The Inner Complainer isn’t trying to sway us to any particular decision. She’s also not trying to attack us, like the Inner Critic. She just kind of sits there, musing about how life and language learning just isn’t going how you wanted it to.

In this episode, I also talked about some characters I introduced in S1E43 on the Language Confidence Project, in an episode called "The inner townspeople need to have a meeting". If you haven't met them before, give that episode a listen!

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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.