In this episode, you'll learn about

• Interpreting - what's it like and how do you get the good jobs?
• Tech for Languages - why does it change the game for language learners...and what to remember if you're scared it'll be hard to use
• Artificial intelligence! - will the robot butlers become our future language tutors?

But best of all, Josh is my partner for a brand new language learning project! We're calling it AI Language Club, and starting next month we will start bringing you the freshest ideas and experiments so YOU can use new AI tools to help you learn languages faster.

We would LOVE to have you join us in AI Language Club, our project that aims to make language learning fun and engaging by exploring different AI tools. Join the waitlist at www.ailanguageclub.com

"Technology helps us do our jobs better, be more efficient, be more accurate, and it's also a lot of fun." (Josh)

by the way..
This interview marks the start of a new era in the Fluent Show...maintenance mode! How do you like it? Want to send feedback? I always love hearing from you at kerstin@fluentlanguage.co.uk or Instagram: http://instagram.com/kerstin_fluent/. If you like, use #thefluentshow for your post!

Special Guest: Josh Goldsmith.

Links:

• AI Language Club — Our joint project bringing you the freshest ideas and tutorials for language learning with the help of AI 🤖
• The Fluent Show: Living the Dream! Get Paid to Learn Languages (with Paul Kaye, EU Language Officer)
• Language Habit System & Free Training
• The Fluent Show: Bilingual Episode (German and English): Discovering ELF 🧝🏼 and EU Interpreting 🇪🇺 with Karin Reithofer — more about the way English is used in international environments
• 6 Tips to Study for the European Union’s Interpreting Accreditation Test — techforword — (affiliate link)
• Using the UN Digital Repository for interpreting practice — techforword — Blog post by Josh about preparing for UN Interpreting Work (affiliate link)

Where do you listen?
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Links:

• Oxford Word of the Year 2022 | Oxford Languages
• Collins - The Collins Word of the Year 2022 is...
• Teal is Australia's 2022 Word of the Year
• Public Longlist WOTY2022 - Public_Longlist_WOTY2022.pdf
• Macquarie's Shortlist
• 🇦🇹 Wort des Jahres 2022 – oewort
• I predicted the ‘vibe shift’ – and watched it sweep the world. Here’s what it actually means | Fashion | The Guardian — Surely the worst written article ever published in a newspaper
• Duden | Wort und Unwort des Jahres in Deutschland
• Word of the Year 2022 | Gaslighting | Merriam-Webster
• » All of the Words of the Year, 1990 to Present American Dialect Society
• Pronunciations for 戦 (from 戦々恐々と to 戦々恐々)
• Krympflasjon er årets ord 2022
• PALAVRA DO ANO
• Enigmatology (WORD PUZZLES) with David Kwong by Ologies with Alie Ward | Podchaser
• Heardle
• WORLDLE UNLIMITED - Guess the country! ⭐

My guest is Brian Heavey, international events organiser and director at Online Language Exchange & Real Events Ireland.

Brian has been running language exchange events for 10 years now, with thousands of participants learning languages together. In April 2020, he pivoted his business to create Online Language Exchange providing online exchanges during lockdown.

Brian speaks Spanish, Portuguese and a bit of Irish, and is raising a multilingual family in Dublin.

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Thank you to Brian for this episode introduction.

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Special Guest: Brian Heavey.

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Links:

• Online Language Exchange | Language exchange community events

This is a top quality conversation I think you should hear. It isn’t a talk about how to learn vocabulary or find conversation partners in some kind of feminist way. It’s an examination of the world we live in, and how it may impact us as humans, not just language learners.

> "Feminism helps me to get space to just say what I want to say and not feel like I can't say my message."

> "A lot of people still see "feminist" as the extreme end of the spectrum and so are reluctant to use the term to describe themselves."

> "I can talk all day about the intersectionality of all things. But when you're not in a place where you can make mistakes, we're not in a place where you can make change."

> "To become the best version of yourself, you need to stand for the humanity of someone else."

I am grateful to Lindsay and Shannon as well as our panelists Archana Parmar, Chesline Pierre Paul, Martina Gerdts, and Samantha Lassaux, for allowing me to put this audio out on the podcast.

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Special Guests: Archana Parmar, Chesline Pierre-Paul, Martina Gerdts, and Samantha Lassaux.

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Links:

• The Mill on the Floss - Wikipedia
• Women and Leadership a book by Julia Gillard and Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala.
• Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More a book by Janet Mock.
• Invisible Women: the Sunday Times number one bestseller exposing the gender bias women face every day a book by Caroline Criado Perez. — https://uk.bookshop.org/a/6226/9781784706289
• Hidden Brain : NPR
• BBC Sounds - NB: My non-binary life

The conference is open to everyone, and it's organised by Kerstin, Lindsay and Shannon. In this episode, I've got 10 speakers from the conference sharing exactly why they love this event and what they'll be bringing you this year. Make sure you get your $29 ticket at www.womeninlanguage.com today!

You will hear from

• Jessica Kumar on privilege in linguistics
• Irene Cangi on reaching higher language levels of Italian
• Lauren Williams introducing AAC - what is it, why do you need it? She has the answers!
• Mariana Favila-Alcala and Belen Nuñez on why feminism matters in the language industry
• Sara Holmes on how to teach your baby American sign language
• Abigail Fulbrook on taboos in the language classroom
• Marjolein Benschop on her talk about learning when you are multipassionate
• Vickie Kelty and Laia Moret on why they're going to bring some games to the event

Get the full speaker line-up at www.womeninlanguage.com

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Thank you to Valerie for this episode introduction.

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Special Guests: Jessica Kumar and Sara Holmes.

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Links:

• Fluent Language Mastermind
• The Fluent Show: Inside the Women in Language Conference: 12 Guests Tell ALL
• The Fluent Show: How to Run an Online Conference Like Women in Language
• The Fluent Show: Should You Come to Women in Language 2021?

• you are adding too many things to your list
• you've no time to do all you want to really do
• you've got too much stuff on the shelf and hard drive

then make sure you catch this episode because I'm here to introduce you to a super tool I've been using for years: the review! When done right, reviewing can be a powerful step into great self-leadership, and in today's episode you'll learn why and how to do it.

Join my workshop: The Power of a Good Review

Get your ticket right here
I've been using reviews successfully for my languages, my business and even for this very podcast for many years, and I'm going to teach you all I know about how to do it this month. Come and join us!

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Thank you to Caz for this episode introduction.

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• Clozemaster: Use the coupon code FLUENTSHOW for 25% off your first month or $5 off your first year of Clozemaster Pro! Promo Code: FLUENTSHOW

Links:

• The Power of a Good Review — Get access to the training here

In this episode:

• How we tried to find out which languages are trending
• Which languages are so hot right now

  via GIPHY

• Which language learning trends are floating around out there
• The despacito effect, copyright Lindsay Williams
• The Gangnam Squid effect?

