Happy Monday, language learners! If you're finding memorising vocabulary really tough, you are not alone. The problem is, word lists are boring, especially when it’s a topic that we aren’t particularly excited about, and there is nothing really there to hold our attention. So, to make this whole task easier, it needs to mean something to us. In a two-part series, today and tomorrow, I'm going to share six ways that I love to use to get my language learning off the page and into the real world, and connect it to the things that really matter to me. 

And yes, I have a cold. My voice is a bit dodgy. Apologies. (And it's not covid!)

Join your host, Emily Richardson, every weekday for a short and snappy dose of language courage to get you unstuck, whether you love languages or whether you really don't, but need to learn one anyway. Emily is the tiny and colourful creator of Tea with Me, a platform to help multi-passionate and unconventional language learners splash language into every part of their lives. She is also the author of the How to Be Me series of language journals to help you to tell the stories that really matter in your new language. Join her on Instagram at @teawithemily or visit her website at https://teawithemily.com/

A huge thank you to Samuel Peter Davies for the happiest music in the world, and to Anna Bovi Diamond for using every colour in the box on the cover art.