My Fluent Podcast

Asish is a determined language learner who is dedicated to improving his English skills by taking one-on-one online lessons with different teachers. At the same time, he uploads all of his sessions on his YouTube channel so that other learners can learn with him. We call that a win-win-situation.

Recently, one of his videos took off🚀 and reached over 1.2 million views, which is unbelievable.

Imagine, million of people watching you how you progress in your language journey!

➡️ Do you have a story to tell? Do you have a book about languages 📖? Then it's time to get interviewed on My Fluent Podcast! Drop me an E-Mail: [email protected]

• Language: Language learning takes more than just learning vocabulary. It's about food, culture and many more
• Having different teachers will help you grow: Every teacher or language partner is different. You'll learn different methods and learn about different types of characters. This will help you in your language journey.
• Stop being afraid of making mistakes: Asish overcame his fear and uploads his learning sessions. It sort of gave him an extra boost. He doesn't care what others are thinking about him and his errors.

• Sanskrit: Sanskrit is an Old Indo-Aryan language that arose in South Asia. It is regarded as the ancient language in Hinduism, where it was used as a means of communication and dialogue by the Hindu Celestial Gods. Sanskrit is known for its structure, writing, and alphabet, and has been used as a philosophical language in the religions of Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism
• Swami Vivekananda: Indian Hindu monk, philosopher, author, religious teacher, and the chief disciple of the Indian mystic Ramakrishna. He was a key figure in the introduction of Vedanta and Yoga to the Western world

• What does Language mean to Asish? (00:06)
• English Language in India (3:42)
• The Languages Asish Speaks (4:19) 🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️
• The different learning methods (8:56)
• Writing and Correcting Process (9:53)
• Asish Dutta's YouTube Channel (11:31)
• The Video that got over 1.2 Million Views (14:30) (THE VIDEO IS NOT AVAILABLE ANYMORE)
• Meditation in Language Learning (17:13) 🧘🧘
• Long-term Goal (19:06)
• Acting and Cartoons in Language Learning (20:29)
• Having your own Talkshow to Improve in your Target Language (21:53)
• The Researcher (23:20)
• Favorite English Word (26:37)

• William Wordsworth: 📜William Wordsworth (7 April 1770 – 23 April 1850) was an English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature. He attended Hawkshead Grammar School, where his love of poetry was firmly established and, it is believed, where he made his first attempts at verse. He is best known for Lyrical Ballads (1667), which he wrote with Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
• Clapingo: ☎️Clapingo is a platform that allows users to practice conversations with various speakers across the country. It provides a judgment-free space for people to improve their English speaking skills through 1-on-1 video calls. 📱
• Cambly: ☎️A website that connects language learners with native speakers for language exchange. 🌍
• Quillbot ai: 🤖QuillBot is an AI-powered paraphrasing tool designed to help people rewrite and enhance any sentence, paragraph, or article. It uses artificial intelligence and machine learning to rearrange word order and natural language understanding (NLU) to understand the context of the text.📝

Nastya from Russia - Linguistics student from Moscow - talks about:

0:40 Who is Nastya? (introduction)

3:12 What does Linguistics mean? (granted, that question was a bit hard)

4:20 What is Nastya's grammar thesis all about? (Nastya is going to graduate next year)

6:14 Why did Nastya choose to read Stephen Krashen's book "language acquisition"?

7:57 Book challenge

9:17 Nastya shares her experience reading the book "language acquisition" by Stephen Krashen

13:20 Some methods Stephen Krashen covers in his book to become fluent

15:20 Do we need to look up every single word when listening to a podcast?

19:19 Nastya is an English and German teacher

21:25 Nastya's experience teaching during the pandemic

22:40 Let's talk about culture shocks

25:56 Podcast/YouTube recommendations

26:44 Adept English Podcast

27:57 Culips (Canadian English podcast)

28:54 Words and Their Stories

30:12 Rock n'Roll English

31:04 Today's main message: ENJOY!!!

