My Fluent Podcast

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 und -Videos

https://www.instagram.com/jessuss.mtz/

Thank you all.

Your Daniel Goodson.

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

Time stamps:

4:39 Hone your English through Podcasting

7:05 Communication problems (Just roll with it!)

7:27 Getting better after every interview

08:19 Arabic, Polish, English and Malay

8:58 Serious English learning

10:06 The challenge of speaking in English

11:10 Talk to yourself / record a podcast to improve in your target language

14:03 Perfectionism in language learning

14:25 Public speaking

16:10 Future goals

17:57 English learning challenges (using the same words)

21:50 Where can we find Asyraaf

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 it here:

85 - The BRAVE 85 - five interview excerpts

What is the WISBOLEP competition?

Learn more about it here:

https://youtu.be/mhIoNh8YiVE

Other Interviews of the BRAVE85 series on My Fluent Podcast:

84 - How Alvaro overcame his stuttering by speaking English

83 - Turn your EGO into an EGG and break it! Learn like a child!

All the Competition Entries on 692. WISBOLEP

Photo Cover art background: by Derek Oyen on Unsplash

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

• Enrique's English journey
• Perfectionism in language learning.
• Podcasts for language learning
• Reading books to improve your language skills
• Attending a movie club

YouTube version: https://youtu.be/4OXpJkkdyi4

On ep. 113 we talked about the teacher's perspective when giving a Live English Lesson. Go back and listen to Zdenek's interview first to make the most out of it.

Tell your friends if you liked this episode. That will help My Fluent Podcast to grow. Thank you guys. Cheers, Daniel.

Live English Lesson N°17 with Enrique - 20 October 2021 - Dogme method

https://youtu.be/Ax2V5qQCMTk

Live English Lesson N°27 with Enrique 29/12/2021 || Conversation || Feedback || Dogme:

https://youtu.be/LPB4MeEnBWI

Photo of the Cover Art by Les Argonautes on Unsplash

Music: Scott Holmes

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 instead on conversational communication among learners and teacher. (Wikipedia: Dogme language teaching - Wikipedia)

Teacher Zdenek:

https://www.teacherzdenek.com/

Live English Lesson with Zdenek, The Playlist:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgB1EsC_Zo8&list=PLTF3BphrUaC2J2qtAkU4p_5c00bCUHljB

Teacher Zdenek - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/c/TeacherZdenek

Learn English Online (Zdenek's Discord channel):

https://discord.com/invite/5hq6vB8WYw

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 community can be glad to have you! Get inspired and listen to ep. 112.

Dorota: https://www.facebook.com/DragonDorota/

🗣️The Chat Box (Facebook Group to hone your English): https://www.facebook.com/groups/worldenglishchatbox/

🗣️MAOFEN, Masters Of English (Facebook Group to hone your English skills); https://www.facebook.com/groups/maofen/

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 / Topics:

0:01 Introduction - Vince from the Philippines

1:28 Japanese

1:44 Sumo wrestler

2:45 Spanish and Vietnamese

4:27 Working on your enunciation

5:43 Hadar Shemesh / Rachel

6:16 Shadowing

7:22 Picking up the Argentinian Spanish

9:22 Did Vince reach his language learning goal?

9:56 Masters of English (MAOFEN) / The Influency Community (by Hadar Shemesh)

11:21 Speedlistening to improve in your target language

16:33 What helped you the most to becoma a fluent speaker? (Immersion)

17:51 Back chaining (Method by Gabriel Wyner, author of the book Fluent Forever)

19:11 SRS Space Repetition Software (ANKI)

20:43 Watching Animes, TV Shows, SciFi and real life conversations

21:28 For the love of podcasts (Tim Ferris, Stuff you should know, Lex Fridman)

22:06 Build your habits (App Habitica)

22:54 Challenge yourself

23:29 Language exchange

26:03 Outro

Vocabulary

0:13 It was a nerve wracking experience (causing a lot of worry or anxiety)

0:29 It was a haphazard thing (not having an obvious order or plan)

0:38 I receded, kind of became shy (to move back or away)

0:38 I would be bullied (to bully: to treat (someone) in a cruel, insulting, threatening, or aggressive fashion)

1:01 So in effect, I am trilingual (in practice, even if not formally acknowledged.)

