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The Fluent Show
by Kerstin Cable
Learn a Language...Or Maybe Three!The Fluent Show is on a mission to help you get excited about language learning. We learn languages every day in our lives, and have learnt over 15 different languages between us.We share stories, news, tips, and ideas that will make you fluent...eventually. Subscribe to the show today to get your regular dose of Fluent love.It is worth clarifying that we actively want to support anti-racism and will highlight and advocate for the equality of all. Language learning means committing to tolerance of other world views, and this open mind is a core value for me. This topic deserves well considered words so here are [the best Kerstin managed to put together.](https://www.fluent.show/blacklivesmatter)
Episodes
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Words of the Year 2023
Welcome to the Fluent Show's annual WOTY Extravaganza ✨ Exploring AI language goals, language bots, and a global banquet from rizz to crisis mode. This episode has something for everyone! Get the full show notes and links to all words of the year at https://www.fluent.show/243 Love the show? Rate…
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Inside the Mind of a UN Interpreter and AI Expert: Meet Josh Goldsmith
Welcome to episode 242, introducing a very special guest. I'm pretty excited for this interview with my friend Josh Goldsmith from techforword. Josh is a super impressive person: UN and EU interpreter, successful entrepreneur, and an all-round sunny soul. In this episode, you'll learn about...
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Words of the Year 2022
Aren't words of the year the BEST?? Definitely no quiet quitting or shrinkflation over here because today is a bonus! We're coming out of goblin mode for this special topic (what a vibe shift) and having a lot of fun learning words from all over the world, including the UK, Australia, USA…
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The Farewell Episode: The Joy of Finishing Good Things
So this is it and the last episode is a good one!! Lindsay and I close this chapter of the Fluent Show in true style, with lots of YOUR listener feedback and beautiful messages why finishing things can be beautiful, and how to escape the dreaded feeling of "what could have been" a look at the...
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How Learning Languages Has Changed my Life (with Bec from Language Chats AU)
content warning for one mild reference to explicit images at about 24 minutes In this episode I'm joined by my friend Bec Howie, a passionate language lover from Australia. Bec and I chat about how languages have made a difference in our lives. You think of them as a hobby, but we've found that...
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Learn a Language with Online Language Exchange
In this episode, you'll learn about language exchange and how you can use it to become fluent in a new language. My guest is Brian Heavey, international events organiser and director at Online Language Exchange & Real Events Ireland. Brian has been running language exchange events for 10 years…
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🍿 Music, TV & Films in Your Favourite Languages
Get ready for spring and summer with our big pop culture episode featuring recommendations for music, TV and films to enjoy in over 22 languages. Lindsay introduces a helpful framework for getting the most out of pop culture in another language: Discover Consume Create We hope you enjoy our...
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Feminism in Our Language World (Panel Discussion)
Today I’m bringing you a special, a recording of an expert panel discussion I moderated at the recent Women in Language conference, entitled *“Feminism in Our Language World”. * This is a top quality conversation I think you should hear. It isn’t a talk about how to learn vocabulary or find...
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Grammar Girl Crush
In this episode, my guest is Mignon Fogarty - better known as Grammar Girl. She's a language podcaster, founder of the Quick and Dirty Tips network, a bestselling author, Podcasting Hall of Fame inductee, and she's even been a guest on the Ophrah Winfrey show! In other words, we have a super…
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Rock Solid Habits: Reviewing ‘21 with Polyglot Shannon Kennedy
Shannon Kennedy is a professional musician, learner of 16 languages, and a language learning expert at Eurolinguiste, Fluent in 3 Months, and Women in Language. She's also my buddy and we have a tradition: Every year, Shannon visits the show to share how the last year went. Don't miss this...
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What Women in Language Will Bring You in 2022
Women in Language is an online event filled with talks presentations from female language experts who have done amazing things and documented their journey. The conference is open to everyone, and it's organised by Kerstin, Lindsay and Shannon. In this episode, I've got 10 speakers from the...
