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Patreon Extended Episode
Enjoy the podcast? Subscribe to our Patreon to get access to extended episodes and loads more content. Here’s what you’ll hear in the long-form episode:
- Motivation around learning and how to make progress when you feel like you’re bad at something
- Dr. Oakley’s 3 language survival tools
- Advice Dr. Oakley would have given herself when she was starting out with language learning
- How to get back into a language you stopped learning
- How Dr. Oakley would start learning a new language today
- Dr. Oakley asks Benny what to do when a teacher assigns you things that just don’t make sense for you personally
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Episode Overview
Some of the topics brought up during the interview are:
- How Dr. Oakley got into learning how to learn
- Joining the military to learn a new language at the Defense Language Institute
- Using the Speak from Day 1 Approach
- How Dr. Oakley’s philosophies around language learning influenced her learning in other fields
- Working as a Russian translator on Soviet trawlers, teaching in China, being an Army Captain in Germany, working as a radio operator at the South Pole Station and how these things shaped Dr Oakley’s perspectives
- How teaching makes you a better learner through retrieval practice
- The story behind the MOOC “Learning How to Learn”
- Tricks for encouraging your kids to love learning
Podcast theme: “A New Beginning” by Shannon Kennedy
