AFP 17 – Lauren Cutlip and Benny Lewis: Lauren’s Esperanto

On this episode I am super excited to welcome Lauren and Benny to the podcast, I had been trying to get Benny on the show for a good while to talk about his book, but due to a busy schedule he was unavailable. Then by the time we set up an interview in Berlin he had already been asked just about any possible question about the book, so I had to think deep in order to provide an angle where we could learn something from Benny, but without it being him responding to the same old questions he had been asked time and time again.

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AFP 15 – Ben Whately: Memrise, memory and learning

Today is a very exciting episode of the Actual Fluency Podcast. If you have listened to the podcast or even read my blog before, you will have noticed that I recommend Memrise A LOT. To me it's just the perfect learning environment for foreign language vocabulary (and more!). Today I'm very fortunate to be joined by the Chief Operating Officer of Memrise himself, Ben Whately, in order to provide some greater insights into just how Memrise works, the science behind it and what the future holds for the development.

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AFP 11 – Olly Richards from IWillTeachYouALanguage.com

On today's show I'm joined by Olly Richards. Olly is a well known polyglot and blogger, that with his website “IWillTeachYouALanguage.com” offers incredible insight and inspiration for aspiring language learners. As a matter of fact he was part of the bloggers who inspired me to create Actual Fluency back in the end of last year.

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AFP 10 – Robin MacPherson: How I Learn Languages 2/2

On today's episode Robin MacPherson returns to talk about specifically how he learns languages including a lot of thoughts and considerations he has made along the way. Robin goes into incredible detail here and I think the contents of this episode easily ranks in the top for practical language advice.

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