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An Impossible Snapshot of India (with Eli Kutty and Jessica Kumar)
Their eyes met at Dubai airport...and it started a love affair with Malayalam! In this episode, my American-born guests Jessica Kumar and Eliza Keyton (Eli Kutty) share their stories of falling in love with India - well, some of it! You'll hear about how Jessica and Eliza travelled the world what...
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Words of the Year 2021
If you're the kind of person who doesn't want to hear about vaccines, just press "stop" now. Welcome to our 2021 Words of the Year episode - somewhat dominated by one concept. It's another fun episode as Lindsay and I discuss all those words that made our 2022, including vax and vacina, jab and...
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5 Great Pieces of Advice for Learning a Language in 2022
Welcome to the new year! In today's small solo episode, I'm introducing a few updates to this podcast and sharing my big projects for the year. This includes an update on my languages: some "failures" and some wins! I'll also cover 5 great pieces of advice for you at the start of 2022 there is NO...
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Why You Need to Start Reviewing Your Routine
Have you tried to set goals and track what you are studying, but things are still frustrating? If you feel like you are adding too many things to your list you've no time to do all you want to really do you've got too much stuff on the shelf and hard drive then make sure you catch this episode...
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Language Trends and Trendy Languages
Ahh, kids these days, all learning Korean on TikTok! Or was it Italian by input method? In this episode, Lindsay and Kerstin went into the fascinating world of language trends. In this episode: How we tried to find out which languages are trending Which languages are so hot right now via GIPHY...
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Bilingual Episode (German and English): Discovering ELF 🧝🏼 and EU Interpreting 🇪🇺 with Karin Reithofer
An Italian native speaker and a Portuguese native speaker walk into a bar. They are speaking to each other. Which language are they using? Is it English or ELF? What even is ELF? In today's episode, my guest is EU intrepreter and ELF expert Karin Reithofer. We discuss How Karin got into her…
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No Language Robots! A fresh look at the concept of consistency
If you don't study many hours read all my news in the target language watch tv with target language subtitles keep the streak going in my apps ...are you still learning a language? Uhh, YES, yes you are. In this episode, I'm taking a fresh look at the concept of consistency, and reminding you…
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Australian Passion for Culture and Language with Penny Wilson
If you are obsessed with East Asian languages and travel, Penny Wilson has some words of wisdom to share. Penny is a language lover from Australia, currently learning Mandarin Chinese and Vietnamese. She's a podcast host of Language Chats and she also manages her own business, Lingo Mama. In...
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👻 Five Frightful Language Learning Monsters 🎃 for Hallowe'en
Language monsters are everywhere. Lurking in the shadows of your study routine, beckoning you with frightening challenges, haunting texts. But they aren’t real. Don’t be scared of language learning monsters! Here are five of them to watch out for this Halloween season: the Grammar Ghoul 👺 the...
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Bilingual Episode: Meet My Language Teacher Dafydd (Fearlessly Speaking Welsh)
"I never drop anything entirely. It's always still there in the background." In today's episode, I have brought on my very own language teacher! Dafydd Morse is a Welsh-Maths-Baking-Everything tutor and learning enthusiast from Wales. We'll chat about Dafydd's own background growing up…
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The Hidden Cost of Cheap & Easy Language Learning
We've never had it so good, have we? Language instruction is easily available these days through apps, social media, and teaching platforms. And it's so affordable ...if not entirely free! Sounds great, right? Well, just like every other big global industry "disruption", things aren't so simple...
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Elle Charisse: Escape from New York
Elle Charisse is a language podcaster (she hosts Speaking Tongues), language lover, and foodie. She's a New York woman through and through! We discuss why and how life in New York is different from the movie version we're often sold how to engage with New York's wealth of languages and native...
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Top Tools: Online Language Teacher Edition
Welcome to a special edition of the Fluent Show favourite top tools segment, and this time we're discussing the most useful online tools and tricks for language teachers. If you're familiar with Top Tools, you might know we try to leave out the most obvious ones and go straight to the practical...
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How We Found Our Teaching Styles: Kate Fisher & Karina Thorne
In this podcast episode, you're going to meet two independent online teachers who decided to build their businesses in unique and interesting ways: Kate teaches, coaches, and creates materials for English language learners, and she's a fellow podcaster. Karina organises online writing experiences...
