A new year fireside chat with Shannon Kennedy! We have been recording these for a few years now and with 2020, what a year to review. This is Shannon's personal review of the year, and you can use the following questions to conduct your own review and set goals for the next year.

Shannon also mentioned Atomic Habits by James Clear

This is for language learning and not-language-learning.

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There are two big types of news in this episode:

It's a bumper episode as Lindsay dropped in to discuss all those words that made our 2020, including

AND MANY MORE!! 😄

I have a bunch of small corrections from this episode:

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• Nyordslistan 2020 - Institutet för språk och folkminnen
• Årets ord og årets tegn 2020 — Dansk Sprognævn
• Koronaen er årets ord 2020
• The Language Lover's Puzzle Book: Lexical perplexities and cracking conundrums from across the globe (Main) by Alex Bellos | WHSmith
• Collins - The Collins Word of the Year 2020 is...
• Oxford Word of the Year 2020 | Oxford Languages
• 'Iso' named Australia's 2020 word of the year, beating coronavirus-related terms 'bubble' and 'COVID normal' - ABC News
• GfdS wählt »Corona-Pandemie« zum Wort des Jahres 2020 | GfdS
• Japan’s kanji of the year, ‘mitsu,’ reflects gloom of 2020 pandemic : The Asahi Shimbun
• The Spanish Word of the Year 2020 - Yabla Spanish - Free Spanish Lessons
• 17: Words of the Week of the Year 2020 – Because Language
• 'Quarantine’ is Cambridge Dictionary's Word of the Year 2020 - Language Magazine
• ′Lost′ is Germany′s 2020 youth word of the year | Culture| Arts, music and lifestyle reporting from Germany | DW | 15.10.2020
• Atlas: 100 Karten über Sprache – KATAPULT-Verlag
• Hilaria Baldwin Talks About Her Heritage, Spain, Boston, Alec and Instagram - The New York Times
• Wagatha Christie: A uniquely British feud - BBC News
• Blue - Fly By II (Official Video)

Hi!!!! The Fluent Show is back! How was your 2020? Can you believe we had 200 episodes of Fluent Show? I mean wow. WOW.

In this episode, I'll be reflecting on the big themes of last year and giving you 5 ways to set your language goals for 2021.

As always, patrons of the Fluent Show will get a copy of my full show notes for this episode. Curious? Join the Fluent Show's Patreon community.

Thank you to Israel for this episode introduction.

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• 2020: An Honest Review of a Maddening Year by Fluent Language
• Resources For Italian Learners
• The Fluent Show: A Statement About Racism

Can you imagine creating a podcast in your mother tongue...AND in a foreign language?

Even though I am a German speaker, I podcast in English. And I never really think about it! But I was curious about people who podcast in other languages, and so I reached out to a few awesome people to find out:

What's it like to podcast, but not in English?

My guests for this special bonus episode are Karin from Sweden, Vero from Venezuela and Aakanksha from India. Each of them has an inspiring wonderful story of podcasting.

If you're a lover of podcasts, languages, or if you're just curious learning languages using podcasts, this is the episode for you.

This bonus episode is released one week early for all of the Fluent Show patrons. If you are interested in getting bonus content, early access, and you just want to support this podcast, then please consider supporting us on Patreon. Any amount is welcome!

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Special Guests: Aakanksha Saxena, Karin Heimdahl, and Vero Wall.

We've done it! Welcome to episode 200 of the Fluent Show podcast with plenty of quizzing and jingles! This episode was broadcast live on 16 October 2020 with awesome participation from our live chatroom and bonus quiz questions from Sarah L, and Megan, the host of Oh No! Lit Class.

Please review us or support us on Patreon and get bonus episodes and extra materials during the hiatus. We'll be back on the feed in 2021!

We had ALL THE QUIZ questions, including the following:

some explicit words are included in this one, but all in the context of fun and education!

Thank you to LINDSAY for introducing this episode of the Fluent Show!

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• Forget The Whale | Facebook — The band playing the Fluent Show theme
• ‎The Fluent Show on Apple Podcasts

How is this not the most current question ever? It's so 2020, and so relevant to many of us. Today, I'm going to do a deep dive into the ups and downs of working from home. You'll learn

Thank you to Octavio for this episode introduction.

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• The Fluent Show: How to Learn a Language Every Day
• The Fluent Show: How Can We Make Online Lessons Less Exhausting?
• SKÅDIS Pegboard, white, Width: 14 ¼" Height: 22" - IKEA
• The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business
• Podcasts for Language Lovers | Podcast List on Podchaser
• Weekend Wednesday - YouTube
• Forest
• SelfControl

We're exploring the hottest of hot potatoes in this episode by discovering the scandal, the drama, the shock of what happened over on Scots Wikipedia. And once everyone's calmed down, Lindsay's on hand to help discover the many different benefits of having a dabble instead of always getting super serious about learning a language.

It's always fun to learn a language, no matter if you're in a 10-year epic journey...or you are language Lou Bega.

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• Language Stories
• I’ve discovered that almost every single article on the Scots version of Wikipedia is written by the same person - an American teenager who can’t speak Scots : Scotland
• Robyn Speer on Twitter: "Almost every article on Scots Wikipedia is written by one American teenager, who does not speak Scots and is just writing English in an "accent". If you have a multilingual language model, this fakery might be your _entire training data_ for Scots https://t.co/Rc1wkA0S2P" / Twitter
• Adele Carnival Bikini Pic Sparks Backlash
• The Language Dabbler's Guide to Welsh | Fluent Language
• Language Habit Toolkit — The Language Habit Toolkit - join now to take part in our October 2020 live round with lots of extra training and fun new activities

Last week you heard what it's like behind the scenes of organising our online conference. Women in Language. But what is it like to prepare for speaking at this event? Let's hear from the Women in Language speakers!

Women in Language is a 4-day online event filled with talks presentations from 30+ female language experts who have done amazing things and documented their journey.

The conference is open to everyone, regardless of gender identity.

Here's the full schedule for 2020:

Get your ticket at www.womeninlanguage.com

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If you liked this episode, please tell someone about it. Click here to support us on Patreon, go to your Podcasts app and leave us a review, or simply text a friend about the Fluent Show. Thank you!

Special Guests: Angela Pegarella, Chesline Pierre-Paul, Devy Baseley, Esther Ciganda, Gabriela Simmons, Lina Vasquez, Sara Maria Hasbun, Sarah Barrett, and Shanthi Cumaraswamy Streat.

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The greatest thing about running a conference online? We can organise it between 3 people who live far apart from each other! Make no mistake, there's a lot of work and care in Women in Language. But when it all comes together, this is one fantastic event.

In this episode, Shannon and I share how we use each of these tools for making Women in Language. (some of the links below are affiliate links)

For promotion, we use Canva to make the images and various social media schedulers including SocialBee.

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It's time for a listener question, this time from super-busy mum Jo-Anne, who needed new inspiration for speaking practice in another language.

In the episode you'll learn about

Check out how Jo-Anne has used the Language Habit Toolkit in this photo:

Thank you to Dafydd for this episode introduction.

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• What's The Secret To The Greatest Language Exchange Ever? by Fluent Language
• Conversation Questions for the ESL/EFL Classroom (I-TESL-J)
• 30-Day Speaking Challenge - Huggins International
• The Fluent in 3 Months Challenge — Goal: 15 minute conversation
• Oregon Polyglot – (Andy Roberts)
• Women in Language 2020 | Women In Language