Steve Kaufmann speaks 20 languages and recently challenged himself to 90 days of consistent study in Persian and Arabic on LingQ. In this video he talks about his progress 30 days in, the difficulties he has faced and the content he has been enjoying.

0:00 - Why Mischa decided to study Mandarin.

4:23 - What methods does Mischa use to self-study Mandarin Chinese.

7:57 - The challenge of learning Chinese characters.

10:11 - Discovering LingQ on the journey to fluency in Mandarin.

13:34 - Writing in Chinese.

16:39 - Getting to the point where time spent with Mandarin no longer feels like study.

23:23 - The biggest surprises so far on Mischa's Mandarin-learning journey.

Nicholas Edwards is an American living the dream in Japan! Not only does Nyk speak amazing Japanese, he is a musician and actor and now he has an awesome YouTube channel. In this video Elle chats with Nyk about his career in the Japanese music industry, where his channel will go next and, um, cod sperm? Yum!

YouTuber Robin MacPherson is passionate about language learning, so much so that he has created his own language learning tool, Journaly. He also wrote a book titled How to Maintain Languages which help readers... you guessed it, maintain their languages! In this episode Robin shares how his love from languages started, the methods he uses and more.

Davide runs the awesome Podcast Italiano. In this chat with Elle he shares the things that make learning Italian tough, the different dialects of Italian and how they are viewed in Italy and he also shares some tips on starting a podcast.

YouTuber Luke Truman taught himself Cantonese form scratch and went on to learn Spanish and Mandarin too. In this chat with Elle he shares his language leanring methods and tons of great resources for anyone wanting to learn Cantonese or Mandarin.

Lina Vasquez is a polyglot YouTuber, author and self-empowerment coach. In this week's episode of the LingQ Podcast Elle chats with Lina about how she came to know so many languages, what inspired her to start her website and YouTube channel and the interesting and exciting new direction her channel and career have taken recently.

In part two of Benny's chat with Elle Benny talks about the mental life struggles he has experienced over the past few years, how he is overcoming them and what he is doing to help people going through anything similar.

Benny Lewis, AKA Benny the Irish Polyglot, went from being sure he could never learn a new language to become fluent in seven. In this episode, Elle chats with Benny about how he approaches new languages and his take on making mistakes.

Kerstin Cable is a polyglot podcaster, YouTuber, language coach, and co-host of the Women in Language event. I chatted with her about language learning (duh!) and especially her love for a lesser-known language and the awesome event, now in its fourth year, Women in Language.