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In this episode, I hung out with friend of the podcast Shannon Kennedy to talk about saying goodbye to an old year and welcoming a new one.

Shannon is an accomplished language learner who's studied over 10 languages including French, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Italian, and Russian. Her year has always been about languages, and with her recent move to work with language app Drops, she even chose to add more languages.

Here are the year review questions we discussed. You can use them to conduct your own review of 2018 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 2018?
• What lessons do you think you learnt from the year 2018?
• What surprised you?
• What will you change going forward?
• Looking forward, what are your language learning goals for 2019?

Shannon's top 3 books of 2018

• Grit by Angela Duckworth
• The Organised Mind by Daniel J. Levitin
• Courses from the Assimil series

Shannon's top 3 apps of 2018

• Drops, naturally!
• Streaks
• Lingq

Shannon's top 3 courses

• The Add1 Challenge
• Yoyo Chinese
• 90 Day Korean

Don't forget that Women in Language is back in March 2019!! Join us to experience this amazing 4-day conference live.

Click or tap here to read the full show notes in my blog article on www.fluentlanguage.co.uk

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Special Guest: Shannon Kennedy.

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• The Language Habit Toolkit [Bonus Edition] | Fluent Language
• How To Learn A New Language With Smart And Useful Goals by Fluent Language — Introduction to Vision and Path Goals
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• Languagedrops – Medium
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Can you talk about how to set up a reasonable weekly schedule for language learning?

In this show, I've got five simple steps for you that will help you plan a successful week in language learning. I'll talk about setting goals, managing your energy, analysing your calendar, and matching your activity to your strengths.

A reasonable schedule for learning languages is one that doesn’t make you groan, but isn’t empty either.

Here's what matters most:

• prefer regular to all-in-one
• Ensure you speak, read, listen, write
• Have at least one big session, preferably more than one
• Review after a few weeks

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• Clozemaster: Visit our sponsor Clozemaster, the free addictive language app in over 50 languages

Links:

• 5 Steps for Planning a Productive and Successful Language Learning Week by Fluent Language
• Your Intuition is Wrong about Learning Languages by Fluent Language — In this episode, Lindsay and I discussed the psychology of rewards in language learning
• Conversation Countdown by Benny Lewis: Can You Start Any Language In A Week? by Fluent Language — One way of having an intense weekly schedule is to follow a 7 day boost like this one.
• The Language Habit Toolkit | Fluent Language