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What is Language Coaching?
If you are solo learning a language and want to feel confident and fluent, and make language a part of your life, you may feel stuck at some points along the way Bored and frustrated with the methods you're currently using Unable to progress no matter how hard you work Unable to experience the...
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Teaching Twi on Clubhouse with Afua Abrafi
My guest for today's episode is somebody I met on a brand new app! No, it's not a dating app. It is the new social media app called Clubhouse. There's a huge global audience of people on Clubhouse and you can join in, listen in and sometimes even speak hundreds of languages, including the…
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Top 5 Tips for Starting a Career as an Online Language Teacher
You love languages and you want to spend your whole life around them. Ever thought about teaching? Teaching languages online is a realistic and interesting career choice. You could start a freelance career or even create your very own business. In today's episode, I'm answering the top five...
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The Best Song in Europe: We 💜 Eurovision
Many cultural highlights were lost in 2020 due to the Coronavirus pandemic. One that's particularly close to our hearts here at the Fluent Show was the Eurovision Song Contest. One year on, the event is back ON and Lindsay and I meet to bring you a colourful podcast episode celebrating all the...
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Learning & Teaching with a Visual Impairment with Holly Jensen
Holly Jensen has studied Spanish, German, Arabic, French and Russian. She is an online English teacher. Holly is also blind. 👩🦯 In today's podcast interview, Holly shares her language life as a blind person. It was a super interesting interview and I'm so appreciative of Holly for suggesting…
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3 Lessons Podcasting Has Taught Me About Life and Languages
Welcome to episode 213 of the Fluent Show. Yes, that's a pretty high number! I've been a podcaster for 7+ years now, and in this episode I look back on why I believe podcasting is wonderful, and what it has taught me about life and languages. I'll be focusing on 3 lessons: Consistent improvements...
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Teaching Qualifications - yay or nay? with Aubrey Carter
Today's guest is Aubrey Carter, experienced ESL teacher, holder of an MA TESOL and a 3 Keys IELTS Certification. Aubrey's been a professional ESL teacher for 20 years and has taught in classrooms in New York and Montréal before taking up online teaching as part of the team at All Ears English. In...
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No Stress: A Stress Awareness Special 😌
Welcome to our second season of the year. In the coming bunch of episodes, I am going to focus on different stories and aspects related to teaching languages and teaching online. For today though, it's time to discuss something close to my heart: Stress! 😖 It's Stress Awareness Month in the UK…
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Überraschungstüte with Lindsay: Running Conferences, Doing Masters Degrees, Learning What a "Blaue Reise" is
Lindsay's back on the show and we're closing off the first season of 2021! Kerstin has more new German words to read out to Lindsay and they're all corona-related We review this year's Women in Language conference and answer a few questions about how to organise an event with 599 participants We...
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Good bye Chemistry, hello Linguistics! with Sarah F. Philips
Bi-dialectal and bilingual as Korean-Black american, Sarah Phillips has always known that language is a huge part of her identity and she was blown away when she found out that she could become a linguist! Sarah focuses on code switching in her research. In this episode, you'll get SO MUCH super...
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Should You Come to Women in Language 2021?
Are you considering joining Women in Language 2021 but aren’t sure whether it’s right for you? In today's episode, I'm going to be answering all of your burning questions about the event so that you can have the full information for the event that runs 4-7 March 2021. Tune in and hear me discuss:...
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Stylistics: The Science of Hemingway and The Wire (with Professor Dan McIntyre)
Wait, stylistics is not about fashion magazines? There's a job that involves watching The Wire? And Hemingway's language wasn't as simple as everyone says? In this interview with Professor Dan McIntyre from the University of Huddersfield, you'll get a super interesting guide to Stylistics, the...
