My Fluent Podcast

Feeling stuck in your language learning journey? Don't worry and never give up! In this episode, we share Max's language learning story and how he became an English teacher, despite struggling at first.

• Bumpy start (0:00)
• Paralyzing fear of speaking English (4:09)
• The time after Max dropped out of school (6:04)
• Speaking practice came later (8:05)
• Learning English as an introvert (10:30)
• Tips and tricks for introverted learners (13:00)
• Couch Surfing to learn a language (16:54)
• English teacher, private tutor, YouTuber, Video creator(18:33)
• What to expect on Max's YouTube channel (23:07)
• Favorite expressions: Off The Top Of My Head / To Do Justice

• Mate 🧉: Mate is a South American herbal beverage with a bitter taste, known for its stimulating properties and social tradition.
• To plug sth.: to promote or advertise sth., often in a self-promotional manner.
  • if you will allow me to plug my YouTube channel. It is called I'm Max and I will teach you English
• To leave your​/​a mark (on): to make a lasting impact or impression on something or someone.
  • I want them to experience the world fully in English and leave their mark in it.
• Vanity metrics: vanity metrics refer to superficial or meaningless statistics that may appear impressive but hold little actual value or impact.
  • Daniel: And where do you see your YouTube channel in five year? Max: Well, I mean, hopefully a lot bigger and with a lot more subscribers and really, I don't care about the numbers really. Those are vanity metrics.
• Wishy-washy: feeble or insipid in quality or character.

• Key Take-Aways:
  • Don't compare yourself with others in the sense that you are beating yourself up. Instead, focus on your targets and compare to your younger self.
  • Having a clear goal in mind can help you become the person you want to be.
  • Reviewing and consolidating knowledge is crucial to establish a solid foundation for future progress.
  • Don't be too focused or obsessed with the idea of becoming fluent.

• I'm Max and I'll teach you English: Max's YouTube channel📱

• Couch Surfing: A website where you can connect with locals. You can stay with locals and meet travelers.🌍A perfect method also to make a language exchange or to learn a language.

• Learn English with TV Series (RealLife English):
  • https://youtu.be/soZc03vH_qQ (Learn English With Rap Songs / Eminem
  • https://youtu.be/o82oNazflnc (Lern English With Queen)

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 channel so that other learners can learn with him. We call that a win-win-situation.

Recently, one of his videos took off🚀 and reached over 1.2 million views, which is unbelievable.

Imagine, million of people watching you how you progress in your language journey!

➡️ Do you have a story to tell? Do you have a book about languages 📖? Then it's time to get interviewed on My Fluent Podcast! Drop me an E-Mail: [email protected]

• Language: Language learning takes more than just learning vocabulary. It's about food, culture and many more
• Having different teachers will help you grow: Every teacher or language partner is different. You'll learn different methods and learn about different types of characters. This will help you in your language journey.
• Stop being afraid of making mistakes: Asish overcame his fear and uploads his learning sessions. It sort of gave him an extra boost. He doesn't care what others are thinking about him and his errors.

• Sanskrit: Sanskrit is an Old Indo-Aryan language that arose in South Asia. It is regarded as the ancient language in Hinduism, where it was used as a means of communication and dialogue by the Hindu Celestial Gods. Sanskrit is known for its structure, writing, and alphabet, and has been used as a philosophical language in the religions of Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism
• Swami Vivekananda: Indian Hindu monk, philosopher, author, religious teacher, and the chief disciple of the Indian mystic Ramakrishna. He was a key figure in the introduction of Vedanta and Yoga to the Western world

• What does Language mean to Asish? (00:06)
• English Language in India (3:42)
• The Languages Asish Speaks (4:19) 🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️
• The different learning methods (8:56)
• Writing and Correcting Process (9:53)
• Asish Dutta's YouTube Channel (11:31)
• The Video that got over 1.2 Million Views (14:30) (THE VIDEO IS NOT AVAILABLE ANYMORE)
• Meditation in Language Learning (17:13) 🧘🧘
• Long-term Goal (19:06)
• Acting and Cartoons in Language Learning (20:29)
• Having your own Talkshow to Improve in your Target Language (21:53)
• The Researcher (23:20)
• Favorite English Word (26:37)

