Podcast Episode 17: Discover a Travel-Loving Lifestyle with Gabby Wallace
In this episode, I giggle my way through a football reporter’s discovery that German is a useful language - live! You will also hear my interview with Gabby Wallace, a friendly and experienced teacher who has made the whole world her office.
In this episode, you’ll learn:
Where in the USA they still had a queen in the 1950s
Why Discipline and Sharing are the two most important techniques in language learning
How to combine the best of Japanese learning traditions with the best of the American classroom
How real language learners improve through videos
And best of all: How to become location independent, and how to have an immersion trip
How I flounder when I’m actually asked to explain Memrise
“The bottom line: It always comes down to motivation.”
— Gabby
Article of the week
Tips of the Week
As our video girl, Gabby didn’t hesitate to choose tip 3 for this episode, so go ahead and try it out.
1) Try some gist reading: Skim through an article quickly and try to get the gist
2) Bulk add your excel or word lists to Memrise
3) Get smarter about video with Yabla
Tips and Links from this Podcast
Support the Creative Language Learning Podcast on Patreon and I’ll send you a nice card.
Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt on Netflix - they have subtitles and audio in German, French, Spanish and Portuguese
Jeremy Ginsburg teaching Vietnamese on Youtube
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Podcast Episode 16: Discover languages, dialects and scripts with Lindsay Dow
In Episode 16, I'm introducing our new co-host: Lindsay Dow from Lindsay Does Languages. I’m bringing Lindsay in for more Creative Language Learning Podcast because she's just been so much fun for you to listen to. The episode is supported by Flashsticks (use code KERSTIN10 on www.flashsticks.com for a 10% discount).
In Episode 16, you’ll hear:
A discussion of the world’s many different scripts and writing systems, with Lindsay’s recent forays into Amharic and how I worked in Korea for 2 days
What makes a dialect different from a language, and where is the line?
What travelling to Europe and getting your Health Insurance card can do for your world perspectives
A live recording of my first ever #iglc Instagram Language Challenge video
Tips of the Week
In this episode the tables were turned and Lindsay allowed me to choose the tip of the week from three awesome creative tips she had researched. I loved it! My favourite tip ended up being tip 3, using a language in order to learn a language.
1) Open your ears and get into the exercises at listeningpractice.org
2) Learn a language with Pinterest. Both Lindsay and I love this social network and we have about how you can enhance your lessons and learning adventures with it. Here they are:
- Kerstin’s 4 Steps to Learning a Language with Pinterest on Fluent
- Using Pinterest for Language Learning on Lindsay Does Languages
3) Learn a new language via a language that you already know
Links for Episode 16 of the Creative Language Learning Podcast
This episode is brought to you by FlashSticks, the printed language learning post-its. Use code KERSTIN10 for 10% off.
Memrise Courses for learning foreign writing systems such as Amharic, Russian Cyrillic orHebrew
The Instagram Language Challenge Hashtag is #iglc. view it here
Online Teaching Tricks, my new Udemy course - this deal gets you the course for £7
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Podcast Episode 15: From marrying a soldier to writing a German language blog, with Angelika Davey
My guest this month is Angelika Davey, owner of the blog angelikasgerman.co.uk. Angelika has been teaching German independently for many years.
Listen to our interview to find out more about
Keeping your mind agile, and whether it really matters to anyone under 50
The ultimate showdown: Age vs. Attitude! Which one makes you a better learner?
Why learning German is your best choice for business
What it’s like to date someone from a different country
A new and innovative approach that makes even the best private teacher affordable and accessible to yo
Article of the Week
Multilingual Families: Even our Dog uses 3 Languages
Tips of the Week
Angelika chose Tip 1 as her Tip of the Week.
Tip 1: Read cereal packets, clothing labels and anything you can get (see Language Surfer blog)
Tip 2: Discover foreign culture at home
Tip 3: Use Eurovision to learn your Target Language (see Koko the Polyglot)
Tips and Links from this Podcast
Don't forget to take advantage of the special $10 German Course offer!
“If I’m selling to you, then I speak your language. If you’re buying from me, dann müssen Sie Deutsch sprechen.”
- Angelika’s Awesome German blog
- Angelika Davey on Twitter
- Jared Romey chats about Spanish at Language Book Club
- Online course Beginners’ German for Busy People for only $10!
- Teach Yourself German books on Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk
Links to Amazon and Udemy are affiliate links so they cost you nothing more but they support Fluent Language and this podcast. Thanks for your clicks. If you are feeling able to give $1 to keep the podcast and the blog going strong, please head over to Patreon and become a supporter!
How to enjoy Language Learning more by being lousy at it
If you are a long-term follower of the Fluent blog, you might already be familiar with my love of Pinterest. I spend the odd free minute over on that website, admiring pictures, getting inspiration and using it to learn about education and teaching..
The Growth Mindset
Today I came across a really great graphic illustrating the growth mindset (previously discussed in episode 9 of the podcast), which is such a helpful way for language learners and strivers of any kind to treat perfectionism and become ongoing learners. Adopting a growth mindset has been proven to contribute to both learning success and happiness in scientific studies. In fact, it is absolutely invaluable for adult learners because it does away with this nonsensical myth of talent.
Here's the amazing core message:
Learn to enjoy being lousy.
That is all. Mind blown? Let's move on to this graphic showing how you can do it.
Thank you, Ryan Thomas
Online Perfection
When you admire people's well-prepared Youtube videos and considered posts that outline their study routines, it is all too easy to feel inferior. A fixed mindset keeps you trapped in those situations, it forces you to feel that the situation is unfair and you are lagging way behind. But the growth mindset would look at another person's success, then look at what you are accomplishing and say "I don't need approval, I want to gain more knowledge!". In fact, I cannot say this any better than Edudemic already has, so please head over and read the following article on the Growth Mindset. Inspiring, fantastic stuff.
Use Growth for Everything
If you are struggling with adopting this mindset for your language learning, think of other learning situations you have been in during your life. Driving, cooking, sewing, musical instruments. We all started out pretty terrible at those, and the more you do it, the better you get. Yes, that's all of us. German and Arabic and Tagalog are no different.
If you want to read more about using Pinterest in your language learning routine, you can read my step-by-step guide on this blog.
New Podcast: Becky Morales on Perfect Pronunciation and Having 4 Bilingual Kids
Hey, welcome to lucky episode 13 of the Creative Language Learning Podcast. In this episode, I'll be sharing a delicious foodie article and talking about Kid World Citizens with Becky Morales.
You Will Learn More About:
- How Becky went from Maths major to Spanish lover in college
- What it takes and what it means to become bilingual
- How to put together a golden approach to teaching language
- Why pronunciation can be something you master at any age if you only have time, dedication and fun
- How to create an environment where you can learn a language to any level from your own home
Article of the Week
Top Five Russian Pasta DIshes on Transparent Language
Bonus! Recipes of the Week
Tips of the Week
Out of the following three tips, Becky chose number 1 as her favourite tip - personalize your language learning experience by building your own vocab decks.
1) DIY your Memrise Courses
2) Start with Pronunciation (here's Gabriel Wyner's take)
3) Incorporate all the senses into your vocab learning habits (Science Daily)
Tips and Links from this Podcast
The Top 10 Podcasts to Help you Learn a Language
Heartwarming video of Brazilian students practicing with elderly Americans
Kid World Citizen : Becky's Website
The Global Education Toolkit for Elementary Learners, Becky's book onAmazon.co.uk and on Amazon.com (Buy through this link to support my podcast!)
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