Is It Easier to Speak French?

'If you want to practise speaking, you have to leave your comfort zone' 'The more you do something, the easier it becomes,' she says. For some people, i think it might help if you reach out to some one you know a little bit.'

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Kenny is a multilingual online teacher on ITALKI. He is also a passionate language learner himself.

In this interview, we talk about leaving our comfort zone in order to level up our language skills. How can we make introvert learners at ease so that they can speak up and improve their speaking skills? We talk about finding the right online teacher and we touch on language learning on Twitter (#Langtwt) More details in the time stamps further below.

YouTube Version: https://youtu.be/dCmuvMHCR-k

Transcript: https://www.myfluentpodcast.com/108-something-polyglot-kenny-from-belgium/

everyone is always simultaneously a student and a teacher -Jay Shetty

Time stamps:

1:20 Are you more passionate about teaching or learning a language?

05:36 The moment when you feel like you know your students better than your friends

7:17 What is the most important when you are looking for an online teacher?

Feeling at ease with the teacher. (the role as a teacher)

9:45 How to reach out and go about it before having the very first online lesson?

11:20 Kenny's language journey (Greek)

13:37 Making connections in your language journey

14:11 Example -> aphasia (a = not, phasia = utterance, speak)