The Actual Fluency Podcast for Language Learners
The Actual Fluency Podcast features inspirational stories from world-class language learners, industry experts, and regular people who embraced multilingualism in one way or another.
In the episodes we dive deep down in the why that pushed people to learn a new language, the how to figure out how they best achieved it, and of course a lot of great stories of the experiences that speaking multiple languages can bring to people's lives.
Licensing
"Fretless" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
In the episodes we dive deep down in the why that pushed people to learn a new language, the how to figure out how they best achieved it, and of course a lot of great stories of the experiences that speaking multiple languages can bring to people's lives.
Licensing
"Fretless" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Episodes
Mentioned books
May 23, 2016 • 1h 22min
AFP 96 – Marcus Furness: Identity and Culture
This week I'm happy to welcome long-time listener Christian from Tazmania on to the show to talk about identity, culture and building relationships through languages.
May 15, 2016 • 1h 38min
AFP 95 – Eleanor Wroblewski: US Language Learning
On today's program I'm joined by Eleanor Wroblewski, a passionate language learner, student and aspiring comedian to talk about all things language learning, and the state of language learning in the US.
May 8, 2016 • 1h 11min
AFP 94 – Noah Oskow: English teacher in Japan
On this Learner Profiles episode I'm joined by Noah Oskow, who works as an English teacher in rural Japan. During the episode we talk about his experience learning Hebrew and Japanese and how that experience shaped him as a language learner.
May 1, 2016 • 1h 7min
AFP 93 – Shannon Kennedy: Introvert language learning
On this episode I talk to Shannon Kennedy about her experience as a language learner as well as a musician with an introverted personality.
Mar 27, 2016 • 1h 8min
AFP 92 – Irina Pravet: Identity, finding home and learning Finnish
Happy Easter! In this episode I talk to Irina Pravet about identity, culture, the weather and also her experience learning Finnish in Finland.
Mar 11, 2016 • 43min
AFP 91 – Fight depression by learning languages
In this episode I list reasons why language learning is a great tool against depression. I also share some tips from my personal experience.
Mar 3, 2016 • 1h 15min
AFP 90 – André Liss: A journey through music
In this unique episode Canadian hyperpolyglot André Liss takes us on a musical journey through his multilingual life so far.
Feb 25, 2016 • 1h 19min
AFP 89 – Amir Ordabayev: Why being lazy is great
It's time for more learner profiles! In this episode we get into Amir Ordabayev's backstory and find out how he learns languages and the most important criteria for success.
Feb 19, 2016 • 52min
AFP 88 – Wouter Corduwener: Learning from Tourists
The Learner Profiles series is back and in this episode I speak with Wouter Corduwener from the Netherlands.
Feb 11, 2016 • 57min
AFP 87 – Tetsu Yung: Raising Multilingual Children
Today I'm joined by Tetsu Yung on his birthday!! To talk about raising multilingual children and the new polyglot event: North American Polyglot Symposium.
