My Fluent Podcast

By Daniel Goodson

What's My Fluent Podcast about?

Have you ever struggled becoming fluent in any language? Learn with an upper-intermediate English learner and join his long term language journey. Together we are stonger!

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My Fluent Podcast episodes:

12.03.2023
133 Reading In Italian Until I'm Fluent - Sarah Ifeoma
Sarah tells the origin story of her YouTube Channel (reading series), where she started out reading out loud a book in Italian. At the time she started reading on YouTube, she had only been studying Italian for 2 months! First...
10.23.2023
132 Exchange Semester in Argentina - Bob from Belgium
Bob talks about his language learning methods and how he ended up in Argentina to learn Spanish. He has been tracking his language learning progress in form of videos in which he speaks in Spanish. Video Version. Some of the...
10.08.2023
131 3000 Hours of Immersion - Language Immersion Method - India from Ireland
India is a very enthusiastic learner of German from Ireland. She tells us about her language journey in which she mainly used the immersion approach to become fluent in German. The most important part of this whole method of immersion...
09.20.2023
130 Learning English Through Writing (With The Technology Bishop)
This is part 1 of 2. Antonello Zanini from Italy is quite an inspiration to me. He is a software engineer and technical writer and is a succesful writer on Medium. Spreading knowledge through writing is his mission Daniel and...
08.26.2023
129 Movie Club - Groundhog Day - Discussion [PART 2]
In the second part of our chat with Cara Leopold. (Link to first part), we discuss the movie Groundhog Day. The episode is meant to be like a Movie Club. Cara Leopold is the creator of the Leo Listening Movie...
08.26.2023
129 Movie Club - Learning English With Movies ft. Cara Leopold [PART 1]
Cara Leopold is the creator of the Leo Listening Movie Club where she helps film-loving English learners understand and discuss movies together so they can master conversational English. From September 13th-20th Cara is organising the Back-to-School Movie Challenge, a 1-week...
08.17.2023
128 Rock N' Roll English
Martin Johnston loves to teach English through personal stories (storytelling) and through non conventional methods. It's great to learn from him and his podcast. He really knows a thing or two about learning (teaching) a language, especially British English. His...
08.12.2023
[Swapcast] All About You Podcast - Daniel's Language Learning Journey
Video version of this podcast. You'll find the link to Sheila's Podcast (All About You Podcast) here: https://open.spotify.com/show/38xZM7ID8vP1aJR5KuFrQS?si=eaed93c8d9004870 All About You Podcast on YouTube. The Vocab Man Podcast: ▶ 113 To Be Off The Hook (Ft. Lingo Junkie)...
06.11.2023
127 Native Speakers are Overrated - Reading has Helped Christina Learn 10 Foreign Languages so Far
Christina's Language Journey Christina has been learning many languages such as Latin Spanish
06.05.2023
126 Cristina from Sardinia (Italy) - 3 minutes without editing or preparation (Podcast)
Welcome to my inspirational language learning podcast. Where I interview other language lovers. Currently, I strive to enhance my Italian skills. One podcast that has become my go-to resource is "3' Grezzi" [grezzi means raw, unedited] by Cristina Marras. Join...
05.17.2023
125 How Max Overcame his Struggles and Became an English Teacher
How Max From Argentina Overcame His Struggles and Became an English Teacher
01.29.2023
124 Asish Dutta, Super Learner From India
Asish Dutta: The Super Learner! Asish is a determined language learner who is dedicated to improving his English skills by taking one-on-one online lessons with different teachers. At the same time, he uploads all of his sessions on his YouTube...
01.15.2023
123 Nyssa from Italy - for the love of English learning and teaching English
Quit your day job for your English dream! Nyssa's son helped her to start learning English again and she has come to enjoy and even love it! In this episode you'll learn more about Nyssa's journey, not only how she...