• William Wordsworth: 📜William Wordsworth (7 April 1770 – 23 April 1850) was an English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature. He attended Hawkshead Grammar School, where his love of poetry was firmly established and, it is believed, where he made his first attempts at verse. He is best known for Lyrical Ballads (1667), which he wrote with Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

• Clapingo: ☎️Clapingo is a platform that allows users to practice conversations with various speakers across the country. It provides a judgment-free space for people to improve their English speaking skills through 1-on-1 video calls. 📱

• Cambly: ☎️A website that connects language learners with native speakers for language exchange. 🌍

• Quillbot ai: 🤖QuillBot is an AI-powered paraphrasing tool designed to help people rewrite and enhance any sentence, paragraph, or article. It uses artificial intelligence and machine learning to rearrange word order and natural language understanding (NLU) to understand the context of the text.📝

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 improved her English in such a short time, but also how she helps other English learners improve their English. 🚀

Nyssa has many plans for the future and we are sure to hear more about her in future episodes.

🎥Video version

Www.nyssanai.com

- It's never too late to start learning a language or to restart your language journey 📖.

- Challenge yourself by speaking spontaneously (and recording yourself) and take your language skills to the next level!

- Don't be afraid to make mistakes. It's always important to start something, even if you're not prepared. There is no ideal moment!

Vocabulary 🖊️:🎤

• Off the cuff: (idiom) Without preparation
• Pursuing your dreams: (idiom) To work toward that which one most desires or hopes to do, have, or accomplish in life.

• Intro - Nyssa's English journey(0:58)
• Languages at school (3:47)
• Passion of English (4:28)
• Christian Saunders (6:52) Christian is/was quite an inspiration to Nyssa. YouTube Channel
• Off the Cuff 🗣🎙️ - Speak spontanuously and improve your English (12:39)
  • Listen to Roberto, the inventor of the game on episode 66 - Speak English fluently through GAMIFICATION
• Mistakes (18:18)
  • Dialects and accents of Italy (20:45)
• Pronunciation is a challenge (24:54)
• Consume different podcasts, videos etc. to get used to different ways of speaking (26:38)
• Books (29:00) 📚
  • Tip: Word Wise on Kindle(30:50)
• Learning tools (37:32)
• Future English projects (38:04)
• Favorite English expression (40:28)
• Start before you are ready (42:49) 🎬
• Excuses (51:20)
• Outro (1:03:30)

Www.nyssanai.com

Instagram: @nyssa.sbloccailtuoinglese

Facebook: Nyssa - Sblocca il tuo inglese

• LIVE | English class with Canguro English: Canguro English is a YouTube Channel hosted by Christian Saunders. With his channel, Christian is trying to change the way the world learns English. Canruo English has also a podcast, which is one of my go-to podcasts relating linguistics.

• The Chat Box: A facebook group which helps you become a more active English learner so that you speak/record more ofen. 🌍

• MAOFEN Masters of English: Very active Facebook English learning community.📝

  • Check out Ep. 69 Masters of English with Gabriel from Spain
• Music: Scott Holmes: Scott Holmes Music - Upbeat party - Free Music Archive
  • Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.

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 tell".
• On this episode (122) it's all about telling your own stories in order to improve in your target language.
• Even though Fabio Cerpelloni's personal language learning journey did not involve storytelling, he fell in love with telling stories from his own life and has even started to integrate it in his teachings. The book "Story Worthy" by Matthew Dicks inspired Fabio's podcast (Stolaroid Stories) and focus on personal storytelling. Best stories are about failure and can impact others.
• Fabio is currently writing a book about his personal journey of learning English and how to learn the language in an organic way. We hope that we can have him on My Fluent Podcast for a second round so that we can learn more about his inspiring journey. Thank you Fabio!

