Benny and Shannon chat with Dayna Brockbank about learning languages on a budget with Duolingo, italki and Anki by building systems for motivation.

Featured Resources

• italki
• Atomic Habits
• Anki

Mentioned in this Episode

• italki
• Atomic Habits
• Anki
• Fluent in 3 Months blog
• Duolingo
• Happily Ever Travels
• VIP Kid
• Universe of Memory

Episode Overview

Some of the topics brought up during the interview are:

• Learning Spanish while living in Chile in complete immersion
• What makes language immersion work
• How language learners waste time to try to be more effective
• Tips for budget traveling
• Building a career you can take traveling
• Finding motivation with systems
• How to choose which languages you learn
• Building conversation skills in a new language
• Learning for the sake of learning
• Common struggles amongst English language learners
• Something is better than nothing in language learning

Podcast theme: “A New Beginning” by Shannon Kennedy

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