1:01 Trilingual (to be fluent in 3 languages)

2:0 My angle for Japanese

I also took it up

it was a regression because the Japanese that they had at that college was just not advanced enough.

2:49 Latinx population (Latinx is an American English neologism, sometimes used to refer to people of Latin American cultural or ethnic identity in the United States. The gender-neutral ⟨-x⟩ suffix replaces the ⟨-o/-a⟩ ending of Latino and Latina that are typical of grammatical gender in Spanish) Latinx - Wikipedia

I wanted to better fit in (To belong to a group)

Colonial past

If I am not mistaken (If I am remembering correctly)

It just so happened (an idiomatic expression implying that the event happened in due course without outside influence.

a fateful incident

lo and behold (Look and see)

some enunciations (to enunciate: to say or pronounce clearly)

The number one person that I would attribute to my success too

reciprocate (to give and take mutually)

The most prevalent Spanish

To pull people up

Don't quote me on this because...

Not Being able to speak English would have been detrimental to me (harmful, damaging)

it soared (increase rapidly above the usual level)

Just keep on inching towards the beginning (to move very slowly or in a lot of short stages)

One thing that I was dabbling on before was SRS spaced repetition software, but I kind of dropped it.

Do you use Anki?.Yeah, I used to use it. It was my go-to, but then...

Hiragana and Katakana

Kanji

Anime (is hand-drawn and computer-generated animation originating from Japan. Outside of Japan and in English, anime refers to Japanese animation, and refers specifically to animation produced in Japan) Anime - Wikipedia

Sci-Fi (science fiction)

I fell out of the wagon

Revamping (to change or arrange something again, in order to improve it)

Guilds

I am all ears (is used when you want to show somebody that you're listening and ready for them to tell you something.)

I sound like a fricking kid (f*ing)

I'm stilll trying to get a grasp

Anki

Habitica

Tim Ferris:

https://open.spotify.com/show/00ySquPOB5twdRuFvEEc0m?si=efb2c1482bd5448d

Lex Fridman:

https://open.spotify.com/artist/1Jla6HHJjjdWaWUXQdiGTr?si=OIO2I5_gSzygXL_DOLsp5A

Stuff You Should Know

https://open.spotify.com/show/0ofXAdFIQQRsCYj9754UFx?si=_NqYMqdFTKuyvUq21QPoVQ&utm_source=copy-link

Rachel's English

https://youtu.be/SJOnhWiJArM

Hadar:

https://youtu.be/ljEP_ywBm7I

Music:

Forces of Attraction and upbeat Party by Scott Holmes Music is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.

E-Mail: [email protected]

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 down in these 4 topics

1. Defining a goal
2. What social media plattform to choose?
3. What should I know before using social media?
4. Strategies to use social media

Transcript: https://share.descript.com/view/ma826A4R8LY

Time Stamps / Topics

2:03 STEP 1: Defining a goal

2:57 Daniel: Short-term and long-term goals

5:12 Tchales first goal (when he started out with his English journey)

6:53 Daniel's first goal was to pass the exams

8:11 Don't avoid having conversations

8:49 STEP 2: What social media plattform to choose?

9:16 YouTube / Discord

11:23 Film Club / Movie Club

13:39 Instagram

14:14 The Power of Facebook Groups

14:59 The Chat Box (Facebook Group)

16:48 Some ideas to use Instagram

20:15 STEP 3: What should I know before using social media?

20:38 Set up a meaningful bio

24:52 Use your target language in your social media

25:47 Let others correct your posts

28:07 STEP 4: Strategies to use social media

28:13 Making vocabulary based comments on YouTube with a time stamp.

32:32 Align your goal with the strategy

35:15 Create posts / Start recording videos

35:49 Medium to improve your writing skills

39:05 Calendly to organize your calls

40:58 Join Communities / Challenges

45:35 My Fluent Podcast community.

