537. How Olly Richards Learns a Language (Part 2) Intermediate Plateau / The Magic of Story / Pronunciation & Personality / Classroom vs Self-Guided Learning
Luke's ENGLISH Podcast - Learn British English with Luke Thompson
Luke Thompson
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🗓️ 2 July 2018
⏱️ 62 minutes
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537. How Olly Richards Learns a Language (Part 2) Intermediate Plateau / The Magic of Story / Pronunciation & Personality / Classroom vs Self-Guided Learning
The rest of my conversation with polyglot Olly Richards, talking about how to overcome the intermediate plateau, the magic of story, pronunciation and identity issues, and self-guided learning.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello folks this episode is sponsored by I Talkie I was on I Talkie today actually because I've been looking for a French teacher or someone who can talk to me and give me some language feedback |
| 0:11.7 | Just to improve my French. I went on to I-talkie and I found a teacher and I've |
| 0:16.4 | basically signed up for a trial lesson which is about probably a 30-minute |
| 0:21.0 | conversation he'll probably ask me about reasons you know, reasons why I'm learning French, what my needs are, my level, stuff like that. |
| 0:28.0 | And then, you know, after that we'll see how it goes, but I might book myself in for some conversations and what I'd like to do is have |
| 0:36.1 | conversation with some language feedback you know where I can correct my errors and work on mistakes |
| 0:41.6 | like that you know so anyway it's very easy and if you want to do it |
| 0:46.5 | you can there's loads of people who are out there to teach you English just go to |
| 0:50.6 | teacher loop.co.uk.uk.uk.uk.uk.uk.uk slash talk to get started and when you buy some talking time, |
| 0:56.0 | I Talk, you will give you a voucher which is worth one lesson, free, which is nice. |
| 1:00.8 | Okay, right then, so let's get this episode started and here is the jingle. |
| 1:05.0 | You're listening to Luke's English podcast. |
| 1:11.0 | For more information, visit teacherloop.co.uk.uk. |
| 1:17.0 | Hello there, welcome back to this double episode in which I'm talking to |
| 1:24.9 | Language Learner and Polyglot, Ollie Richards, all about how to learn languages as |
| 1:29.6 | an adult. Ollie speaks eight languages and spends a lot of time working on language courses and giving advice on his podcast and blog which are both called I will teach you a language. |
| 1:41.0 | Two years after our last conversation, it was interesting to catch |
| 1:45.6 | up with Ollie and see if his approach to language learning has developed. In this episode I talked |
| 1:51.2 | to Ollie about how to overcome the intermediate plateau. |
| 1:54.8 | We go into details about the magic of story and how important stories are in learning a |
| 2:01.1 | language. We discuss the connection between pronunciation and personality |
| 2:05.8 | and wonder if the main problem people have with pronunciation is actually an identity issue. |
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