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117B - Eat an elephant one bite at the time (Part 2)

This is the second part of the interview with Urmi.

For the first part, head over to 117A. 

What do you think will language learning look like in 10 years time? (3:57)

Are you an Italiki teacher? (5:29)

Why should we talk lessons with you? (English/Italian)

Can the students choose the topics? (6:39)

Being someone who already learned a lot of vocabulary but never has spoken the language what would you recommend that I should focus on? (8:23)

Do you have a podcast recommendation for us to learn Spanish?

Favorite expression (14:56) Eat one elephant at a time. 

Do you want to be part of My Fluent Podcast?Drop me an email: myfluentpodcast@gmail.com 

Urmi's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZoiI0SGU0Xo9_lNjtLWtgg 

Blog: https://www.myways.ca/

YouTube: 5 Ways to Learn ITALIAN on a BUSY SCHEDULE:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9fmxrdOFPY 

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117A - Fear is the dearest friend of all - Urmi Hossain (Part 1)

Urmi Hossain is a full-time female worker in the financial services industry.

She has been working in this industry for about six years and she comes from an educational background in Finance. She is currently pursuing her CFA designation.

In her free time, she volunteers for causes such as women's empowerment and giving back to the non-privileged.

She is a big proponent of self- investing and continuous learning. Indeed, one of her passions is learning languages

She is a side hustler. She has her own blog and Youtube Channel, and she has also written her first book, Discovering Your Identity: A Rebirth From Interracial Struggle, where she talks about her own struggle in finding her identity. She considers herself to be Italian- Bengali. 

Ambitious and Go-Getter are two words that describe her the most. Indeed, one of her big ambitious goals is to deliver a TED Talk 

Some fun facts: She is a polyglot. She can speak Italian, Bengali, English, and French fluently and Spanish at a more intermediate level.

Version with transcript: https://share.descript.com/view/r907jL2yYaO 

Time Stamps:

0:01 What does language learning mean to Urmi?

0:56 What language does Urmi think in?

1:23 Urmi dreams in Spanish

2:44 Be comfortable with the uncomfortable.

4:12 Italian

7:19 Urmi Hossain's YouTube Channel

10:10 Fear is the dearest friend of all

12:03 Public Speaking

Links:

Urmi's LinkedIn: https://ca.linkedin.com/in/urmi-hossain

Urmi's book: https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B0B75X14G7/ref=sr_1_2?crid=38ODHSOSYZ3W8&keywords=urmi+hossain&qid=1658373403&sprefix=urmi+hossain%2Caps%2C98&sr=8-2

Urmi's blog- https://www.myways.ca/

Urmi's Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZoiI0SGU0Xo9_lNjtLWtgg

If you want to be a guest on My Fluent Podcast, drop me an e-mail to myfluentpodcast@gmail.com

Cheers, Daniel

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BONUS - Artificial intelligence in language learning - AI in languages

This is a bonus episode. I just couldn't help myself. See for yourself.

A special thank goes to Jesus who's intro was fantastic. He manages to inspire and motivate other learners.

Please, follow his instagram:

Jesus Mtz (@jessuss.mtz) • Instagram-Fotos und -Videos

https://www.instagram.com/jessuss.mtz/

Thank you all.

Your Daniel Goodson.

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116 - Podcasting as a language learning method - Asyraaf from Malaysia

English learner Asyraaf from Malaysia tells his language learning story and how he managed conducting more than 100 interviews on his podcast called Content Marketing Hacks. Making the podcast helped him tremendously to become a better English speaker. 

YouTube version

Time stamps:

4:39 Hone your English through Podcasting

7:05 Communication problems (Just roll with it!)

7:27 Getting better after every interview

08:19 Arabic, Polish, English and Malay

8:58 Serious English learning

10:06 The challenge of speaking in English

11:10 Talk to yourself / record a podcast to improve in your target language

14:03 Perfectionism in language learning

14:25 Public speaking

16:10 Future goals

17:57 English learning challenges (using the same words)

21:50 Where can we find Asyraaf

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115 How Luciana from Argentina ended up in Denmark - Traveling Sri Lanka, India, Australia..., Managing people in a foreign language

Luciana decided to leave her country (Argentina) to become bilingual. Learn more about her journey in which she ended up being in Denmark. 

