Language Events, Language Careers, Language Inspiration

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• What was language learning like before the internet?
• What’s so great about an event like the Language Show?
• Our ideas for Langathon and Language Speed Dating
• Language and Careers: What’s out there beyond Teaching and Translating?
• Lindsay’s passionate explanation of “Primary Languages” in the UK, and how to instil a language passion for life in younger learners
• Our appreciation of multilingual actors and subtitles in TV and movies

Our podcast also featured a short interview with Dan McIntyre from the University of Huddersfield and our discussion around what fluency involved.

Tip of the Week

Lindsay chose Tip 2 as the winning tip for this episode and added more great ideas on how you can present to people, even when they are not learning your language.

1) Draw a trilingual vocab chart to practice vocab divergence

2) Prepare a presentation for your tutor or buddy

3) Swipe in two languages using the Swiftkey Keyboard app

Links and Interesting Stuff from This Show

• Podcast: Episode 13 with Becky Morales about raising bilingual children
• Daniel Brühl
• Monsters by Gareth Edwards
• The Add 1 Challenge
• The Lingo Show on the BBC
• Babel Language Magazine
• Learning English with Phrasal Verbs, Lindsay's new online course

Language Learning Events around the World

Language Show Live

Polyglot Gathering

Polyglot Conference

Polyglot Workshops