which Daniel is reading out loud some opinions.

What is your opinion? Share ist with us! myfluentpodcast@gmail.com

https://twitter.com/fluentlanguage/status/1308094380788584448?s=20

The Fluent show (Kerstin Cable)

https://www.fluent.show/hosts/kerstin

Dakota Abroad language

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbXelRzmh3w

easy languages

https://www.youtube.com/user/magauchsein

twitter.com

music:

Scott Holmes

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This is meant to be a bonus episode which comes from my other podcast called Quora knows best.

Have fun.

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Ahmad is sharing his language learning story with us!

If you want to share your story, send us an E-mail to myfluentpodcast@gmail.com

Podcasts mentioned in this show:

Football Daily podcast:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p08qt66t

Luke's English podcast:

teacherluke.co.uk

Interview with Luke on my fluent podcast:

https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/myfluentpodcast/E28_-_interview_Luke_Thompson.mp3

Tik Tok trailer to the interview on my fluent podcast:

https://www.tiktok.com/@myfluentpodcast/video/6835683333477846278?lang=en

Zdenek's English podcast

https://zdeneksenglishpodcast.podbean.com/

Transcript:

Thank you very much, mr. Daniel. My name is Ahmed Djago and I live in Senegal. Senegal is a country of a 16 million habitats in West Africa. And when it comes to learning a language, a second language or a third language, for me is, I mean, I have a very interesting story because when I tell somebody that I live in a country where the official language is not English and I've never attended an English school or an English institution and yet speak English the way I am speaking it this day it might amaze him, you know,

You have a flawless accent it seems to me,

Thank you, but thank you very much , the story is quite interesting for me because Senegal is a country where the official language is French because it has been colonized by the French. But here in Africa, when we say official language, mostly we don't mean that the official language is the language that is spoken by the vast majority or the whole population of the country. French is the official language but we have other national language, which is the language that is named Wolof. And that is actually the the most widely spoken language here, I can say something like 95% of the country's population is speak the same language but only those people who went to school for studying French, all those people who live in an area where the French speakers are to be found are actually able to speak French.

But for me, when I was about 14 years old, my father took me to Gambia. Gambia is our neighboring country. I went there merely (synonym `= only, purely, solely, simply) for learning Arabic. So I went there to learn Arabic but Gambia and Senegal are quite similar. They have lots in common. For example, our national languages are the same and I've been able to survive while there, but they have one different thing. And it is Gambia's official language is English. So, the people that go to school for learning English but their national language is still the same as our country, which is Wolof but I was surrounding (surrounded?) by some of my friends, some boys who were going to school to learn English and they were having some conversation around me in English, even though English was not the language that they were speaking in their daily lives, but I've been, I mean, I became fascinated with the way they use language sometimes around me. And I asked one boy, one of my friends there to teach me how to read English because before you can teach yourself. You have to, somebody has to guide you to do the basics. Something like being able to read the language first before you go for yourself. By the time I was learning Arabic, but this boy, this particular way helped me to teach me the English alphabet until I became able to read English myself.

And that was it. I was still speaking up some expression, some words in English, something like breakfast, brother, sister, school, things like that. Basic things.

I spent the next four years there in Gambia. Then I returned, I came back to my home country, which is Senegal to continue learning Arabic in Arabic schools in Senegal, around the year 2013. I have this desire to continue learning English because I realized that English is the most widely spoken language in the world.

It is the most popular language in the world. And just by being able to speak it, it will open, you know, lots of opportunities for you. And then by that time, I was able to use Arabic and English dictionary properly. I have been quite almost fluent in Arabic. And then I stumbled upon one day, one application in the form of, I mean, it was, I think the audio book but it was made, it was built up in a form of application.

I downloaded it from Apple store. And then I download the on English and Arabic dictionary, this particular application or the audio book, as you might call it's actually built in several sections. That was the beginner section, intermediate and advanced section, but in the form of stories, For example, they will pick up a small story something like breakfast, and a write a text, a very short text about it.

So when I downloaded this application, I thought, wait a minute. Now I can teach myself English without needing any teacher or going to school. So I found a notebook and began writing those stories in my notebook. One story a day. This is how I did it. I will pick a story.

You wrote it down the whole story you've made kind of a dictation out of it. You'd listen to it. And then you wrote it down.

I will open the application and write down the story in my notebook and then download the voice file and listened to it several times until I became convinced that I can read it myself without listening to the voice. And then I would use the dictionary, Arabic English dictionary to translate the new word for me and write down the meaning in Arabic beside the words.

And then by the time I was in Arabic school, but I have some free times during the day I I would use those free times to learn these stories. Learn. repeating them for the rest of the day until you know, this is the way I use to gain so many vocabularies for the next, let's say five years.

Okay. That means you were very focused on particular stories. It says, right? So you just stick to one story until you could learn it by heart ?

yes, the stories are not that long. You know, it is built in a way that's usually 10 to 11 lines.

see.

For example, let me give you an example, a breakfast. He will write a about breakfast about 10 lines, just 10 lines, for example. I am Ahmad. I will wake up early in the morning. I take my breakfast. My breakfast is made out of bread and things and these and these and that I will write down that story, short story and learn it by heart. And the next day I will take the next story.

Yeah, that sounds great to me.

So so this is the most effective way of gaining new vocabularies, because you will learn the vocabulary in context. There, you will have the grammatical construction, and the words are being used in sentences. And you will learn how to use them yourself. If you need them in the future.

Yeah, I think today the danger lies in being overwhelmed by the vast resources out there. So that it seems to me that we can't stick to one resource, you know, you want to consume more and more and more, and maybe that's dangerous because we can't remember things we just want to consume.

it makes it hard in a way to just stick with one book, for example, and to learn it by heart.

Yes. But the learners should be very careful about being bugged down with lots of research, lots of resources, lots of materials. When it comes to learning a language, because today the internet is making the things, you know, it is a huge field. If you are not being careful enough you might get yourself in a difficult situation.

You have to focus. You have to choose wisely. What do you believe that it's going to take you to the next level and stick to it! So, somebody might wonder how can you become able to speak the language by just writing stories and things like that because that is just input just by me, but by making just input one cannot become able to use the language by speaking or by writing, you know? By that time, my pronunciation by the way was not good at all. So, there was videos that was produced by BBC six minutes English. And I was downloading those videos which teaches the English Letters that people should learn when they want to pronounce English properly.

And I think is, is about 44 letters, isn't it?

Yeah, I think I, I know this show they also had, or have a podcast which is still going on. I think.

Yes. This is the videos that are downloaded too polish and to brush up my pronunciation pads (`?) and I was writing them down as well in a notebook, something like a "schwa" sound, things like that, by the way, I prefer British English. And that's why I focused on those videos until I became satisfied with the way I pronounced words in English.

By that time I was also listening to some podcasts as well. I discovered a guy an English teacher who lives in the UK by the name of Luke I discovered this particular podcast around the year 2014. Yes. And I was listening to it. Yeah. Like a mad person, every single time.

Yeah, he's really great luke Thompson and I have conducted an interview with him about two or three years ago. So he was also on my fluent podcast. Maybe you noticed.

Yeah, I noticed I listened to the episodes in which he featured on. I listened to, Zdenek Lukas also, who is actually another guy who's producing very, very interesting topic, by the way, I am a big fan of Zdenek. am listening to his podcasts, especially if he's livestreaming these days.

It is quite interesting. These are the guys. That I was listening dearly listening every single time. And by listening to them, I see the progress in my listening ability.

Yeah, I totally agree with you. I am also a fan of Zdenek's English podcast of course his live shows are just amazing.

Yeah, they are amazing.

And did you listen to other podcasts as well? Can you recommend other podcasts?

Yes, I am a big football fan and I listened to some football podcasts football related podcasts, like the football daily from the BBC Firefly and six Oh six also that this might be not the cup of tea of some listeners out there, because there are so many people who don't like football at all, but this is the thing that interested me and when you're listening to something that you love, you're more likely to gain, you know, to reap the rewards by the way, to gain a lot from it.

So something that is enjoyable. I'm listening to lots of podcasts. I'm listening to, some news podcasts but these two are my prime podcasts, my prime ones, Luke's English podcast. And it's Zdenek and of course your podcast, which I discovered during the lockdown.

Thank you

I love the way you pronounce words and it is quite clear and your vocab man podcast, it is actually very amazing.

Thank you very much. It's really kind of you . Have you ever considered or contemplated to make your own podcast maybe because you have a lot of knowledge you could share it to other learners as well.

Well, actually, maybe I'm not sure at the moment, because by the way, I'm a teacher right now. I teach Arabic in our government elementary schools here in Senegal. And, we only have three months a year, three months over summer occasions every single year. But the school activities are quite hectic.

That's why I'm not sure, but I, you know, you make me feel that maybe I will follow you on your footsteps one day because you know, inspire me a lot. You may you make me feel like, yeah, it is possible for me as well, because yeah absolutely inspired by you.

Maybe one day

my English.

So you were listening to a lot of podcasts and then your journey went on, I guess.

Yes, it's going on at the moment. I consider myself as a beginner and I'm talking to you now but I have a problem here. Until I listened to one episode of your podcast recently about the guy who was from Quora on who lives in India. I forgot the name of him. because until recently I.

I was this mad vocabulary hungry man. Somebody who writing down every single word vocabulary that he come across. But then I realized that I have so many passive vocabularies in my bank. As I'm talking to you there, I have some notebooks that I used to write down some vocabularies. And I barely use those vocabularies because they are so passive. You know, when I listened to that guy, he made me relaxed and sit down once again, because he was saying about when you have about 5,000 to 10,000 vocabulary in your bank, you have to focus on how to use them rather than getting related thing, some new vocabulary that you don't need it.

So a wise man, and I,

yay.

real with you because it's the same here that I used to learn a lot of as you mentioned, passive vocabulary, which I wouldn't never use . just for the pleasure of learning but. Yeah, I should also focus more on the vocabulary I want to use.

Yeah.

Yeah, this is a thing. Again, the language is actually a vast, vast thing. A very huge, gigantic thing that. There are some areas that you can master and talk about fluently, and they have some specific vocabulary that you are going to need when you want to talk about them. But there are some areas where you will have no knowledge about, for example, I cannot talk about doctors related, vocabularies, hospitals, things like that, medical English, I mean,

so, this is my opinion about learning second language or third language. First of all, you know, you have to love the language. You have to love the language that you're learning. You have to have the passion and the determination and you have to dedicate, you have to find a time to do it because without love and but the determination of learning the language, nobody can teach you. No, even if you have the most skilled teachers, they still cannot feed you, spoonfeed you the language unless you have the determination to learn it. I have this determination to learn the language to this level. That's why I am here today. There are some people around me here who have the opportunity and they've already mastered the first language that they can use to learn a second language, but maybe they don't have the determination they didn't find a way of, I mean, to do it because they don't love it.

listened to some people talking about find Enjoyable way of learning the language. I mean, let's not lull ourselves into a false sense of security. We have to realize that when you're learning a language, you have to put some extreme effort. If you want to reach your goal, you don't have to just do some little things at day unexpecting to reap the rewards.

I mean, For me, you have to put a lot of work,

Yeah, absolutely. Absolutely. And

this is what I believe.

Yeah, and I think it is crucial to be consistent. Consistency is key. And I think even if you'll learn, let's say 20 minutes a day, if you can keep up with this for a very long period of time, then you will reach your goal. One day, well, maybe

Yes.

every three years, but you have to be determined yes.

To just go your journey and make your things.

That consistency that you said? When I, when I was learning the language throughout the last five years, some friends of mine, you know, sometimes tease me, you know, about me carrying this notebook everywhere I go and reading, they will use it. Tell me to tell me that I'm. You are a mad person. What are you doing here?

This, this is not our official language wasting your time. And they considered me as somebody who's doing absolutely nothing, but, you know, they don't see. I mean, I don't see either way is seeing things then.

Yeah, because while it's your passion, see that. And I find this is just great. you are serious about this and that's why you carry your notebook with you. And it's similar here in Switzerland because. English is not the, it's not one of the official languages here. We we have Italian, we have French, we have German and retro romantic, but English is not one of the official languages.