Here is the YouTube version of this episode: https://youtu.be/mbvQ_gxty4Q 

What is the BRAVE85 series?

Learn more about it here: 

85 - The BRAVE 85 - five interview excerpts

What is the WISBOLEP competition?

Learn more about it here: 

https://youtu.be/mhIoNh8YiVE 

Other Interviews of the BRAVE85 series on My Fluent Podcast:

84 - How Alvaro overcame his stuttering by speaking English 

83 - Turn your EGO into an EGG and break it! Learn like a child!

All the Competition Entries on 692. WISBOLEP 

Photo Cover art background: by Derek Oyen on Unsplash

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114 Live English Lesson - The Challenge of Taking a Live Lesson on YouTube - with Enrique from Spain

Enrique from Spain talks about his experience when he attended several live English lessons on Teacher Zdenek's YouTube Channel. What did he like about it? What was difficult? What did he learn?

We touched on several other topics such as

Enrique's English journey

Perfectionism in language learning. 

Podcasts for language learning

Reading books to improve your language skills

Attending a movie club

On ep. 113 we talked about the teacher's perspective when giving a Live English Lesson. Go back and listen to Zdenek's interview first to make the most out of it.

Tell your friends if you liked this episode. That will help My Fluent Podcast to grow. Thank you guys. Cheers, Daniel. 

Live English Lesson N°17 with Enrique - 20 October 2021 - Dogme method 

https://youtu.be/Ax2V5qQCMTk 

Live English Lesson N°27 with Enrique 29/12/2021 || Conversation || Feedback || Dogme:

https://youtu.be/LPB4MeEnBWI 

Photo of the Cover Art by Les Argonautes on Unsplash 

Music: Scott Holmes

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113 The Dogme Method - focus on the student (not course books)

Should we throw our course books and grammar books away??? Well, maybe....

Dogme language teaching is considered to be both a methodology and a movement. Dogme is a communicative approach to language teaching that encourages teaching without published textbooks and focuses instead on conversational communication among learners and teacher. (Wikipedia: Dogme language teaching - Wikipedia) 

Teacher Zdenek:

https://www.teacherzdenek.com/ 

Live English Lesson with Zdenek, The Playlist:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgB1EsC_Zo8&list=PLTF3BphrUaC2J2qtAkU4p_5c00bCUHljB 

Teacher Zdenek - YouTube 

https://www.youtube.com/c/TeacherZdenek 

Learn English Online (Zdenek's Discord channel):

https://discord.com/invite/5hq6vB8WYw

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112 From English Learner to Teacher, soon running an English School!

Learn more about Dorota's English journey and how she became a proficient speaker who is about to run her own English School called "Dragon Dorota Słomiana". Thank you so much Dorota for shareing your experience with us! The langage community can be glad to have you! Get inspired and listen to ep. 112.

Dorota: https://www.facebook.com/DragonDorota/

🗣️The Chat Box (Facebook Group to hone your English): https://www.facebook.com/groups/worldenglishchatbox/

🗣️MAOFEN, Masters Of English (Facebook Group to hone your English skills); https://www.facebook.com/groups/maofen/

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111 SPEED LISTENING to level up your target language - Transcriptionist Vince from the Philippines

Trilingual English speaker Vince from the Philippines shares his valuable tips and tricks on how he became a fluent English speaker. 

YouTube version: https://youtu.be/R9XySsmxYfE 

Transcript version: https://share.descript.com/view/cvDEBobDlD4 

E-Mail: Myfluentpodcast@gmail.com 

Time stamps / Topics:

0:01 Introduction - Vince from the Philippines

1:28 Japanese

1:44 Sumo wrestler

2:45 Spanish and Vietnamese

4:27 Working on your enunciation

5:43 Hadar Shemesh / Rachel 

6:16 Shadowing

7:22 Picking up the Argentinian Spanish

9:22 Did Vince reach his language learning goal? 

