In this interview, you'll get to know Lindie and her unique language learning story, including:

• Growing up as a third culture kid and what that means
• What language learning is like in Lindie's current home country of South Africa

"I don't think there's a single school in South Africa that teaches Japanese as a subject"

• Feeling successful in language learning
• How to embrace YouTube for everything it's giving the language learning community
• What Lindie does when she wants to get to the next level in any of her languages
• The best thing about having a YouTube channel - and the worst!
• Being real is the only way to have success when using social media for language learning
• And what is up with language bragging on YouTube?

You'll also find out how to say Lindie's name correctly, and what my surname sounds like in Japanese!

Special Guest: Lindie Botes.

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Links:

• Lindie Botes on YouTube
• How To Learn A New Language With Smart And Useful Goals by Fluent Language — Read this to understand more about how I structure goals
• Talk To Me In Korean | Learning Korean made simple and easy!

Do you remember when you first heard the word "polyglot"?

And what does this word mean to you?

##Show Topic: What Is a "Polyglot" and Should You Be One?

In this episode, Lindsay and I went deeper into what's changed in the emerging community of internet polyglots. A few years ago, the YouTube landscape in particular was a nasty place. But things are looking up!

What does the word mean, and is being polyglot desirable?

Far from being entirely opposed to polyglots as a barrage of braggards and internet trolls, we are able to bring you many positive thoughts and perspectives.

##Polyglot Guest: Alex Rawlings

In this episode, we have a special guest who is a famous fancy polyglot and known for winning the prestigious Harper-Collins award of being [Britain's Most Multilingual Student]. It's Alex Rawlings, co-founder of the [Polyglot Conference] and "full-time language guru dude".

Polyglots have existed a lot longer than YouTube.

Alex did an amazing job of describing how the polyglot community has changed and also why it wasn't a great place to start out in. It's fascinating how much YouTube comes up in this discussion. He shares the story of bringing a bit of offline magic into the online world, and we agree that the internet is now a nicer place for language learners, and thank God for that.

##Takeaway of the Week

"It is what you make it."

There is still a personal challenge to readers, but also a real sense of permission to make the word mean what it means to you. Polyglots might be online, offline, nice, nasty, multilingual or just really curious.

For me, the biggest update to the polyglot label was the idea of it being all about the intention of learning languages, and the interest, and the passion. I love that!

##Links and Tips from This Episode

• Alex Rawlings writes at Rawlangs


• Lindsay on Youtube: What's a Polyglot?


• Kerstin speaks (reads!!!!) 25 European languages - the best part of making this video was finding native speakers of 25 languages in one week. I even rang the Icelandic and Luxembourgish tourist offices. ^__


• My Blog Article from May 2014, summing up all the polyglot negatives


• Polyglot Conference - this year in Greece and the Polyglot Workshops or just search for any of these things on Facebook


• Polyglot Gathering in Berlin


• HelloTalk

Are you going to claim the polyglot title this year? Or still not convinced?

Special Guest: Alex Rawlings.