So, but for me, that's not important because it's just a passion of mine and I like to learn English. Yeah.

Yes. Yes. This is a case as well. So in Switzerland you have so many languages as well.

Yeah, exactly. Yeah.

Okay. And yeah. In Senegal we have about six Oh seven languages, but those languages are not popular the most popular one, as I told you his Walof and then a French you on there is a language that is called, Polar? French is the official language I chose the different way.

So some people, by the way, I was, I belong to so many WhatsApp groups that I join every now and then to practice my English. Some people used to ask me why, how can you speak English while living in a French speaking country?

But my use by my usual and my most frequent answer is, you know, this is my passion and I want to learn several languages. It's not just French. And Wolof by the way, I learned Arabic to the fluency level and I learned English. Maybe I'm not that good in English. I'm learning French as well. And my mother tongue language.

Uh, so these four languages are acutally the lanugages I'm working on at the moment.

So you mentioned what's up groups before, and I'm wondering, how did you find this groups and do your, recommend it as a method to improve in our target languages?

Yes, I would definitely recommend WhatsApp groups for those English learners to join and practice their languages. It is one of the things that I used to practice. Especially my speaking part around the year 2016 a friend of mine introduced me to his other friend who was administrating an English group and I think the guy lives in Afghanistan. And I joined the group and I was this very passionate learner. And I was joining every single day. And I was sending about nearly a hundred messages a day. And I will speak about nearly everything and then I became familiar with lots of English. I mean, the guys keep passing my numbers to some other groups and until I become widely known among English groups and this is very, very interesting because by joining these WhatsApp English clubs, you can practice at any time you want, because maybe I don't have appropriate time to schedule some lessons on Italki because I don't know. I can schedule a speaking session and then missed it. That's why I I'm very careful about maybe about that maybe in my summer vacations, but when I'm in the school year when I'm going to school, I only use WhatsApp, English groups to practice my English because I can use them anytime in the morning and evening and the nights.

Okay. I see. But are there people who are correcting you or is it just that you get your practice with WhatsApp or how can I imagine this? Or is it topic related or can you just talk about anything? I didn't understand it works. I mean, it's just a bunch of people who want to practice together?

Yeah. Yeah, it is how it works, sometimes there are some topic related groups. I mean, some groups that are providing topics every single day. So every member on the. Have their say about the given topic to answer the questions, but there was always some expert in English. Some people who are very good at English, some futures by the way, sometimes correct us and you know, make things up for us basically. Because when you, when you begin speaking practice, you're speaking, but you don't have the time to think because they're speaking, writing are quite different. I didn't even think correctly before you pin it down. But when you're speaking, you don't have the time to maybe think, Oh, you going to make so many mistakes.

And those people will use to correct mistakes. And sometimes we will give some grammatical topics and people would discuss it.

So, there are very skilled persons on the WhatsApp group it's like everyone is helping each other out in a way and together people can improve. It's great.

Everyone will help each other. There was always some different levels in WhatsApp, some intermediate learners, some advanced learners and the beginning learners and will help each other. For example, if I am an intermediate learner and I see some people, I listened to message of one of my friends or one of the groups member, and he made a mistake, I will send another message,

I will send the message to this particular person and correct his mistakes and telling him how to say and how to say it correctly. Things like that. This is how we used to do it though. you have to listen to your own voice message and correct yourself if it's possible.

If you cannot correct yourself, you will ask some of the admins or. Some people out there to listen to your audio and to give you some feedbacks.

Okay. I understand. Yeah. In my opinion, recording yourself and listening to it. It's really a great way to improve yourself because. If you have reached a certain level of English, you can analyze, you will be able to analyze your own speech up to a certain point, and can become even better by repeating the process, I guess.

Yes, this is the part of recording yourself. Although it is not always enjoyable to listen to your own voice. Sometimes I listen to my voice and feel unhappy about the way I speak. And yes it is. I also used to, I forget to tell you this. I used to record myself on my cell phone. I scheduled , three or four months ago.

No, six months ago that I'm going to record myself talking. In English for about 10 minutes a day and then listen to it. And I was doing it for about two months, allthough I feel guilty now because enough, but if I continue doing this particular activity I'll be, you know, it is, it is crucial. It is very, very good.

Yeah. that's why I don't like that much attending classes. let's say if you have one class or one lesson a week. That's just not enough. And on top of that, if there are, let's say 20 pupils attending and then maybe you get three minutes of speaking time of speaking practice, then that's just not enough.

and that's why I like the idea to record yourself or to attend in this WhatsApp groups. That you mentioned before. I think it's, it's crucial to maintain, make like , a ritual or yeah. To set up your daily practice.

Yes I did understand, you know, this is the problem of the traditional way of teaching the language at school, because you will attend the school for several years, without being able to construct correct sentence in the language that you're learning.

People are going to school to have. A paper. Uh, and then I achieved my bachelor degree and this and that. But when you ask them to write or to speak about the language in which they have that degree, they are going to struggle to do. For example, I can give you an example. I can give you an example here in my country.

Some students went to the university in Senegal out when they have a bachelor degree, will go to the university and some of them will go to the English department. And some people here have their master's degree in English, but when I speak to them, I mean, I feel like these people are actually beginners. They cannot speak English at all. It amazes me.

because they just know the theoretical way or the theory behind it but they didn't put it into practice I guess or

Yeah,

That is

correct. When they listen to you speaking, they can spot their mistakes and the good and the bad things about the way you speak, but when they themselves, trying to speak, they have, I mean, they will struggle to make a correct sentence. And is why I love self studying because when a particular person decide to study a language by himself or herself, It means that he had the passion, because it is your own decision.

you take your own decision to learn the language. And primarily it means that you love what you're doing. That's why you take it independently by in your own hands. So in, in that particular case, you're going, you're definitely going to see some progress.

Yeah, I agree with you and you will have the responsibility if you don't be consistent then you really need to keep moving.

That is consistently. If you, if you are determined enough, you'll go into how to be consistent in my opinion, because you will love what you're doing. And you're going to definitely unless you give up in the early stages, because at the beginning it might be very tough and you might see no progress at all in those particular common.

So many people have given up learning because, Maybe it is not pleasant. It is not enjoyable for them but sometimes I think you need to have some inspiration. Some people who inspire you to continue. That's why listening to podcasts are very, very, very good. Because in listening to podcasts you're going to find someone who inspires you.

Particularly when you are living in a country where the language that you're learning is in, I mean, it's not spoken there. You will not come and seeing people around you speaking the language. So you need to be inspired every now and then. So listening to some podcasts and linking up with people like mr. Daniel, is, is that going to, we'll be inspired and want to do more.

Yeah, absolutely. And it's kind of funny because I mean I got my inspiration by other podcasters as well. For example, maybe, you know him, Kris Broholm, who also have a podcast called actual fluency. And while he me a lot and he was a reason why I started out with my podcast.

And it goes on one inspires another person and then me, I inspire someone else and it's like a living thing it's so beautiful. I don't make any money out of this. this is my hobby. I just like it. But when I hear messages this that I inspire other people that makes it worth for me. you can't pay money to give the same fealing because I just want to help other people. it's, it's a great thing. And I absolutely recommend to everyone to start their own podcast or maybe to be creative in another way it must not be podcasting.

They may be other things that are also good and creative in a way.

Yeah, it's a, that's very kind of you I'm amazed about how far you've gone to help people, you know, giving people a helping hand always makes you feel happy. yeah. I know Chris. I listened to actual fluency by the way. I think he's a polyglot, isn't it?

Yeah.

comes

from

Denmark.

And we live in,

denmark. Yes. And Chris invites lots of polyglots and language enthusiasts and he talks about different aspects related to language learning. Yes, I do. Listen. I do listen to him every now and then. Yeah. I mean, Chris is a great man as well.

Yeah. And actually with everyone that I had an interview or a conversation, it was just so great to make this connection and in a way to learn about different people from different countries. And I think that language learning connects people in a way. And even if we don't know the person in flesh but in a way we are like connected and the it's just a great, it's so beautiful.

yeah. It is the thing. The thing that makes the world a small city, people will connecting together even though they are living in a far away places they know if they feel they live. So I know for example, I'm talking with you. I live in Senegal in a farm in West Africa, and this is the magic of language.

This is the only thing that can do it is a language that. That is the only thing that help being able to connect together and understand each other and share our knowledge and our feelings. You know, I mean, nothing is like that. Nothing is actually bigger than that for me.

So textbooks are, or take a great part in your language learning. And can you recommend specific books or would you rather say that every learner is different has to choose a different book? Or I don't know if you can share something about that.

Yeah, it's a text book is a, actually the thing that helped me to get here today but two people are different, you know, some people might be, I mean, might prefer to go another way. Some people. learn language in a different way, but for me, I can only recommend what I've gone through and what I, what I knew.

I learned it via textbooks and by the way, everybody can download this particular application. It's called English speaking and listening English and speaking and listening. And it is actually. Built in six sections, I think.

And there are some basic topics that everybody can write down and read just to make your input quite impressive.

It will help you to gain so many vocabulary words at the beginning. And then if you've already have a first language like English or another language that you can use

to translate the unknown words. I am not recommending people to just reading it once or twice and then leave it there. You'll have to put, you have to give it a time and effort.

Write them down in a notebook. Yeah. And study them, review them several times. And by doing this, you'll see a progress fast, very, very fast. So, why I prefer this textbook way of learning a language, because as I told you, at the beginning, you will gain the vocabularies. Construction of the sentences and the grammatical way of saying things and writing things. I mean, it is a complete package for me. That's why I recommend it rather than, you know, learning a language by acquiring some vocabularies, some lonely vocabularies. I mean, that is not the purpose of learning language.

If you're learning a language by just learning just one vocabulary, go on, you know, see things like that. Maybe you will struggle to use them later.

Yeah.

So I'm not recommending anybody, just one particular textbook. You can find any textbook that you can find in a topic that interests you. For example, if you're a football fan, try to find a basic textbook that speaks or talks about football. If you're a drama or musician person, find something related to that field, that particular aspect.

And Read it put some efforts on it. you will see how fast will go.

what do you think? About watching series or movies to improve in your target language.

Yeah. I believe this is also a very interesting thing. When it comes to learning language, I think it can help, but for me, it's not my cup of tea. Maybe I don't have time to do it, but I don't deny that it is very, very interesting and it can help you to improve you're listening ability but you know, for me, when it comes to listening, I prefer podcasts. Because , it is sort of all, you can do it while you can listening to podcasts while doing some other things.

Yeah.

while running , it is something very convenient when it comes to listening. By watching movies, you only have to sit down and being focused on the television or the internet, to do it.

But when you are somebody like me who moves around, you know, very often I prefer podcasts. Yeah. But if somebody actually prefer watching movies, series and documentaries for practicing the English, if that particular thing interests them, I would recommend them to do that because doing something that you love. It's crucial when it comes to learning language.

Absolutely. I agree with that a hundred percent, so, okay. I think I wanna thank you very much for your time and your story. I don't know. Maybe you have a question or something you want to add.

Okay, well I just want to thank you. You know, you are the first person who gave me this opportunity to express myself. I've never conducted a, conducted an interview before, by the way. , I, have very interesting story when it comes to learning language and I wanted to get it out of my system to help out, to help others, people like me who want to learn second language you are the person who give me the opportunity to make it happen.

And I, I thank you. I'm thinking you deeply in my heart and I wish you all the best.

And I have to thank you. Thank you very much for tuning in, on my fluent podcast and also the vocab man. And I mean, without you, it not be possible, or I would not see any reason to record these podcasts, you know, so I am really thankful for that. And for all of your knowledge, Which you shared with us, and maybe we can catch up, on another day.

Yeah, it's very kind of you. It's my pleasure. I'm very happy. And I'm looking forward to do that in the future.

Hey, thank you. Thank you. Thank you very much. Have a nice day.

bye.

Thank you. Bye. Okay.

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I was born in Moscow and I've been living here in Moscow for all my life, you know, So, English is not, the first language that I learned the first language that I intentionelly learned was German and, I reached the C one level. And after reaching it, I decided not to move to Germany. And so, 10 years left and, I can admit that I have already almost everything forgotten, you know, and one year ago I decided to, learn English because it's the, the most popular, the most spoken lingua franca yes in the world. And so, I took free intensive language courses, in the language school here in Moscow.

