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111 SPEED LISTENING to level up your target language - Transcriptionist Vince from the Philippines

Release Date: 05/30/2022

133 Reading In Italian Until I'm Fluent - Sarah Ifeoma

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Sarah tells the origin story of her (reading series), where she started out reading out loud a book in Italian. At the time she started reading on YouTube, she had only been studying Italian for 2 months! First Video: of the The Book Sarah is reading out in her series: Come Una Notte a Bali by Gianluca Gotto (Facebook Group)

132 Exchange Semester in Argentina - Bob from Belgium

My Fluent Podcast

Bob talks about his language learning methods and how he ended up in Argentina to learn Spanish. He has been tracking his language learning progress in form of videos in which he speaks in Spanish. . Some of the topics we cover: Why Argentina? What is Comprehensible Method? Messi Inspiration for Making Language Update Videos Watching Argentinian Videos To Learn The Language Check out . My Fluent Podcast was selected by Feedspot as one of the on the web.

131 3000 Hours of Immersion - Language Immersion Method - India from Ireland

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India is a very enthusiastic learner of German from Ireland. She tells us about her language journey in which she mainly used the immersion approach to become fluent in German. The most important part of this whole method of immersion learning is obviosly your immersion. You absolutely need to have fun! India watched a lot of TV series, movies, listened to podcasts, read books and in general had a lot of fun in the process! ➡️ of The Interview (with full shownotes: Learn from her experience and become a better language learner! India even kept track of her journey in form of...

130 Learning English Through Writing (With The Technology Bishop)

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This is part 1 of 2. Antonello Zanini from Italy is quite an inspiration to me. He is a software engineer and technical writer and is a succesful writer on Medium. Spreading knowledge through writing is his mission Daniel and Antonello discuss the importance of building a writing habit in order to improve your English writing skills (and other skills as well). Spending a lot of hours writing is not necessary to become good at it, but rather consistency and daily practice are key. Antonello shares his experience using ChatGPT as a language learning tool to replace Italki, which he...

129 Movie Club - Groundhog Day - Discussion [PART 2]

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In the second part of our chat with Cara Leopold. (Link to ), we discuss the movie Groundhog Day. The episode is meant to be like a Movie Club. Cara Leopold is the creator of the Leo Listening Movie Club where she helps film-loving English learners understand and discuss movies together so they can master conversational English. Back-to-School Movie Challenge From September 13th-20th Cara is organising the , a 1-week taste of what it's like to be in a movie club. By watching and discussing school-themed movies together, you’ll learn new vocabulary, catch fast-spoken English and...

129 Movie Club - Learning English With Movies ft. Cara Leopold [PART 1]

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Cara Leopold is the creator of the where she helps film-loving English learners understand and discuss movies together so they can master conversational English. From September 13th-20th Cara is organising the , a 1-week taste of what it's like to be in a movie club. By watching and discussing school-themed movies together, you’ll learn new vocabulary, catch fast-spoken English and practice your speaking and writing skills with other movie-loving English learners. The challenge includes access to a discussion forum as well as a live Zoom session at the end to chat with me and other film...

128 Rock N' Roll English 🤘 Martin Johnston from the UK

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Martin Johnston loves to teach English through personal stories (storytelling) and through non conventional methods. It's great to learn from him and his podcast. He really knows a thing or two about learning (teaching) a language, especially British English. His "unfiltered" podcast (Rock N'Roll English, first episode aired in 2016) with real life stories is there to improve our English. In this interview, we learn more about Martin's language story, how he ended up in Italy and went back to the UK and how his podcast came to be. It's inspiring and educational at the same time. A...

[Swapcast] All About You Podcast - Daniel's Language Learning Journey

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You'll find the link to Sheila's Podcast (All About You Podcast) here: . :

127 Native Speakers are Overrated - Reading has Helped Christina Learn 10 Foreign Languages so Far

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Christina's Language Journey Christina has been learning many languages such as Latin Spanish 🇪🇸 Finnish 🇫🇮 Russian 🇷🇺 Turkish 🇹🇷 Catalan Ancient Greek 🏛️ French 🇫🇷 Italian 🇮🇹 Albanian 🇦🇱 Sign language 🤟 Swahili 🇰🇪 In this interview, you'll learn about how Christina learn these languages. We also talk about - dialects, twitter for language learning, Toki Pona (constructed language) and more. Some quotes: "all my English teachers for all my school years were German. So that's why I say learning from native speakers is...

