Season 9 of the Kate Languages Podcast is here! As always, we're kicking off the season with a Q&A episode.

In this episode, I talk about my words of the year for 2024 and 2025, plus I answer a few questions from my lovely Instagram community. Tune in to find out if I answered your question!

Music is by Coma-Media from Pixabay and I edited and produced this episode myself (apologies if the quality isn't quite as good as normal!).

In this episode of the Kate Languages Podcast, my second Q&A episode of the season, I answer lots of brilliant questions from my fabulous Instagram community.

From what is the best thing about MFL teaching, to dealing with unmotivated, low-ability students, via a detailed description of how I manage my to-do list, and many more in between, have a listen to find out if your question was included!

If you have a question for a future Q&A episode, get in touch on social media or email [email protected].

Joe Dale is my podcast producer and the music is by Coma-Media from Pixabay.

This episode was a difficult one to record, but I’m so glad I did! In the episode, I describe three of my biggest failures in my professional life, and (more importantly) what I have learnt from each one.

From my failure to get a teaching job when I was doing my PGCE, to the way I quit teaching, and a more recent failure within my business, this is a super personal and honest episode! I hope that by talking about my own failures, and what I have learnt from them, you can see that everyone makes mistakes all the time, but the key thing is how we come back from these failures and put strategies in place to ensure they don’t happen again.

As this is such a personal episode, I would really love to hear from you - has this episode helped you in any way? What are your own biggest failures and what have you learnt from them? Let me know on Facebook or Instagram, or email [email protected]

Joe Dale is my podcast producer and the music is by Coma-Media from Pixabay.

In this episode, I'm talking about how to make money while you sleep! More specifically, how to generate some passive income to supplement your teaching salary, or income from tuition.

I explain what is meant by passive income, how it has enabled me to grow my business, and I also outline 5 great ideas for making passive income of your own, from selling resources and digital courses, to online workshops that you can upload and sell time and time again, and there’s even a mention of investing in the episode, too!

I also talk about affiliate marketing, including my own affiliate link to the platform I use to host my website and online resources/workshops, Kajabi. Click here to get a 30-day free trial with Kajabi.

My podcast producer is Joe Dale and the music is by Coma Media from Pixabay.

In this episode, I outline three great activities that you can do to practise dictations with your students. These low-prep activities work with beginners and more advanced students alike, and can be easily adapted for any language and topic.

The activities I talked about in the episode were: paired reading aloud/dictation, running dictation and picture dictations.

If you’d like to delve deeper into all things dictations, I’m running an online CPD workshop on Monday 14th October 2024 where I will outline many more activities for practising dictations in an engaging way. You can access the workshop by purchasing my 2024-25 workshops bundle here.

As always, I would love to hear your thoughts on the episode, so get in touch on Facebook and Instagram (I’m Kate Languages on both) or email me through my website https://katelanguages.co.uk/

Joe Dale is my podcast producer and the music is by Coma-Media from Pixabay.

This was my second conversation with the brilliant Joe Dale (check out Season 5 Episode 2 for the first interview with him) all about AI in MFL lessons.

Joe needs little introduction to the majority of MFL teachers, particularly in the UK, but to those who don't know him, he is an independent ICT/MFL consultant. He's the go-to expert for anything to do with tech in the MFL classroom, and has presented at conferences and webinars all over the world. He also edits and produces this podcast!

In this episode, he answered lots of great questions from my social media community on a range of topics. From creating vocabulary lists and knowledge organisers using ChatGPT, to making the best use of image generators for GCSE photo cards and writing tasks, and even a discussion of how the curriculum will need to adapt in the future to reflect the growth of AI.

During the conversation, we referenced lots of fantastic online tools, such as:

A tool for checking your texts against the new GCSE prescribed vocab lists - MultilingProfiler

Padlet’s “I can’t draw” feature - I can't draw

The Language Show 2023’s YouTube channel - The Language Show - YouTube

The Arizona State University image accessibility generator - Image Accessibility Generator - Teach Online

Perplexity AI - Perplexity

Find Joe on YouTube, Twitter/X and LinkedIn, and join his Facebook group here: Language Teaching with AI | Facebook

Joe Dale is my podcast producer and the music is by Coma-Media from Pixabay.

Season 8 of the Kate Languages podcast is here! As always, the first episode of the season is a Q&A episode. Let me know if you agree or disagree with any of my answers - get in touch on social media (I’m Kate Languages on Facebook and Instagram) or through my website https://katelanguages.co.uk/

In this episode, you can find out my “new year” resolutions (I always set intentions for the academic year in September) and a bit of a roundup of what’s been going on at KLHQ (Kate Languages HQ!) over the summer.

Plus, lots of great questions from members of my new Facebook group about the new MFL GCSEs, which come into force in England this year. From a few quick fire questions about the speaking exams, to more detailed thoughts about A Level transition, curriculum design and teaching grammar according to the new prescribed grammar lists.

Joe Dale is my podcast producer and the music is by Coma-Media from Pixabay.

This was my 4th live podcast recording and is absolutely packed to the brim with fantastic advice about running a school trip abroad!

Claire has tons of experience running trips to France and Germany, and we talked about so many essential (if seemingly minor) details about how to plan and execute a brilliant trip.

During the recording, we answered lots of great questions from the audience - have a listen to find out whether your question was included!

You can find Claire on Instagram - she's @_leolanguages on there.

This is a bit of a different episode of the Kate Languages Podcast. I have been running my education business for 7 years now and I wanted to take this opportunity to reflect on my top 5 tips for making it a success!

If you’re thinking of leaving teaching and want to set up your own business, you need to have a listen to this first! From figuring out your niche, to being prepared to invest in yourself and do some “inner work”, these are the key things that I think you need to know.

If you’re wondering about life after teaching and would like to talk it through with me, I offer one-off mentoring sessions. Email me through my website and we’ll see what we can do to help!

In the episode, I mentioned Barbara Allen https://www.grabandgolanguageresources.co.uk and Alicia, who runs the Female Entrepreneurs Content Club https://www.instagram.com/theclienthunter/ - I can highly recommend both of these fabulous women!

As always, I would love to hear your thoughts on the episode, so get in touch on Facebook and Instagram (I’m Kate Languages on both) or email me through my website https://katelanguages.co.uk/

Joe Dale is my podcast producer and the music is by Coma-Media from Pixabay.

The new MFL GCSE specification is almost upon us! I’ve spent a LOT of time this academic year reading, researching and making resources for the new specs (AQA and Edexcel) and in this episode, I outline three of the key things I think you need to know.

I talk about how it’s not actually as different as I had initially feared, which textbooks are now available and my thoughts on them, plus what I believe you need to be doing in KS3 right now to help prepare your students.

For more depth on individual exams and the prescribed vocab list, have a listen to my episode from last year (season 4 episode 6). Plus, you can still sign up to my New GCSE series of online workshops. The 3rd one is on 22nd June - https://katelanguages.co.uk/product/the-new-gcse-online-cpd-series/

As always, I would love to hear your thoughts on the episode, so get in touch on Facebook and Instagram (I’m Kate Languages on both) or email me through my website https://katelanguages.co.uk/

Joe Dale is my podcast producer and the music is by Coma-Media from Pixabay.