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What 2020 Taught Us About Languages (with Shannon Kennedy) Jan 25, 2021

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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 sum up the year in your languages?
What changed in your life and in your languages in 2020?
What lessons do you think you learnt from the year 2020?
What surprised you?
What will you change going forward?
Looking forward, what are your language learning goals for 2021?

Shannon's top 3 books of 2020

Digital Minimalism by Cal Newport
Homo Deus by Yuval Noah Harari
Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari

Shannon also mentioned Atomic Habits by James Clear

Shannon's top 4 apps of 2020

This is for language learning and not-language-learning.

Todoist for task management
Notion for study note management
Drops and Memrise for language learning

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Special Guest: Shannon Kennedy.

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The Fluent Show: What Did You Learn in 2019? (with Shannon Kennedy)

Words of the Year 2020 Jan 18, 2021

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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 made our 2020, including

lockdown
coronavirus
rona / Miss Rona
BLM / Black Lives Matter
Samfundssind
PPE
Karen

AND MANY MORE!! 😄

I have a bunch of small corrections from this episode:

I got the German gender letters wrong when talking about Gendersternchen and job applications, it’s not n for the 3rd option but d (to mean “divers”).
The French word "déconfinement" isn't "confinement"or "lockdown" but the period after: the confinement is being "undone", usually in small steps, a de-lockdown, so to say (Merci to Ines)
TERF stands for trans exclusionary radical feminist, which makes way more sense than my guess "revolutionary" (Thanks to Ines)

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Back from Hiatus with 5 Ways to Set Your Language Goals for 2021 Jan 11, 2021

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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 for the year
Commit to recording over planning
Put the joy and the experience first
Work with micro-challenges

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Thank you to Israel for this episode introduction.

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Bonus Episode: International Podcasters' Panel Nov 21, 2020

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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 out:

What's it like to podcast, but not in English?

My guests for this special bonus episode are Karin from Sweden, Vero from Venezuela and Aakanksha from India. Each of them has an inspiring wonderful story of podcasting.

If you're a lover of podcasts, languages, or if you're just curious learning languages using podcasts, this is the episode for you.

This bonus episode is released one week early for all of the Fluent Show patrons. If you are interested in getting bonus content, early access, and you just want to support this podcast, then please consider supporting us on Patreon. Any amount is welcome!

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Special Guests: Aakanksha Saxena, Karin Heimdahl, and Vero Wall.

Episode 200 Party Live Stream 🎂 Oct 16, 2020

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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 us or support us on Patreon and get bonus episodes and extra materials during the hiatus. We'll be back on the feed in 2021!

We had ALL THE QUIZ questions, including the following:

Episode 25 (Lindsay Dow) saw the emergence of one of Kerstin's book-related pet peeves..which one is it?
Episode 28 (Shannon Kennedy): In this episode, Shannon admitted to being an extreme , which is why she doesn't find it lonely to learn languages by herself.
Episode 73 (Ultramarathon for the Brain): This episode is a part of Fluent Show history as the first ever bilingual show, in German and English. Who was the guest?
Episode 136 (Paul Kaye): Paul Kaye is a professional translator who used to be a journalist. He applied with an Eastern European language. Which one is it?
Episode 145 (Indigenous Languages): Which glorious pop star referred to English as little tongue, sparking a discussion for this episode?
Episode 150 (Langfest 2019): This episode featured a drinking song in which very small European language?
Episode 158 (David Peterson): Which important distinction did David need to work out before he could record the Dothraki intro to the Fluent Show?

some explicit words are included in this one, but all in the context of fun and education!

Thank you to LINDSAY for introducing this episode of the Fluent Show!

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Idiot Johnson — Musician from Lancaster UK
Forget The Whale | Facebook — The band playing the Fluent Show theme
‎The Fluent Show on Apple Podcasts

Learning a Language While Working From Home Oct 05, 2020

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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 regular progress
How to find a productive study routine even if you have only 10 minutes a day

Thank you to Octavio for this episode introduction.

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The Fluent Show: How to Learn a Language Every Day
The Fluent Show: How Can We Make Online Lessons Less Exhausting?
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The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business
Podcasts for Language Lovers | Podcast List on Podchaser
Weekend Wednesday - YouTube
Forest
SelfControl

Language Dabbling Advice, the Scots Wikipedia Shocker..and Adele's 🇯🇲 Bikini Sep 28, 2020

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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 serious about learning a language.

It's always fun to learn a language, no matter if you're in a 10-year epic journey...or you are language Lou Bega.

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Language Stories
I’ve discovered that almost every single article on the Scots version of Wikipedia is written by the same person - an American teenager who can’t speak Scots : Scotland
[Robyn Speer on Twitter: "Almost every article on Scots Wikipedia is written by one American teenager, who does not speak Scots and is just writing English in an "accent". If you have a multilingual language model, this fakery might be your _entire training data_ for Scots https://t.co/Rc1wkA0S2P" / Twitter](https://twitter.com/r_speer/status/1298297872228786176 "Robyn Speer on Twitter: "Almost every article on Scots Wikipedia is written by one American teenager, who does not speak Scots and is just writing English in an "accent". If you have a multilingual language model, this fakery might be your entire training data for Scots https://t.co/Rc1wkA0S2P" / Twitter")
Adele Carnival Bikini Pic Sparks Backlash
The Language Dabbler's Guide to Welsh | Fluent Language
Language Habit Toolkit — The Language Habit Toolkit - join now to take part in our October 2020 live round with lots of extra training and fun new activities

Women in Language Schedule 2020 — **The Women in Language Speaker Takeover** Sep 14, 2020
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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 with talks presentations from 30+ female language experts who have done amazing things and documented their journey.

The conference is open to everyone, regardless of gender identity.

Here's the full schedule for 2020:

Get your ticket at www.womeninlanguage.com

Here are the voices you're hearing on this show:

Angela Pegarella from Passion for Dreaming

Chesline Pierre-Paul, a life, language and creativity coach Chesline

Devy Baseley, who runs FrenchSpeak.au

Esther Ciganda, an independent Basque teacher at Basque in Languages

Gaby Simmons who's the creator of Tim Tim Tom Books

Lina Vasquez, a language coach and polyglot who runs the Lina Vasquez YouTube channel

Sarah Barrett from family-focused language company Lingotastic

Sara Maria Hasbun - remember her? Here she is!

Shanthi Cumaraswamy Streat, expert English teacher at English With a Twist

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If you liked this episode, please tell someone about it. Click here to support us on Patreon, go to your Podcasts app and leave us a review, or simply text a friend about the Fluent Show. Thank you!

Special Guests: Angela Pegarella, Chesline Pierre-Paul, Devy Baseley, Esther Ciganda, Gabriela Simmons, Lina Vasquez, Sara Maria Hasbun, Sarah Barrett, and Shanthi Cumaraswamy Streat.

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How to Run an Online Conference Like Women in Language Sep 07, 2020

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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

In this episode, Shannon and I share how we use each of these tools for making Women in Language. (some of the links below are affiliate links)

Teachable both for hosting our own course AND for collecting all information for our speakers
Mailchimp for our emails to speakers and attendees, and for our newsletter
Zapier to connect the apps we use
Asana to stay as organised as possible
Youtube live & live chat
Ecamm live via Skype
Zoom (for the Speak Easy sessions)
Google Docs & Forms

For promotion, we use Canva to make the images and various social media schedulers including SocialBee.

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