The Fluent Show

Language Events, Language Careers, Language Inspiration

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  • What was language learning like before the internet?
  • What’s so great about an event like the Language Show?
  • Our ideas for Langathon and Language Speed Dating
  • Language and Careers: What’s out there beyond Teaching and Translating?
  • Lindsay’s passionate explanation of “Primary Languages” in the UK, and how to instil a language passion for life in younger learners
  • Our appreciation of multilingual actors and subtitles in TV and movies

    • Our podcast also featured a short interview with Dan McIntyre from the University of Huddersfield and our discussion around what fluency involved.

    Tip of the Week

    Lindsay chose Tip 2 as the winning tip for this episode and added more great ideas on how you can present to people, even when they are not learning your language.

    1) Draw a trilingual vocab chart to practice vocab divergence

    2) Prepare a presentation for your tutor or buddy

    3) Swipe in two languages using the Swiftkey Keyboard app

    Links and Interesting Stuff from This Show
    • Podcast: Episode 13 with Becky Morales about raising bilingual children
    • Daniel Brühl
    • Monsters by Gareth Edwards
    • The Add 1 Challenge
    • The Lingo Show on the BBC
    • Babel Language Magazine
    • Learning English with Phrasal Verbs, Lindsay's new online course
      • Language Learning Events around the World

      Language Show Live

      Polyglot Gathering

      Polyglot Conference

      Polyglot Workshops

      ...more
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