And then I understood that, it's not enough, go to the courses and to learn that English, we should like, you know, immerse ourselves in English as much as possible. And at this moment, I started watching a lot of series on Netflix, YouTube, videos, Ted talks that is written, a lot of writings, articles, newspapers and so on.

and then I realized that, my ability to speak is not really good in order to solve this problem, I decided to, To start learning, like, study language, with a native speaker. I think when you reach, a high level of any language, it's better to learn it, with native speaker because only they can feel, this deep meanings in phrases. Yes. or something like this.

So that means It was kind of your idea. You got the idea to take lessons on itutaki. Is that right?

Yes, exactly. And, so at the beginning of this year, I started learning English. So is, It's Udemy? And Italki. Exactly.

So how many lessons did you have on Italki?

I've had about, 20 or 30, lessons with, with, uh,a tutor yes, something like this and what's interesting there are lots of tutors there on by talking and it's relatively hard to choose, someone whom you can work with. Yeah, because everyone expects, diverse, things.

Yeah. Expectations, Someone wants to learn like drama. other people want, to improve their writing skills. other people just want to, have, conversations with people and, when you leave. in a country where English is not official language, and people don't really speak English well, then, these platforms, like Itakie or something else, they can really help you to find someone and especially someone who is qualified to teach, English as a foreign language.

How exactly did you pick your teacher? One that suits your learning style?

So, yes, as I said, it was difficult because, I saw about a hundred profiles. It's not a joke.

Did you watch the introduction videos?

Yes. so on I talk to each, teacher, each tutor, has, his profile page.

and in this page you can find some description about, this tutor. You can find some information about how experienced they are and they also provide their like video introducing about themselves they tell us, which approach they have , how they teach us English and.

So I didn't want to find just someone who I can speak with, because, so it depends some people can learn any language by speaking. it's not about me at all. I need to read a lot, I need to write a lot. and I need, like, you know, Like, prepare, something, before the fall lesson and after watching about a hundred profiles on Italki, I choose about four or five tutors, that I found interesting from him. and, so I started. Nowadays I have one tutor that, is perfect for me.

Oh,

okay. So, so first you took lessons with several teachers and then you decided and picked one, is that correct?

Or yes, exactly. I had, so first, trial, you know, trial lessons with, three, different teachers. and, I chose one . Italki provides, an opportunity to take like trail lessons, with, with a tutor, it costs less than usual, lesson with them.

And, what is the teacher doing that you can improve in your language? I mean, does he correct you? How can we imagine a lesson?

Okay. So I chose a tutor who sent me, like a homework. Usually it is, an article from a newspaper or it could be also a video and with this material , He also , sends me like questions. Yeah. I need to work on this material. So, so, for example, let's imagine that it is an article, any article. So I read this article. I. Underline some words, some phrases that I don't understand or I'm not quite sure, what it means and, when we start our lesson we discuss, I tell him, like a summary about this article, what I think about, this, topic. generally, then I ask some questions what a have about, particular phrases, words. he explains me, and, yes. And, throughout our conversation about this, he also provides, some explanation, when I, tell him something wrong like mistakes and so on. yes. And, like, and in onothher part writing, so, he sent me, questions on. On these materials and I helped to write, some text. it doesn't matter how long it will be. So it depends on me. and, we discuss the texts.

We find together, some mistakes and he explains why I was wrong in this place of text or, how to say something better. Nice. So this is Allah ordinary, lesson. And

could you give instructions to the teacher? I mean, maybe you wanted to have things in a certain way or was it that the teacher has his style and he explained to you how the lesson works and then it, happened like the teacher wanted it to be, I mean, do you have a say in it how the procedure goes on?

Or of course, so, yes, you can always adjust your lesson and approach that. you and your teacher, have throughout this lessons, you can, for example, you can choose a topic that you want to discuss just cause, or you, you can ask it.

So, basically you can ask everything you want. Yes. It's about language you can ask any questions. And if this question doesn't relate to the topic, it doesn't matter. So, first of all, secondly, yes, you can adjust, the lesson and approach, that you have. for example, I asked my tutor, that we have more conversations throughout lessons and no problem.

could you improve your language skills drastically after the 20 or 30

lessons you had.

I can tell you that, I became more confident about language. so as I understand this process of learning language it's a matter , of your immersion in language.

You can immerse yourself, in English with, or without a teacher. It doesn't matter. but a teacher can help you to make it better and more quickly and so I think that after this amount of lessons, I became more confident at least.

Okay, great. And, are there , other tricks you want to give to language learners? I let's say you, you find a teacher for three bucks. would you say it is more wise to go for a more expensive teacher you know, I think it's like personal thing. Yeah. you can like someone. just because of voice or appearance or something like this. I don't think that it's the best thing because if you're, if you feel comfortable with someone is better. Certainly. so what I will suggest, first of all, you have to watch a profile of teacher. you have to understand, which approach they have because so basically , there are a lot of tutors there, who like speaking.

Yes. They think that, speaking and having conversations is, the essential thing. , but by learning a language, it's, it's true. But, you can have conversations with, with any person you want. It's not necessary that this person will be a tutor or a qualified teacher.

Yes from qualified teacher, I expect that they have their own, approach how to teach, people better. And. So I, I think that if you just want to have conversations, There are, tutors who are not qualified is just, people who, want to speak, who maybe they also learn, for example, your language and two, you can like, exchange, your knowledge yes.

Between, languages. But if you want to start there, so choose a qualified tutor.

Okay. What about the VIDEO what happens after the lesson? Do you keep it,you save the video files from the lesson to learn from it or. It doesn't matter at all.

So usually I don't record, our lessons. sometimes I do it, and, I do it, if the topic is important for me.

or if I feel that I'm not really well like seasoned, in this, on, on this topic and, The reason why I record will be like, I want to listen it later on and I understand my weaknesses. So usually it's about this because, each mistake I make, each, mispronounced, pronunciation.

my tutor will suggest me. How I should say this or this thing. And so it doesn't turn the matter, but, it's quite a useful if you want to realize your weaknesses. Okay.

Okay. And do you think, is this method also good for shy learners? I mean, taking lessons online. Or is it a, maybe be a problem? I mean, you are there with a foreigner and there is the camera. do you think it is never the last, a good method for that? So Orwell, they feel awkward.

You mean if it doesn't is shy? Yeah. maybe, maybe, but, what, Oh, what I can say about this or that qualified teachers? They usually, . They usually experienced, working with shy people. Yes. And they can, and they can, like improve their self esteem or self esteem of , students. And I think first of all, for, for shy people, if you start start, your lesson online and do you feel like you're completely. A disaster, you can always switch off.

Okay. so I will suggest, you'd better try. Yes. And if you feel, that it's not your thing, then maybe it's better to go to some language school, or

do you remember any awkward situation in a lesson. And maybe with your first teachers,

in the trial lessons maybe, or, or anything that was funny or an anecdote or something that comes to mind, maybe not, but, I'm just asking.

so it's all this, really. How to describe this. It's like, you're always a bit self conscious when you speak a foreign language.

And therefore if you don't know a simple word that is really simple in your language, or like, I don't know, like smartphone. Yes. If you don't know this word is, it's always like, Oh, my God. What's wrong with me. Yeah.

Yeah.

And, but so we have to realize, we have to understand that, language doesn't come into our brain by, on their own or on its own.

we have to just to start it to start the heart. And so they're very them. Will be, no situation that we, , may or can feel, , like embarrassed maybe. Yeah. It's just a learning process.

I took several lessons, , actually on Italki,

but

that is about some years ago. And the funny thing about is that I felt more comfortable with a Chilean teacher who, who taught me English, you know, it's, it's just a funny thought, I think because, well, it is a non-native teacher, but for me, he was the best teacher. And because for me was not like a lesson . It became like a friend, you know, we, we talked a lot. We had the Skype conversations, but it was not like, like a English lesson. It was just like talking together with, with a friend. So I remember that that was awesome.

I ended up, I think it's sometimes happens when , it's huge and the student became friends. it could be, it could be,

yes. Yeah. And what about your future, or do you have any plans? Will you stick with this plan and take more lessons online or where is your language journey taking you?

so I don't have a really particular like goals. Yes. In this. I just want to improve my English and. like not only into the language, but also into the culture, this American culture, or maybe British culture. so, so my plan is to, to learn step by step at yes. At not really fast pace of just ordinary.

Yeah,

that sounds like a great plan to me because I don't like the notion or, three, learn a language in three months or so. I don't like that

because yes, of course.

Yeah.

First of all, it's impossible to learn any language in three months. we should admit it.

Thank you. See you. Bye. Thank you very much. Bye.

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What's your opinion about the ad saying: "Speak German fluently in a month?" We asked learners from Spain, the USA and other countries about their opinion. Listen up and enjoy this week's episode:

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Daniel: Can you become fluent in a month? This is today's topic. I am your host Daniel Goodson

Matt: So there is a advertisement from a well known company that says speak German fluently in a month. Okay. 19 hours and blah, blah, blah. Yeah. That's just very funny to me always. It's just marketing to me because first off, what is fluently?

Alani: It's an interesting pitch I would say it's probably not true. I don't think it's possible to, start from zero.

Patrick: That sounds amazing. Why spend the 700 to 800 hours that most sources cite for fluency when it can be done at 19, seriously, you get a solid service there. Don't mess up your reputation with bands like that.

Zdenek: It's selling people a dream that cannot be achieved unless you are a genius.

Gabriel: I'm not saying that it's not possible. Okay. Maybe it is possible, but their ad, of course is not paying attention to the important aspects of that. You know, that process, which is you need to be 200% motivated. You have to work your ass off in order to be able to actually get fluent just in one month.

Juan: You cannot learn a language in one month, three months, or even in three years - okay. I don't really like this kind of things.

Irene: Hi, I'm Irene from Spain. I'm both teacher and student on . And I would say that this statement can't be true, unless you already have some previous knowledge.

Matt: Maybe if you dropped me in to a room with a. Don't tell my wife with a supermodel with Heidi Klum and we have to stay together for one month. Maybe I would be getting much better for it.

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So guys, first and foremost, I want to give a disclaimer. I am not an affiliate to Italki. This episode is more about the notion to become fluent in a specific period of time. Mostly you hear the term one year or three months. And to be more specific in our case in the advertisement It's in one month by taking 19 one on- one lessons. Well, it's just a great topic and I stumbled upon these advertisement again and again. So Italki, which is a huge platform on which you can find online teachers or learners thought I was learning German. And showed me their advertisement again and again. You can have a look in my show notes. So. Basically, I asked to different guests of my fluent podcast who already appeared on the podcast show or are going to appear. So, but I also asked other learners. And just so you know, for example, I integrated Matt's opinion. You can have a listen to his interview on episode 71. Or Juan from Espanol con Juan who got interviewed on episode 70 just to name a few. but now. Without any further ado, let's dive into today's question. Is it possible to become fluent in German? In a month. By taking 19 one on one lessons. Oh, I almost forgot to tell you that I have made a full transcript of the whole episode. So for those one want to read along while listening just go to my show notes.

Matt:

I highly highly doubt that you can do that in one month. Language is a long, long marathon. It's a long journey and we're always improving little by little in one month. Maybe if you dropped me in to a room with don't tell my wife with a supermodel with Heidi Klum and we have to stay together for a month maybe I would be getting much better for it.

Daniel: And it's hilarious.

Matt: One month. I don't know, fluidly. I still don't believe that. Yeah. What do you think about that? You see these a lot around. NA?

Daniel yes. I see. Well, as you said, it's, it's just marketing, you know, and it's clickbait as well, but I don't know, maybe some learners who don't know how it works maybe they get tricked a bit. So that's why I don't find it that good to do such an advertisement, but I find it hilarious to ask my guests also because my podcast is called my fluent podcast for everyone it means something different what it means to be fluent.

Matt: Fluent is such a difficult word. I mean, we can be fluent in another language in one situation because it's our hobby because we like it. But then let's speak about gardening. Or my son was born he's six years old was born in Germany, for example. So I know a lot of words about having a baby in German, but I don't know those words in Italian or even in English, there may be some words I'm missing because I never had that experience. That specific targeted group of vocabulary there. Yeah. Yeah. I think we can be fluent in some moments and then one hour later I could be a complete beginner again.

Yeah, sure.

Alani: And yeah, this advertisement is interesting, you know, speak German fluently in a month. I mean, it's an interesting pitch, you know, from Italkie I would say it's probably not true. I don't think it's possible to start from zero. Or if people are thinking starting from zero, no, it's probably not possible to learn fluently. Like maybe perfectly in a month. I think it's possible to get started speaking and having classes completely in your target language in one month. But I don't think that means that you're fluent necessarily.

Gabriel: Well, I would say, we have to be realistic in the end we are in a world that is a capitalist world or society and where we're basically in the two in order to gain a customer you need to have a catchy headline or a catchy ad. So I would say that these type of ads are catchy because it's like, Oh, you know, fluent in Germany one month. And it's like, Oh my God, in one month? That's really, really good. So in the end, maybe it's possible. I'm not saying that it's not possible. Okay. Maybe it is possible, but their ad of course is not paying attention to the important aspects of that. You know, that process, which is you need to be

a hundred percent, not a hundred percent, 200% motivated. You need to dedicate so much time to that because you need to have to make a big effort, you know, and you have to work really hard. You have to work your ass off in order to be able to actually get fluent just in one month. I think that a person should be like talking every single day, two or three times at least. To be able to, to acquire that kind of fluency. Definitely. Yeah, but the thing is that you see these everywhere, not only on ads that's sponsored ads, that's also on YouTube. You know, that sometimes YouTube videos that you see are catchy as well. the title, the headline is catchy, you know, trying to call your attention. The problem is that because you see it everywhere, people really believe that these kinds of things can happen. And in the end you can acquire a good level in like one month and he's like, Oh, hang on. You know,

Zdenek:

Yeah, I have to say, I don't like this advert at all. I think it's unfair. It's basically taking advantage of the fact that people don't know anything about language learning. And if they do, they will probably never click this kind of advert because it's blown out of proportion. It's selling people a dream that cannot be achieved unless you are a genius. Most people are not able to do something like that. It's not really feasible. It's just an underhand tactic, really, because you're trying to sell a product you're trying to make money. Of course. And I think these adverts should be more considerate and they sh they should be done in a more careful way. And if you promise something, it should be something attainable and not anything like this.

Juan: Oh, I think don't, I don't really like this kind of things I didn't know that I was doing this kind of publicity because I collaborated with them for a while. When a teacher or companies make these kind of promises, it's very silly because you cannot get fluent in any language that's a waste of a month. No.

Daniel: What, whether you think, yeah, I totally agree with you. But the ad is very catchy.

Juan: Well, no, well, yeah. I don't know where they are doing this because they did it. He used to live this kind of thing.

Daniel: Yeah. I'm, I'm not sure why, because I think that a lot of people know about Italki and they are very popular.

Juan: No, but I think, I mean, I talk, it is, it's a company where you got can find online teacher. There's nothing wrong with this. Yeah.

Daniel: I had lessons there and yeah. And it was great.

Juan: Yeah. Is that like, it's like a Uber for more or less, all the companies promise three months get fluent in three months and now they are promising one month. Nah. You know, you are interested in languages, you know that it's impossible. You cannot,

you can, you cannot learn a language in one month, three months, or even in three years Okay,

Artem: You cannot learn a language in one month, three months, or even in three years Okay, yeah on. Yeah. If we were talking about particular subject topic here, so we can be fluent by speaking, but, so I think that if someone says that they want to be fluent, mean that they want has this ability to speak, , as they do it in their own native land. And yeah. And of course it's impossible in three months.

Daniel: No, no way. No. That they are actually saying speak German fluently in a month.

Artem: Okay. Yeah. So it could be true that one month on I talkie, if you take like, you know, each day, the lesson, it could be equal to two semester in. some language schools it's actually true, but it doesn't mean that you will become fluent.

Outro Daniel:

A big shout out, goes to Matt and Alani from the USA, Gabriel Juan, and Irene from Spain. Patrick from Germany, Zdenek from the Czech Republic and our Artem from Russia. Thank you very much without you. It would not be possible to make this episode.

And by the way, you will hear more about Alani and Artem. in future episodes where they are going to explain to us how it is to take one-on-one classes online. For example, they are going to talk about the advantages, disadvantages.

How they could improve and the like. And well, that's almost it for today. And if you want to give you 2 cents about today's topic. You can just send me a voice message. For instance you could just record it with your mobile phone and send it to myfluentpodcast@gmail.com and that way I can add it to this particular episode and make it even longer. That would be fantastic. So basically, if you want to share your opinion, just do so. I'm Daniel and you're listening to my fluent podcast. Thanks for tuning in and don't forget to subscribe . So that, you don't miss any episode. Bye.

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In this interview you are gonna learn about the story of an American, who moved to Italy, about his YouTube channels, his book in which he explains how he fell in love with an Italian football club. You get language learning tips and many more. Buckle up and have fun!

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Hello guys I'm Daniel, a language learner. The main focus still lies on English. That's why I try to interview different people, in English, mostly about language stuff. And right now, you're about to listen to Matt, and American guy, an English coach who moved from the USA to Italy.

In the interview, he will talk about how it was when he moved to Italy. What he struggled the most when it comes to learning the language. And he would also talk about his YouTube channel, the spoken English code in which he analyzes different celebrities, such as Roger Federer and Michael Jordan. Basically he analyzes their speech.

He also wrote a book about the football scene in Turin or Torino. And I could learn a bunch of things. I'm sure you will too. So have fun and buckle up. You are listening to my fluent podcast.

I was just blown away by your YouTube channel, the spoken English code, because I can relate to the way you are making those videos and your attitude in general when it comes to learning languages.

But we will dive into that a bit later. Maybe you could tell us a bit about you, Matt. So who is Matt the communication coach and how you ended up in Italy.

Matt:

so first thanks for inviting me here. It's nice to speak to you and to your audience here. yeah, I'm from California, so that's where I grew up. Where I went to school, where I went to college to university and all and I went into university to be a teacher for children though. Okay, for elementary school children.
And, yeah, after I went through my school, I love traveling. Like most people learning languages, I just love traveling. And I started traveling in that time with very little money and I changed my idea, my career idea. teach English as a second language in that time. And that was about 20 years ago, a long time ago. Yeah. And why Italy? I was fascinated with Italy. I just, I love the food. I love the culture, the passion that people have, the weather, I like history a lot as well. And these things attracted me to Italy. And when I first came here, I had no plan to stay for my life or for a long period. That just happened as I was here.
Nice. Yeah. So my guess is that you became fluent in Italian because you are also making videos even in Italian. Is that right?
Yeah, I can always improve for sure. As anyone learning a language knows we get better every day. Right? There's so much to do. So I'm always a little afraid to say fluent but yes, I can communicate with it. And it's what I use in my normal life outside of my teaching and training and everything. My wife is Italian.
I met her when I was here. So together we speak in a mix of Italian and in English but mostly in Italian because that's just our habit. It's a little faster maybe. And I learned my Italian in the street though. So speaking about learning languages, I did not take an Italian course. I was a young guy alone without any friends or anything when I first arrived.
And that was really good for learning language because I was very motivated and motivation is everything in language,
You were forced to just speak and there was no other way around, I guess.
Exactly. And I'm happy to be quiet by myself but after some weeks or a long time you want to communicate. And I moved to a region of Italy Piedmont, or Piamonte in Italian where there are not very many, English foreigners like from the US or the UK or Australia or what? And so that also pushed the language learning a lot.
And in which areas you struggled the most when you learned Italian.
You know what I struggled with the most, this may sound funny, but in the first year, I think was learning English grammar. Okay. Like many native English speakers. I had never studied my own grammar in school. I had no idea what the present perfect was or past simple or a subject verb, word, order, whatever.
I had no idea what those ideas meant. So when I tried to learn Italian in the beginning, And from a book, not from the street, but from a book I had really a lot to learn because I could not connect it to my English language yeah, I think I learned more about English in the first year than Italian probably.
That is kind of funny too. Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah.
It's one of the many reasons English speakers are very often bad at learning languages. There are many reasons why one from being lazy and not motivated, there are many reasons why, but another is that we don't study our own grammar. Really. So it's a little hard to, to learn, that you conjugate a verb when you have no idea what conjugation is.
Yeah, of course. And then you gave English lessons to others. So you became a teacher.
Yes, I'm in the very beginning is the same idea. I was, I, maybe was a nice guy. I don't know. I hope so, but I was not the best teacher in that first year for sure. Because, I had to learn how to explain. I had to learn myself a lot of those concepts. so, but I think going through this learning process of trying to communicate and being very frustrated at a dinner and understanding 10% of the language around you. That made me a much better English trainer or teacher, because I was myself in the situation that a lot of the people I work with are in, and you learn a lot of strategies of how to find your way.
And communication is always the most important thing, not the grammar.
And you learn in that real life situation
I totally agree with you. if I'm not mistaken, you already gave a lesson today . So was it an online lesson you gave?
Yeah. From my job side. So, I lived in Italy for three years. Then I moved to Germany for six years. Okay. And there, I was always teaching. I changed to become a business English trainer, so it was more focused on business English. Okay. And since that time, I have returned to Italy but I still train a lot with German companies. Okay. It's a multinational companies and that's really cool because I'm at home, but I'm training people in Germany or in China. And just before now I had the group of Germans and Chinese people working together and I'm trying to help them communicate together. So it was an English training but really we were focused on other things not so much to do with grammar much more to do with other things about communication that it clarifying when you don't understand and so on.
So is it always business English? So for example, I couldn't, message you and ask for an online lesson with you is that right?
No I also do some one-to-one or private groups. I do that too. I'm just more focused on the business English in the past. but of course I still have some one-to-one students, some private students, little groups, But I tend to focus more on that because that's where my experience is basically.
Yeah. Because my experience is there. It's where I tend to train more in that area.
Great. So let's head to the spoken English code, which is one of your YouTube channels. Maybe you can explain by yourself what it is exactly.
Yeah. it's a fun hobby, but I love it. So hopefully it's helpful. What I try to do there is take a piece of language from a interview, from a conversation, especially from a famous person, a celebrity. Maybe from a YouTube video and I take it a piece of it, maybe one minute piece and I go through and I try to explain all of the different things I hear.
Okay. From a trainer point of view and I'm trying to help people improve their English listening on that channel, basically because of this business experience a lot of the time I sat in meetings to observe international communication and almost always when there was an American or British person in the room. They destroy the communication because they did not adapt very well. Okay. so I'm very focused on that. They were using too many phrasal verbs or using too many special idioms or reducing their connected speech like "gonna" ant not "going to" and so on those type of things. And on that YouTube channel, I do my best to show that. Because to understand a native, not only native to understand any English speaker, if they're specially very high level, it's very dirty that are spoken language. It's very different than what is written. Then it's full of confusing things. And I'm trying to show that.
Right now I have the image or the audio in my mind, of the video you made about Keanu Reeves. Which was really great, just the way he is talking is really great and also of course, how you explain all the details in his speech...

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In this episode, we learn more about the brilliant host of the fantastic Spanish learning podcast named Español con Juan.

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1. Part of the Interview's transcript:

Hello.

I'm fine. Thank you very much. It's so nice having you here on my fluent podcast.

It's an honor. It's an honor. Thank you. Thank you for your invitation!

My name is Juan , I'm a Spanish. I am from a small city in the South of Spain called Granada.

I started to learn English when I was about 19 or 20, more or less or very late when I was about 29 or something like that, that I decided to come to England to London to prove my English because , as in your situation, I didn't have anybody to talk to. I was reading on, um, watching movies? So I decided one summer, OK I went to the UK to London for three months. I was sure that in three months my English would be very, very good. I will become fluent bilingual and every time I have many, many high expactations, um, and then I came here and after three months I realized it wasn't enough. So I decided to stay for another three months and then another three months like that, you know, because I was never happy with my English. So, um, eventually I found here friends, I made friends, I found a job, so I stayed here and I've been here for 23 years now. My English is still not good enough. So I have, uh, I have to stay there.