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• Clozemaster: Use the coupon code FLUENTSHOW for 25% off your first month or $5 off your first year of Clozemaster Pro! Promo Code: FLUENTSHOW

Links:

• The Tipping Point - Wikipedia
• How to spot a trend? #michellesLEARNINGmeal - YouTube
• The Fluent Show: "French is Romantic, Arabic Is Aggressive"...Does Culture Stop Us from Learning Languages?
• What makes a language attractive – its sound, national identity or familiarity? | Languages | The Guardian
• Through the Language Glass — bookshop.org (affiliate link)
• Which languages did the UK study in lockdown? | British Council
• The Tyranny Of Rosegold | Nanosphere
• British Council Language Trends Report 2021
• 2020 Duolingo Language Report
• 2020 Duolingo Language Report: United Kingdom
• Drops | Free language learning | Available for 43+ Languages — Thank you to Drops and MVP Steph for sending us interesting data
• K wave: Squid Game puts Korean top of language learners’ lists
• K-beauty, hallyu and mukbang: dozens of Korean words added to Oxford English Dictionary | South Korea | The Guardian

In today's episode, my guest is EU intrepreter and ELF expert Karin Reithofer. We discuss

• How Karin got into her career as a freelance interpreter working in 4 languages
• My non-scientific (and apparently correct!) theory about the personalities of interpreters and translators
• What ELF is and who speaks it
• Who owns English and whose English is correct?
• How Brexit has liberated the EU (linguistically! don't come for me!)

Bilingual Episode

Karin and I are both German native speakers, so we switched from English into German for a little bit to give you some listening practice as a learner.

If you are not a German learner, don't worry as we'll always switch back to English and I interpreted make sure you don't miss anything.

Here I always like to remember what the late Ron Gullekson from Language Surfer told me:

"in a new language, I like to get uncomfortable as early as possible."

So enjoy the challenge and enjoy the German practice!

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Thank you to Karin for this episode introduction in Kärntnerisch.

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Special Guest: Karin Reithofer.

Sponsored By:

• Clozemaster: Use the coupon code FLUENTSHOW for 25% off your first month or $5 off your first year of Clozemaster Pro! Promo Code: FLUENTSHOW

Links:

• The Fluent Show: Living the Dream! Get Paid to Learn Languages (with Paul Kaye, EU Language Officer) — Hear more about what it's like to be a language professional working for the EU - this is the translator's side
• Work as a Freelance Interpreter at the EU | European Union
• Black Friday Deals for Language Learners — One week only!

• study many hours
• read all my news in the target language
• watch tv with target language subtitles
• keep the streak going in my apps

...are you still learning a language?

Uhh, YES, yes you are.

In this episode, I'm taking a fresh look at the concept of consistency, and reminding you that relaxed routines become reliable routines. The tight clinging makes us feel unhappy. Listen in if you are feeling stressed by a rigid routine today, and let's talk about what you can do to make your language routine a little easier.

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Thank you to Bonnie for this episode introduction.

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• Clozemaster: Use the coupon code FLUENTSHOW for 25% off your first month or $5 off your first year of Clozemaster Pro! Promo Code: FLUENTSHOW
• Grammar Girl: Listen to Grammar Girl today on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you’re listening right now.

Links:

• The Salt Path
• Submit an intro for the Fluent Show! — can't wait to hear your voice
• Achieve Higher Language Levels With This Language Mastermind

Penny is a language lover from Australia, currently learning Mandarin Chinese and Vietnamese. She's a podcast host of Language Chats and she also manages her own business, Lingo Mama.

In today's episode, I got together with Penny to learn more about

• her love of East Asian languages and travel
• how she is bringing language into her career and family life
• how the local Aboriginal languages of Australia are shaping how she learns culture and language now

Plus, you'll find out what a Walkshop is and you'll come out wanting to book one right now. If you are missing friends and connections with language lovers like you, don't miss it!

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• Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/thefluentshow
• Instagram: http://instagram.com/kerstin_fluent/ and #thefluentshow I had editing help from Steph Fuccio for this episode.

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Special Guest: Penny Wilson.

Sponsored By:

• Clozemaster: Use the coupon code FLUENTSHOW for 25% off your first month or $5 off your first year of Clozemaster Pro! Promo Code: FLUENTSHOW

Links:

• Language Chats - Education Podcast | Podchaser

Don’t be scared of language learning monsters! Here are five of them to watch out for this Halloween season:⁣

• the Grammar Ghoul 👺
• the Plateau Poltergeist 👻
• the Interaction Imp 😈
• the Correcting Chimera 🐲
• the Progress Polevik 🎃

For each scary language monster, I've also got a ghostbusting tip for you.

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Horror sound effects from Zapsplat.com

Sponsored By:

• Clozemaster: Visit our sponsor Clozemaster, the free addictive language app in over 50 languages

Links:

• Crack the Grammar Code
• The Fluent Show: What To Do When You're Overwhelmed In Language Lessons
• The Fluent Show: Q&A: Getting Off the Intermediate Plateau
• The Language Habit System — Get consistent and bust some language learning ghosts

"I never drop anything entirely. It's always still there in the background."

In today's episode, I have brought on my very own language teacher! Dafydd Morse is a Welsh-Maths-Baking-Everything tutor and learning enthusiast from Wales.

We'll chat about

• Dafydd's own background growing up bilingually in Wales
• Why it's important to Dafydd to pass on the Welsh language to his own children
• Daf's love of learning and the one language he tried that didn't work out at all
• What types of Welsh learners there are, and how you can become successful as a learner of any language

Bilingual Episode

You've been asking for a bilingual Welsh episode, and finally here it is!

I took the opportunity to ask Dafydd a few questions in Welsh in this episode. You will hear him reply in Welsh and conduct the conversation like that for a few minutes. I summarize in English afterwards. If you are not a Welsh learner, don't worry as we'll always switch back to English.

Here I always like to remember what the late Ron Gullekson from Language Surfer told me: "in a new language, I like to get uncomfortable as early as possible." So enjoy the challenge and enjoy the practice!

Where do you listen?
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Thank you to Popi for this episode introduction.

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Special Guest: Dafydd Morse.

Links:

• Daf's Instagram — Learn baking from the highlights! 🍞
• Dafydd Morse - YouTube
• The untranslatable word that connects Wales - BBC Travel
• Fluent Language Mastermind — My new mastermind is a growth programme for dedicated language learners - check it out and apply now!
• Learn Welsh online with Dafydd on italki
• Learn Welsh with this course for language dabblers

In today's podcast episode, we bring you a deep dive into that Boston Review article called "Who Pays for Cheap Language Instruction?"

We discuss:

• working conditions of language teachers and course creators
• how the apps profit from language learners
• what the tutoring market is like for teachers from different parts of the world
• why this is weakening the language learning industry
• what you can do about this right now

"We have put up with “products” inspired less by linguistic justice than by game design.
We have acquiesced to corporate cognitive-science experiments that harvest and mold our habits as data
When it comes to acquiring languages, we have learned to ignore our agency, our sense of ethics and social justice, even as we have flexed these same faculties to support a bookstore or a clothing company.
Simply put, we have consented to being the consumers that the language industry wants us to be.