9:56 Masters of English (MAOFEN) / The Influency Community (by Hadar Shemesh)

11:21 Speedlistening to improve in your target language

16:33 What helped you the most to becoma a fluent speaker? (Immersion)

17:51 Back chaining (Method by Gabriel Wyner, author of the book Fluent Forever)

19:11 SRS Space Repetition Software (ANKI)

20:43 Watching Animes, TV Shows, SciFi and real life conversations

21:28 For the love of podcasts (Tim Ferris, Stuff you should know, Lex Fridman)

22:06 Build your habits (App Habitica)

22:54 Challenge yourself 

23:29 Language exchange

26:03 Outro

  Vocabulary

0:13 It was a nerve wracking experience (causing a lot of worry or anxiety)

0:29 It was a haphazard thing (not having an obvious order or plan)

0:38 I receded, kind of became shy (to move back or away)

0:38 I would be bullied (to bully: to treat (someone) in a cruel, insulting, threatening, or aggressive fashion)

1:01 So in effect, I am trilingual (in practice, even if not formally acknowledged.)

1:01 Trilingual (to be fluent in 3 languages)

2:0 My angle for Japanese

I also took it up

it was a regression because the Japanese that they had at that college was just not advanced enough.

2:49 Latinx population (Latinx is an American English neologism, sometimes used to refer to people of Latin American cultural or ethnic identity in the United States. The gender-neutral ⟨-x⟩ suffix replaces the ⟨-o/-a⟩ ending of Latino and Latina that are typical of grammatical gender in Spanish) Latinx - Wikipedia

I wanted to better fit in (To belong to a group)

Colonial past

If I am not mistaken (If I am remembering correctly)

It just so happened (an idiomatic expression implying that the event happened in due course without outside influence.

a fateful incident 

lo and behold (Look and see)

some enunciations (to enunciate: to say or pronounce clearly)

The number one person that I would attribute to my success too

reciprocate (to give and take mutually)

The most prevalent Spanish

To pull people up

Don't quote me on this because...

Not Being able to speak English would have been detrimental to me (harmful, damaging)

it soared (increase rapidly above the usual level)

Just keep on inching towards the beginning (to move very slowly or in a lot of short stages)

One thing that I was dabbling on before was SRS spaced repetition software, but I kind of dropped it.

Do you use Anki?.Yeah, I used to use it. It was my go-to, but then...

Hiragana and Katakana

Kanji

Anime (is hand-drawn and computer-generated animation originating from Japan. Outside of Japan and in English, anime refers to Japanese animation, and refers specifically to animation produced in Japan) Anime - Wikipedia

Sci-Fi (science fiction)

I fell out of the wagon

Revamping (to change or arrange something again, in order to improve it)

Guilds

I am all ears (is used when you want to show somebody that you’re listening and ready for them to tell you something.)

I sound like a fricking kid (f*ing)

I'm stilll trying to get a grasp

Anki 

Habitica

Tim Ferris:

https://open.spotify.com/show/00ySquPOB5twdRuFvEEc0m?si=efb2c1482bd5448d 

Lex Fridman:

https://open.spotify.com/artist/1Jla6HHJjjdWaWUXQdiGTr?si=OIO2I5_gSzygXL_DOLsp5A 

Stuff You Should Know

https://open.spotify.com/show/0ofXAdFIQQRsCYj9754UFx?si=_NqYMqdFTKuyvUq21QPoVQ&utm_source=copy-link

Rachel's English

https://youtu.be/SJOnhWiJArM 

Hadar: 

https://youtu.be/ljEP_ywBm7I 

Music:

Forces of Attraction and upbeat Party by Scott Holmes Music is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.

E-Mail: Myfluentpodcast@gmail.com 

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110 Social Media to learn English (or any language) with Daniel and Tchales

In this episode, Tchales from Brazil and Daniel from Switzerland are going to share 4 steps on how to make the best out of Social Media in order to level up one's target language skills.

We will break it down in these 4 topics

 Defining a goal

 What social media plattform to choose?

