A Language Learning Tale

Podcast on YouTube:  YouTube Link Podcast on Spotify:  Spotify Link Benvenuti, Bienvenue, Croeso and Welcome   Hi, I’m Juliet. Join me on my language learning journey and discover my thoughts on different aspects of language learning with the A Language Learning Tale Podcast. Today I’m talking about…   WAYS TO LEARN A LANGUAGE IN THOSE SPARE MOMENTS One of the biggest problems people have when learning a language is finding the time to do it. Obviously, you do have to have some dedicated learning time, but there are many small parcels of unused time within a day. What could you do to use those productively for learning your language? You might need to do a little prep, but here are some suggestions, not in any particular order. Keep a playlist of short videos to watch, downloaded, if necessary. If you keep these to a maximum of 10 minutes, then you can easily play them whilst waiting for the bus, or over lunch. They could be anything, from instructional, to just peop...

Spotify Link: Click for Spotify Link YouTube Link: Click here for YouTube Podcast   Benvenuti, Bienvenue, Croeso and Welcome. Hi, I’m Juliet. Join me on my language learning journey and discover my thoughts on different aspects of language learning with the A Language Learning Tale Podcast. Today, the subject is … BUT THEY SAID TO DO IT THAT WAY Or WHEN IT DOESN’T WORK FOR YOU There are a lot of language learners, or polyglots, if you prefer, giving advice on language learning on the Internet. Ahem. Everyone has their favourite people they follow on a particular platform, often the people with the biggest followings, because they get recommended most often. And many will attempt to learn a language in the way these people say languages should be learnt, to the letter. The problem with this, of course, is that not everything a particular person mentions will work for everyone. Some people, for example, swear by using a spaced repetition app, like ANKI, to learn vocabulary, whereas o...

 Link on Spotify: This is How I Like Learning Link on YouTube: This is How I Like Learning Benvenuti, Bienvenue, Croeso and Welcome Hi, I’m Juliet. Join me on a journey through my language learning process and learn my thoughts on different aspects of language learning with the A Language Learning Tale Podcast. Today I’m talking about… This is How I like learning. Or, What? We Don’t Have Different Learning Styles? For a long time it was put forward that people had different styles of learning and then the powers that be told us that we don’t. I’m sorry? What was that again? We all learn in the same way? What? Yes, that’s what scientists say now. We all learn in the same way. But let’s back up a little. What are, or rather were, these learning styles, anyway? Warning: Very oversimplified and not terribly technical scientific explanations coming up. Learning styles were seen as a way to find out the perfect method for each individual student to learn a subject, which was popularised,...