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Links:

• Ending & honoring our volunteer Contributor program — A listener supplied this article to show that Duolingo no longer has volunteer course creators. Thanks!
• My Bonuses for Lindsay Williams' Online Teaching Starter Kit — Aspiring language teachers: Navigate the online teaching world in the best possible way with Lindsay's Online Teaching Starter Kit and click here to secure my Bonus Pack while you're at it!
• Duolingo Events — Make up your own mind about this one 😞(while they take 20%)

We discuss

• why and how life in New York is different from the movie version we're often sold
• how to engage with New York's wealth of languages and native speakers respectfully
• what a "woman of the world" is and who the most glamorous woman in Elle's life is
• how reading books, learning languages, and eating food from other places all gives us that happy escapist buzz

If you want to hear more episodes with a fantastic New York woman, check out my previous guest Ellen Jovin. Click here to see more about Ellen

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Special Guest: Elle Charisse.

Links:

• My Courses
• Arthur Avenue | Little Italy in the Bronx, New York
• DREI WETTER TAFT 1989 - YouTube — Wow, a woman of the world

If you're familiar with Top Tools, you might know we try to leave out the most obvious ones and go straight to the practical tools that you might never have heard of. But with this being a first special edition for teachers, allow us to introduce each tool in the context of its wider theory.

Want to cut straight to the top tools discussion? Go to timestamp 14:28

Here are the Top Tool nominations

Listen to the show to find out which ones we chose as the three must-haves.

1. TidyCal, an online scheduler you can use to cut out going back and forth on emails while you try to schedule lessons and appointments with your students.
   Get $10 credit on Appsumo with this referral link.

2. ThriveCart, a payment gateway that allows you to sell anything you like, set up memberships, add students to your courses and more
   Get to know Thrivecart (affiliate link)

3. ConvertKit, an email newsletter software that allows you to create sign-up forms, send out branded email to lots of people, and grow your audience.
   Get free space for your first 1000 subscribers with this referral link.

4. Zoom breakout rooms, where you can easily organise group work, networking, chat meet-ups, language practice, language exchanges and more.
   Lindsay's video on Zoom for online teaching

5. Zapier, the workflow "middleman" between all the different services you use online. Zapier can do SO MUCH. For example, save student assignment files into cloud storage, upload notes to course areas, add new bookings through your booking system to your email list, get a text when an appointment is about to start, back up your social media posts...there's a lot on offer!
   Look at what Zapier can do here

6. Canva, the web and app based design solution for any quick graphics you need. From your logo to your next workbook, Canva has you covered.
   Get a free premium element on canva with my referral link.

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Links:

• Clozemaster App Review: Build Your Skills After Duolingo by Fluent Language
• The Fluent Show: Top 5 Tips for Starting a Career as an Online Language Teacher
• The Fluent Show: Where and How to Start Teaching Online

Kate teaches, coaches, and creates materials for English language learners, and she's a fellow podcaster. Karina organises online writing experiences for English Language teachers so they can share their personal stories with confidence.

Listen to this interview to learn more about

• Kate & Karina's paths to online teaching
• Creating and promoting a unique lesson structure and approach to teaching a language
• The role of friendship and a support system for online language teachers

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Note: I mixed up Karina and Kate's bios slightly at 08:00-08:30 in this episode, the above is the correct version.

Support the Fluent Show on Patreon to get access to extra interview questions and extended show notes.

Special Guests: Karina Thorne and Kate Fisher.

Sponsored By:

• Clozemaster: Visit our sponsor Clozemaster, the free addictive language app in over 50 languages

Links:

• Share Your Story - Making Connections Across Languages with — --you need a previously purchased Women in Language 2021 ticket to view this video--
• Fluent Show Live 🔴🔈 Language Learning Podcast - Clubhouse — Join me live on Clubhouse for a bonus episode on 19 June
• Crack the Grammar Code — This course is open for enrolment 14-18 June 2021
• Podthon.com | A Virtual Speakers Roundtable for Podcasters — Curious about podcasting? Here for a diverse, inclusive, inspiring online event? Then you MUST join Podthon! Oh, and I'm speaking there too!
• Learn Podcasting with me in my course Podcasting 101
• Conversations With Kate — Kate's podcast
• Grow Your Stories From Seeds Workshop - May 2021 - YouTube
• Obrigada Brasil! - YouTube — Karina's video poems on YouTube

• Bored and frustrated with the methods you're currently using
• Unable to progress no matter how hard you work
• Unable to experience the results that you've been working so hard for

Language Coaching is a service that helps you make the most of your learning journey. It’s designed for people who are serious about their goals and committed to achieving them

In this episode, you're going to learn more about language coaching and what it can do for you.

Find out

• Why you would need a language coach
• How working with a coach can help you figure out your best way to learn a language
• How to get the most out of your language coaching sessions
• How to approach investing in your work with a language coach

Check out the links below for more podcast episodes that help you understand what language coaching is all about.

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Thank you to Marissa for this episode introduction.

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Links:

• Language Coaches: What They Are and How to Work With Them by Fluent Language
• Graphic: Mentoring, Coaching & Teaching compared
• My Language Coaching Page — Learn more about language coaching and how I work 1:1 with people
• Multilingual Marissa (@multilingualmarissa) • Instagram photos and videos
• Clozemaster App Review: Learn Language in Context

There's a huge global audience of people on Clubhouse and you can join in, listen in and sometimes even speak hundreds of languages, including the language that we're focusing today: Twi!

Twi is spoken in Ghana, and my expert guest Afua Abrafi has been teaching it for many years. She was born in Ghana herself, and is passionate about helping the African diaspora learn African languages. In today's podcast, Afua shares why she is so passionate about languages, how she became fluent in Dutch in a very short time, and what led her to start teaching the Twi language to people around the world.

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Thank you to my guest Afua for this episode introduction.

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Special Guest: Afua Abrafi.

Sponsored By:

• Clozemaster: Visit our sponsor Clozemaster, the free addictive language app in over 50 languages

Links:

• Twi language, alphabet and pronunciation
• Explore African Language - Clubhouse
• Home - Speak Twi
• Becca - African Woman [Official Video] - YouTube
• Daddy Lumba - Aben Wo Aha (Audio Slide) - YouTube
• Ghana - The World Factbook
• The Ghanaian Language School
• The Fluent Show: Bilingual Podcast! The Biggest African Languages / Les Plus Grandes Langues d'Afrique [with Khady Ndoye]
• twi : Wikitongues.org — Samples of twi recorded by volunteers for Wikitongues

Teaching languages online is a realistic and interesting career choice. You could start a freelance career or even create your very own business. In today's episode, I'm answering the top five questions about being an online teacher plus some bonus tips you can use too!

I am short of intros! Record your intro using Vocaroo and send me the link. You can speak any language you like. Just say your name, where you're from, which language you're speaking and "you're listening to the Fluent Show"

Top 5 Questions I Answer in This Episode

1. What is the best way to get the word out so I can book new online teaching customers?
2. How do I market myself to new people and grow my audience online?
3. How can I know my programmes and services will sell?
4. What are the steps I need to take for creating my first online course?
5. What's the best part of online teaching? Coaching, product creation, something else?
6. a few bonus ones about responding to naysayers and keeping students motivated

Want a little more support?

You can book a whole day with me here: Mobile Mentoring with Kerstin

Don't miss these two Fluent Show episodes:
How Can We Make Online Lessons Less Exhausting?
and
Where and How to Start Teaching Online

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Thank you to Bonnie for this episode introduction.

