What 2020 Taught Us About Languages (with Shannon Kennedy)

About this Episode

A new year fireside chat with Shannon Kennedy! We have been recording these for a few years now and with 2020, what a year to review. This is Shannon's personal review of the year, and you can use the following questions to conduct your own review and set goals for the next year.

• 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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Episode Links

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