What are you waiting for? Share your own anecdotes relating to language learning and contact Daniel: [email protected]

Topics / Time stamps

0:01 Introduction

1:32 Clip from Ep. 121 (Lucia Matuonto listened to more than 250 guest's stories)

2:55 Start

4:52 Fabio's story in 60 seconds

7:56 Fabio did not use storytelling in his English journey

10:18 How to start learning through storytelling

14:10 Fabio's personal language journey did not involve storytelling

17:00 Toastmaster (Public speaking) (Urmi Hossain on Fabio's Podcast Ep. 41)

20:13 Home

23:03 The book "Story Worthy" inspired Fabio to start a podcast (Stolaroidstories) and focus on telling personal stories. Fabio is writing a book about his personal journey of learning english and how to learn the language in an orccanic way.

28:19 Fabio deleted his own social media (instagram)

30:45 Book Club (Book Discussions - Fabio Cerpelloni)

36:43 Fabio's favorite expressions: "Alright" and "No worries"

39:48 Fabio's next challenge

Links:

https://fabiocerpelloni.com/

Fabio Cerpelloni | Facebook

Fabio encourages language learners to try the "3 2 1" game to practice storytelling and language skills

3 2 1 game by Matthew Dicks: The "3 2 1" game involves choosing three concrete nouns and telling a one minute story about one of them in two minutes

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 York Today)

According to Listennotes.com her podcast is among the 0.5 % most popular podcasts*. *"This podcast is one of the top 0.5% most popular shows out of 2,985,974 podcasts globally, ranked by Listen Score (the estimated popularity score", date: december 2022.

Listen to this episode and learn more about her astonishing journey, which has just started.

Links:

• Linktree with all the links related to Lucia Matuonto.
• The Relatable Voice Podcast

• Lucia's book: Zoe the Crab
• Lucia Matuonto
• Linkedin
• Lucia interviewed Daniel on The Relatable Voice Podcast
• www.relatable-media.com

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 forget to CHECK OUT #GlossikaChallenge on Twitter.

The 7 brave participants are:

• Victoria
• Heidi (twitter:@LoveJoy_Lang): Podcast Love, Joy, and Languages
• Kenny(twitter:@Kenny_DB1983): www.somethingpolyglot.com
• Christina (twitter: @vuorille): C. Widmann (nouw.com)
• Elise Cutts (twitter: @elisecutts https://www.monoglotanxiety.com
• Kuba (twitter: @kubacki_): www.langatu.com
• Daniel (twitter: @DanielGoodson12): www.myfluentpodcast.com

(Just so you know: My Fluent Podcast is not an affiliate to Glossika)

Glossika: https://ai.glossika.com/

Attributions:

Living Life by Scott Holmes Music is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.

Indie Rock by Scott Holmes Music is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.

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Kenny was also a guest on ep. 108

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[email protected]

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 almost over.

You were supposed to make it to 3000 repetitions in October in order to win the challenge.

On episode 120, you will listen to 7 learners who went through this Glossika challenge. Who made it? Who dropped out? Tune in and learn more about it very soon!

https://somethingpolyglot.com/

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:

• What are disfluencies?
• What are cruch words?
• How to reduce disfluencies?
• Why do we make disfluencies (crutch words etc.) while speaking?
• How can we become fluent speakers?
• Craig has been helping the English community for more than 10 years! (inglespodcast.com & mansioningles.com)
• How podcasting (or just recording yourself) helps you to become fluent in your target language.

YouTube version of this episode

http://www.inglespodcast.com/437 (Craig's version of this episode, with different intro and outro)

inglespodcast - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcb1AE_IC4Dg3Hshab06Rxw

Time stamps:

00:00 - Intro

01:06 - What is "My Fluent Podcast"?

3:09 - Listen to Podcasts to hone your language skills

5:37 - Oxymoron

06:05 - Podcasting as a language learning tool - Where to begin?

7:26 - The Vocab Man (A podcast about practical English Expressions)

9:46 - How long has Craig been podcasting?

11:00 - Did Craig's prediction from about 8 years ago come true?

12:44 - Receiving Feedback from listeners

13:33 - Aprendeingles Podcast

14:33 - How to learn from Podcast interviews?

15:38 - What are evergreen podcast episodes?

