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May 3, 2017

Ray Blakney is a former Peace Corps volunteer and the founder of Live Lingua which helps language learners find tutors through Skype. The advantage of their service is that they have a curator who finds what you needs and brings any and all tutors up to speed with your course material. In this way it is more like a...


Jun 26, 2015

Alex Rawlings was voted the most linguistic youth in England in 2012 having been tested in 11 languages being under 20 years old. Now he teaches Polyglot Workshops which helps people interested in learning lots of languages do this more effectively. 

In this episode we talk about the language learning process and...


Apr 17, 2015

Gabriel Wyner is an author, opera singer, and polyglot based in Los Angeles, CA. After not getting anywhere in 5 years of high school language classes, he reached fluency in German in 14 weeks with the help of the immersive Middlebury Language Schools. As a result, he fell in love with the process of language learning....


Apr 1, 2015

Richard Simcott has studied languages for over 30 years and has a 16-language video on YouTube although he speaks over 30 languages. He has run the SpeakingFluently blog since 2011 back when the polyglot community was still new.  He has been consulted for articles in The Times and Forbes on language learning and was...


Mar 27, 2015

I moved to the wonderful country of Germany over 18 months ago and have loved every moment of it. I somehow expected that I would be able to passively learn the language but of course that did not happen. Over the last few months I have really started working hard on it and in a few weeks I will be doing my C1 exam...