This podcast episode is a bit like a Wundertüte - a lucky dip bag of interviews with wonderful people who made the 2017 Langfest event what it was. Thank you so much to all of these lovely people - Langfest was motivating, informative, energising, and of course very, very multilingual.

Here's a taste of what you'll find inside the episode:

We've all seen the feats of Bella Devyatkina, who speaks 8 languages at age 5. But how does that work? In my interview with conference organizer Tetsu Young, we touched on the everyday actions that he and his wife create a multilingual environment for their three (!) kids.

You might not know this, but all of us have hidden skills that help us learn languages. I interviewed Benny Lewis and Tim Pelletier to find out what theirs are.

From how to make those dipthong sounds to religious swearing, be a fly on the wall during our French-language lesson on the Québec dialect.

Listen to me try as hard as possible to get my Romanian pronunciation right with the kind help of presenter Mihai. Ooof!

Jana Fadness is a polyglot, translator, traveller, and introvert. She shares her insights on the most popular motivational techniques - and how she found her own unconventional ways of making things work. Jana's interview was amazing, her honesty stood out among the crowd.

Special Guests: Benny Lewis and Shannon Kennedy.

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Links:

• LangFest – Festival de Langues de Montréal | Montreal Language Festival
• Eurolinguiste - Shannon Kennedy
• Get into the 4 Tendencies with the Better App
• Adventures of the Directionally Challenged - Jana Fadness
• Radiolingua - the home of Coffee Break Podcasts
• To My Father – To My Father Film
• Emilie Wapnick's TED Talk on Multipotentialites -- not all of us are made to do just one thing in life
• LanguageCon – The Shanghai Language Learner’s Conference
• 4-year-old Bella from Moscow easily speaks 7 languages - YouTube
• Vernaly, a project from Mihai who taught me Romanian in the show