01.01.2023
122 Personal Storytelling - Tell your Story and Improve your English - with Fabio Cerpelloni from the Stolaroid Podcast
Personal storytelling can be used to improve language skills. Interview with Fabio Cerpelloni. YouTube version On the previous episode 121, we learned from Lucia that we can learn through listening to other personal stories. "Everyone has a story to...
12.04.2022
121 Lucia Matuonto from The Relatable Voice Podcast - Interviewing more than 250 guests improved her English immensly!
Lucia from Brazil was having self-doubts about her English. Not even 2 years later, she interviewed more than 250 guests on the Relatable Voice Podcast (of course in English)! Various newspapers wrote about her. "The Star Podcaster: Lucia Matuonto" (New...
11.02.2022
120 - 7 Learners in The Glossika Challenge - Danish, Greek, Spanish, German, Italian, Turkish...
7 brave language learners accepted the challenge to do 3000 repetitions in one month in the October 2022 Glossika Challenge. Glossika is an AI based app/website. (Leran more about Glossika on episode 119) This is the video teaser. Don't...
10.28.2022
119 What is Glossika? Intro to the Glossika challenge with Kenny from SomethingPolyglot.com
Ep. 119 is meant to be the intro to the Glossika Challenge which is going to be covered on ep. 120. Kenny from somethingpolyglot.com is explaining Glossika and how he experienced the challenge so far. The Glossika challenge (#GlossikaChallenge) is...
10.15.2022
118 What are disfluencies and how to get rid of them - Craig Wealand
We are joined by the experienced English teacher and Spanish learner Craig Wealand. He is the host of the Inglespodcast and he knows his onions! (Inglespodcast – Los audio podcasts de La Mansión del Inglés) We talk about disfluencies:...
09.28.2022
117B - Eat an elephant one bite at the time (Part 2)
This is the second part of the interview with Urmi. For the first part, head over to 117A. What do you think will language learning look like in 10 years time? (3:57) Are you an Italiki teacher? (5:29) Why...
08.15.2022
117A - Fear is the dearest friend of all - Urmi Hossain (Part 1)
Urmi Hossain is a full-time female worker in the financial services industry. She has been working in this industry for about six years and she comes from an educational background in Finance. She is currently pursuing her CFA designation. In...
07.30.2022
BONUS - ChatGPT alias Peter speaking - Artificial intelligence in language learning - AI in languages
This is a bonus episode. I just couldn't help myself. See for yourself. A special thank goes to Jesus who's intro was fantastic. He manages to inspire and motivate other learners. Please, follow his instagram: Jesus Mtz (@jessuss.mtz) • Instagram-Fotos...
07.16.2022
116 - Podcasting as a language learning method - Asyraaf from Malaysia
English learner Asyraaf from Malaysia tells his language learning story and how he managed conducting more than 100 interviews on his podcast called Content Marketing Hacks. Making the podcast helped him tremendously to become a better English speaker. YouTube version...
07.03.2022
115 How Luciana from Argentina ended up in Denmark - Traveling Sri Lanka, India, Australia..., Managing people in a foreign language
Luciana decided to leave her country (Argentina) to become bilingual. Learn more about her journey in which she ended up being in Denmark. Here is the YouTube version of this episode: https://youtu.be/mbvQ_gxty4Q What is the BRAVE85 series? Learn more about...
06.18.2022
114 Live English Lesson - The Challenge of Taking a Live Lesson on YouTube - with Enrique from Spain
Enrique from Spain talks about his experience when he attended several live English lessons on Teacher Zdenek's YouTube Channel. What did he like about it? What was difficult? What did he learn? We touched on several other topics such as...
06.11.2022
113 The Dogme Method - focus on the student (not course books)
Should we throw our course books and grammar books away??? Well, maybe.... Dogme language teaching is considered to be both a methodology and a movement. Dogme is a communicative approach to language teaching that encourages teaching without published textbooks and focuses...
