Identity, Mindset, Accents & Learning English with Multilingual Actor Ivan Doan [972]

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Luke Thompson

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🗓️ 19 January 2026

⏱️ 99 minutes

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[972] I talk with multilingual actor Ivan Doan about his multicultural background, his learning of languages and his work as an actor. Ivan shares his insights and experiences of learning English, dealing with different accents in film & TV roles, and the importance of mindset and discipline in his life. There are plenty of language learning insights in this episode, which I summarise at the end. Full transcript available.

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0:00.0	You're listening to Luke's English podcast. For more information, visit
0:07.7	teacher luke.com.com.com.
0:14.2	Hello listeners. Welcome back to Luke's English podcast. How are you doing today? I hope you're doing
0:21.1	fine. Here is another episode of my podcast, which is here to help you improve your English by giving you
0:27.1	something interesting to listen to on a regular basis, but also by providing you with inspiration,
0:32.8	advice, guidance, and general help to help you along your learning English journey. Today on the podcast,
0:40.3	I'm talking to a very interesting guest. His name is Ivan Doan, or is that Ivan Doan? We will see.
0:47.2	Ivan is an actor and someone who speaks lots of different languages, is a very international person, he's a very interesting
0:55.4	guest. This interview happened because Ivan's assistant got in touch with me and suggested
1:01.1	that Ivan could be a great guest for my podcast and that he has plenty of things to say about
1:07.6	learning English, working in English, and things like improving your
1:12.3	accent and pronunciation. I thought to myself, okay, that sounds good. I'm always up for speaking
1:17.9	to new guests. Ivan is an actor. I had a quick look at his IMDB page. That's the international
1:24.6	movie database. He has a page there. And the brief description of Ivan is that he is an extremely versatile actor, born in Kiev, Ukraine, to a Vietnamese father and a Ukrainian mother. He trained at the National University of Theatre, Film and Television in Kiev. Ivan is a multilingual actor speaking six languages.
1:48.7	Can you guess what those languages might be?
1:52.5	Considering he is that his...
1:55.7	His father is Vietnamese, mother Ukrainian,
2:03.2	and he's on this podcast.
2:05.8	So that accounts for at least three of those languages.
2:07.5	What could the other languages be?
2:08.7	I'll let you guess.
2:14.5	So he speaks, he's a multilingual actor who performs in different languages.
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