46:06 Outro

Stories Of Language Learners Podcast

The interview with Tchales on My Fluent Podcast:

https://youtu.be/QnxIKDLFBdU

Interview Playlist: The Klingon Language / Interview with Polyglot Andrew from Germany #103 - YouTube

Also mentioned in this episode:

Yes Theory - YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/c/YesTheory

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Music: Scott Holmes:

Free Music Archive - Scott Holmes Music - Upbeat party

Upbeat party. Creative Commons — Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International — CC BY-NC 4.0

Photo (Instagram) by Alexander Shatov on Unsplash

blue and red square logo photo – Free Icon Image on Unsplash

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 charlie became fluent in Spanish (Italki online lessons, Omegle, VR Chat, Duolingo and more).

Charlie is a super learner and I appreciated the time with him. I could learn a lot and you might as well. If you are into Spanish learning or if you need some inspiration for your language journey, this interview will be something for you.

YouTube Version:

https://youtu.be/cuAUU3aXLYo

Transcript version: https://share.descript.com/view/KCPV9WcoFn2

🕒🕒🕒Time stampts:

1:01 Intro

1:40 Start Interview

2:22 What inspired you to learn Spanish in 2019?

2:55 Growing up with dyslexic without knowing

4:02 Dyslexic in more detail

4:57 Finding out about being dyslexic

6:17 Over 250 one-on-one online lessons

9:36 Inspiring other Spanish learners

10:40 YouTube channels that inspired Charlie

12:50 Shadowing / Copycatting

Simple Stories in Spanish.

15:24Doing the shadowing technique (example)

16:50 VR chat (Virtual reality chat)

21:58 Fortnite

27:35 Almost having a 800 day streak (Duolingo)

34:25 Omegle

49:06 It's never too late to better yourself - Charlie's favorite expression

56:34 Where to find Charlie's Spanish journey?

Charlie's Spanish Journey

https://www.youtube.com/c/CharliesSpanishJourney

Small Town Spanish Teacher

Small Town Spanish Teacher - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCphBwJqFg4cbpRM_6uuBZxg/featured

Simple Stories in Spanish: The Podcast:

Simple Stories in Spanish: The Podcast

What is dyslexia?

https://youtu.be/zafiGBrFkRM

https://www.duolingo.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 at ease so that they can speak up and improve their speaking skills? We talk about finding the right online teacher and we touch on language learning on Twitter (#Langtwt) More details in the time stamps further below.

YouTube Version: https://youtu.be/dCmuvMHCR-k

Transcript: https://www.myfluentpodcast.com/108-something-polyglot-kenny-from-belgium/

everyone is always simultaneously a student and a teacher -Jay Shetty

Time stamps:

1:20 Are you more passionate about teaching or learning a language?

05:36 The moment when you feel like you know your students better than your friends

7:17 What is the most important when you are looking for an online teacher?

Feeling at ease with the teacher. (the role as a teacher)

9:45 How to reach out and go about it before having the very first online lesson?

11:20 Kenny's language journey (Greek)

13:37 Making connections in your language journey

14:11 Example -> aphasia (a = not, phasia = utterance, speak)

16:52 The Speaking part of a language is often times neglected (Catalan)

19:48 Language tips for introverts (How to speak more often?)

24:04 What does the hashtag #langtwt on twitter mean?

30:12 Language learning can be a safe environment for introverts

31:30 Sbgliando si impara (While making mistakes, you can learn)

34:05 Being a perfectionist / Perfectionism doesn't help you

36:53 Teaching style

38:07 Connecting with other introverts in language learning

40:28 Italian lesson didn't work out

44:38 Avid podcast listeners can use their passion to learn languages

49:50 Producing your own language podcast

53:12 What is your favorite expression? (touched by the mushroom)

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54:35 END of Interview

54:36 Outro with Daniel Goodson

55:29 Trailer of next epsiode with Charlie who is learning Spanish in a very special way

Other interviews with Kenny:

Kenny also got interviewed by English teacher Ryan:

https://youtu.be/gvbLlf-avzc

Here is a clip from the Language Come Up YouTube channel:

Trying to become a polyglot can give you language learning burnout

https://youtu.be/h3XWthAdLQU

something polyglot 🇪🇺🇧🇪🏳️‍🌈 (@Kenny_DB1983) / Twitter

https://twitter.com/Kenny_DB1983

something polyglot – Languages and language learning:

https://somethingpolyglot.com/

Italki - profile of Kenny:

https://www.italki.com/teacher/8639713/english