06.06.2022
112 From English Learner to Teacher, soon running an English School!
Learn more about Dorota's English journey and how she became a proficient speaker who is about to run her own English School called "Dragon Dorota Słomiana". Thank you so much Dorota for shareing your experience with us! The langage...
05.30.2022
111 SPEED LISTENING to level up your target language - Transcriptionist Vince from the Philippines
Trilingual English speaker Vince from the Philippines shares his valuable tips and tricks on how he became a fluent English speaker. YouTube version (without pictures): https://youtu.be/R9XySsmxYfE YouTube version with pictures: https://youtu.be/YFR13RnpWqE Transcript version: https://share.descript.com/view/cvDEBobDlD4 E-Mail: [email protected] Time stamps /...
05.21.2022
110 Social Media to learn English (or any language) with Tchales from Brazil
In this episode, Tchales from Brazil and Daniel from Switzerland are going to share 4 steps on how to make the best out of Social Media in order to level up one's target language skills. We will break it...
05.14.2022
109 Charlie's Spanish Journey - YouTuber Charlie from USA keeps track of his language journey in his YT channel
It's never too late to better yourself! Dyslexic Spanish learner Charlie from the USA (Texas) keeps track of his Spanish journey in form of a YouTube channel. In this podcast interview, we talk about various methods on how...
05.01.2022
108 Multilingual Language teacher and learner Kenny from Belgium - Somethingpolyglot.com
Kenny is a multilingual online teacher on ITALKI. He is also a passionate language learner himself. In this interview, we talk about leaving our comfort zone in order to level up our language skills. How can we make introvert learners...
04.22.2022
107 Catching up with Stephen Devincenzi from SEND7
Stephen Devincenzi, founder and host of SEND7 interviews Daniel Godson! Topics are: Swiss language, Swiss food, Swiss military, Argentina and more... YouTube Version: https://youtu.be/BZMFFcaM8Dk Transcript version to read along while listenig: https://share.descript.com/view/rayvXsN27c9 Time Stamps: 0:00:01 Why is Stephen interviewing...
03.12.2022
106 - The Language Secret - John Stedman - How to Learn a Foreign Language: Or. How to Speak 10 Languages. Badly
John Stedman speaks 10 languages. Listen to this interview based episode of My Fluent Podcast. John, the author of the book (which is titled "The Language Secret") spent many years as a linguist in Africa and frequently met people who...
03.05.2022
105 - How to learn languages with podcasts
You're gonna learn why using podcasts is a great way to learn languages and how you should use them to get the most out of it. With the help of podcasts you can easily level up your target language...
02.12.2022
104 - Every voice is valid! Accentricity Podcast - Sadie Ryan from Scotland
Sadie Ryan, linguist and host of the Accentricity podcasts shares her insights into different linguistic topics. Sadie has been learning Gaelic and Polish. She is currently a university lecturer in linguistics. Sadie has a podcast called Accentricity I highly...
02.01.2022
103 - Klingon - Linguist and Polyglot André Müller
In this episode, you'll learn about the constructed language called Klingon. Why did André learn the language and where shall we start learning the Klingon language? This and many more... This is the YouTube version: https://youtu.be/MYlS2bkSrAo Time...
01.20.2022
102 - PART 2 Lingo Junkie - Eugeniu from Moldova
This is PART 2 of the interview with Eugeniu aka Lingo Junkie from Moldova. Full transcript YouTube Version Vocabulary list further below! Time Stamps: 04:28 Working as a business analyst in the US 05:48 Becoming an English teacher 08:05 What...
01.14.2022
101 - Lingo Junkie - Eugeniu from Moldova PART 1
This is Part 1 of the interview. Vocabulary list further below! The full transcript is on my website. Lingo Junkie thelingojunkie lingojunkie https://lingojunkie.com/ Vocabulary list 0:11 Cheesy: cheap and of low quality. 0:19 To jot sth. down:...