And you were a Professor at the university is that right?

I studied psychology in Spain. , when I came here, , I wanted to work as a psychologist maybe, but my English wasn't good enough to do that. So, I decided to become a language teacher. I could teach, I could teach French and Spanish in the schools and then I did different things always related to languages until I found a job at the university at university college, London, which is a very good place, very prestigious university.

And I've been teaching there for maybe 15 years. Until last year, last year, I quit my job and now I'm working full time on the internet. I have a podcast and a youtube channel. It has been a long trip. Yeah.

So when did you start exactly with your podcast?

I think I started like seriously in 2017 I have been doing other things before similar, but it wasn't really a podcast because, um, I mean, , I'm not, very young now, so, uh, I didn't know how podcasts or Youtube work. I have. I have to learn how to use them. I had to learn how, you know, how to use them forlanguages to teach languages. So at the beginning I was doing like, it wasn't a podcast it was more like audio activities. You know, I was working out in university, so I wanted to create a listening practice for my students. So I created some short dialogues , or I interviewed some of my colleagues, taught university in Spanish. I was creating, like listening activities for my students basically for a couple of years. Then in 2017, I did a little bit of research and I discovered that I could do other things. Uh, So I started with the podcast yes. Three years ago. Yeah.

So was there anybody or anything that inspired you. To do the podcast or was there any idols or Do you like listening to other podcasts? Maybe Yeah

Well, I remember that he was listening to this podcast maybe, you know, a coffee break, coffee break, English, Spanish coffee break, French. They have different languages. You know it?

Yes. I know. I know it. I have listened to it, but it has been quite a while.

Yeah. I don't, I don't listen to it anymore, but I remember that, I liked the, you know, the, the boys of the, of the guy who was doing it and, uh, he was, I liked the atmosphere, you know , they, they create, , yeah. in the podcast Because I thought I could do something similar.

I didn't like the fact that it was everything in English, because for example, when they are teaching in French or German, they speak in English most of the time. So because. I didn't like that. I liked the atmosphere. The guy is it comes across very nice, you know, very closely. Um, I was trying to learn German for a while.

I was, I was listening to them until I realized that most of the time was , They were talking in English. I understand why they do. I understand why they do it, but no, they didn't work for me.

And speaking about atmosphere, I must say when I came across your podcast for the very first time. I was so impressed because yeah.

I remember, I think you were washing your, you, you were, , doing the , the washing machine, I think. And you were doing, small tasks, daily tasks, and to me it was like a friend was talking to me and talking about life. And that was so amazing because it was absolutely not the typical language podcast.

You know, without a lot of grammar, no, like a conversation, not a conversation, but like a friend talking to me. And that's the reason why I really, I love your podcast the way you communicate and also your emotions when you are speaking. Sometimes very loud or so it's just amazing because I can feel the energy. I can feel the passion behind all this and yeah.

Thank you yeah. Yeah. I am this many people, many people tell me something similar it's actually what I have been trying to do because when I started even nice, I'll tell you what a little bit. I knew that I didn't want to go the the traditional grammar podcast explaining grammar points or vocabulary.

No, I felt that podcasts could have a lot of potential and it could be used in many different ways, but I don't know, I don't, I'm not a specialist, but, Little by little, I've been discovering different things that you can use, like storytelling telling stories or different things that you can use with a podcast.

And lately in the last year, I've been doing this kind of thing. Yeah. Just walking down the street, for example, commenting something that I see or something that happened to me, or maybe like you, the one you mentioned in my house washing the dishes or, you know Mmm. Putting my clothes on the same time, talking Yeah.

The idea ist like talking to somebody as if you were here with me. Yeah. Something very natural or very spontaneous. And that's what I've been doing lately. I don't know if It does work

I guess, so, it works quite well. yeah, it's great. And I'm wondering if, if these episodes are always spontaneous or, or do you also have like a script or some points you want to talk about how do you go about, it or how do you get the topic in general?

Yeah. Well, it's a mix of , situations. Sometimes it's very spontaneous, very, very natural. Well I have in mind before something I want to say I want to talk about something. Yeah. Like a topic, but in the middle of another task, you know, maybe doing the dishes or, um, you know, I I'm, I'm walking down the street and I'm making some comments a very natural way at the same time that I talk about something that is worrying me.

That day or something I have in mind. But the result is very, very natural. Yeah. Other times I have a script, I write it because it depends sometimes I want to make sure that I mentioned a few things. I want to use a particular vocabulary.

Yeah. And you provide the transcription as well for the listeners, which is a great way to learn

and yeah. And very time consuming because when you are talking, you know, like that, , off your mind, anything that's come up, yeah. In your mind.

So you transcribed for yourself the whole thing.

Yeah, yeah.

Yeah I use, a software that makes most of it automatically, but , there are a lot of mistakes I have to go through it to correct, you know, to polish it up a little bit to correct mistakes. Yeah. that that's the most boring part. Okay. Yeah. To write the transcription.

Has podcasting changed your life?

Somehow, yes, , yeah, definitely because what I was teaching at university you know, I had to use the methodology. Yeah. The kind of teaching that they asked me to do.

I was a one Spanish teacher like the rest ,but here with the podcast, I do what I want, I discover what works, what doesn't work, what people like, what I can do best for me. So that's very important because you know yourself a little bit people tell me, for example, I like what you do.

It's very nice you have a lot of sense of humor and I like your approach. So my self esteem is very high now, compared to before, because I, when I was teaching Spanish, Yeah, nobody says to me all the time. Oh, I love you teacher no, Sometime some students congratulate you thank you yeah. But it's not that common and here online.

Everybody is telling me, Oh, you are a fantastic teacher. I know I'm a fantastic teacher, but people keep telling me that. So. Eventually it becomes something that you, you get used to my brain. I don't know, I like this kind of thing.

What do you like more being a professor or being a podcaster?

Uh, I just see mysel y anything like that or professional or a podcaster or not.

um, I am Juan, you know, I do different things. And, at the moment I'm doing the podcast and I, I suppose, for you it's the same, you discovered yourself, you know, you, you, you were not aware that you could do now. For example, I discovered that I can make jokes and people laugh at my jokes and I can kind of integrate humor in my videos and my podcast.

I didn't know that before, you know, I, I do. You're telling me that you like this kind of a natural podcast, you know, I do the washing machines and all that before, so it's something that's it's it feels good. It feels good

right now. so it comes to mind, which you did, it was called something like where, when sir, and you were talking about yourself , and you consider yourself as a rather shy person.

And I think you mentioned also that you didn't like to, to speak in public. I think , at any rate it was, yeah, it was great because not only in that episode, but in general, you talk very openly. I think so we can, have like an insight of your life or your person. And I think that's also the reason why your podcast is so great.

And yeah, it makes you human, you know? It's yeah. It's like you said before, it, you are, you are, you're not a podcaster. You're Quan. That's me. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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In this episode, we interview non-native English teacher Gabriel from Spain who is one of the creators of the Facebook group MAOFEN, Masters of English.

Gabriel talks about what the group is all about and shares his tips on how to master the English language.

What do you think? What did Gabriel respond when we spontaniously showed him this picture:

And what do you say about the picture? Do you think it is possible to become fluent in a language in one month?

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In this episode, we talk about another alternative methode to become fluent. Just use word chunks you come across in your life and translate them with DeepL. Then safe them in a notebook to remember them. Work and combine with different language learning methods!

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In this episode about accent prejudice, we ask different language learners if they have experienced accent prejudice.

This is the learners' perspective!

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Jack from the USA,
Joranin from Thailand,
Ludmila from the Slovak Republic
and Mila from Russia

what they have to say about that topic. All of them have a slightly different approach on how to go about it.

"Of course. Sometimes people pay attention to my accent, but I tell them, sure, I'm Russian. What do you want? But I'm ready to face the prejudice."

Learn more about the topic and visit our website (inclusive full transripts):

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In this episode, you will learn about a method which will improve your speaking abilities drastically. Applying this method on a regular basis, will most likely make you speak English fluently (other languages as well). It's just a matter of time. And all of this, for free. Roberto from Italy, the inventor of the game "off the cuff" explaines the details in the interview.

In addition, this works especially well if you want to overcome shyness or don't have the possibility to speak in your target language.

Roberto started to play the game back in November 2019 and managed to improve his speaking tremendously.

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Full transcript:

You make your brain, your mind work in a way, you are unlikely to remember things better in the long term. Okay? And this is off the cuff. Just make your brain work and try to remember just what you know. So this is the best way for me to remember. Words, grammar paths, and so on.

0:31 In this episode, my fluent podcast interviewed a very passionate English learner called Roberto, from Italy who invented a game, a again called off the cuff. Which means something like without preparation, and to be quite honest with you, I didn't know these expression before, so this was a nice side effect. I could learn vocabulary by producing this podcast and quite honest, I was that fascinated by this game. Well, it's more the way. Roberto played it because basically it's about speaking about a random topic off the cuff without preparation. And I watched these videos and it seemed to me that he is quite an expert in it. I mean, without having any preparation, you just start out the speech and you just go on and, and you know that the people will watch that video then... where were we? Well, yes, I was that fascinated by the way he played off the cuff that I took the courage and contacted him, Roberto and wanted to know more about the game and his intentions, or why did he start out with that? And in this episode, I'm going to show you some excerpts from this interview. So without any further ado. Let's have a listen to Roberto:

2: 13 I think, speaking is the most important thing in the learning process. You know that children at the age of six can't even read, but they, they're able to speak. Okay. That's the same… the same goes for a non native speaker, I think. No? You can study and read in parallel, but at the same time you need to speak obviously. So you are on the, on the best path from this point of view (by making my fluent podcast).

2:48 And I was wondering how did you came across this game or this idea of, was it your idea or what was the reason why you started out with this?

I came up with this idea roughly seven months ago because you know. Well off the cuff means on the spur of the moment. Okay. Without preparing anything, because I realized that when I study and then repeat what I have to study, it's kind of preparing an exam. So you have a lot of short term memory, but.

You aren likely to forget in the long period, in the long term what you had previously started. No, but if you make your brain your mind work in a way, you are likely to remember things better in the long term. Okay. And this is off the cuff. Just make your brain work and try to remember what you just watched, you know, of course, in parallel.

Along side, you can keep practicing by studying. Okay, well, vocabulary, grammar and so on, reading or studying, well, there are things okay, but you really have to. So speak to speak and make your brain works from this point of view, if you want to remember straight away at once. Okay. Like people do in their, no more lives. No? I'm not talking about a foreign language in your mother tongue, in your native language, you remember things automatically. You don't need to think over thing. Okay? So this is the best way for me to remember. Words, grammar paths. Okay. And so on.

4:47 So I guess you could improve drastically after seven months of practicing off the cuff

Of course, because, you know, my wife is American, but she's been living here in Italy for 22 years, so she's almost half, it's early. Now, she speaks wonderful each Italian, so we don't need to use English to communicate between each other. But needless to say, I've been to the United States 22 times and. Every time I'm there over there, I freeze. I freeze. Because somewhat the fact that I have studied so much English because I, I have a certificate in advanced English, you know, but all this stuff prevent me from speaking freely.

Okay? So not matter if you make a small mistake with speaking, but you feel embarrassed, too embarrassed, and so I, my playing off the cuff seven months ago, I took the courage to speak,

and I think that my fluency had a great advantage from it because I can speak freely, but this is the aim of off the cuff of this game. Okay. And they started with a game called "random topics". Okay. Topics generated randomly and then I added some other games. Okay. And a couple of games who have been provided by our friends from the chat box (facebook group) .

Okay. Another two games. It's a kind of a universe. You just have to make your brain work. Okay. And let's say it, there are 76 topics. In the game, and I have already talked about 38 of them are there are also other games. Okay. There's a random translation. For instance, you read the book written, in my case in Italian, but you need to translate it into English.

