#35 Richard Simcott on Being a World Famous Polyglot
Benny and Shannon talk to renowned polyglot Richard Simcott about learning languages at university, raising a multilingual child, and finding motivation to learn languages through human connection.
Language & Travel Hacking · Fluent in 3 Months
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Show Notes
In this episode, we talk to renowned polyglot Richard Simcott about learning languages at university, raising a multilingual child, and finding motivation to learn languages through human connection.
Featured Resources
Mentioned in this Episode
- Polyglot Conference
- Richard’s Polyglot Video
- Korean Script Hacking
- Assimil
- Teach Yourself Complete Korean
- Michel Thomas
- Go Billy Korean
- TTMIK
- italki
- Richard Simcott
- Richard’s Youtube
- Richard’s Twitter
- Richard’s Instagram
- Richard’s Facebook
Episode Overview
Some of the topics brought up during the interview are:
- Studying language at university
- Secrets to working on more than one language at a time
- How to maintain languages with anchor languages
- Reactivating, improving and learning languages
- Finding motivation to learn languages through human connection
- Uploading videos and becoming a part of the polyglot community
- The origins of the Polyglot Conference and shifting to the online space
- What language learning resources and methods Richard Simcott uses
- How Richard is learning Korean with his daughter
- Criteria for choosing a language tutor
- Raising multilingual children
Podcast theme: “A New Beginning” by Shannon Kennedy
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