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Top Tools: Winter of 2021
Look, yes, maybe you’re all here for the hottest tips about learning a language super efficiently, but we’re all real people too and so today’s Fluent Show comes with added love of Riverdale haikus and a denouncement of optimising ourselves and our language learning to within an inch of our…
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Discover the Languages of Western and Central Asia (with Erin Morgan)
In today's episode, my guest Erin Morgan will tell you more about the most widely spoken languages of Western & Central Asia, such as.. * Arabic * Persian * Armenian * Kazakh * Turkmen * Pashto * ....and only a few dozen more! where "Western and Central Asia" even is how to understand the impact…
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From Expat Bubbles to Bilingual Books: Letters to the Fluent Show
The first mailbag Fluent Show, answering four listener questions on: The best ways to learn grammar - does spaced repetition software work for learning grammar? 🗂 How to overcome shame and embarrassment when you're caught in the expat language bubble 🙈 Why all the tips about learning your 3rd,...
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What 2020 Taught Us About Languages (with Shannon Kennedy)
A new year fireside chat with Shannon Kennedy! We have been recording these for a few years now and with 2020, what a year to review. This is Shannon's personal review of the year, and you can use the following questions to conduct your own review and set goals for the next year. How would you…
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Words of the Year 2020
There are two big types of news in this episode: Important celebrity word news from the worlds of Hilaria Baldwin and Wagatha Christie 🕵🏼 Important annual word news from the Word of the Year committees around the world It's a bumper episode as Lindsay dropped in to discuss all those words that...
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Back from Hiatus with 5 Ways to Set Your Language Goals for 2021
Hi!!!! The Fluent Show is back! How was your 2020? Can you believe we had 200 episodes of Fluent Show? I mean wow. WOW. In this episode, I'll be reflecting on the big themes of last year and giving you 5 ways to set your language goals for 2021. Set your Vision Goal first Build around milestones...
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Bonus Episode: International Podcasters' Panel
Can you imagine creating a podcast in your mother tongue...AND in a foreign language? Even though I am a German speaker, I podcast in English. And I never really think about it! But I was curious about people who podcast in other languages, and so I reached out to a few awesome people to find…
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Episode 200 Party Live Stream 🎂
We've done it! Welcome to episode 200 of the Fluent Show podcast with plenty of quizzing and jingles! This episode was broadcast live on 16 October 2020 with awesome participation from our live chatroom and bonus quiz questions from Sarah L, and Megan, the host of Oh No! Lit Class. Please review…
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Learning a Language While Working From Home
How is this not the most current question ever? It's so 2020, and so relevant to many of us. Today, I'm going to do a deep dive into the ups and downs of working from home. You'll learn How to improve your separation between work life and language life How to structure your goals so you make...
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Language Dabbling Advice, the Scots Wikipedia Shocker..and Adele's 🇯🇲 Bikini
We're exploring the hottest of hot potatoes in this episode by discovering the scandal, the drama, the shock of what happened over on Scots Wikipedia. And once everyone's calmed down, Lindsay's on hand to help discover the many different benefits of having a dabble instead of always getting super...
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The Women in Language Speaker Takeover
Last week you heard what it's like behind the scenes of organising our online conference. Women in Language. But what is it like to prepare for speaking at this event? Let's hear from the Women in Language speakers! Introducing Women in Language Women in Language is a 4-day online event filled…
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How to Run an Online Conference Like Women in Language
The greatest thing about running a conference online? We can organise it between 3 people who live far apart from each other! Make no mistake, there's a lot of work and care in Women in Language. But when it all comes together, this is one fantastic event. Behind the Scenes at Women in Language…
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5 Fun Ideas To Help You Get More Speaking Practice in Another Language
It's time for a listener question, this time from super-busy mum Jo-Anne, who needed new inspiration for speaking practice in another language. In the episode you'll learn about Taking a drop-in class Joining a Speak Easy session Chatting to your digital voice assistant Setting up a practice…
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Learn a Language...Or Maybe Three!The Fluent Show is on a mission to help you get excited about language learning. We learn languages every day in our lives, and have learnt over 15 different languages between us.We share stories, news, tips, and ideas that will make you fluent...eventually. Subscribe to the show today to get your regular dose of Fluent love.It is worth clarifying that we actively want to support anti-racism and will highlight and advocate for the equality of all. Language learning means committing to tolerance of other world views, and this open mind is a core value for me. This topic deserves well considered words so here are [the best Kerstin managed to put together.](https://www.fluent.show/blacklivesmatter)
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