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Sponsored By:

• Clozemaster: Visit our sponsor Clozemaster, the free addictive language app in over 50 languages

Links:

• Teaching and Researching: Motivation: Zoltan Dornyei: 9781317862826: hive.co.uk
• Language Coaches: What They Are and How to Work With Them by Fluent Language
• Book Kerstin Cable: Language Coaching — Yay a day with me!

One year on, the event is back ON and Lindsay and I meet to bring you a colourful podcast episode celebrating all the magical things about the Eurovision Song Contest.

via GIPHY

1) The history of Eurovision and of singing non-English songs

2) A preview of what's on this year

3) What we love about Eurovision - from a language learner's perspective and a wider perspective

4) Ideas for using Eurovision as a talking point for lessons/exchanges

5) Our Fluent Show Eurovision QUIZ

--> See you at #EuroLangParty on Twitter!

Where do you listen?
Take a photo of where you're listening to the Fluent Show and share it on social media to say hello! Here's where you can tag me:

• Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/thefluentshow
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Links:

• Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga | Netflix Official Site
• The Fluent Show: Why is it so Hard to Find Pop Music in Other Languages?
• The Fluent Show: Is "Natural Language Learning" even a thing?
• Eurovision Song Contest
• What is the Eurovision Song Contest? - CBBC Newsround
• Eurovision Song Contest - Wikipedia
• Eurovision is letting language learners down by Fluent Language — Kerstin had opinions about Eurovision and languages 8 years ago too
• How English is the Eurovision Song Contest? | Eurovision | The Guardian
• 'Parlez-vous "Eurovision"?': Language and Lyrics at Eurovision 2021
• How it works - Eurovision Song Contest
• 27 MEMORABLE EUROVISION MOMENTS - YouTube
• Verka Serduchka - Ukraine - Helsinki 2007 - Eurovision Song Contest
• Donatan & Cleo - My Słowianie - We Are Slavic (Poland) 2014 LIVE Eurovision Grand Final - Eurovision Song Contest

Better Listening is for Everyone

Holly shared in the interview that her superior listening skills have helped her. She can easily copy sounds and learn pronunciation, and she is a teacher appreciated for her fantastic abilities to teach accent in English.

Teaching Online has Opened Doors for Holly

It was difficult at first for Holly to get a job doing the teaching work that she loves, and it is common for blind people to struggle to access employment opportunities worldwide. Finding access to online teaching has helped Holly realise her career goals and work with students around the world.

Most Students Build Trust Over Time

Holly's students are sometimes nervous about having a blind teacher, but over time most build a good relationship with her and it doesn't stand in their way anymore.

Listen to the interview today to get to know Holly and enjoy her open and positive attitude to life.

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Special Guest: Holly Jensen.

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Links:

• Notetakers for Students who are Blind or Visually Impaired - Teaching Students with Visual Impairments
• Foreign Language Braille
• Podcasting 101 — Learn how to start a podcast with me!

I'll be focusing on 3 lessons:

Consistent improvements and the joy of curiosity

Podcast creation isn't about cranking out perfection. It's about having fun and capturing fun just by being yourself. Just like languages, the magic is actually in the journey and not the result.

Teamwork, trusting, and daring

If you have a vision, you're allowed to be into it and to truly pursue the goal that you are aiming for. You are not on a schedule. You can just dare to go for it, just like that.

Being myself, speaking like me, and learning how to communicate well

Over the years, podcasting has taught me how to become more comfortable with the sound of my voice and the way I express myself. In conversations, I have learnt invaluable skills about listening, prompting good answers, and supporting my conversation partner.

Do you want to become a podcaster too?

My wider goal this week is to open you up to an idea - could you start a podcast?

A little one? Maybe a big one? Maybe for your business, your project, for other language learners, for your students if you teach? Podcasting is a wonderful creative medium, and it makes bloody good business sense too!

If you want to learn more about podcasting and get step-by-step guidance on how to start your own successful podcast, sign up for my Podcasting 101 Masterclass.

It's perfect for you

• You’re in the beginning stages of starting a podcast and need a clear roadmap to get you to success
• You’ve started a podcast, but now you need tips and trade secrets to polish it up and make it shine
• You’re interested, but also worried it will be way too much work and you want a system that allows you to publish weekly . . . *easily*
• You’re looking for a simple and flexible way to plan out content so you always know what’s coming next
• You’re unsure of your voice (or message) and want to express yourself confidently
• You want to expand your reach and turn listeners into customers who cannot wait to pay you and work with you

Learn more and join the class at www.fluentlanguage.co.uk

Thank you to Heidi for this episode introduction.
Where do you listen?
Take a photo of where you're listening to the Fluent Show and share it on social media to say hello! Here's where you can tag me:

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• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/fluentlanguage

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Links:

• Podcasting 101 — Discover how to create and launch a successful podcast
• Podchaser — "The IMDB of Podcasts"
• PodRevDay — Review a podcast on the 8th

Aubrey's been a professional ESL teacher for 20 years and has taught in classrooms in New York and Montréal before taking up online teaching as part of the team at All Ears English.

In our podcast conversation, you'll hear more about

• how Aubrey became an English teacher through the New York City Teaching Fellows programme
• why online teaching the English language is so different from other types of teaching
• whether you need to make sure you have qualifications for online teaching or not
• why starting a business isn't for everyone
• how Aubrey keeps her 1:1 lessons interesting and fresh every time
• how to create an online course that stands out above all others.

I was inspired by Aubrey in so many ways and I'm excited for you to meet her today.

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Ever thought about creating your OWN podcast?

My brand new masterclass Podcasting 101 is going live on 15 May and you can book your super early place on it here. Next time your mate mentions "we should do a podcast together"? This training is where you go!

Special Guest: Aubrey Carter.

Sponsored By:

• Yabla: Stream authentic shows you enjoy and learn at the same time. Give Yabla a try with a free trial for Fluent Show listeners

Links:

• IELTS Energy 933: 3 Study Tips with Kerstin Cable of The Fluent Show | All Ears English Podcast — Listen to my visit to the IELTS energy podcast
• Home | Teach For America
• New York City Teaching Fellows | NYC Teaching Fellows

For today though, it's time to discuss something close to my heart: Stress! 😖

It's Stress Awareness Month in the UK and today I wanted to share my story and bring you helpful tips that can completely change your life. Whether you teach or learn languages, today's episode is going to help you figure out the struggles of stress.

Important steps for reducing stress anywhere in your life

The following tips are from mind.org.uk, a wonderful charity:

• Make some lifestyle changes such as
  • Working on your assertiveness so you can feel confident saying no when people add pressure
  • Developing your hobbies and interests - as language lovers you're miles ahead
  • Adding in relaxation techniques and relaxing activities like yoga, meditation, creative activities, engagement in nature and music...er and podcasts? podcast walks!
  • Limit your tech consumption - have an evening off from social media now and then
• Look after your physical health, this is the classics of sleep, exercise and healthy food
• Make sure you have a good support network through friends and family, workplace support (I found my union invaluable), your doctor if needed

The Importance of Taking a Break

• As a language teacher, self-employed worker, I sometimes struggle with my boss - my boss being me. I have to make sure that the standards I set myself are fair. I had to learn to take breaks so that I can create better work.
• As a language learner, I'm very laid back but I often see others who worry that a break means stopping and being unable to pick things back up. Whether it's pressure from an app, a teacher, or your Insta feed, make sure you know that breaks are not endings.

