The Fluent Show - Episodes Tagged with “Events”

Inside the Women in Language Conference: 12 Guests Tell ALL

Kerstin Cable — Mon, 04 Mar 2019 07:00:00 +0000

Do you love languages, and want to live and learn, create a successful career or travel the world as a multilingual person?

This year, let the Women in Language conference show you how! This is one of my FAVOURITE language projects and you'll have SO MUCH FUN with us.

Women in Language is a 4-day online event filled with talks presentations from 30+ female language experts who have done amazing things and documented their journey.

The conference is open to everyone, regardless of gender identity.

Get your ticket at www.womeninlanguage.com

In This Episode:

"It is by seeing other people like us that we get inspired and that we believe we can do things and there is a space for us"

In the podcast you'll hear speakers and guests at the conference talk about the upcoming event, what they're looking forward to, and why it matters that there women in the spotlight.

Here's the full schedule they are looking at:

Got your ticket yet? If not, here is where you can get one

Here are the voices you're hearing on this show:

Me! Haha, of course

The following 2019 speakers:

Shahidah Foster, creator of Black Girls Learn Languages who's back from last year to teach you how to prep for a job in another country
Maria Ortega Garcia, an inspiring Spanish tutor who will present about Creative Writing for Rhythm and Intonation
Penny Wilson from LingoMama, who is doing double duty on our panel about "Languages, Loved Ones and Little Ones" and with her own talk about language travel

Plus these veteran Women in Language fans

Michele Frolla from the Intrepid Guide, a language and travel blog
Sara Holmes who runs Language Answers
Maria Seco, our second Spanish Maria 😀 and Spanish tutor for the Camino
Jennifer O'Donnell, a game localizer and translator for Japanese/English
Sara Maria Hasbun, who also writes at Misslinguistic
Deborah Janik a.k.a. Lingualibri on Instagram
Alba Casado, our Spanish correspondent and creator of Españolizarte
Rebecca Howie, Aussie language lover and owner of language stationery business Irregular Endings
Chenelle Hanckock from Chenelle’s language learning journey podcast
Cara Leopold who runs a listening skills website called Leo Listening

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Special Guests: Alba Casado, Cara Leopold, Chenelle Hancock, Deborah Janik, Jennifer O'Donnell, Maria Seco, María Ortega García, Michele Frolla, Penny Wilson, Rebecca Howie, Sara Holmes, Sara Maria Hasbun, and Shahidah Foster.

Find Friends Who Love Language Learning [with Polyglots in Ljubljana, Slovenia]

Kerstin Cable — Mon, 29 Oct 2018 07:00:00 +0000

Our theme for today’s show is language learning friendship and having buddies who truly love language learning.

We are recording this week in Ljubljana from the Polyglot Conference, so in the show you'll also hear from a few of the many language loving people visiting the city this weekend.

The polyglots you heard in interviews from the Polyglot Conference were Katie Harris, Ruslan Kokorin, Irena Dahl, and Gabriel Gelman. Congratulations to Alex Rawlings and Richard Simcott for a great event.

Only A Few Days Left

Tickets for Women in Language are open until 3 November 2018, but make sure you join by 31 October if you want to participate in our special Language BF for the Day programme.

Special Guests: Gabriel Gelman and Katie Harris.

"Ultramarathon for the Brain" (Bilingual Podcast with Judith Meyer)

Kerstin Cable — Mon, 15 Jan 2018 09:15:00 +0000

Click or tap here to read the full show notes

German Learners: Click this link to download a full transcript (bilingual) of our conversation, so you can listen and read along at the same time.

Judith Meyer is well-known in the language learning world for co-founding the Polyglot Gathering event and writing several language books and courses. She's consulted by many and freely shares her own tips and experiences from learning over 14 languages.

We covered a lot of ground and as a language learner you will be delighted to hear her excellent advice.

One Thing You Need to Know About This Episode

This is a bilingual podcast.

Judith and I are both Germans who speak a lot of English in our daily lives and even in our off-mic conversations we regularly switch between German and English.

If you are not an experienced German learner, there will be some parts of the podcast that you don’t understand. But like all language learners, you’re not alone in that feeling. Try to stay with us, trust that we will come back to English again and again, and challenge yourself to become comfortable with not understanding everything.

Special Guest: Judith Meyer.

10 Polyglot Conversations from Langfest 2017 in Montréal

Kerstin Cable — Sun, 03 Sep 2017 22:00:00 +0100

This podcast episode is a bit like a Wundertüte - a lucky dip bag of interviews with wonderful people who made the 2017 Langfest event what it was. Thank you so much to all of these lovely people - Langfest was motivating, informative, energising, and of course very, very multilingual.

Here's a taste of what you'll find inside the episode:

Could you become a multilingual parent?

We've all seen the feats of Bella Devyatkina, who speaks 8 languages at age 5. But how does that work? In my interview with conference organizer Tetsu Young, we touched on the everyday actions that he and his wife create a multilingual environment for their three (!) kids.

Applying your outside skills to language learning

You might not know this, but all of us have hidden skills that help us learn languages. I interviewed Benny Lewis and Tim Pelletier to find out what theirs are.

Impressions of Québécois

From how to make those dipthong sounds to religious swearing, be a fly on the wall during our French-language lesson on the Québec dialect.

A few words in Romanian

Listen to me try as hard as possible to get my Romanian pronunciation right with the kind help of presenter Mihai. Ooof!

Unconventional Motivational Techniques

Jana Fadness is a polyglot, translator, traveller, and introvert. She shares her insights on the most popular motivational techniques - and how she found her own unconventional ways of making things work. Jana's interview was amazing, her honesty stood out among the crowd.

Special Guests: Benny Lewis and Shannon Kennedy.

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