Richard DeLong comes on the show to share his experience of moving to eastern Europe and learning the languages around him quickly.
At the age of 17 Richard went to Slovakia as an exchange student and was able to quickly learn Slovak. Later he lived in Russia, Ukraine and finally Georgia where he resides now. Along the way he developed his own method of foreign language acquisition, which he dubbed: Frictionless Foreign Language Mastery.
This is what you'll hear about:
- How Richard went to Slovakia at 17 and learnt Slovak
- How he immersed himself in the languages to learn faster
- His techniques and methods for rapid language learning
- How to learn languages in Buffalo and what mistakes people generally make when learning languages
- and MUCH more
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Show resources
- Frictionless Foreign Language Mastery – Richard's website that details
- Richard's handbook (Amazon)
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Kris is the founder of Actual Fluency, and has spent the last 8 years becoming an expert in language learning software, methods, and techniques.
He lives in Denmark and speaks 5+ languages at varying levels. His other interests are Wine, Online Marketing, and Travelling.