Bec and Penny chat about all the language events happening around the world and dream about the events they want to attend. We speak about how its often the social aspects of language events and conferences, especially for independent language learners that are the drawcard.Have you been to a language related event, tell us how it was – what was your experience like?

Watching TV series in another language can be a great listening exercise, but we’ve also both found ourselves inspired (or at least tempted) to learn new languages that we’ve heard - sometimes for the first time - through a TV show. Penny and Bec chat about some of the foreign language TV series that they are enjoying at the moment (and the languages that they are enjoying through these shows!), many of which are available online through streaming services such as SBS On Demand and Netflix in Australia.

Do we have this mentality that in order to learn a language we have to attend a class? Penny is considering returning to uni to do a Diploma of Chinese language. Bec and Penny debate the pros and cons of class/group learning versus independent learning and how technology has changed how we approach language learning.

Language Chats is a podcast for Language Lovers in Australia (and beyond). Join Bec and Penny as they chat all things language learning! We can’t tell you how to get fluent in fifteen days… But we can tell you about the small wins, the mental blanks, and all the things that inspire us to keep learning languages as adults while living in Australia (which can generally feel pretty far away from almost everywhere).