 What should I know before using social media?

Strategies to use social media

Transcript: https://share.descript.com/view/ma826A4R8LY 

Time Stamps / Topics

2:03 STEP 1: Defining a goal

2:57 Daniel: Short-term and long-term goals

5:12 Tchales first goal (when he started out with his English journey)

6:53 Daniel's first goal was to pass the exams

8:11 Don't avoid having conversations

8:49 STEP 2: What social media plattform to choose?

9:16 YouTube / Discord

11:23 Movie night / Movie Club

13:39 Instagram

14:14 The Power of Facebook Groups

14:59 The Chat Box (Facebook Group)

16:48 Some ideas to use Instagram

20:15 STEP 3: What should I know before using social media?

20:38 Set up a meaningful bio 

24:52 Use your target language in your social media

25:47 Let others correct your posts

28:07 STEP 4: Strategies to use social media

28:13 Making vocabulary based comments on YouTube with a time stamp.

32:32 Align your goal with the strategy

35:15 Create posts / Start recording videos

35:49 Medium to improve your writing skills

39:05 Calendly to orzanize your calls

40:58 Join Communities / Challenges

45:35 My Fluent Podcast community.

46:06 Outro

The interview with Tchales on My Fluent Podcast:

https://youtu.be/QnxIKDLFBdU 

Tchales YouTube Channel:

Yes Theory - YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/c/YesTheory 

Interview Playlist: The Klingon Language / Interview with Polyglot Andrew from Germany #103 - YouTube

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Music: Scott Holmes:

Free Music Archive - Scott Holmes Music - Upbeat party

Upbeat party. Creative Commons — Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International — CC BY-NC 4.0

Photo (Instagram) by Alexander Shatov on Unsplash

blue and red square logo photo – Free Icon Image on Unsplash

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109 Charlie's Spanish Journey - YouTuber Charlie from USA keeps track of his language journey in his YT channel

  It's never too late to better yourself!

Dyslexic Spanish learner Charlie from the USA (Texas) keeps track of his Spanish journey in form of a YouTube channel.

In this podcast interview, we talk about various methods on how charlie became fluent in Spanish (Italki online lessons, Omegle, VR Chat, Duolingo and more).

Charlie is a super learner and I appreciated the time with him. I could learn a lot and you might as well. If you are into Spanish learning or if you need some inspiration for your language journey, this interview will be something for you.

  YouTube Version:

https://youtu.be/cuAUU3aXLYo 

  🖊️

Transcript version: https://share.descript.com/view/KCPV9WcoFn2

  🕒🕒🕒Time stampts:

1:01 Intro

1:40 Start Interview

2:22 What inspired you to learn Spanish in 2019?

2:55 Growing up with dyslexic without knowing

4:02 Dyslexic in more detail

4:57 Finding out about being dyslexic 

6:17  Over 250 one-on-one online lessons

9:36 Inspiring other Spanish learners

10:40 YouTube channels that inspired Charlie

12:50 Shadowing / Copycatting

Simple Stories in Spanish.

15:24Doing the shadowing technique (example)

16:50 VR chat (Virtual reality chat)

21:58 Fortnite

27:35 Almost having a 800 day steak (Duolingo)

34:25 Omegle

49:06 It's never too late to better yourself - Charlie's favorite expression

56:34 Where to find Charlie's Spansh journey?

Charlie's Spanish Journey

https://www.youtube.com/c/CharliesSpanishJourney

Small Town Spanish Teacher 

Small Town Spanish Teacher - YouTube 

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCphBwJqFg4cbpRM_6uuBZxg/featured 

Simple Stories in Spanish: The Podcast:

Simple Stories in Spanish: The Podcast

What is dyslexia?

https://youtu.be/zafiGBrFkRM

https://www.duolingo.com/

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108 Language teacher and learner Kenny from Belgium - Somethingpolyglot.com

Kenny is a multilingual online teacher on ITALKI. He is also a passionate language learner himself. 