01.11.2022
100th EPISODE! ...and still not FLUENT!
Milestone reached. Thank you all!
11.29.2021
99 - Hypnosis to Improve Your Target Language - THE INTERVIEW
You'll find more show notes here. Video version of this episode: Vocabulary to focus on in in this episode: 01:06 hypnotist: person who uses hypnosis as a form of treatment, or sometimes entertainment: I went to...
11.19.2021
98 - Omar from Ecuador about being a host and member of the MAOFEN Group
Omar from Ecuador tells us about his English journey and his experience in being a host and member of the Facebook Group Masters of English (MAOFEN). Don't forget to take a look at Omar's Instagram profile: Instagram: knowawa_english Omar Llamba...
06.14.2021
97 - learn English with text adventures
Watching the Video version of this episode is a must - if you want to make the best out of it! (Because you can read along while listening) YouTube Video. Vocabulary List/ Google Document: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1H-tQ-giV4Pzsh603e59O_3eHsjWM61mzDbpn9cL4L-8/edit?usp=sharing Victorian Detective Interlude...
05.31.2021
96 - Masters of English (MAOFEN) - collaborative project / second interview with Gabriel from Spain
(I recommend to watch the interview on YouTube) After our first interview back in October 2020 with Gabriel, we want to know what has happened in the meantime on Masters of English (MAOFEN). -- Check out the first interview:...
04.01.2021
94 Learning English with music or songs! 4 different opinions
In this episode, I'm going to introduce a new theme: Let's Podcast Together. The goal is to discuss different language learning topics and practice English together. Let's grow together! Have fun. The video version of this episode (with transcripts) is...
03.20.2021
93 - Catching up with Alvaro from Spain (ep. 84) Learn English in 1 minute
Alvaro is an English teacher from Spain. I had the possibility to catch up with him and go deeper into the topics. So it's basically a continuation of episode 84. The episode is also available on YouTube! https://youtu.be/hyMaV4awBDg McCourtain: English...
03.04.2021
92 - How to learn English with a News Podcast - Simple English News Daily (SEND7)
Interview with the host of the news Podcast SEND 7, creator and speaker Stephen Devincenzi from the UK: Here is the YouTube video version with transcripts in it: https://youtu.be/Au8tUE8jxw0 Dear listeners, let's give Stephen a joy and send him...
02.26.2021
91 - Rachel Smets - Stop comparing! Be the best YOU!
Interview with Rachel Smets - Clarity Coach and language learner/teacher. Her main passion is living abroad. Here is the video version with the English transcript/subtitles: https://youtu.be/kuL21ew7uDM Chapters: 0:26 Intro with Daniel 2:38 Start Interview - Who is Rachel Smets? 6:39...
02.20.2021
90 - Lena Livinsky - Accent Coach - Speak English with Clarity and Confidence!
Interview with Lena Livinsky. Here is the video version with transcripts: https://youtu.be/bwda8HAOFSE Chapters: 0:00 Teaser: excerpt from the interview. 1:07 Introduction with Lena Livinsky - She first was afraid of sharing her voice and speaking up 2:12 Start Interview 2:55...
02.12.2021
89 - Leo from Italy - Input based learning techniques and more
In this episode, we had a fantastic interview with Leo from Italy. The BRAVE 85 series goes on :) Time stamps: 4:12 What is your English learning goal? 5:46 What does it mean to you to be fluent? 8:10 Why...
02.06.2021
88 - Wafaa from Iraq - Learn with the help of Skype groups
In this episode, we have an interview with the great Wafaa from Iraq. If you like the podcast, don't forget to subscribe so you won't miss any tips and tricks and get inspired for your language journey! Learning together makes...
01.29.2021
87 - Nastya from Russia - Stephen Krashen's book Language Acquisition and more...
Nastya from Russia - Linguistics student from Moscow - talks about: 0:40 Who is Nastya? (introduction) 3:12 What does Linguistics mean? (granted, that question was a bit hard) 4:20 What is Nastya's grammar thesis all about? (Nastya is going to...