How will you use these tips?

Thank you to Jon for this episode introduction.

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Links:

• Work and stress | Mind
• Kerstin Cable (@kerstin_fluent) • Instagram photos and videos — DM me a question
• The Magical High-Value, Low-Effort 1:1 Offer — My mentor Elizabeth's free training session that led to my Mobile Mentoring day
• Stress Management Techniques from MindTools.com
• Treatments for Stress | Stressbusting
• Mental Health Chatbot | Woebot Health
• Stress Awareness Month April 2021 - Regain Connection, Certainty and Control - The Stress Management Society % %

• Kerstin has more new German words to read out to Lindsay and they're all corona-related
• We review this year's Women in Language conference and answer a few questions about how to organise an event with 599 participants
• We discuss Lindsay's studies for her MA in Applied Linguistics, and why distance learning is her jam

This show's a lovely mixed back of lots of fun topics, so kick back and enjoy with us. The Fluent Show will now be on a break until mid-April, when I'm excited to start the next season theme: teaching!

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Links:

• SURVEY: What's your Language Learner Identity? — If you have 5 minutes, please complete this survey about online language learners.
• Language Habit Toolkit - Fluent Every Day
• Neologismenwörterbuch : Neuer Wortschatz rund um die Coronapandemie
• MA Applied Linguistics course - Postgraduate degree study - University of Birmingham
• Language Stories

In this episode, you'll get SO MUCH super useful information about how linguists can study your brain when you are speaking another language. I loved talking to Sarah and having her as my guest.

What's code switching?

Code-switching means alternating languages during conversations. It has been widely studied in linguistics, psychology, and neuroscience; but the aim of Sarah's research is to integrate approaches from all three fields to develop a more holistic perspective on the bilingual mind.

Free Class! How to Get Fluent When Life's Chaotic

I'm running a brand new free training where you will learn how to get fluent without having to make a complex study plan, micro-manage yourself, or ever feel bad about missing a lesson.
Sound good?
Sign up at www.fluentlanguage.co.uk/lifechaotic

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Special Guest: Sarah F. Phillips.

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Links:

• How to Get Fluent When Life's Chaotic — New Free Class with me! Live on Friday 12 March and there's a replay for all who sign up
• Why I Study Linguistics – Sarah Frances Phillips
• Janet Oh | California State University, Northridge
• The Fluent Show: Maintaining Old Languages While Learning New Ones — More language learning tips about interference
• Bilingualism in Development
• EEG vs. MRI vs. fMRI - What are the Differences? - iMotions

In today's episode, I'm going to be answering all of your burning questions about the event so that you can have the full information for the event that runs 4-7 March 2021. Tune in and hear me discuss:

What happens during the conference days?

We start on Thursday 4 March with our opening ceremony, welcoming all attendeesy and getting everyone in the mood for our 4 days of fun. Then we start with the first presentation.
You will watch this presentation by logging into a special attendee's area on our website.
There will be a fun and lively chatroom where you can meet other participants.
This year we have

• 23 presentations from expert speaker, covering topics from having a bilingual family to revitalising an endangered language
• 3 powerful panels about languages in the world of social media, in technology, and in Australia with our Australian speakers Michele, Bec & Karla
• 2 Speak Easy sessions where all participants can join to practice languages

What's on?

Here's the schedule!

How does it all work technologically?

• When you get your ticket, you're automatically a member of our teachable online school, which is the Women in Language members area. For the chatroom, we use Youtube Live. You'll need a Youtube account in order to chat, but you don't need to download anything in order to watch.
• For the Speak Easy portion, we use Zoom. You need to download the free Zoom app if you want to join.
• For follow-up and connecting outside of the presentations, we have an exclusive Facebook group.

Who is Women in Language 2021 for?

• People who are learning languages, no matter if it's their first language or their 10th
• Women, men, trans, non-binary, queer people, people of color, white people, monolingual people, multilingual people - our community welcomes you
• People who are passionate about culture, society, equality, and self-improvement
• People who want to connect with a strong and lively community of like-minded language learners
• People who enjoy this podcast! If you like the Fluent Show, honestly, I think you'd love Women in Language

Can men join Women in Language 2021?

Sometimes, men ask us if they can come too. The answer is YES - come along and enjoy learning from these smart, funny, and dedicated language loving women. In this episode you'll hear from 🤴🏼Jonathan, Léo, Richard and Shane who want to encourage you to join us!

Is Women in Language just for people who speak multiple languages?

Nope!
We are not a space where you have to prove yourself. We're not going to ask you or test you, and we will speak out against any implication that knowing more languages makes anyone a better learner or a better person.
If you're interested in the topics we bring you, then sign up and you'll be welcome.

How much does it cost to join Women in Language 2021?

$29
all in, including our presentations, opening party, closing party, live language exchange, Facebook group, raffle ticket and replays for anything you miss first time round.

How do I sign up?

www.womeninlanguage.com and tickets are open until 7 March but we start 4 March!

See you there? See you there!!

Thank you to Bonnie for this episode introduction and to Léo, Jonathan, Shane, and Richard for their participation.

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Links:

• The Fluent Show - Alexa Little
• Women in Language 2021 | Women In Language

In this interview with Professor Dan McIntyre from the University of Huddersfield, you'll get a super interesting guide to Stylistics, the study of style in language. Dan and I chat about corpus linguistics and audio-visual subtitles, and you'll learn more about what inspired him to start the popular language magazine, Babel. If you ever wanted a linguist in your pocket to answer all kinds of questions about subtitles and style, this is going to be the best hour of your week.
Thank you to Dan for this episode introduction.

And just like you heard in the episode, tickets are currently available for Women in Language 2021! Get yours here

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Special Guest: Dan McIntyre.

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Links:

• Lingo Magazine — Check out this free copy of LINGO magazine for young language learners
• The Babel Lexicon of Language — New book by Dan et al!

• added love of Riverdale
• haikus
• and a denouncement of optimising ourselves and our language learning to within an inch of our lives.

Anti-efficient? But no!
We are bringing you the beloved TOP TOOLS of winter 2021. Six hot new language learning apps and resources to help you through that pandemic with a smile on your face

Here are all of our top tool suggestions

• Radio Garden
• Brainscape
• Flipboard
• wiktionary.org
• Down Dog yoga app
• BBC Bitesize

Listen in to find out which ones came out on top.

Thank you for listening to the Fluent Show! If you enjoyed this episode, please consider supporting the show by leaving a review in your podcast app or becoming a member of our Patreon community

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• Yabla: Stream authentic shows you enjoy and learn at the same time. Give Yabla a try with a free trial for Fluent Show listeners

Links:

• The Ultimate Top Tools for Language Learning from 2016-2020 by Fluent Language — All previous top tools in one blog article
• Radio Garden
• Brainscape: The Best Flashcards App | Make Flashcards Online
• Wiktionary
• Flipboard - Stories from 28,875 topics personalized for you
• Home - BBC Bitesize
• Down Dog | Great Yoga Anywhere
• Down Dog For Schools — Free until 1 July

• where "Western and Central Asia" even is
• how to understand the impact of history on any language
• why it works best to learn a language when you're really feeling it

Thank you for listening to the Fluent Show! If you enjoyed this episode, please consider supporting the show by leaving a review in your podcast app or becoming a member of our Patreon community

Special Guest: Erin Morgan.