In this interview, we talk about leaving our comfort zone in order to level up our language skills. How can we make introvert learners at ease so that they can speak up and improve their speaking skills? We talk about finding the right online teacher and we touch on language learning on Twitter (#Langtwt) More details in the time stamps further below.

YouTube Version is not ready yet. 

Transcript: https://www.myfluentpodcast.com/108-something-polyglot-kenny-from-belgium/ 

everyone is always simultaneously a student and a teacher -Jay Shetty

Time stamps: 

1:20  Are you more passionate about teaching or learning a language?

05:36 The moment when you feel like you know your students better than your friends

7:17 What is the most important when you are looking for an online teacher?

Feeling at ease with the teacher. (the role as a teacher)

9:45 How to reach out and go about it before having the very first online lesson?

11:20 Kenny's language journey (Greek)

13:37 Making connections in your language journey

14:11 Example -> aphasia (a = not, phasia = utterance, speak)  

16:52 The Speaking part of a language is often times neglected (Catalan)

19:48 Language tips for introverts (How to speak more often?)

24:04 What does the hashtag #langtwt on twitter mean? 

30:12 Language learning can be a safe environment for introverts

31:30 Sbgliando si impara  (While making mistakes, you can learn) 

34:05 Being a perfectionist / Perfectionism doesn't help you

36:53 Teaching style

38:07 Connecting with other introverts in language learning

40:28 Italian lesson didn't work out 

44:38 Avid podcast listeners can use their passion to learn languages

49:50 Producing your own language podcast

53:12 What is your favorite expression?  (touched by the mushroom)

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54:35 END of Interview

54:36 Outro with Daniel Goodson

55:29 Trailer of next epsiode with Charlie who is learning Spanish in a very special way

  something polyglot 🇪🇺🇧🇪🏳️‍🌈 (@Kenny_DB1983) / Twitter

https://twitter.com/Kenny_DB1983 

something polyglot – Languages and language learning:

https://somethingpolyglot.com/ 

Italki - profile of Kenny:

https://www.italki.com/teacher/8639713/english 

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107 Catching up with Stephen Devincenzi from SEND7

Stephen Devincenzi, founder and host of SEND7 interviews Daniel Godson!

Transcript version to read along while listenig:

https://share.descript.com/view/rayvXsN27c9 

Time Stamps:

0:00:01 Why is Stephen interviewing Daniel?

0:00:45 The bad, bad Swiss citizen

0:04:44 Weird Swiss dialect

0:06:16 The official languages of Switzerland.

0:07:59 Do Italian speakers understand Romansh?

0:08:14 Do Romansh speakers speak another Swiss language?

0:09:33 The difference between Swiss German and Standard German

0:10:20 Is Swiss German a language or just a dialect?

0:11:40 Where does Daniel live nowadays?

11:52 Did Daniel's dialect become more understandable over time? (THE TRAITOR)

13:42 Can you have a conversation in French? (Communication first)

14:46 Languages that Swiss people learn in School

15:22 Are most people successful in learning a second Swiss language?

16:25 The language situatoin in Basel

18:16 How do Swiss people speak to each other?

19:48 Swiss neutrality and the Pope guarded by Swiss guards

24:58 Direct democracy in Switzerland / Referendum

31:35 Is it true that on Sundays by law, you can't make a lot of 

33:12 What is the typical Swiss dish?

38:28 Argentina 

40:40 Do you like mate tea? Did the COVID situation have an effect on the mate culture?

44:47 Daniel and Maradona

46:29 Do you travel much into the other countries? Have you traveled much around Europe?

48:15 Tuscany and Barcelona

50:26 My Fluent Podcast

52:42 The future of SEND7 

57:38 The Vocab Man Podcast

1:01:26 Stephen's passion about the news

1:02:24 Outro - Simple English News Daily podcasts overpassed 1 million downloads! 

