ABOUT THIS PODCAST 🔗
I speak 20 languages. I've been learning languages for over 50 years and I've tried all kinds of approaches. I talk about my experiences, my approach to language learning, what I enjoy about learning languages and all manner of other topics related to language.
If you love languages, or think you would if you hadn't been discouraged by past experiences, this is the podcast for you. Anyone can learn a language. You just need the right attitude and the right approach!
If you love languages, or think you would if you hadn't been discouraged by past experiences, this is the podcast for you. Anyone can learn a language. You just need the right attitude and the right approach!
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Update frequency:
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Average audio length:
11 minutes
English
United States
435 episodes
since Feb. 23, 2018
episodic
AUDIENCE OF THIS PODCAST 🔗
~42.93% of listeners are from Czechia.
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CZ
42.93%
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US
17.04%
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RU
11.49%
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AF
2.50%
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NL
2.37%
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BR
1.98%
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CA
1.98%
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UA
1.45%
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BG
1.32%
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JP
1.18%
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PK
1.05%
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SG
1.05%
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FR
1.05%
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GB
0.92%
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ES
0.92%
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PL
0.92%
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CO
0.79%
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AE
0.79%
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DE
0.79%
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MG
0.66%
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IT
0.66%
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RO
0.52%
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VE
0.52%
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CL
0.52%
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UY
0.39%
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HR
0.39%
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PY
0.39%
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PH
0.26%
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VN
0.26%
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IN
0.26%
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DK
0.13%
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OM
0.13%
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AU
0.13%
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KW
0.13%
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BY
0.13%
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AO
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IE
0.13%
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BD
0.13%
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PE
0.13%
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GR
0.13%
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HK
0.13%
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TW
0.13%
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CH
0.13%
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ZA
0.13%
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ID
0.13%
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PT
0.13%
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IQ
0.13%
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DZ
0.13%
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UZ
0.13%
Others
0.18%
* Data source: directly measured on Listen Notes. real-time
LATEST EPISODE 🔗
What makes language learning content easy? It's not about knowing 97% of the words. That's the goal, not where you start. What helps me most is repetition, short sentences, clear audio, and above all, content I'm genuinely interested in. What kind of content made a new language finally click for yo…
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PREVIOUS EPISODES 🔗
Many learners are told to focus on the 1,000 most common words and stop there. I've never done that. In Arabic I now have over 35,000 known words at LingQ, and while I can't use most of them yet, they let me follow podcasts on history and politics and discuss difficult subjects with my tutor. A big…
Some of my best language learning material came from a random book I pulled off my library shelf. A history of Portugal, a book about Prague, a Swedish novel. A little Portuguese here, a little Czech there, a little Swedish, and it all adds up, like snow that slowly covers the ground. You don’t alw…
Someone told me they can speak their second language but cannot understand what people say back to them. I know this one well, because my wife can hold a social conversation in French and Spanish while missing most of what she hears. The fix is not more speaking practice, it is a much wider base of…
I meet a lot of people who tell me, almost with pride, that they understand a language well but can't speak it. Usually two things are going on. Their comprehension isn't as broad as they believe, because they only follow the familiar topics they hear again and again. And they have made "I can't sp…
When I start reading in a new language, I accept that I am not going to understand most of it. My brother compared it to mowing a lawn: if the grass is high, you set the blades high on the first pass and lower them the next time through. I go over the same content again and again, and each time I p…
Spanish is spoken across three continents, and learners worry constantly about picking the wrong version. But compared to English or Portuguese, the variation is surprisingly small. The vowels stay consistent whether you are in Mexico, Colombia or Spain, and most of what really changes is slang, rh…
I have somewhere between 60 and 70 shelves of books in this house, well over a thousand of them, in several languages, and I have finally started cataloguing the lot. Going through them reminded me why paper still matters to me. The research is fairly clear that we retain more from paper than from …
I was with some Canadians recently who all agreed that French would help them professionally. Within a few minutes I had heard three reasons why they hadn't learned it: I can read but I can't speak, the Montreal accent is too hard, and they changed our class this year. Every one of those puts the p…
Reading is a huge part of how I learn languages, but it is not equally easy in every language. In Spanish or Turkish I can sound out almost any word the first time I see it. In Arabic and Persian I often cannot, so I read those online where I can hear the word pronounced. The writing system changes…
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