Hedvig speaks with Rachel Paling, creator of the Neurolanguage Coaching© method, about brain-friendly learning, NeuroHeart education, and finding our own paths to joy and autonomy by embracing the coach mindset. For the full show notes including more guest information and links, visit podcast.abundate.org/11.Join the School of CertaintyDon’t let your language worries hold you back any longer. Join the School of Certainty and start your journey towards confident and effective communicatio...

Hedvig speaks with sociolinguistics researcher Dr Vijay Ramjattan about accents, societal biases, and perception. We tend not to recognise that language is not just a skill, but a social tool with a deep history in power dominance, colonialism and discrimination. This episode contains a few stories about racist discrimination.For the full show notes including more guest information and links, visit podcast.abundate.org/10.Join the School of CertaintyDon’t let your language worries hold you ba...

In this short bonus episode, Hedvig talks briefly about a topic that everyone should consider from time to time, and shares some news about an upcoming new programme for language learners. Read the show notes on podcast.abundate.org/9 for more details.Join the School of CertaintyDon’t let your language worries hold you back any longer. Join the School of Certainty and start your journey towards confident and effective communication: abundate.org/soc

Hedvig speaks with Nikki Wood, a civil servant, about her journey with hearing loss, British Sign Language (BSL), dabbling in Polish and Spanish, and also some of the challenges and excuses that she’s battling in trying to learn languages.For the full show notes including more guest information and links, visit podcast.abundate.org/8.Join the School of CertaintyDon’t let your language worries hold you back any longer. Join the School of Certainty and start your journey towards confident and e...

Do you want your family to be bilingual? Hedvig speaks with Flo Rozensztajn about why it was important to her that her children could communicate in multiple languages, how she turned a home project into a business to help other French-English bilingual families, whether it is actually more difficult to raise children bilingually, and we also touch upon some of the complexities of multilingual and multicultural identities.For the full show notes including more guest information and links, vis...

Is learning a language more difficult as an adult? Have you missed your window of opportunity? There are many ways to make language stick, and in this solo episode we take a look at one way to do that.For further details on the exercise from this episode, get the full show notes on podcast.abundate.org/6.Join the School of CertaintyDon’t let your language worries hold you back any longer. Join the School of Certainty and start your journey towards confident and effective communication: abunda...

Hedvig speaks with Friederike Sell about “International English”, a.k.a. English as a lingua Franca, how to include people with different levels of fluency, and how this can inform our own language learning.For the full show notes including more guest information and links, visit podcast.abundate.org/5.Join the School of CertaintyDon’t let your language worries hold you back any longer. Join the School of Certainty and start your journey towards confident and effective communication: abundate...

How do you connect with another language and actually feel like yourself when you speak it? This week's guest is María Ortega García, and her answer to this is what she calls language embodiment. We discuss a few of the unhelpful learning techniques we experienced in our school days and find a few alternative solutions.For the full show notes including more guest information and links, visit podcast.abundate.org/4.Join the School of CertaintyDon’t let your language worries hold you back any l...

Hedvig speaks with Chesline Pierre-Paul, Queer-E-O of a global digital transformation, coaching and social impact consulting company, about learning languages without travelling, language deconstruction, decolonialisation and how this can help develop an empowering, mindful and purposeful language learning practice.For the full show notes including more guest information and links, visit podcast.abundate.org/3.Join the School of CertaintyDon’t let your language worries hold you back any longe...

When she set out to start a podcast, Hedvig knew she wanted to help her listeners to develop new mindsets and break down old myths around language learning, and in this episode she's speaking with someone who has really worked on her mindsets and beliefs around language learning - and even more importantly, she has found ways of learning that work for her. Listen to this interview with Elise Cutts.To read the full show notes including more guest information and links, visit podcast.abundate.o...