1:02:38 Interview with Stephen (Luke Thompson from Luke's English Podcast)

Simple English News Daily | SEND7 podcast:

https://www.send7.org/ 

Is The News good for learning English? (From LEP#766):

Stephen was features on Luke's English Podcast in April 2022. Take a listen here:

https://youtu.be/tn-W1x7nRSE  

92 - How to learn English with a News Podcast - Simple English News Daily: This is the interview I conducted back in 2021 with Stephen.  https://youtu.be/Au8tUE8jxw0  

Some remarkable  Swiss referendums that came to mind after recording:

Exemplary Swiss work ethics:

In March 2012 Swiss people voted against extra holidays. The idea was to go from 4 to 6 weeks paid holiday a year. (Swiss people really must love working!)

Monthly income of 2,500 Swiss francs for every adult? No thanks!

Swiss people have rejected a proposal in June 2016 to introduce a guaranteed basic income for all. Suggested was a monthly income of SFr2,500 ($2,555) for adults and SFr625 for each child.

77% opposed the plan

only 23% backed it.

Source: 

https://qr.ae/pvsuMU 

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106 - The Language Secret - John Stedman - How to Learn a Foreign Language: Or. How to Speak 10 Languages. Badly

John Stedman speaks 10 languages.  Listen to this interview based episode of My Fluent Podcast. John, the author of the book (which is titled "The Language Secret") spent many years as a linguist in Africa and frequently met people who spoke up to ten languages. Some of them could not even read. All of them had stumbled upon The Language Secret. The Language Secret is the name of the book, that came out in 2021.

I had a blast reading the book. I had a blast interviewing John as well. 

John was so kind and gave more background information about his journey to the Ivory Coast and to Congo in a very interesting interview. On top of that, he shared some useful learning tips with us.

Now living in Germany, John specialises in teaching accelerated language-learning techniques. We wish him all the best and are eagerly awaiting the next two books. 

Video version of this episode:

https://youtu.be/5Uc7XB5IF9g 

(The video comes with English subtitles, and there is a vocabulary list on a google document: https://docs.google.com/document/d/12GQ3YDyjvG7IC0MWDyXLwN4mTp62MnB3bq9bLI88SbQ/edit?usp=sharing )

The Language Secret - Our Book: The Language Secret

https://www.thelanguagesecret.com/our-book-the-language-secret 

Tunnel 

Lötschberg Basistunnel Nordportal - Lötschberg-Basistunnel – Wikipedia

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%B6tschberg-Basistunnel#/media/Datei:L%C3%B6tschberg_Basistunnel_Nordportal.jpg 

CC BY-SA 3.0

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105 - How to learn languages with podcasts

You're gonna learn

why using podcasts is a great way to learn languages and

how you should use them to get the most out of it.

With the help of podcasts you can easily level up your target language - in an interesting way. 

We got Alastair Budge (creator of the English LEARNING For Curious Minds PODCAST) onto My Fluent Podcast to talk about using podcasts as a means of learning a language.

The whole philosophy behind Leonardo English is to help people improve their English in a more interesting way. In over 250 episodes, Alistair shares stories about people's lives and how things work. He kind of explains how things work.

Video version of the podcast:

https://youtu.be/VdheWK7u11w 

Time stamps / topics

1:47 Alastair learning Italian

6:05 Why learning languages with podcasts?

13:27 What podcast apps we should use to learn languages

18:02 Language skills that can be improved by listening to podcasts

19:57 The shadowing technique

23:36 Alexander Arguelles and shadowing

24:46 The IPA system (International Phonetic System)

29:32 What inspired Alastair to creat Leonardo English - English Learning for Curious Minds Podcasts

36:40 How Alastair comes up with new episodes

38:13 How an episode gets created

40:33 Why Alastair interviewed 250 members.

43:41 Is the podcast too hard for beginners?

46:29 Start out with your own podcast! 

48:16 The word "set" in English has 430 different meanings

49:40 Least favorite words

52:39 Outro / some last words of Alastair

Vocabulary list:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Oii-iRiLhchDJ4ZrfVWv7N9eQmAojGoCOUWHe9PX-5Y/edit?usp=sharing

Alexander Arguelles YouTube channel. 

