Wunderbar Together

The Learners: Anita Anthonj & Mel MacMahon


Listen Later

Mel, born in Ireland, wanted to learn German. Anita, born in Germany, wanted to improve her English. As an intercultural couple in New York City, they wanted to understand each other and their respective cultures better. But they couldn't find any lessons or teachers they liked.

Taking life by the horns, they started their own thing in 2016: Talaera, a platform for personalized English training. Today, they are a husband-and-wife-team employing half a dozen full-time staffers while the platform connects hundreds of learners and coaches around the world every day.

On episode 8 of the Wunderbar Together podcast, Anita & Mel explore their successes and failures with German and English, discuss the challenges of being married AND running a company and – in a surprise plot twist at the very end – share why learning to cope with loss has helped them find deeper meaning in life.

Find out more about Talaera here: https://talaera.com/

The Wunderbar Together podcast is hosted by Felix Zeltner and produced by Peter Tooke. It is inspired and supported by Wunderbar Together 2018/19, the Year of German-American Friendship. Find out all about it at wunderbartogether.org.

...more
View all episodesView all episodes
Download on the App Store

Wunderbar TogetherBy Felix Zeltner, Katalina Farkas und Oliver Nermerich

  • 5
  • 5
  • 5
  • 5
  • 5

5

9 ratings


More shows like Wunderbar Together

View all
ZEIT WISSEN. Woher weißt Du das? by ZEIT ONLINE

ZEIT WISSEN. Woher weißt Du das?

49 Listeners

OMR Podcast by Philipp Westermeyer - OMR

OMR Podcast

35 Listeners

brand eins-Podcast by detektor.fm – Das Podcast-Radio

brand eins-Podcast

4 Listeners

Hotel Matze by Matze Hielscher & Mit Vergnügen

Hotel Matze

147 Listeners

On the Way to New Work - Der Podcast über neue Arbeit by Christoph Magnussen & Michael Trautmann

On the Way to New Work - Der Podcast über neue Arbeit

22 Listeners

Frisch an die Arbeit by ZEIT ONLINE

Frisch an die Arbeit

20 Listeners

Alles gesagt? by ZEIT ONLINE

Alles gesagt?

123 Listeners

Handelsblatt Disrupt - Der Podcast über die Zukunft der Wirtschaft by Sebastian Matthes, Handelsblatt

Handelsblatt Disrupt - Der Podcast über die Zukunft der Wirtschaft

16 Listeners

Smarter leben by DER SPIEGEL

Smarter leben

44 Listeners

Wegen guter Führung - Der ehrliche Führungspodcast by Harvard Business manager

Wegen guter Führung - Der ehrliche Führungspodcast

3 Listeners

Die sogenannte Gegenwart by ZEIT ONLINE

Die sogenannte Gegenwart

29 Listeners

LANZ & PRECHT by ZDF, Markus Lanz & Richard David Precht

LANZ & PRECHT

313 Listeners

Ist das eine Blase? by ZEIT ONLINE

Ist das eine Blase?

2 Listeners

KI verstehen by Deutschlandfunk

KI verstehen

8 Listeners

Bohniger Wachmacher by Dax Werner und Moritz Hürtgen

Bohniger Wachmacher

1 Listeners