8:21 There are other game's called the "random rewording" or rephrasing. There's a slight subtle difference between rewording and phrasing because by rephrasing I mean you, you mean to make it better? Okay. But rewording means that you just use different words and grammar, grammar, patterns not to, to interpret the page that you're reading in this case in English. That there is "random pictures" you need to describe pictures and so it's very good for your visual vocabulary. No, because you can get out a lot of words. Okay. That usually usually don't belong to the academic environment. Yeah. Kind of practical English, you know? But also, since these pictures are really weird, you can use your humor to describe this picture.

You can make up a story. Okay. Then it's a, it's very good to. for your personalities. If you are shy, for instance, it's a good way to get over your shyness from these points of view. And if there are other games as well, and this is important for me to get over my shyness because these videos are probably seen by native speakers and a lot of people, and now I'm not embarrassed of my mistakes. Now I make very few mistakes. I, I'm honest, very few at the beginning. At the beginning I made many mistakes.

8:47 I, I saw that you, you have corrected yourself sometimes. You wrote the mistakes that you have.

Exactly. And I guess that way you could improve as well after you have recorded yourself. Maybe you, your date, some researchers, consulting dictionaries, and then you, you could remember it better. Yes, yes. Yeah. I obviously, I played back the video, especially because I also keep. Track of the words I use.

Okay. Because I want to, I want to get the gist of all the words I use in by playing these games and by playing the videos back, I realize my mistakes. Okay. Because as I was telling you before, I studied English, so I have a certificate in advanced English, so I can. Easily spot my mistakes afterwards. No to real time, obviously.

Yeah.

10:01 That's a really a great approach. A great game here and you have all my respect because it takes courage in a way. To record yourself and then to publish it because yeah, there are a lot of people who are watching, in my opinion, but the Facebook group, the chat box. It's really a good group because you get a lot of positive feedback and brings you also positive thinking in a way.

Because I myself, for example, I am shy and I don't like to publish something because I am always afraid of the negative feedback. I don't know where that comes from, but I guess it's from, from the school time. Yeah. Yeah. I understand. I understand what you mean. And, and I'm going to tell you that many times I have experienced that in the United States because I need to feel at home.

11.09 I need to feel comfortable. So when there are people kind of taunting me, I mean, that's kind of the, they. They make fun of me, of my mistakes or my accent. So I found these people in the United States sometimes, and so I'm too shy, and so I freeze and I no longer speak. But in the chat box, I found a group of friends.

More than anything else. So I feel comfortable, and I'm not embarrassed if every once in a while I make a mistakes, but I'm going to tell you that most of the time there are not relevant mistakes. You get the preposition wrong. You, you pronounce mispronounce a word, sometimes these kinds of errors that.

From my point of view are perfectly normal because we are not native speaker and we need to improve a lot, but we are showing that we can communicate easily. And so I think by using a good spoken grammar as well, so you don't be shy and you just have to. Realize that in the chat box there's a group of friends and the feedbacks are, most of the times are positive and there are a lot of people encouraging, you know, to make progress.

12:42 Okay, so you just have to feel at home. This is what I found. Okay. The ideal environment. A group of friends. Okay, friends, but they're friends. I think even an absolute beginner can play these games because you improve little by little, so you need to have a starting point. No. You just thought by using what you know, because I myself use what I know.

No, it's off the cuff. Nothing is prepared and little by little step by step, you make progress, but it's important to start. Okay.

13:23 Thank you very much. Thank you Daniel. Thank you.

You were listening to Roberto from Italy and you're listening to my fluent podcast.

Learn from and with a language learner. So for me, the most important things here that in order to learn to improve your speaking, you need to be in your comfort zone. Let me rephrase this. You need to feel comfortable. If you are in an environment which makes you freeze, then you are not going to improve as well.

Berta mentioned you already took the certificate advanced certificate. For some people, including me, Well I don't have a, not long certificate, but the first certificate, but it's just not enough for us because we don't have enough practice. So you could basically start out today by thinking of different topics.

14:41 That could be any topic, but you could choose topics which are related to you in some ways, let's say if you like listening to podcasts, one topic, could be podcasts or it could be football or music whatsoever. The thing is that you just start out, you roll a dice, and then you talk about that topic, and then you can send the file to, to your own language buddies, and by doing this on a regular basis, chances are that you are going to improve and of course you're going to gain more confidence.

Anyways. I can't thank Roberto enough for this because it's not self-evident that people share their knowledge. I'm really thankful for that. And I will say, I'm going to write a blog post as well about the game of the cuff in which I will show you different pictures so that you can envision the idea even better. For that, you may go to myfluentpodcast.com. Thank you for listening to my fluent podcast and off the cuff is not finished yet. I must say that I played the game and I will play it again and I will share my experience with you on one of the next episode. Until then, bye.

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Something to realize is that you don't have to speak. Perfectly. Now some people, you know your, your speech, maybe it's so bad that you can't be understood very well. So when you're talking, everyone has something like this and you know, people are just trying to hear what you're saying is, it's really hard to say.
If it's something like that, then yes, it's very hard to understand it, but, but as long as you can understand them, that's what matters.
This episode of my fluent podcast, again, is part of the Quora series. If you want to know in detail what the quarter series are. You can just head back to episode 48 and learn about all the details. In short, in the Quora series, I go about some texts, which I didn't write myself, but I'm going to read them out loud and give some feedback.
The topics I choose are always language learning related so that we can improve in our target language. How do I speak clearly? Record yourself speaking. Then listen, you'll hear everything you need to know. Then adjust, rerecord and relisten. Repeat until satisfied. "Yes". Guess what? Yes. That's how you sound and yes, that's how people hear you.
You hear yourself through your throat, not your ears. That is why you sound different on recordings. Warning: it's going to be painful. Listening to yourself, step into the fire, you will emerge far better than before. That's the answer from Sean Kernan, son of Quora, and I will say, to be honest, it was not that hard when I really listened to myself for the first time.
I'd say that it is quite hard though to go back to episode one or just go back to one of my very first episodes and to relisten to my voice because it changed in a way, I think, while I guess that's a good thing. What about you guys? Do you like listening to your own voice? You think it's strange?
Share your experience with us.
Given that I have mentored many world champions, speakers and professional presenters, here is one solution to the problem. This is a technique I have followed for many years, especially when I had any VIP presentation. Or when I would compete for a national level championship. And this is also the technique I taught my students and clients during their important presentations.
I make this mandatory for my clients taking part in the world championship events. Place a pencil in between your teeth, right to the end of your mouth and tighten your jaw grip on it. And then for the next 15 minutes, speak loudly. Clearly and enunciate your words for the best of your ability or read from a book really loudly and clearly.
Keep doing this for 15 minutes nonstop. As you do this, your lips, your jaw, your tongue, and your cheeks will be sore, really sore. However, once you take it out, you will be shocked to see how well you articulate every single word. Try this every day for 15 minutes and you will never be the same speaker ever again.
Great One this was the answer from Lloyd Machado, conference speakers, professional presenters here, that solution to the problem. Don't worry guys, I will spare you with that. I am not quite sure if this method really works, but according to all the boats, this answer received, which are about 19,000 I guess it's a good approach.
Letting me know if you have experimented with this method and send me an email to myfluentpodcast@gmail.com. Thanks a lot, guys, for tuning in to this episode 65 of my fluently podcast. I know I did not reveal any magic bullet here, but in my opinion, we should start slowly and it is crucial to just focus on something and then stay with it on a regular basis.
Have a good one.

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Full transcript in English below:

Send me a short text or an audio file (could be recorded with your mobile phone).

Tell the listeners what podcasts you are listening to to improve in your target language or to get inspired.

myfluentpodcast@gmail.com

PM me on facebook or instagram

Twitter: DanielGoodson12

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The question today is, what podcasts
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It's actually a call to action because
I want to hear your opinion about that.

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Guys, are you wondering what
other people might listen to to

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improve their target language?

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Or just to get inspired because
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impact on your motivation, too.

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Of course.

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Well, these days there are thousands
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Hey, podcast people.

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How's it going?

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Azren the language nerd here,
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Good.

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Hey guys, and welcome to Aussie.

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English.

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This is rock and roll English.

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Real people, real English.

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Here's your host.

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This is that you can learn
Chinese podcasts for everyone

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who's trying to learn Chinese
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You came to the right place.

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easy podcast.

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Italian speaking...

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I can't keep up with all that stuff.

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I don't know how you feel about that.

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so I think you might share with us.

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I mean, we are all curious what other
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We definitely want to know more.

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We want to know more.

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We want to know what is,
what is this all about?

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what do you like about it?

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Don't be shy, guys.

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Speak up and share with us!

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Who wants t o be first?

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Don't worry, guys.

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I'll start first.

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I came across the podcast
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Hey you, what's up?

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What's going on?

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Welcome to English with Dane, a podcast
designed to improve your English.

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Today's episode is an accent challenge,
so you better be ready to listen.

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Hit it.

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That ain't me talk about my reality.

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If you said American
accent, you are correct.

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The speaker is hip hop
superstar, Kendrick Lamar.

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time to time, Spanish vocabulary in it.

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The first word I want to talk
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correct pronunciation is tired.

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Tie and red tie.

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Red.

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I get it.

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However, we have to take
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We don't always pronounce
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Dane is an English teacher and
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speakers and it doesn't bother other
learners at all because they are

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not scattered all over his podcast

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Dane covers, movies, TV shows, music,
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guys, or you can send me a private
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receiving a few feedbacks from you guys.

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So I'm currently listening to English
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I will make something like a
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It's definitely worth it.

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I'm Daniel Goodson.

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E61 B is meant to be a bonus episode with furher explanations and vocabulary definitions to E61A. So it's basically an episode for our English learners.

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https://www.myfluentpodcast.com/e61-a-corona-overkill-language-learning-failures-and-how-to-cope-with-them/

Podcast episode as video: https://youtu.be/pad01Shktww

Daniel Goodson: I had a plan, a great plan. The Corona virus has ruined that plan, in which I wanted to learn vocabulary in a specific way. I tried to find another approach to learn English. More on this episode...

Ep. 61 has two sections, the first one is about the actual topic in which I talk about a huge mistake. This is for everyone to listen, weather you are an English learner or a native English speaker.

In section 2 (it's on Ep. 61 B), I will go about some English expressions and give additional English tips. That bonus episode is tailored for our English learners.

This episode is connected to another episode which was released on the 25th of January.

It's the episode between episode "49 book review, virtual native", and episode "48 What is the Quora series?" On that bonus episode, I explained how I wanted to learn vocabulary through news, to be more precise, through Corona news.

Further information:

You may watch this episode (61) on video, too: https://youtu.be/pad01Shktww. That way, you can read along to the subtitles while listening to the podcast.

