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
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
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
Should we throw our course books and grammar books away??? Well, maybe.... Dogme language teachingis 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
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/
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 An...
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 ta...
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/
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 bef...
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 ...