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Links:

• Turkmenistan: The Berdymukhamedov Holiday Special - YouTube
• Turkmenistan's president performs in rap video with his grandson - YouTube

• The best ways to learn grammar - does spaced repetition software work for learning grammar? 🗂
• How to overcome shame and embarrassment when you're caught in the expat language bubble 🙈
• Why all the tips about learning your 3rd, 4th, 5th language can be wrong for you 🪜
• How I would instruct you in a lesson if we're using a bilingual parallel reader 📙

Thank you to Amanda for this episode introduction.
If you want to submit an intro for this podcast, you can do so! Click here to read how it works.

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Links:

• The Fluent Show: How To Navigate Bilingual Love and Change Your Family Perspective
• Resources and Courses for French Learners
• Comme une Française Partners with Fluent Language - Free French Crash Course - Comme une Française — (affiliate link)
• Interlinear Books - Bringing Literature to Language Learners
• Crack the Grammar Code
• Tips to Improve Your Vocab Memory by Fluent Language
• Johnson, LAL.Johnson:Intro to Foreign Lan_p2, 2nd Edition | Pearson
• How to Learn Several Languages At The Same Time by Fluent Language
• The Fluent Show: Learning a Language Through Another Language (Laddering)

• How would you sum up the year in your languages?
• What changed in your life and in your languages in 2020?
• What lessons do you think you learnt from the year 2020?
• What surprised you?
• What will you change going forward?
• Looking forward, what are your language learning goals for 2021?

Shannon's top 3 books of 2020

• Digital Minimalism by Cal Newport
• Homo Deus by Yuval Noah Harari
• Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari

Shannon also mentioned Atomic Habits by James Clear

Shannon's top 4 apps of 2020

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

• Todoist for task management
• Notion for study note management
• Drops and Memrise for language learning

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Special Guest: Shannon Kennedy.

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• The Language Habit Toolkit: Build a productive language learning routine that makes you fluent, not frustrated

Links:

• The Fluent Show: What Did You Learn in 2019? (with Shannon Kennedy)

1. Important celebrity word news from the worlds of Hilaria Baldwin and Wagatha Christie 🕵🏼
2. Important annual word news from the Word of the Year committees around the world

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

• lockdown
• coronavirus
• rona / Miss Rona
• BLM / Black Lives Matter
• Samfundssind
• PPE
• Karen

AND MANY MORE!! 😄

I have a bunch of small corrections from this episode:

• I got the German gender letters wrong when talking about Gendersternchen and job applications, it’s not n for the 3rd option but d (to mean “divers”).
• The French word "déconfinement" isn't "confinement"or "lockdown" but the period after: the confinement is being "undone", usually in small steps, a de-lockdown, so to say (Merci to Ines)
• TERF stands for trans exclusionary radical feminist, which makes way more sense than my guess "revolutionary" (Thanks to Ines)

If you enjoyed this episode, please consider supporting the show by leaving a review in your podcast app or becoming a member of our Patreon community at www.patreon.com/fluentshow

Thank you for listening to the Fluent Show!

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Links:

• 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)

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.

• Set your Vision Goal first
• Build around milestones for the year
• Commit to recording over planning
• Put the joy and the experience first
• Work with micro-challenges

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.

Thank you for listening to the Fluent Show! If you enjoyed this episode, please consider supporting the show by leaving a review in your podcast app or becoming a member of our Patreon community

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• The Language Habit Toolkit: Build a productive language learning routine that makes you fluent, not frustrated

Links:

• Fluent Show Survey 2021
• 2020: An Honest Review of a Maddening Year by Fluent Language
• Resources For Italian Learners
• The Fluent Show: A Statement About Racism

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.

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:

• Episode 25 (Lindsay Dow) saw the emergence of one of Kerstin's book-related pet peeves..which one is it?
• Episode 28 (Shannon Kennedy): In this episode, Shannon admitted to being an extreme , which is why she doesn't find it lonely to learn languages by herself.
• Episode 73 (Ultramarathon for the Brain): This episode is a part of Fluent Show history as the first ever bilingual show, in German and English. Who was the guest?
• Episode 136 (Paul Kaye): Paul Kaye is a professional translator who used to be a journalist. He applied with an Eastern European language. Which one is it?
• Episode 145 (Indigenous Languages): Which glorious pop star referred to English as little tongue, sparking a discussion for this episode?
• Episode 150 (Langfest 2019): This episode featured a drinking song in which very small European language?
• Episode 158 (David Peterson): Which important distinction did David need to work out before he could record the Dothraki intro to the Fluent Show?

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!

Thank you for listening to the Fluent Show! If you enjoyed this episode, please consider supporting the show by leaving a review in your podcast app or becoming a member of our Patreon community

Links:

• Idiot Johnson — Musician from Lancaster UK
• Forget The Whale | Facebook — The band playing the Fluent Show theme
• ‎The Fluent Show on Apple Podcasts

• How to improve your separation between work life and language life
• How to structure your goals so you make regular progress
• How to find a productive study routine even if you have only 10 minutes a day

Thank you to Octavio for this episode introduction.

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Sponsored By:

• The Language Habit Toolkit: Join the Language Habit Toolkit by 5 October (midnight Pacific time) to get a place in my live round!

Links:

• 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

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.

via GIPHY

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Links:

• 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

Introducing Women in Language

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

Here are the voices you're hearing on this show:

• Angela Pegarella from Passion for Dreaming
• Chesline Pierre-Paul, a life, language and creativity coach Chesline
• Devy Baseley, who runs FrenchSpeak.au
• Esther Ciganda, an independent Basque teacher at Basque in Languages
• Gaby Simmons who's the creator of Tim Tim Tom Books
• Lina Vasquez, a language coach and polyglot who runs the Lina Vasquez YouTube channel
• Sarah Barrett from family-focused language company Lingotastic
• Sara Maria Hasbun - remember her? Here she is!
• Shanthi Cumaraswamy Streat, expert English teacher at English With a Twist

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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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• Yabla: Stream authentic shows you enjoy and learn at the same time. Give Yabla a try with a free trial for Fluent Show listeners

Links:

• Women in Language 2020 | Women In Language
• The Fluent Show: Inside the Women in Language Conference: 12 Guests Tell ALL

Behind the Scenes at Women in Language

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)

• Teachable both for hosting our own course AND for collecting all information for our speakers
• Mailchimp for our emails to speakers and attendees, and for our newsletter
• Zapier to connect the apps we use
• Asana to stay as organised as possible
• Youtube live & live chat
• Ecamm live via Skype
• Zoom (for the Speak Easy sessions)
• Google Docs & Forms

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

Thank you for listening to the Fluent Show! If you enjoyed this episode, please consider supporting the show by leaving a review in your podcast app or becoming a member of our Patreon community

Special Guest: Shannon Kennedy.

