The Actual Fluency Podcast for Language Learners
The Actual Fluency Podcast features inspirational stories from world-class language learners, industry experts, and regular people who embraced multilingualism in one way or another.
In the episodes we dive deep down in the why that pushed people to learn a new language, the how to figure out how they best achieved it, and of course a lot of great stories of the experiences that speaking multiple languages can bring to people's lives.
Licensing
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Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0
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Latest episodes
Jun 27, 2014 • 38min
AFP 17 – Lauren Cutlip and Benny Lewis: Lauren’s Esperanto
Benny Lewis and Lauren Cutlip are on the show live from Berlin to discuss the polyglot gathering as well as Lauren's Esperanto challenge!
Jun 20, 2014 • 52min
AFP 16 – Gavan Fantom: Native Esperanto speaker
Gavan Fantom, native Esperanto speaker is on the show to talk about how he was brought up with Esperanto as a first language. We also talk in great details about the language itself along with practical tips and suggestions on how to learn the language and join the community.
5 snips
Jun 13, 2014 • 27min
AFP 15 – Ben Whately: Memrise, memory and learning
Ben Whately, COO of Memrise comes by the podcast to talk about Memrise, including the science behind and future initiatives such as premium memberships!
4 snips
May 30, 2014 • 57min
AFP 12 – Bill Price: Language Learning Blogger
Bill Price comes on to the show to discuss language learning, finding motivation, organising your learning and what resources or materials to use.
May 23, 2014 • 53min
AFP 11 – Olly Richards from IWillTeachYouALanguage.com
Olly is a well known polyglot and blogger, who comes on the show to talk about language learning, with particular emphasis on Cantonese and Japanese.
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May 16, 2014 • 37min
AFP 10 – Robin MacPherson: How I Learn Languages (2/2)
Robin MacPherson returns to the show to tell us exactly how he adds languages today and how that differs from when he first started. Lots of gold in this!
May 9, 2014 • 47min
AFP 09 – Robin MacPherson: Finding Home and Isolation Abroad 1/2
Robin MacPherson is on the show and shares his intense story of the difficulties he faced when trying to live in a foreign country and learning the culture.
May 2, 2014 • 41min
AFP 08 – Lindsay Dow: Language lover, blogger and TEFL-certified tutor
Lindsay Dow comes on the show to share her love of languages, including learning and teaching them. She also shares her top tips!
Apr 25, 2014 • 47min
AFP 07 – Dani Maizner: Austrian polyglot and blogger
Dani Maizner: Austrian polyglot and blogger comes on to the show to share how she learned 9 languages to varying degrees. She also shares a-ha moments she learned along the way and gives her tips and tricks on how to learn a foreign language today.
Apr 18, 2014 • 39min
AFP 06 – The Basics of Independent Language Learning
On this first solo episode Kris takes you through his trifecta of language learning which includes a ton of great websites and resources to help you along. He also goes into how to find language exchange partners and how to go from basic fluency to intermediate stages.