Creative Commons — Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported — CC BY-SA 3.0 

Leonardo English - English Learning for Curious Minds Podcasts:

https://www.leonardoenglish.com/podcasts 

Episode 236 - How To Use Podcasts To Improve Your English [My Favourite Strategies] | English Learning for Curious Minds (leonardoenglish.com)

Do you want to share your language learning story? 

Drop me an e-mail at:

myfluentpodcast@gmail.com 

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104 - Every voice is valid! Accentricity Podcast - Sadie Ryan from Scotland

Sadie Ryan, linguist and host of the Accentricity podcasts shares her insights into different linguistic topics. 

Sadie has been learning Gaelic and Polish. She is currently a university lecturer in linguistics. 

Sadie has a podcast called Accentricity I highly recommend you to listen to it:

www.accentricity-podcast.com 

Twitter: @accentricitypod 

Time stamps / different topics:

0:05 Introduction: Who is Sadie Ryan?

1:08 How people react when they hear of Sadie's profession as a linguist/sociolinguist

2:52 The term "Linguist" has more than one meaning

7:20 How Sadie got involved into linguistics

10:26 Speaking with a posh accent  (ep. 1 of Accentricity)

14:33 Remember: Everyone has an accent!

18:19 Schools should teach more the listening skill

29:27 The best thing Sadie learned about language (Ep. mentioned)

34:40 Sadie's PhD research

40:01 Podcast recommendations (Linguistics)

42:58 Language documentation (a specific branch in linguistics)

47:23 The Podcast Accentricity - Every voice is valid

50:38 Speaking of a specific episode of The Podcast Accentricity (Sadie interviewed her mother)

5246 Sadie's language journey (Polish/Gaelic)

53:42 Is it easier to learn a language as a linguist?

58:20 Accentricity got an award!

0:59:37 Future seasons of the Accentricity podcast

1:02:01 Sadie's favorite expression: not my circus, not my monkeys.

Recommendations and mentions: 

Superlinguo (a compilation of links to a lot of linguistics podcasts and other sources - a must for linguist lovers)

https://www.superlinguo.com/post/158448074588/linguistics-and-language-podcasts 

The linguistic atlas of Scots: https://scotssyntaxatlas.ac.uk/ 

Podcasts:

Lingthusiasm

The Vocal Fries Podcast 

Field notes

Others:

The Accentism Project

Vocabulary (not finished yet)

I work at the university of Glasgow as a lecturer in languages and intercultural studies: a person who gives lectures, especially as a profession

(Syn.: university teacher)

Sociolinguistics: Sociolinguistics is the descriptive study of the effect of any and all aspects of society, including cultural norms, expectations, and context, on the way language is used, and society's effect on language. It differs from sociology of language, which focuses on the effect of language on society.

Gaelic: Gaelic is an adjective that means "pertaining to the Gaels". As a noun it refers to the group of languages spoken by the Gaels, or to any one of the languages individually. Gaelic languages are spoken in Ireland, Scotland, the Isle of Man, and Canada.

multilingualism: Multilingualism is the use of more than one language, either by an individual speaker or by a group of speakers. It is believed that multilingual speakers outnumber monolingual speakers in the world's population.

If you're to ask what a linguist does, day-to-day it varies an incredible amount. 

Linguist: someone who studies the structure and development of language, or someone who knows several languages.

Black and white: in a way that involves a simple choice between two opposite things (such as good and bad or right and wrong) She sees everything in black and white. 

(I missused the expression by saying white and black instead of black and white)

A compulsory class: a compulsory course is a course within a major, minor or specialisation, which must be satisfactorily completed to fulfil the requirements of that major, minor or specialisation

And our teacher was like a little bit sheepish because I think she knew that we wouldn't really necessarily all want to be learning posh French.: embarrassed or bashful   / in a refined or upper-class way. --> elegant or stylishly luxurious.

To have a stake in: 

The first ones that spring to mind: 

prestigious:

Scots language:  read the Wikipedia article

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102 - PART 2 Lingo Junkie - Eugeniu from Moldova

This is PART 2 of the interview with Eugeniu AKA Lingo Junkie from Moldova. 

Vocabulary list further below!