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Links:

• Women in Language Schedule 2020 [PUBLIC] - Google Sheets
• De-Brief From An Organiser: Women in Language 2018 by Fluent Language

In the episode you'll learn about

• Taking a drop-in class
• Joining a Speak Easy session
• Chatting to your digital voice assistant
• Setting up a practice group with buddies
• Practicing through self-talk

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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Links:

• 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

When recording this week's episode, Lindsay and I dug deep and discussed our perspectives about being multilingual people. It was a surprising discussion!

Click or tap here to let us know what you think over on Patreon

Thank you for listening to the Fluent Show! If you enjoyed this episode, please consider supporting the show by leaving a review in your podcast app or becoming a member of our Patreon community

And click here to get your ticket for our 4-day online conference Women in Language

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Links:

• Being bilingual…multilingual identities | British Council France
• Languages in the UK | Creative Multilingualism
• Women in Language 2020 | Women In Language
• Fluent Show Survey 2020

In this episode of the Fluent Show, I'm sharing a few tips to help you feel GREAT about your language skills no matter where you're at. Learn more about the role of patience, clarity and expectation as you get better at your language.

Oh, you want to be sure you reach the next level too? Don't worry, I have hands-on steps included for you too.

Thank you to Ethan for this episode introduction.

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Where do you listen?
Take a photo of where you're listening to the Fluent Show and share it on social media to say hello! Here's where you can tag me:

• Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/thefluentshow
• Instagram: http://instagram.com/kerstin_fluent/ and #thefluentshow
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/fluentlanguage

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Links:

• It's only episode 200!!!
• Mastery and Advanced Level Language Learning by Fluent Language
• How long does it take to learn a language? The truth!
• The Fluent Show: Q&A: Getting Off the Intermediate Plateau
• The CEFR Levels
• The Fluent Show: Language Levels Revealed: The One Conversation You Need to Hear (with English teacher Michael Lavers)
• Fit f. Goethe-Z. C1, LB m. integ. CD

1. Put this on your schedule and structure your time.
2. Be super specific
3. Trust your gut and choose what you enjoy and what challenges you
4. If you lose your streak, reconnect to your original motivation

Thank you to Dela for this episode introduction.

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Links:

• Homepage | Women In Language
• The Language Habit Toolkit [Bonus Edition] | Fluent Language

Also featured: Soap operas, Lindsay's a student again, and the Women in Language conference running 17-20 September 2020: www.womeninlanguage.com

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• The Fluent Show: Is "Natural Language Learning" even a thing?

After working at italki as a community tutor, I want to branch out and become a professional tutor. My lessons are extremely structured and informative although I am not a professional teacher so I was wondering as to whether or not I should move to a professional tutor. I think typically professional teachers are seen to be more prepared and knowledgeable. I’m not too sure to be honest. I just know that I love online education!

• What does it mean to act like a professional as a tutor?
• How good do you have to be at a language before you can teach it?
• Why are there community and professional tutors on italki?
• What qualification do you need to get their professional status?
• How can you start going full-time as a professional online language teacher?

Thank you to Gosia for this episode introduction.

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Links:

• How do I become an italki teacher? – italki Help and Support
• Live Lesson Strategies for Online Teachers and Tutors
• The Fluent Show: Good Lessons vs. GREAT Lessons: Life’s Too Short Not to Find a Great Tutor
• What types of certification or credentials are required for a Professional Teaching Profile? – italki Help and Support
• Facebook Group: Fluent Language Learners
• Beyond 1:1 — Slides for my workshop from the Teach & Thrive Summit
• italki: Learn a language online
• Kinyarwanda alphabet, pronunciation and language

Can't quite travel there? Not ready to speak fluently? Don't worry, Easy Languages has your back!

This hugely popular YouTube channel brings you conversations with people from the street, sharing authentic language and culture from dozens of countries. It all started in Münster in Germany, when a group of students recorded themselves shouting "Hallo!" at random people during a media workshop led by Janusz Hamerski.

Today Easy Languages is a global organisation making videos in over 32 languages. In this Fluent Show episode, you'll get to know co-founder Janusz and producer Manuel.

Bilingual Episode
This episode contains a lot of fun conversation in English and a little fun conversation in German. Janusz and Manuel are German speakers like me, so we switched into German for a little bit to give you some listening practice as a learner. If you are not a German learner, don't worry as we'll always switch back to English and make sure you don't miss anything.

Here I always like to remember what the late Ron Gullekson from Language Surfer told me: "in a new language, I like to get uncomfortable as early as possible." So enjoy the challenge and enjoy the German practice!

👩🏾 👩🏿‍🦱🖤 Event Announcement
And one more thing I want you to know about: The Sisters Only Language Summit is running its second virtual summit on 25 July 2020. This event is going to be fantastic, so make sure you check it out and support them. Fluent Show listeners who are students and women of African descent can apply for one of 3 scholarship tickets that are donated by the Fluent Show.

Special Guests: Janusz Hamerski and Manuel Salmann.

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Links:

• The Easy German Podcast
• What is the meaning of life? | Easy German 129 - YouTube — Janusz's favourite!
• Dreams and Wishes | Easy German 22 - YouTube — Manuel's fond memory of presenting a video in freezing cold Kiel ❄️
• Sisters Only Language Summit 25 July 2020 — All women of African descent are invited to join the Sisters Only Language Summit on Saturday, July 25 -- 3 Tickets sponsored by the Fluent Show 🥳
• Easy German is creating videos and a podcast for learning German | Patreon

I'm sharing how it's going with my Chinese studies, my Welsh language, and what I want to try next. You are invited to review your year and make notes as you follow along with this episode.

Here are a few questions you can use for reviewing your own progress:

1. What are the 3 biggest experiences that shaped your first half of 2020?
2. What are 3 things you want to remember about learning languages in the last 6 months?
3. How different do you feel about your language skills compared to the start of the year?
4. What are you working on right now?
5. Which specific actions will you take to make language learning progress in the next 30 days?

Thank you to Cait for this episode introduction.

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Links:

• Your Solid Vocab Memory | Fluent Language
• The Language Dabbler’s Guide to Welsh — A fun mini course for people who are curious about Welsh
• The Fluent Show on Patreon
• Create Your Study Plan for 30 days of language success
• italki - find online tutors
• Chinese Audio Lessons – Learn Mandarin Chinese
• #ClearTheList

We Shared These Tips for Getting More Out of Duolingo

• Use the "Practice" button to get unlimited hearts and review what you've learnt before
• Write down sentences from Duolingo lessons in your notebook to practice in a new environment
• Make sure you read the "Tips" for handy explanations that give you helpful context
• Instead of letting the course lead you, use its "Test Out" feature to check in on your learning progress
• Check out the Duolingo Stories to use your target language
• Always use the Streak Freeze and Double or Nothing features to boost your little Duolingo gems
• Add friends on Duolingo (I'm kerstin_fluent)
• Switch your source language to access even more courses in unusual languages, such as Guarani and Catalan through Spanish
• Check the forums for questions & use the vocab lists (great link below)
• Go to the meet-ups to meet fellow Duolingo fans
• Read the Duolingo blog for interesting stats

Thank you for listening to the Fluent Show! If you enjoyed this episode, please consider supporting the show by leaving a review in your podcast app or becoming a member of our Patreon community

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Links:

• White Wine Emoji Fails to Get Approval from Unicode (Again) | Food & Wine
• 3 Tutor-Approved Ideas For Learning a Language With Duolingo by Fluent Language
• Changes in Duolingo usage during the COVID-19 pandemic
• List of Vocabularies for Language Courses of Duolingo - Duolingo
• Upcoming Duolingo Language Events | Duolingo
• In case you missed the #duocon livestream... - Duolingo
• The Fluent Show: A Statement About Racism
• 🥟 Dumpling Emoji
• Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language
• Speaking Confidence Challenge — Can't speak as confidently as you'd like? Join Lindsay's new challenge in July!

