EPISODE162 | It can seem like a far off dream right? Traveling to a foreign locale while you and your family speak and become at ease at speaking and conversing in the native tongue. Well that’s exactly what Adelaide Olguin has done or better yet created for her family and for thousands of others with TalkBox.Mom. Join Janna and Adelaide as they chat about incorporating multiple languages into everyday and traveling as a family, the ups and the downs.

ABOUT OUR GUEST | Adelaide Olguin, creator and CEO of TalkBox.Mom, realized that parents are actually the most successful language teachers in the world—not professors. When it hit her in an apartment abroad in Brazil back in 2014 with her two little boys and husband, she was able to turn traditional language learning on its head, helping her family to pass up years of trying to speak another language by talking from day one—instead of year 2 or year never.

With her expertise in linguistics, design, marketing, and business, she developed TalkBox.Mom with a team of native-speaking women and launched it in 2016. In 2017, for obvious reasons (aka it works), it became a favorite for homeschool families and then later military families, families with children in language immersion schools, and any family that really wants to be able to use another language. 

QUOTABLES |

Homeschooling highs and lows with a world traveler. (0:04)

Language immersion, travel, and parenting. (1:08)

Travel experiences and failures. (5:32)

Vacation challenges and cultural differences. (10:05)

Homeschooling and language learning in Costa Rica. (15:20)

Language learning and practice with children. (18:17)

Language learning challenges and successes. (23:13)

Language learning obstacles and strategies. (27:10)

Homeschooling and giving children space to fail. (33:43)

Embracing failure in homeschooling. (36:32)

Homeschooling hacks and resources. (39:41)

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