Myers Aaron / Мейерс Аарон - The Everyday Language Learner (polyglot podcast) / Изучай языки каждый день! (подкаст о полиглотах) [2013, ENG]

I had the privilege of interviewing Babel No More author, Michael Erard. We talk about the book but also he shars loads of good insight into learning languages that will be helpful to all.
Кстати, книгу Майкла Эрарда "Babel No More" или "Феномен полиглотов" можно найти на рутрекере на русском языке - здесь

I had the priviledge of sitting down with David Mansaray this past week and had a wonderful conversation with him. I first came across David online a year or so ago and have always been impressed with his focus on self-directed learning.
David’s thirst for learning is inspiring and his writing at www.davidmansaray.com reflects his passion for learning. He is a student of Spanish, Italian and Japanese and has a tremendous amount of insight into the language learning journey – all of which came through in the interview.
He is also the host of the Polyglot Project Podcast, a series of interviews with polyglots from around the world and a tremendous resource for inspiration and new ideas for all of us everyday language learners.
In the interview, David shares a lot of great ideas about learning other languages as well as his own experiences on the language learning journey. There is much in what he shares that will help you do more to create the self-directed mindset that will help take your language learning to the next level. (The interview runs just about 40 minutes.)
I am excited to have been able to interview David and to share that with the EDLL community today.
Enjoy and take notes! David Mansaray на рутрекере:
Подкаст о полиглотах "Language is Culture"
Интервью Дэвида с известными полиглотами (плюс книга о них) - "The Polyglot Project"

This past week I had the priviledge of sitting down via skype to talk with Dr. James J. Asher. Dr. Asher is the creator of the Total Physical Response (TPR) technique which is used across the globe to teach foreign languages to everyone from children to adults.
In our interview we covered a lot of ground and no matter where you are at on the language learning journey, there is something here that will be of value.
Dr. Asher will challenge you, encourage you and he just may offend a few of you.
Dr. Asher shared a lot of great ideas and information and may have even created some controversy.
Total physical response

My article about comprehensible input is one of the most popular posts on The Everyday Language Learner blog. I believe that comprehensible input – and indeed massive amounts of comprehensible input – is an absolutely essential part of learning any language.
Comprehensible input is an idea first popularized and pushed forward by Stephen Krashen. His Theory of Second Language Acquisition has been a foundational piece for language learners and language educators alike. Comprehensible input is a cornerstone of that theory.
It has also become the cornerstone of my writing and language coaching and has impacted every facet of what I do with the Everyday Language Learner.
While I have my own nuanced understanding of how we get comprehensible input, Krashen’s two books, "Explorations in Language Acquisition and Use" and "Foreign Language Education the Easy Way" have been instrumental in growing my understanding of what it takes to learn another language well.
Because of this influence, I was particularly excited when I was able to connect with Dr. Krashen for an interview. We talked for nearly 30 minutes and covered a lot of topics that will be of interest to the Everyday Language Learner community and I am excited to share that interview with you today.
You can learn more from Krashen’s writings which are available at Stephen Krashen’s website.
Основные идеи Стивена Крашена упоминал в своих книгах полиглот Стив Кауфман (был приведен тезисный разбор). Их можно найти на рутрекере:
1) The Linguist: A personal guide to language learning
2) The Linguist on Language

After my recent post, 10 Free Resources for Learning Nearly Any Language, I got a lot of great feedback on other resources not on that list. None was mentioned more than FluentU. I’ve probably gotten ten emails from the EDLL community saying how great of a site that it is.
I had to do some investigating and found FluentU to be a very exciting new language resource for Chinese language learners. So exciting that I knew I had to get FluentU founder Alan Park on for an interview. Alan does a great job introducing people to FluentU in the interview and shares a whole lot of other great insight and encouragement along the way. Enjoy!

It is not very often that you come across someone who is both extremely experienced in learning other languages but also knowledgeable and talented in teaching others how to become an independent language learner.
Neil Rees is both of these.
Neil has learned to varying extents a handful of languages and has worked over the past years to train others to be self-directed, community based language learners. His experience and common sense approach to helping others learn how to learn languages is apparent from the get go.
We covered a lot of ground in the interview and I think it is one of the most informative and helpful yet!

I love being able to hear the stories of language learners throughout the world.
The inspiration and new ideas I get whenever I am able to interact is always amazing.
And over the last few months I have been hearing a bit of the story of one of the readers of the blog – Gaby Cortinas.
Gaby’s story is interesting, inspirational and a lot of fun – and it is not just because he is an opera singer.
Yesterday I had the opportunity to sit down with Gaby and ask him a few of the questions I have been wondering about:
- How singing opera benefits the language learning journey
- How it has been to raise two trilingual kids
- How Gaby would advise a new language learner
Those are just a few of the questions we talked about in our interview.

I have been an admirer of Jana Fadness for a number of years now and so was excited to be able to interview her a few weeks back. Her blog, Adventures of the Directionally Challenged shares here experiences as a language learner, a traveler and a thinker.
Jana has some great insight into the language learning process and her thoughts on learning as extroverts or introverts were especially important for me.
Be sure and stop by and visit Jana’s blog after listening to the interview.
Enjoy!