You say "either" and I say "either"
You say "neither" I say "neither"
"Either" "either", "neither" "neither"
Let's call the whole thing off

George & Ira Gershwin

This week on the Fluent Show, I'm answering a listener question about accents.

• What is an accent?
• Can your accent change even though you're not trying?
• Is it possible to learn a different accent?
• Can you get an accent by listening to podcasts? ...and more mysteries!

Listen to the episode to hear my answers to these questions and find out why my approach when speaking a foreign language is like this:
DO learn pronunciation (IPA if you like)
DON’T worry about your accent

Thank you to Antonio for this episode introduction.

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Where do you listen?
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• Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/thefluentshow
• Instagram: http://instagram.com/kerstin_fluent/ and #thefluentshow
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/fluentlanguage

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Links:

• Teach & Thrive Summit 2020 — Get your ticket in time for 24 June
• Ask-A-Linguist: What is an Accent? – The LINGUIST List
• LINGUIST List Home Page about Accents
• Lingthusiasm • Lingthusiasm Episode 12: Sounds you can’t hear -...
• The Fluent Show | Patreon
• Language and Identities - Google Books
• You Say Potato : A Book About Accents: Ben Crystal: 9781447276661: hive.co.uk
• The Fluent Show: A Statement About Racism
• Show Racism the Red Card
• Home - Black Lives Matter
• The Fluent Show: "French is Romantic, Arabic Is Aggressive"...Does Culture Stop Us from Learning Languages?

Racism is not welcome here.

Thank you for listening to today's episode.

And as maker of the Fluent Show, I can also tell you that every person who works on the team stands behind this message. Please read Lindsay's very well-written perspective here.

Here are 4 wonderful Fluent Show guests who have represented the voices of black language learners.

Please read more about them and how impressive they are. There are TWO bilingual interviews in here:

👍🏾 https://www.fluent.show/guests/nicole - Nicole Miles
👍🏿 https://www.fluent.show/guests/khady - Khady Ndoye (bilingual episode French/English)
👍🏽 https://www.fluent.show/guests/shahidah - Ann Shahidah (bilingual episode German/English)
👍🏼 https://www.fluent.show/guests/chenelle Chenelle Patrice Hancock

I'm proud that they came and spent time with me on the show. I know my work isn't done and I'll continue to make it a priority to invite guests from ALL backgrounds.

How to get in touch:

• Twitter
• Email kerstin@fluentlanguage.co.uk or hello@fluentlanguage.co.uk
• Instagram
• or use the chatbox in the corner at www.fluentlanguage.co.uk

Links:

• Rachel Elizabeth Cargle (@rachel.cargle) • Instagram photos and videos
• Igbo Podcast
• Spanish Con Salsa
• Let's Talk About Racism. - Lindsay Does Languages
• Black Girls Learn Languages
• KIFFE TA RACE « Tu viens d’où ? » - YouTube
• Looking back on the protests that have shaken America | News | The Guardian
• The killing of Ahmaud Arbery | News | The Guardian
• The Fluent Show: Bilingual Podcast! The Biggest African Languages / Les Plus Grandes Langues d'Afrique [with Khady Ndoye]
• The Fluent Show: The Best You In Another Language (with Nicole Miles)
• The Fluent Show: Shahidah Foster on Black Girls Learn Languages (bilingual podcast in German and English)
• Chenelle’s language learning journey podcast. • A podcast on Anchor
• The Fluent Show: If Language is On Fire, Who Puts it Out? (with Alexa Little from 7000 Languages 👩🏼‍🚒)
• The Fluent Show: Indigenous Languages Explained (and the Real Meaning of No Woman, No Cry)
• How To Be an Anti-Racist Reader
• Lingthusiasm • Linguistics is not just for white people....
• Speaking Tongues Podcast

For many online language teachers, this kind of online meeting schedule is part of a standard working week. It really is exhausting!

In this week's episode, I'm helping an online teacher who has experienced this for herself and sent a call for help to the Fluent Show.

Here is the question:

I'm an english tutor and have started teaching online because of the pandemic..you see, I notice that the "video conference" situation drains so much energy from me. I wonder if that happens with other students not used to the online class. Did you ever feel that with online lessons? Do you have tips to avoid that burn out from virtual meetings? Thank you!!

Listen to the episode to hear more about how to improve your focus, your environment, and your future prospects as an online teacher.

If you want to send your own Teacher Chat Question to the show, email it to hello@fluentlanguage.co.uk

Thank you to Estephania from Panama for this week's Listener Intro

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• Teach & Thrive Summit — Sign up for the waiting list here
• How to Master Common Italian Phrases for Travel (Like a Local!)
• The Fluent Show: Where and How to Start Teaching Online
• The Fluent Show: What To Do When You're Overwhelmed In Language Lessons
• The Fluent Show: Q&A: How To Prepare For Language Lessons on Skype
• The reason Zoom calls drain your energy - BBC Worklife
• SelfControl
• Forest - Stay focused, be present

Intro: Lindsay's Language Marathon and our italki Language Challenge progress

Top Tools Hall of Fame

Top Tools has now been running since 2016, with a total of 42 tools recommended. It's easy to lose track so it was time to declutter the list. In this episode, you'll hear about the best, the ultimate, the unmissable Top Tools Hall of Fame from 2016 to 2020.

We revisit EVERY SINGLE tool recommendation in the podcast so you can hear how they work and which ones we still love. Then we hand out awards. Here are the headline winners:

The best tools for EVERY language learner:

• Lingq
• Clozemaster
• Lyricstraining
• Lingodeer
• Teach Yourself Library

ALL of these top tools have web and app based versions and lots of languages available for you to pick from.

The Beginners Badge for people who want good beginner materials goes to 50 Languages.

The Minority Medal for a tool that is best if you are interested in learning a minority language goes to the LiveLingua Project.

The Goblet of Recognition for a tool that we brought back again and again goes to VOCAB NOTEBOOKS like these. In America, Gregg or Pitman ruled notebooks might do this job for you.

Click here to see the full list of top tools from 2016-2020

Thank you for listening to the Fluent Show! If you enjoyed this episode, please consider supporting the show by leaving a review in your podcast app or becoming a member of our Patreon community.
Some of the links in these show notes are affiliate links supporting the show.

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Links:

• italki Language Challenge
• 100 Creative Ideas — Lindsay's new book
• The Fluent Show: How To Start An Amazing Language Journal (with Instagrammers Kathryn and Sam)