17:10 - What are disfluencies? (Daniel's view)

18:20 - What are crutch words?

18:57 - What is the definition of disfluencies?

20:00 - Some examples of crutch words

20:14 - Every language is using diffent crutch words

20:56 - Why it is not wise to edit out every crutch words (ums, ahms)

22.15 - What are some other disfluencies apart from crutch words?

22:57 - Not noticing crutch words while speaking / listening 24:12 - What are the negatives of disfluencies? (Crutch words can distract you)

26:06 - Excerpt of Aprendeingles Podcast

HOW TO OVERCOME DIFSLUENCIES

26:35 - Be aware of your disfluencies (first step to overcome them)

27:54 - Don't be afraid of silences

27:59 - Practical expressions (buy yourself time)

29:31 - Use technology to improve your fluency

30:40 - Descript (Video/Podcast editing software)

29:00 - Work on your proununciation

31:55 - Interview Keanu Reeves

32:32 - Using too many crutch words

35:07 - Text to speech apps (Siri, Google Assistantl, Alexa) to overcome crutch words

37:03 - Why stress will affect your fluency

39:09 - Did Craig never felt comfortable at public speaking

40:53 - Communicatoin can be difficult even for native speakers (bear this in mind)

42:10 - Start out with your own podcast and become fluent!

42:53 - Outro

43:24 - Blubbers and other mentions

Interview with Luke Thompson:

E28 – interview with Luke Thompson / Luke's English podcast - my fluent podcast / https://www.myfluentpodcast.com/e28-interview-with-luke-thompson-lukes-english-podcast/

I can't put my finger on it: (The Vocab Man) https://www.spreaker.com/episode/51374444

Video Clip : https://youtube.com/clip/Ugkx9HUPTB5DOHN29MB84d5TRfJHYpdFmM4f

Music: Scott Holmes - Upbeat Party

Scott Holmes Music - Free Music Archive

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 should we talk lessons with you? (English/Italian)
• Can the students choose the topics? (6:39)
• Being someone who already learned a lot of vocabulary but never has spoken the language what would you recommend that I should focus on? (8:23)
• Do you have a podcast recommendation for us to learn Spanish?
• Favorite expression (14:56) Eat one elephant at a time.

Do you want to be part of My Fluent Podcast?Drop me an email: [email protected]

Urmi's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZoiI0SGU0Xo9_lNjtLWtgg

Blog: https://www.myways.ca/

YouTube: 5 Ways to Learn ITALIAN on a BUSY SCHEDULE:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9fmxrdOFPY

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 her free time, she volunteers for causes such as women's empowerment and giving back to the non-privileged.

She is a big proponent of self- investing and continuous learning. Indeed, one of her passions is learning languages

She is a side hustler. She has her own blog and Youtube Channel, and she has also written her first book, Discovering Your Identity: A Rebirth From Interracial Struggle, where she talks about her own struggle in finding her identity. She considers herself to be Italian- Bengali.

Ambitious and Go-Getter are two words that describe her the most. Indeed, one of her big ambitious goals is to deliver a TED Talk

Some fun facts: She is a polyglot. She can speak Italian, Bengali, English, and French fluently and Spanish at a more intermediate level.

Version with transcript:

Time Stamps:

0:01 What does language learning mean to Urmi?

0:56 What language does Urmi think in?

1:23 Urmi dreams in Spanish

2:44 Be comfortable with the uncomfortable.

4:12 Italian

7:19 Urmi Hossain's YouTube Channel

10:10 Fear is the dearest friend of all

12:03 Public Speaking

Links:

Urmi's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/urmi-hossain?originalSubdomain=ca

Urmi's book: https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B0B75X14G7/ref=sr_1_2?crid=38ODHSOSYZ3W8&keywords=urmi+hossain&qid=1658373403&sprefix=urmi+hossain%2Caps%2C98&sr=8-2

Urmi's blog: https://www.myways.ca/

Urmi's Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZoiI0SGU0Xo9_lNjtLWtgg

If you want to be a guest on My Fluent Podcast, drop me an e-mail: [email protected]

Cheers, Daniel