32:11 Thank you very much Nastya! :)

Books and Articles by Stephen D Krashen (sdkrashen.com)

Links to Nastya's recommendations:

Learn To Speak English Fluently (adeptenglish.com)

🧠What Happens In Your Brain When You Learn A Second Language💜Ep 398

Listen to Adapt English on Facebook

Culips:

Chatterbox #259 – TikTok and internet privacy | Culips English Podcast

‎Words and Their Stories - VOA Learning English: Short-lived Success is a 'Flash in the Pan' - January 14, 2021 on Apple Podcasts

The Poland Pod (rocknrollenglish.com)

Spotify – Easy German | Podcast auf Spotify

692. WISBOLEP Competition Entries – Listen & Vote! | Luke’s ENGLISH Podcast (teacherluke.co.uk)

WISBOLEP - ROUND 1 [No voting]🎙🎉 85 AMAZING LEPSTERS STILL WORTHY OF YOUR ATTENTION - YouTube

her entry (audio message) begins at 2.50.06:

https://youtu.be/rsBttoN1UHA?t=10206

Music:

Upbeat Party by Scott Holmes Music is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.

Free Music Archive: Scott Holmes Music - Upbeat Party

Ahmad is sharing his language learning story with us!

If you want to share your story, send us an E-mail to [email protected]

Podcasts mentioned in this show:

Football Daily podcast:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p08qt66t

Luke's English podcast:

teacherluke.co.uk

Interview with Luke on my fluent podcast:

https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/myfluentpodcast/E28_-_interview_Luke_Thompson.mp3

Tik Tok trailer to the interview on my fluent podcast:

https://www.tiktok.com/@myfluentpodcast/video/6835683333477846278?lang=en

Zdenek's English podcast

https://zdeneksenglishpodcast.podbean.com/

Transcript:

Thank you very much, mr. Daniel. My name is Ahmed Djago and I live in Senegal. Senegal is a country of a 16 million habitats in West Africa. And when it comes to learning a language, a second language or a third language, for me is, I mean, I have a very interesting story because when I tell somebody that I live in a country where the official language is not English and I've never attended an English school or an English institution and yet speak English the way I am speaking it this day it might amaze him, you know,

You have a flawless accent it seems to me,

Thank you, but thank you very much , the story is quite interesting for me because Senegal is a country where the official language is French because it has been colonized by the French. But here in Africa, when we say official language, mostly we don't mean that the official language is the language that is spoken by the vast majority or the whole population of the country. French is the official language but we have other national language, which is the language that is named Wolof. And that is actually the the most widely spoken language here, I can say something like 95% of the country's population is speak the same language but only those people who went to school for studying French, all those people who live in an area where the French speakers are to be found are actually able to speak French.

But for me, when I was about 14 years old, my father took me to Gambia. Gambia is our neighboring country. I went there merely (synonym `= only, purely, solely, simply) for learning Arabic. So I went there to learn Arabic but Gambia and Senegal are quite similar. They have lots in common. For example, our national languages are the same and I've been able to survive while there, but they have one different thing. And it is Gambia's official language is English. So, the people that go to school for learning English but their national language is still the same as our country, which is Wolof but I was surrounding (surrounded?) by some of my friends, some boys who were going to school to learn English and they were having some conversation around me in English, even though English was not the language that they were speaking in their daily lives, but I've been, I mean, I became fascinated with the way they use language sometimes around me. And I asked one boy, one of my friends there to teach me how to read English because before you can teach yourself. You have to, somebody has to guide you to do the basics. Something like being able to read the language first before you go for yourself. By the time I was learning Arabic, but this boy, this particular way helped me to teach me the English alphabet until I became able to read English myself.

And that was it. I was still speaking up some expression, some words in English, something like breakfast, brother, sister, school, things like that. Basic things.

I spent the next four years there in Gambia. Then I returned, I came back to my home country, which is Senegal to continue learning Arabic in Arabic schools in Senegal, around the year 2013. I have this desire to continue learning English because I realized that English is the most widely spoken language in the world.

It is the most popular language in the world. And just by being able to speak it, it will open, you know, lots of opportunities for you. And then by that time, I was able to use Arabic and English dictionary properly. I have been quite almost fluent in Arabic. And then I stumbled upon one day, one application in the form of, I mean, it was, I think the audio book but it was made, it was built up in a form of application.

I downloaded it from Apple store. And then I download the on English and Arabic dictionary, this particular application or the audio book, as you might call it's actually built in several secti...

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