Guests

Aakanksha is an India based audio-video artist, radio jockey (12 plus years with commercial radio channels and now with...

Afua's love affair of languages began when she moved to Holland and noticed that she could pick languages up really fast...

Alba is a proud Spaniard and Andalusian. She is a true lover of lifelong learning, teaching, languages, and personal gro...

Alexa Little is the executive director of 7000 Languages, a non-profit that creates free language-learning software in p...

Angela is a business development specialist based in Pennsylvania. She speaks Spanish, French, and Brazilian Portuguese...

Angelika Davey, owner of the blog angelikasgerman.co.uk. Angelika has been teaching German independently for many years....

Anne is from the USA but lived in Frankfurt 1981-85, where she fell madly in love with the German language. She studied...

Archana Parmar is an author, a public speaker, and a coach for executive communication combining three fundamental areas...

Aubrey is the co-host of the IELTS Energy and All Ears English podcasts and is an IELTS trainer and personal coach. She...

Becky Mladic-Morales is the founder of KidWorldCitizen.org, a web site where she shares educational activities to teach...

Benny Lewis is a language hacker, engineer, and YouTube star.

My name is Brian Heavey and I am from Dublin in Ireland. I love travelling, meeting new people, events, entertainment, c...

Cara helps advanced English learners who love TV and cinema fall back in love with their favourite films and series by g...

Chenelle Patrice Hancock is the host and creator of Chenelle‘s language learning journey podcast on anchor.fm. She has i...

A life, language and creativity coach, they look to ways to decolonize, co-create, deconstruct, and challenge the ways w...

Chuck might not speak dozens of languages, but his contributions in the Esperanto community are unrivalled. He founded t...

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Dan McIntyre is Professor of English Language and Linguistics at the University of Huddersfield, UK, where he teaches st...

Daniela is a writer and a teacher living in Denver, Colorado with her husband, daughter, and dog. She understands Spanis...

David Peterson is a language creator and author. He created the languages for Game of Thrones, The 100, Doctor Strange,...

Deborah is a language enthusiast based near St. Louis, MO, USA. She's currently self studying German, French, Spanish, a...

Raised bilingual in Paris, Devy - pronounced ‘Tey-vee’ - has spent exactly half her life in France and half jumping betw...

As a teacher and learner of languages, Eliza has spent many years working with different communities and learning from t...

Elle Charisse is the host, creator & producer of the Speaking Tongues Podcast, “the podcast in conversation with mul...

Ellen is a grammar freak, a former freelance writer, and a founder and principal of Syntaxis, a communication skills tra...

Erin grew up in a small monolingual town in rural Maryland, USA. Wanting to explore the world, she began studying Spanis...

Esther was born in Washington State to immigrant parents from Navarra, Spain, where she grew up learning Spanish at home...

Gabriel Gelman is the founder of Sprachheld and speaks 6 languages which is about how to learn languages more effectivel...

Most definitely NOT a language learning robot, Gabriel Wyner is a bestselling author and language learning expert, who t...

Gaby is a German/Peruvian now living in Hong Kong. She is the Founder of TimTimTom Books. a tech start-up offering dual...

Gavin lives in Barry, a small town in South Wales. He has always been a language learner, but has a particular soft spot...

Géraldine Lepère is the founder of Comme une Française, where she delivers French language and culture lessons to expats...

Holly Jensen has been teaching English online since 2014. She owns HollyTreeEnglish.com, which is molding itself into a...

Janusz founded the Easy German YouTube channel, which has since expanded into a global partner network called Easy Langu...

Japanese to English translator and localization assistant for a video game company in Japan, works with a variety of lan...

Jessica Kumar is an economic development advocate living in Bihar, India. She started learning Hindi 16 years ago and en...

Jonathan is the founder of the 30-Day Speaking Challenge (where language learners from around the world can share short...

Josh is the Co-Founder of the AI Language Club, the innovative language learning club that helps you unlock AI to turboc...

Founder of LearnYu.com and of the Polyglot Gathering (largest international conference for language geeks). Author of se...

Karin is a drama teacher, voice actor and podcaster from Sweden. She produces and co-hosts pop culture podcast Det nya s...

Karin is a freelance conference interpreter and senior lecturer at Vienna University. Apart from her mother tongue Germa...

Karina is an online English tutor, course designer and creative writing enthusiast. She speaks French, Spanish and Manda...

Kate is a language enthusiast from the US who has dabbled in German, French, Spanish, and Polish at different times in h...

Kathryn is a Norwegian learner from Northern Ireland. She describes her language learning journey like this: Almost five...

Katie’s love affair with languages started after she moved to Italy and realised she could learn faster by going to the...