What's My Fluent Podcast about?

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My Fluent Podcast episodes:

133 Reading In Italian Until I'm Fluent - Sarah Ifeoma

132 Exchange Semester in Argentina - Bob from Belgium

131 3000 Hours of Immersion - Language Immersion Method - India from Ireland

130 Learning English Through Writing (With The Technology Bishop)

129 Movie Club - Groundhog Day - Discussion [PART 2]

129 Movie Club - Learning English With Movies ft. Cara Leopold [PART 1]

128 Rock N' Roll English

[Swapcast] All About You Podcast - Daniel's Language Learning Journey

127 Native Speakers are Overrated - Reading has Helped Christina Learn 10 Foreign Languages so Far

126 Cristina from Sardinia (Italy) - 3 minutes without editing or preparation (Podcast)

125 How Max Overcame his Struggles and Became an English Teacher

124 Asish Dutta, Super Learner From India

123 Nyssa from Italy - for the love of English learning and teaching English

122 Personal Storytelling - Tell your Story and Improve your English - with Fabio Cerpelloni from the Stolaroid Podcast

121 Lucia Matuonto from The Relatable Voice Podcast - Interviewing more than 250 guests improved her English immensly!

120 - 7 Learners in The Glossika Challenge - Danish, Greek, Spanish, German, Italian, Turkish...

119 What is Glossika? Intro to the Glossika challenge with Kenny from SomethingPolyglot.com

118 What are disfluencies and how to get rid of them - Craig Wealand

117B - Eat an elephant one bite at the time (Part 2)

117A - Fear is the dearest friend of all - Urmi Hossain (Part 1)

BONUS - ChatGPT alias Peter speaking - Artificial intelligence in language learning - AI in languages

116 - Podcasting as a language learning method - Asyraaf from Malaysia

115 How Luciana from Argentina ended up in Denmark - Traveling Sri Lanka, India, Australia..., Managing people in a foreign language

114 Live English Lesson - The Challenge of Taking a Live Lesson on YouTube - with Enrique from Spain

113 The Dogme Method - focus on the student (not course books)

112 From English Learner to Teacher, soon running an English School!

111 SPEED LISTENING to level up your target language - Transcriptionist Vince from the Philippines

110 Social Media to learn English (or any language) with Tchales from Brazil

109 Charlie's Spanish Journey - YouTuber Charlie from USA keeps track of his language journey in his YT channel

108 Multilingual Language teacher and learner Kenny from Belgium - Somethingpolyglot.com

107 Catching up with Stephen Devincenzi from SEND7

106 - The Language Secret - John Stedman - How to Learn a Foreign Language: Or. How to Speak 10 Languages. Badly

105 - How to learn languages with podcasts

104 - Every voice is valid! Accentricity Podcast - Sadie Ryan from Scotland

103 - Klingon - Linguist and Polyglot André Müller

102 - PART 2 Lingo Junkie - Eugeniu from Moldova

101 - Lingo Junkie - Eugeniu from Moldova PART 1

100th EPISODE! ...and still not FLUENT!

99 - Hypnosis to Improve Your Target Language - THE INTERVIEW

98 - Omar from Ecuador about being a host and member of the MAOFEN Group

97 - learn English with text adventures

96 - Masters of English (MAOFEN) - collaborative project / second interview with Gabriel from Spain

94 Learning English with music or songs! 4 different opinions

93 - Catching up with Alvaro from Spain (ep. 84) Learn English in 1 minute

92 - How to learn English with a News Podcast - Simple English News Daily (SEND7)

91 - Rachel Smets - Stop comparing! Be the best YOU!

90 - Lena Livinsky - Accent Coach - Speak English with Clarity and Confidence!

89 - Leo from Italy - Input based learning techniques and more

88 - Wafaa from Iraq - Learn with the help of Skype groups

87 - Nastya from Russia - Stephen Krashen's book Language Acquisition and more...