Show notes:

You'll find the show notes (you may download subtitles) on www.myfluentpocast.com or you can read along the subtitles/transcript right here:

Right? And then I see the disinfectant, but knocks it out in a minute. One minute. And is there a way we can do something like that? Social distancing will be with us through the summer.
Don't worry, guys. This episode of my fluent podcast is whether about the president Donald Trump, nor about social distancing. This time I totally screwed up though I've set myself an unreachable goal and this is a setback for me and had a negative influence on my language learning motivation. You will learn about the details soon.
Welcome, dear language learners for the first time, I will do this episode in two parts. First, I will explain the current topic. After that, there will be a section for our English learners in which I go about some expressions and definitions, and by the way, the whole transcript - this applies to the audio as well as what I say - is available on our show notes or on the website, myfluentpodcast.com let's get started.
So what are the takeaways for this episode? I will give them to you beforehand. At the end, I will repeat them again and give additional explanations. So number one, always set yourself SMART goals. Number two, don't stick to your methods by any cost and the focus here lies on the words "by any cost". Number three is more of a general advice.
Don't beat yourself up and just be aware that learning a language is a long term process. There are ups and downs, that is normal. And number four is enjoy your language journey. Never forget that: it should be a pleasure. We should see the positive things. And this is something I need to bear in mind always.
And to be honest, this is more of a personal episode this time in which I reflect my own decisions or learning approach, and this is a subject (topic) that I am a bit uncomfortable to talk about in a way. Well, this is partly because I have set myself a goal, an unreachable goal. I have totally screwed up. Anyway, I will pull myself together now.
And just talk about it. Hey buddy, you need to pull yourself together. Pull yourself together. While on Saturday, it was the 25th of January, I published an episode about a topic, vocabulary, retention. Well in my opinion, this is one of the most important topics. When it comes to learning a language, and the name of that episode is Corona virus vocab through news, it seems like as if I already knew it, I did not number the episode back then, and the idea was to number the newer episode when I have followed all my own suggestions.
And reached my goal. I wanted to make like a review of that approach, that good things and the bad things. So in a nutshell, back then I wanted to learn new vocabulary by reading compelling content in the news to retain information for good. You need to come across the vocabulary again and again, and then why?
Chances are you will remember them for good. Meaning it will go to your long term memory. And that should be our goal. I mean, we want to learn in order to being able to using the vocabulary and I decided to focus on the information about the coroner virus. That way I would come across similar word combinations and learn more.
Of course, I would use flashcards and other tools to support my endeavor. Of course, all turned out in a slightly different way. All right. If you want, you can go back. It's the episode between episode "49 book review, virtual native", and I episode "48 What is the Quora series?" On that episode I explained how I wanted to go about that idea in more detail.
So what happened? You'll may already have a guess. I couldn't foresee that this virus would have such an immense impact on our world. It seems to me, today the news are focusing only on that matter. It's always the Corona virus. I can understand that. And actually for my project, it would be perfect because that's what I wanted, right?
Come across similar word combinations again and again, sort them out and learn them with different tools. The problem was. I got fed up about it. I couldn't stand it anymore. The matterer is very, very negative and I did not want to focus only on such negative things. So besides that, the goal I've set to myself became very difficult.
Once the news wrote only about that matter. It was just too much for me to handle, but why did I not change my goal into some things similar? I don't have an answer to that. I guess I got just a bit depressed about it and left it alone. So let's have a look at our giveaways. Which I mentioned in the beginning.
Let's come back to number one, set yourself smart goals. Okay. Perhaps the goal might have been smart at the beginning, but once it became the topic number one of the whole world, it definitely became a very bad goal. Maybe another person would have pulled together and just stick to this plan. For me, I just, I couldn't, because in this situation I had not the right mindset to it and not enough time, not the energy.
Poor baby. Oh, you poor thing. So the second takeaway was don't stick to our methods by any cost. We must stick to the plan on welfare as well. Usually it's the other way round. It is set yourself a goal and then stick to your plan. But in this particular situation, I would say it doesn't serve
Next up, number three, don't beat yourself up. Be aware that learning a language is a long term process. Even though I said in the beginning of this show that it is a setback for me and I had a negative influence on my language learning motivation. While that was true, but now I'm again on my wife, I am back on track.
So there is no worry about that, but I tend to beat myself up a bit. The problem is also that comparing yourself to others who are far better speakers, for example, is not a doll. Good idea. And that's the case with me. I compare too much. No, no. Good idea. Number four, race. Enjoy your language journey. Don't take it too seriously.
In the end, it should make fun to learn and once your gut tells you that you absolutely don't, enjoy it, you should change something up. I mean, it's a great hobby and should bring us joy. And actually that's what I am doing. I started out with my podcast back in 2016 and to be honest, I had a huge gap in between, and this was a period in which I couldn't publish due to personal reasons, but the most important thing is that.
I didn't give up. There's a little pain going on. Okay. Don't give up. Hang on. This is a test. If you have a mantra called, please don't give up on it, and I'm still podcasting with even more power and more motivation so that I can share all of my tips with you. Dear listeners. And this must have first section of this episode.
I'll head over to the second in a minute, but before, a few words to those who are not learning English. Thanks for listening to this rather personal story about my failure. If you have any suggestions for future episodes. If you have a language learning question, please feel free to send me an email to myfluentpodcast@gmail.com. I am Daniel Goodson, the host of my fluent podcast, learn from and with a language learner.
So let's have to the English learning part. And for that I ask you kindly to go to episode 61 B. 61 B. Thanks
The song you are listening to right now is called road trip by Scott Holmes. The other one you could hear was indie rock by Scott Holmes as well. Oh, and please don't forget to subscribe. I am on Spotify, iTunes, Stitcher, and all the well known podcast services. If you want to reach out to me, you can also go and find me on Instagram.
My nickname oi Instagram is myfluentpodcast, or just send me an email to myfluentpodcast@gmail.com. . Bye.

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https://www.myfluentpodcast.com/e60-slow-down

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Hello friends this episode is all about slowing down

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So please relax and enjoy the ride on our language story.

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I'm Daniel Goodson, the Language learner.

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This is my fluent podcast. (Itunes, Stitcher, spotify)

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I thought I'd do something a little different this weekend and record.

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an episode on the go about a topic which is not directly something to do with learning languages.

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Well, at least not 100%

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What I will still intecrate some language learning elements, of course.

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It's more of a self-awareness thing.

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nist time

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Don't forget those who are not into this.

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There will be normal episodes in the future. Don't worry about that.

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Well, actually I went for a walk in the forest. Fortunately, I live about four minutes on foot.

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by the forest

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And several thoughts came to mind...

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...while I was walking...

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The audio quality was not very good. So I recorded afterwards.

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Although I must say the ambience noise...

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..in the background..

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...are from my recordings.

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This is incredible!

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The sound of the birds

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the chirping (frogs and toads, grasshoppers and many more animals and insects)

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And just the sound of of my foot.

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Walking on on the Leafs. They look just great.

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time is of the coronavirus in general I notice how quiet it got without the airplane noises and so on

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so often times when I go for a walk I put my noise canceling headphones on and it's a Pity it. Really

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Why don't you just listen to your surroundings?

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...of the nature...

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Go to the forest.

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Recharge your batteries to regain your energy.

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And it's even more important in the age of the internet.

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I mean I find myself watching all these YouTube videos.

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And when I finished I don't even remember.

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the first video so

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The question is, how can I learn from?

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all...

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from all of this information

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It's no good for me. I can see that. (It's not good for my health.)

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I'm not focused anymore. So..

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...I want you to make aware of the importance of being...

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...balanced and (not to be) rushing into things especially when it comes to learning languages.

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I mean all these promises out there in the internet.

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learning English in 3 months or in 1 month or

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in a year

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cured of time

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normally it is not necessary so (under normal circumstances)

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on myself. (Sorry, this sentence is probably useless - I'm stilly learning)

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myself.

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All right. Let's go back to the forest.

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Why don't you go to the forest or another place which is quiet and maybe bring your sticky notes or flashcards with you.

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and learn the English vocabulary

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Self-awareness tip...

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from me and

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you will think about this and

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Thanks for tuning in.

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This was my fluent podcast. Bye, your Daniel Goodson

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music:

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In this episode, I have a look at an inspirational e-mail from polyglot and podcaster Kris Broholm, in which he gave away crucial insights in his experience. He explained in his e-mail 5 essential areas - mindset changes - that he has come across on his journey towards growth, building an online business in the language learning world, and even learning languages.

Anything is possible
Perfectionism
Imposter Syndrome
Content creator vs Content Consumer

(Abundance)

https://actualfluency.com/

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This is a bonus episode, where I give away 7 tips on how to learn vocabulary. If you are interested in learning English voabulary, you may also like my other show called the vocab man.

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On this episode, I show you a bunch of different podcasts which all cover the topic ot the intermediate plateau. How can wo overcome the intermediate plateau in language learning?

https://www.myfluentpodcast.com/e58-the-intermediate-plateau-in-language-learning/

Virtually native:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6p2H_yHE-I&list=RDCMUCjKBcnysxc_hV1xNnormeDw&start_radio=1&t=125

www.azrenthelanguagenerd.com

https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/anchor-podcasts/the-language-learning-show/e/65659015?autoplay=true

https://www.iwillteachyoualanguage.com/podcast/intermediate-to-advanced

https://teacherluke.co.uk/2016/10/05/385-breaking-the-intermediate-plateau-part-1/

music:

Scot Holmes:

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In this episode, I talk about Marcelo's approach how he learns English. Making several videos in your target language may be a great method to boost your target language to the next level.

Canguro English

https://www.facebook.com/groups/canguroenglish/

https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Scott_Holmes

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Chris answers the question "Do we have another personality in another language?" in English, German, French, Swedich and Spanish.

quora.com

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Nick's Knack for Neologism, Victor Prep and Just Vocabulary. GRE SAT Advanced vocabulary.

English vocabulary podcasts are a great source to use to expand your vocabulary. In this episode, 3 great vocabulary based podcasts are introduced which are: Nick's Knack for Neologism, Victor Prep and Just Vocabulary. They are all GRE SAT Advanced vocabulary podcasts.
Most certainly, there will at least be one omong them which you'll love.
Word lovers and vocab learner will love this episode.

https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/gre-sat-advanced-english-vocab-62162

https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/victorprep-vocab-podcast

https://justvocabulary.com/blog/

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Vocabulary List:

https://www.podchaser.com/lists/english-vocabulary-107a4QvE0d

You can buy me a coffee here:

https://www.buymeacoffee.com/1zXPwJl

English podcast Youtube groupe.

Discuss and share information about great podcasts which will help you to become a better English learner:

https://m.facebook.com/groups/1573098656066102

music:

Scott_Holmes_-_04_-_Upbeat_Party

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www.youglish.com

YouGlish.com to improve English: Pros and Cons @Virtually Native https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xM8hBuArRe0

You can buy Daniel Goodson a coffee right here: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/1zXPwJl music Upbeat Party by Scott Holmes is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial License. https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Scott_Holmes/Inspiring__Upbeat_Music/Scott_Holmes_-_Upbeat_Party

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Mikhail Kotykhov, had enough of studying. It never worked. His Motto is: Learn by doing.

In this episode, Mikhail gives insights on how he could manage to master the English language back in the time when there were no podcasts and YouTube Videos available.

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www.quora.com

Quora article:

https://qr.ae/pXCe3A

music:

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In this Quora series Episode, Gopalkrishna Vishwanath reads out loud his answer to the Question "How can I improve my English vocabulary?"

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E51 is a guest episode by Kayla from the Philippines, who learns German, Brazilian Portuguese, Dutch, German and Spanish.

Topic: Kayla never thought she would fall in love with word lists. Listen up if you want to know what she meant by that.

Unfortunately, the website doesn't exist anymore.

https://kaylaaufdenglisch.wordpress.com/2020/01/12/i-never-thought-id-fall-in-love-with-word-lists/

Have a visit to "Kayla auf Denglish" on www.kaylaaufdenglisch.wordpress.com

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The Original Question on Quora is:

What are the essential factors for speaking fluent English as a non-native English speaker?

Answer to What are the essential factors for speaking fluent English as a non-native English speaker? by Douglas McClure www.quora.com

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Youtube:

Virtually native: READING Silently or READING Out Loud
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBWMZcm55wY

"You learn new information through English"

Wirtually native: my TOP 5 English Learner's Dictionaries
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPqirGxL08g

My number 1 advise is for the language learner to use monolingual learner's dictionaries

Wirtually native: Can I learn English alone at home by myself?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLXbNL-zEQk&list=PLvvsbleSDOfGYUJkUm-f5O2c2Fi_eHnFe

Music:

Sidewalk Chalk by Broke For Free is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 International License.
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I use Quora to learn English (also French). In this episode, I explain what my Quora based series of my fluent podcast is meant to be.

https://www.quora.com/

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Night owl and day bird by Broke For Free.

Free is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License.

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https://virtuallynative.com/p/independent-learner

The book virtually native is available at Amazon as well:

https://www.amazon.de/Vladimir-Skenderoff/e/B01L51ZPZC?ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1&qid=1578834991&sr=8-1

Review:

https://www.amazon.de/gp/product/B01L27SO84/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i1

Youtube:

99.9% of you will never master English unless ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iAW2K_pJPJ4

The Problem with being fluent. 2.20

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=v7gx7k5yCoc

Music:

Night owl by Broke For Free.

Free is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License.

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VIRTUALLY NATIVE: How To Learn a Foreign Language

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Quora Question and answer:

https://www.quora.com/English-drives-me-crazy-It-seems-no-matter-how-hard-I-try-I-cant-get-along-well-with-it-Should-I-give-up

Check out the anwer text from Mikhail Kotykhov ("English is not a science. It's a skill. Don't study it. Use it.")

