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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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• Drops: Play with your words in this beautiful language app - free on Android and iOS

Links:

• 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
• Can You Decide Which Languages To Kick Off Your To-Learn List? by Fluent Language
• Mynd am beint gyda PILOT EPISODE.... Kerstin Cable (fluentlanguage.co.uk) - YouTube — I speak some Welsh to Nicky Roberts, who's *hyfryd* (lovely)
• Languagedrops – Medium
• The Fluent Show: "You assume they don't have chick lit in Polish" — All about reading

• What motivates us to do things?


• What motivates us to keep going?


• Do you set yourself goals and always meet them?


• Or do you hate goals?


• Are you likely to spend weeks just looking for the perfect textbook before you start?


• Or are goals only meaningful when others set them for you?


• Or do you only set them when they make sense?

Do This:

In the episode, we dove deep into the Four Tendencies Framework developed by Gretchen Rubin, which is all about how you motivate yourself to keep going and to do things.

Take this quiz before or during the show to get the most out of it. Can't wait to read about your results!

We answer a bunch of intriguing questions in this episode such as:

• How can you use your tendency for language learning?


• What is the best ever way of researching language learning methods?


• Which tendency is perfect for the ultimate self-guided language learner?


• Do some tendencies profit more from classes and masterminds than others?

Links and Resources from This Show

• Happier Podcast


• QUIZ: What's Your Tendency?


• Kris Broholm getting up at stupid o'clock in the morning


• Terrifying Little Girl with a Clown


• Big TV Show Library from Episode 31


• Parkrun

Takeaway Of The Week

Try and be aware of the four tendencies and look for how they influence you, but also people around you.

We Want To Hear From You!!

Please comment or tweet us (#cllp, and we're @kerstinhammes and @ldlanguages) and tell us what your tendencies are.

Do you think your tendency influences how you learn a language?

Do you have ideas for how you can work with the tendency?

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This episode is about habits and how we build and create them. Listen to find out what our tendencies are and how we use them to make our language routines.

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Links:

• The Four Tendencies: The Indispensable Personality Profiles That Reveal How to Make Your Life Better (and Other People's Lives Better, Too): Gretchen Rubin: 9781524760915: Amazon.com: Books