  Time Stamps:

04:28 Working as a business analyst in the US

05:48 Becoming an English teacher

08:05 What is the CELTA certificate?

11:09 Taking the CELTA online

29:03 Some last important words about the CELTA

32:17 YouTube channel Lingo Junkie

38:57 Happy Friday (song)

42:06 Other projects

45:44 Favourite English expressions (you're off the hook)

52:09 To take sth. with a pinch of salt / 

47:58 Expression And All that Jazz

54:30 Outro / Happy Friday song by Lingo Junkie

Links

Lingo Junkie

https://youtu.be/2AUXf8Alb6M (Oatmeal)

Lingo Junkie Diaries (my vlog) - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQlaKuPsI6rteFggX4Y1SGiQa7Ll8_tOb 

thelingojunkie 

 lingojunkie 

https://lingojunkie.com/ 

https://soundcloud.com/eugeniuprodan/popular-tracks 

Happy Friday Song:

https://youtu.be/ifeLMFLbyVI 

Vocabulary:

Exchange program: an arrangement in which people from different countries visit each other's country, perhaps to strengthen links between them or to improve foreign language skills.

An acceleration: increase in speed or rate. So that your language skills will improve faster.

TEFL: Teaching English as a Foreign Language

SAT: Scholastic Aptitude Test, later: Scholastic Assessment Test

The ACT: originally an abbreviation of American College Testing, is a standardized test used for college admissions in the United States.

TOEFL: Test Of English as a Foreign Language

Jargon: special words or expressions used by a profession or group that are difficult for others to understand.

"legal jargon"

At a certain point: some day, at some point.

Altruistic (/altruːˈɪstɪk/): showing a disinterested and selfless concern for the well-being of others; unselfish.

CELTA: Certificate in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages

A fee: a payment made to a professional person or to a professional or public body in exchange for advice or services.

To refund: to pay back (money)

In air quotes: also called finger quotes (see also "scare quotes"), are virtual quotation marks formed in the air with one's fingers when speaking. (more information on Wikipedia)

In that sense: In this sentence "in that sense" means "because of what I just said, it's true that..."

Down the road: in the future (informal, used especially in North America)

Hands-on: practical

To touch on something: deal briefly with a subject in written or spoken discussion.

Technologically savvy people: f you describe someone as having savvy, you think that they have a good understanding and practical knowledge of something. [informal] (see. Collinsdictionary)

Supervised: watched over by someone.

Deliverables:  a product of a development process. The product that you produces you need to deliver to the school.

Graded: give a mark to (a student or a piece of work).

Just kind of a side note here: a marginal note in a text. (Eugeniu wanted to ass something that might not be as important that the other things he mentioned before)

An assessor: a person who evaluates the quality of a person or thing.

An accreditation body: An accreditation body is an organisation delegated to make decisions, on behalf of the higher education sector, about the status, legitimacy or appropriateness of an institution, or programme

This is a legitimate certificate: conforming to the law or to rules.

Dunno: = I don't know (slang)

Associated with: (of a person or thing) connected with something else.

Messed up:  to make a mistake / to do something incorrectly 

An ESL teacher: English as a Second Language teacher. Teachers specialize in helping non-native speakers of all ages and levels learn the formal grammar, vocabulary, and pronunciation of spoken and written English.

On point: relevant and appropriate to what is happening or being discussed. 

Busy work: work that keeps a person busy but has little value in itself. (negative connotation)

Submit a lot of, forms: To send in a lot of documents.

Community feeling: better: Sense of community: a feeling that members have of belonging, a feeling that members matter to one another and to the group, and a shared faith that members' needs will be met through their commitment to be together."

Liaising: act as a link to assist communication between (people or groups).

The better way to put it: What a nice way to put it!: That's a very pleasant way of saying it!

A transition: the process or a period of changing from one state or condition to another.

A backstory: a history or background created for a fictional character in a film or television programme. (Here: the history of the story)

Affordable: inexpensive; reasonably priced.

A hobbyist: a person who pursues a particular hobby.

You're off the hook: no longer in difficulty or trouble.

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