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Night owl by Broke For Free.

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Welcome back to my fluent podcast. This is the second episode of the Quora series, in which I read out loud cool Quora articles.

https://www.quora.com/How-do-I-develop-razor-sharp-focus

(Josh Fechter)

Stay in contact with me over myfluentpodcast@gmail.com

See you soon!

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On E44 I want to present a question and answer which was published on Quora. I try to use Quora to learn about languages and to better my English in general.

You can read along the answer I was reading out loud on www.Quora.com

https://www.quora.com/At-age-32-how-do-I-develop-the-habit-of-reading-and-speaking-good-English

If you have suggestions for future episodes or if you want to be interviewed on my fluent podcast, contact me over myfluentpodcast@gmail.com

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On this episode of my fluent podcast I show you how I use 5 android apps to learn on my target languages.

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Duolingo Spanish podcast on www.duolingo.com

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E41 - another approach to learn vocab

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https://www.merriam-webs ter.com/dictionary/fluent

https://en.wikipedia.o brg/wiki/Common_European_Framework_of_Reference_for_Languages

http://actualfluency.com/

http://www.iwillteachyoualanguage.com/when-are-you-fluent/

https://archive.org/details/SUSPENSE2

http://freesound.org/people/DrNI/sounds/27511/

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learn from and with a language learner!

The interview based series of my fluent podcast which I started on E11 goes on. The idea was to get out of my comfort zone and interview several language enthusiasts from all over the world over a longer period of time. I already could improve my speaking skills by conducting several interviews. Click here for full show notes.

On this episode, we talk about coming out from our comfort zone to improve in our language. We can improve ourselves even by listening to ourselves and spot the errors.

we dont' always realize how powerful we can be by just listening to ourselves and spotting the errors
we often want to put the responsiblity to the teacher rather then just trying to learn by ourselves
other interesting language based things

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The Spin Wires

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Ketsa

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Ketsa - Where the river run

Ketsa -13 in the mood

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Reading aloud or reading out loud will definitely improve your speech. It just takes some time. So be consistent and don't forget to check for the correct pronunciation in case you are unsure.

Speaking a foreign language is hard. Your tongue needs to learn new muscle movements. The more you practice the more fluent you will be able to speak. native spoken Podcasts with transcript could be of use as well.

Reading silently will not bring you these benefits. In this episode, I had a look at 2 of my previous published recordings. As far as I can tell, I could improve my reading and speaking skills

For more tips and tricks and for more information about my language journey go to:

www.myfluentpodcast.com

Become a fluent reader and join me, now!

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I try to mix up a song on a recording software called Audacity. I implement word chunks that I want to learn. The goal is being engaged with the words I want to learn. That way the vocab will stick better.

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Be aware you are using music which has no copyright or which you are allowed to use.

Music: KetsaURL: http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Ketsa/Layers_1384/in_the_mood_master

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Right now, I am establishing a new recording method to get me fluent in English. I want to express myself in a better way.

www.myfluentpodcast.com episode 31

Music by Ketsa. Song: in the mood

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Long term listener Daisy asked me to publish an episode about culture/habits at the office. That's what I tried to do in this episode. www.myfluentpodcast.com

General rules/habits/culture in our team
Smoking in the office
swearing in the office

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If you are into English learning, have a look at

http://chatcast.ch/hello-folks/

there is a guided conversation with different English learners from all over the world once a week, which is then published on the website. Get in touch with other learners and boost your English to the next level!

www.myfluentpodcast.com

myfluentpodcast@gmail.com

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We are trying to get this podcast to the next level. The very first time we have a native British English speaker as a guest. It was quite a challenge but great!

Luke shared lots of valuable information with us. Full information: http://wp.me/p7tjou-6e

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On episode 27, I give away the micro to Kamila, the Dutch polyglot, who speaks several languages fluently. She was so kind to share her story with us!

Kamila, founder of www.polyglotsdiary.com shares her tips and tricks with us. Thank you so much, Kamila!

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A good way to become better in your target language will probably be to find reading partners with whom you can discuss books together and therefore, get better in your target language.

Time will tell us If it works. And I will keep you posted.

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A quick sign of life. I am still learning English and other languages. I just needed to have kind of a break!

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E23 – record yourself to improve in your target language

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learn languages with lyrics:

In this episode I talk about the application musixmatch

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Never compare your language skills with other learners, instead, focus on your own language journey! Record yourself to improve your speaking skills.

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if you want to help me out with my podcast, please contact me: myfluentpodcast@gmail.com. I could use your voice for my fluent podcast! Thank you guys!

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In episode 20, I interview Piotr from Poland and he gives us lots of valuable language related learning tips. He is very experienced in transcribing from videos or mp3 files. Transcribing can boost your target language to the next level.

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In this episode you are going to learn about one of my vocab learning methods

Pick wisely a source from where you want to learn vocabulary
Download the mp3 file
Enjoy and listen to the audio material
While listening or at the second listen -> Put bookmarks at the position you want to learn the vocab / the phrase
Relisten the bookmarked sections
Be engaged and look up for the definitions etc. / speak the words out loud
Relisten / Relearn after a certain time has passed --> that allows you to retain the vocab forever. --> it will stick better

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This is the second part of my vocabulary learning related series.

Have a listen to the great, very motivated English learner Vaclav from Russia.

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My interview series goes on. They are meant to help me becoming a better English speaker. At the same time you get to know about other language learners. A win-win situation.

In this episode, we get to know about a few projects started by Guillaume such as

Guillaume's English podcast
Talk2learn.ch
Chatcast.ch

Guillaume is a French speaking guy who is currently learning Italian and English.

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This episode is different from what you are used listening to. I am basically rambling. The goal was to see if I am able to just speak for a few minutes without stumbling over my own words. I also used the episode to mention some of my previously produced episodes. In my opinion, I am on track and I will continue with my language journey. Thank you very much for your support! www.myfluentpodcast.com.

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How do you learn new vocabulary?

You can leave me a message on my website and tell me 1. your name 2. where you come from 3. which method you are using. You can use this link: http://www.myfluentpodcast.com/feel-free-to-ask-me-a-question/

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Audio drama or in German Hörspiel will help you to become more fluent.

Enjoy and don't forget: stay focused!

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Hello language enthusiasts, welcome back, I'm your host, Daniel Goodson, I'm an English learner and I want you to be part of my language journey. I share all my learning experience with you. The aim here is to become more fluent in any language.

My theme here on this episode is still learning through TV series and movies as it was on my 2 previous episodes. My focus is on the TV Series and I explain you how I process the learning. But learning through movies is very powerful as well. Have fun!

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This week I tried something completely new, I hired a teacher online to proofread my last episode. I point out several mistakes I'v made so far by producing my fluent podcast and I explain why I should have called my podcast our fluent podcast instead of my fluent podcast.

The 3 crucial points of this episode are:

don't be afraid of making mistakes
be aware of making mistakes
learn from your mistakes

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In this episode of my fluent podcast I explain what I did after I received all the corrections from episode 02. You need to learn from your previous mistakes. Therefore you must stick to them and learn from them.

On minute 04.09 you can listen to a reproduction of episode 02 Shall I learn through TV series or movies but this time without grammar mistakes and better pronunciation.

And the most important thing when learning a language: DON'T GIVE UP and KEEP GOING!

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Be consistent even in your holidays

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Olly Richards is a polyglot who answers different language related questions in his weekly podcast.

Definitely worthwhile to tune in to his show!

The abbreviation is in fact IWTYAL 110 - I did not mention it correctly in the episode. Go to the I will teach you a language podcast How to measure the learning progress

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In this episode I make a call to action! Read out loud to become a better speaker! Full show notes

This method is no rocket science but very effective.

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In this episode I tell you about my language goal.

If you are an English learner, I recommend you to head over to www.myfluentpodcast.com to get the transcript of this episode. It's a fantastic way to improve your skills.

Unfortunatelly, I had to cut things out from this episode. For the complete unabridged episode head over to my website and download the mp3 file from there.

Feel free to send me a message if you have any questions. myfluentpodcast@gmail.com.

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I want to go into more detail on a matter I already mentioned in my previous episode E05- read out loud: the project called librivox.

I found that project such a great idea that I decided to dedicate this episode to librivox. Librivox donates its recordings to the public domain. They have for instance produced 20709 books in English, 500 in French, 1928 in German, 101 in Italian, 300 in Spanish, 419 in Chinese and the list goes on and on! Check it out!

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Sometimes, less is more - even when it comes to learn a language.

The idea came up to produce longer episodes in the future. After long consideration, I think it would be a far better idea to concentrate on the quality of the episodes rather than on the length and just leave it as it is. This way, I will learn more. You should do so as well!

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(Soundtrack by Tri-Tachyon - https://soundcloud.com/tri-tachyon)

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I decided to read out loud and record a chapter for libriVox. I hoped for a pronunciation and intonation boost.

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A new day, a new method to get you fluent in your target language! I decided to conduct several interviews with people from all over the world. The thing is that I conduct these interviews in my target language English. My interview partners will be native English speakers but also non–native speakers. In this episode, Chris, a language learner from Canada explains why podcasting in your target language is a good thing.

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In episode 12 I continue with the topic" interviewing other people in your target language" in order to become more fluent.

I interviewed Chris from Canada, who is currently learning Russian.

I did the transcript of the answers as well. This enabled me to even learn more as the process of writing the interview down helped me to memorize good word chunks and vocabulary.

It made a lot of fun and I want to thank Chris for helping me out.

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Netflix can be used as a vast language learning source. There are plenty of series and movies, in which you can choose between different language audio and subtitles. Netflix can really help you boost your language skillls to the next level. Thats why I've decided to dedicate this episode to Netflix. The Audio Description will give you an additional boost. I'm your host Daniel Goodson: myfluentpodcast@gmail.com

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To be honest, I'm not happy about my speaking practice during this week. I almost neglected my speaking training.

Nevertheless, in this episode I talk about my neighbours on stitcher.

It's normal to have some setbacks when it comes to learning a new language. It is then important to keep going and keep learning. Nobody said it's going to be easy.

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This episode is an introduction to a themed series. In fact, this is going to be the start of a themed series. This series is called Learning Through TV Series and Movies. Can you learn a language through movies? Will subtitles in movies help you to learn a language? If so, how? In this series I want to answer this questions. I want to explain how I learn through movies and I give you tips and tricks how you can make the best out of subtitles. It is crucial to combine different learning methods.

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Listen to this vocab related episode, where other listeners tell us about their methods how to learn new vocab.

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The interviews in order to improve my English go on. Big shout out goes to Kris Broholm who was willing to get interviewed by me, the English learner.

He is a very wise language learner who gives away his tips and tricks. His mission: 10 languages in 10 years. He is proficient in English, Danish, German, and can understand and converse in limited fashion with Esperanto, Russian, and Hungarian.

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I give you 5 fresh, dirty language tips (because you deserved it) how you could boost your speaking skill to the next level. 1. set up your own podcast. 2. start your language project and set up a bilingual podcast with the help of a language exchange partner. 3. use technology wisely. 4. build strong habits 5. don't trust the 5 fresh, dirty tips which could boost your speaking skills to the next level. If you want to join my project or if you have any questions, please contact me:myfluentpodcast@gmail.com, I'm your host, your language Doctor, Daniel Goodson (No, I'm not seriously a doctor). Or head over to www.myfluentpodcast.com

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In this second episode of my fluent podcast, I explain how I train my English speaking or/and pronounciation abilities. Therefore, as much exposure to the target language as possible is key.

Sometimes, you should focus on particular words or phrases from an audio source. The "smart repeat" application for Android will help you to focus.

I'm still not sure about the format of the podcast. But it seams crucial to me in the first place to just keep going. It's not that easy to produce this podcast at all.

As with the language learning: Don't give up - just keep going.

If you have any ideas or suggestions for improvement, contact me: myfluentpodcast@gmail.com.

I'm your host, Daniel Goodson, have a good one!

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Learn languages with an english learner. The most important thing it is to speak and speak and speak...

The main goal it is to become fluent in your target language.

If you have any suggestions for future episodes or if you want to be part of the podcast get in touch with me: myfluentpodcast.@gmail.com

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