Katie Harrison is currently working as a Research Associate on the Multilingual Manchester project in the School of Arts...

Khady is an educator who wants to inspire others to grow their dreams. Mover and shaker who loves to build projects from...

Friend of the show and fellow podcaster Kris interviews language learners, polyglots, and industry experts in The Actual...

Kylie Sturgess teaches broadcasting at Murdoch University in Perth, Western Australia, while completing a PhD in podcast...

Lina Vasquez is a Latvian-Australian personal development coach, polyglot, YouTuber, speaker and entrepreneur. Having be...

Lindie Botes is a UI/UX designer living in Johannesburg, South Africa. She grew up as a third culture kid in Islamabad,...

Madeline Vadkerty has used her language skills in many ways over the course of her career. She interpreted into and out...

Manuel produces the Easy German Podcast and works as a trainer and producer for the Easy Languages project. Besides maki...

Marc Okrand devised the dialogue and coached the actors speaking the Klingon language heard in Star Trek III: The Search...

María, global traveller and self-employed business woman, is a trained, certified, and experienced teacher and DELE exam...

Maria lives on the Camino and also happens to be a Spanish teacher. Everybody talks about the physical and mental challe...

Marianna Du Bosq is a bilingual mother, former educator and lifetime language learner. She is the host of the Bilingual...

Marianne a school teacher who has always loved teaching and languages, and thought to herself "we can do something...

Martina Gerdts is a MA student of Romance linguistics, speaks German, English, Portuguese, Spanish, and several other la...

Mathilde Hutin is a French linguist, specialized in phonetics and phonology. During her PhD in Paris 8 University, she w...

Michael Lavers is an online English language tutor from Cornwall in the UK. He loves anything involving languages and he...

Michele is an Australian language and travel blogger and ‘guide’ behind The Intrepid Guide. Michele shares her passion f...

Mignon Fogarty is the founder of the Quick and Dirty Tips network and creator of Grammar Girl, which has been named one...

Monica Riordan holds a PhD in experimental psychology from the University of Memphis and is currently an associate profe...

Nicky is a Technical Architect in his real life with a penchant for languages and language learning the rest of the time...

Nicole is an illustrator and graphic designer from The (warm, sunny) Bahamas now living in the (cold, wet, windy) United...

My friend and podcast buddy Olly Richards speaks eight languages and is the man behind the popular language learning blo...

Paul Kaye is a language officer at the European Commission Representation in the UK, responsible for helping to promote...

Penny is from Melbourne, Australia and is obsessed by language learning and language travel, particularly in Asia. Penny...

Petros Karatsareas is a Lecturer in English Language and Linguistics at the University of Westminster. He holds a Ptychi...

Bec is a passionate language enthusiast based in Melbourne, Australia. She co-hosts the Language Chats podcast with Penn...

Two supersmart Portuguese adventurers living in Mannheim, Germany.

Richard Simcott, a polyglot from Chester, Great Britain, is a lifelong language learner who has studied more than 50 lan...

Roger Kreuz is an associate dean and professor of psychology at the University of Memphis, where he conducts research on...

Sam is an avid adventurer, ferocious foodie and language lover and shares his travels and language learning journey on h...

Samantha worked for 6 years in a shinto shrine, the Meiji Jingu. She's now starting a new career, still in events organi...

An avid learner and lover of languages, Sara was inspired and motivated by last year's Women In Language Conference and...

Sara Maria Hasbun is an American linguist and polyglot, blogging about language learning at misslinguistic.com. She is a...

Sarah is a married mum of three, with a serious addiction to language learning. She started learning languages in school...

Sarah Phillips is a PhD student in the Department of Linguistics at New York University. As someone who identifies as Bl...

Scott Young is a writer who undertakes interesting self-education projects, such as attempting to learn MIT’s four-year...

Shahidah Foster is a former expatriate and the creator of Black Girls Learn Languages, a multiplatform digital community...

Shanthi Cumaraswamy Streat is a Business English Coach who helps senior business professionals communicate more effectiv...

Simon Ager lives in Bangor in Wales and runs the ultimate language encyclopedia online: Omniglot. He is originally from...

Steve Kaufmann is a former Canadian Diplomat and forest industry executive. He is co-founder (with his son Mark) of Ling...

The Talk The Talk podcast team popped in to share fascinating knowledge and stories of language and linguistics on the s...

Tamara Marie is a Language Coach and Latin dance addict from the United States. She combines her passion for languages,...

Tammy Bjelland, founder and director of Language in Bloom, is an experienced language trainer, curriculum designer, and...

Vero is the host of Modern Immigrant. She's originally from Caracas, Venezuela. Growing up, Vero was fascinated with her...