126 Cristina from Sardinia (Italy) - 3 minutes without editing or preparation (Podcast)

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Welcome to my inspirational language learning podcast. Where I interview other language lovers. Currently, I strive to enhance my Italian skills. One podcast that has become my go-to resource is "3' Grezzi" [grezzi means raw, unedited] by Cristina Marras. Join me in this episode as I sit down with Cristina, the talented host of "3' Grezzi," a very useful podcast in Italian with a wide range of topics (the podcast is not scripted and comes with Italian transcription and English translation. On with rolling English subtitles.). In our conversation, Cristina shares her personal language journey,...

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Trilingual English speaker Vince from the Philippines shares his valuable tips and tricks on how he became a fluent English speaker.

YouTube version (without pictures): https://youtu.be/R9XySsmxYfE

YouTube version with pictures: https://youtu.be/YFR13RnpWqE

Transcript version: https://share.descript.com/view/cvDEBobDlD4

E-Mail: [email protected]

Time stamps / Topics:

0:01 Introduction - Vince from the Philippines

1:28 Japanese

1:44 Sumo wrestler

2:45 Spanish and Vietnamese

4:27 Working on your enunciation

5:43 Hadar Shemesh / Rachel

6:16 Shadowing

7:22 Picking up the Argentinian Spanish

9:22 Did Vince reach his language learning goal?

9:56 Masters of English (MAOFEN) / The Influency Community (by Hadar Shemesh)

11:21 Speedlistening to improve in your target language

16:33 What helped you the most to becoma a fluent speaker? (Immersion)

17:51 Back chaining (Method by Gabriel Wyner, author of the book Fluent Forever)

19:11 SRS Space Repetition Software (ANKI)

20:43 Watching Animes, TV Shows, SciFi and real life conversations

21:28 For the love of podcasts (Tim Ferris, Stuff you should know, Lex Fridman)

22:06 Build your habits (App Habitica)

22:54 Challenge yourself

23:29 Language exchange

26:03 Outro

Vocabulary

0:13 It was a nerve wracking experience (causing a lot of worry or anxiety)

0:29 It was a haphazard thing (not having an obvious order or plan)

0:38 I receded, kind of became shy (to move back or away)

0:38 I would be bullied (to bully: to treat (someone) in a cruel, insulting, threatening, or aggressive fashion)

1:01 So in effect, I am trilingual (in practice, even if not formally acknowledged.)

1:01 Trilingual (to be fluent in 3 languages)

2:0 My angle for Japanese

I also took it up

it was a regression because the Japanese that they had at that college was just not advanced enough.

2:49 Latinx population (Latinx is an American English neologism, sometimes used to refer to people of Latin American cultural or ethnic identity in the United States. The gender-neutral ⟨-x⟩ suffix replaces the ⟨-o/-a⟩ ending of Latino and Latina that are typical of grammatical gender in Spanish) Latinx - Wikipedia

I wanted to better fit in (To belong to a group)

Colonial past

If I am not mistaken (If I am remembering correctly)

It just so happened (an idiomatic expression implying that the event happened in due course without outside influence.

a fateful incident

lo and behold (Look and see)

some enunciations (to enunciate: to say or pronounce clearly)

The number one person that I would attribute to my success too

reciprocate (to give and take mutually)

The most prevalent Spanish

To pull people up

Don't quote me on this because...

Not Being able to speak English would have been detrimental to me (harmful, damaging)

it soared (increase rapidly above the usual level)

Just keep on inching towards the beginning (to move very slowly or in a lot of short stages)

One thing that I was dabbling on before was SRS spaced repetition software, but I kind of dropped it.

Do you use Anki?.Yeah, I used to use it. It was my go-to, but then...

Hiragana and Katakana

Kanji

Anime (is hand-drawn and computer-generated animation originating from Japan. Outside of Japan and in English, anime refers to Japanese animation, and refers specifically to animation produced in Japan) Anime - Wikipedia

Sci-Fi (science fiction)

I fell out of the wagon

Revamping (to change or arrange something again, in order to improve it)

Guilds

I am all ears (is used when you want to show somebody that you’re listening and ready for them to tell you something.)

I sound like a fricking kid (f*ing)

I'm stilll trying to get a grasp

Anki

Habitica

Tim Ferris:

https://open.spotify.com/show/00ySquPOB5twdRuFvEEc0m?si=efb2c1482bd5448d

Lex Fridman: