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  • Hey Language Learners! Welcome back to another amazing interview about Insecurities about Language. In this episode, I spoke with Martha Summerlin, a self-proclaimed language nerd, proud introvert and cat fan. When she isn’t buried in books or thinking about how language works, you can find her exploring one of North Carolina’s beautiful parks, trying out a new coffee shop or talking your ear off about the marvels of baseball and Formula 1. Having studied sociolinguistics (the study of people’s attitudes towards dialects and accents) she’s passionate about sharing the value of each dialect and language and what they have to teach us about each other.

    Her podcast has now been out since March 2023 called Shhh...I'm Learning! Make sure you give it a listen!

    Make sure to support this podcast by following and leaving a review/ rating wherever you listen to your podcast. You can follow on Instagram at Insecurities about Language and say Hi! You can send me a message if you are interest in being a guest to talk about your language learning journey or the death of language(s) within your family. I look forward to hearing from ya'll! Click the links below for:

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  • Hey Language Learners! Welcome back to another amazing interview about Insecurities about Language. In this episode, I spoke with Karen M. Ricks, a Christian wife, Worldschooling mom, and a nomadic chef. Teaching for over 25 years, she has been a Montessorian since her own preschool days. She holds Montessori teaching certifications for guiding children from infancy through elementary. She has cooked professionally, in restaurants, commercial kitchens, and private homes on four different continents over the last decade. After 10 years of teaching in central Japan, where Karen founded and operated her own international Montessori school, she sold it all to begin a nomadic life of full-time travel with her family. Karen spreads her message of embracing a Slow Food Lifestyle, a lifelong love of learning, and education for peace by teaching people of all ages how to cook for themselves and why they need to share that gift with those they love. You can learn more about her, her family’s edible exploits, and the lessons they are learning on their Culinary Worldschooling Adventures as they gallivant around the globe over at Our Kitchen Classroom dot comFor more fun and deliciousness from Our Kitchen Classroom, find us all over the web!
    Website: https://OurKitchenClassroom.com;
    Facebook: https://facebook.com/OurKitchenClassroom;
    Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/karenm.ricks/ (#OurKitchenClassroom);
    YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/OurKitchenClassroom;
    #PLAYwithYourFood Community: https://www.facebook.com/groups/WePLAYwithOurFood/;
    Subscribe to Our Kitchen Playground: http://ourkitchenclassroom.com/subscribe-to-our-kitchen-playground/;A few topics that was discussed during this interview:Traveling to Mexico before we needed passportsHer early memories of languagesHer language journey in 2007 to JapanHer nomadic life in many different countries and her explanations about the related languagesMotivations for learning a new languageHer insecuritiesFun times with sayings/ phrases/ and wordsOf course there is much more in between!!Make sure to support this podcast by following and leaving a review/ rating wherever you listen to your podcast. You can follow on Instagram at Insecurities about Language and say Hi! You can send me a message if you are interest in being a guest to talk about your language learning journey or the death of language(s) within your family. I look forward to hearing from ya'll!Click the links below for:

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  • Welcome Language Learners to the Insecurities about Language podcast: The Death of Language and to an exciting topic I am tackling called the Death of Language...within families! In this episode, I had the pleasure of interviewing Greta Rodney Thompson, born and raised up on the island of St. Martin, the smallest mass of land to be divided into two countries. She considers herself a true St. Martiner with all the benefits of a multi-cultural upbringing, but also cultural confusion that comes along with being in an environment but not necessarily feeling a part of it.
    Her maternal side of the family is French and a significant portion moved to Guadeloupe and France. From a very early age Greta realized that there was a disconnect in that she was a part of this family but not able to communicate using the language. Greta decided to make it her goal to improve her French language skills to reconnect with family and inherently learn more about herself. The journey is still ongoing but has led to many gains socially and professionally. Greta is working on bringing more awareness to others about the benefits of multilingualism by sharing stories of others who are bilingual or multilingual and encouraging bilingual education. She does this through her YouTube, Facebook and Instagram page called The Linguistic Isle. She also works with an association called Les Pepites which promotes culture, education and communication in the community.Make sure to support this podcast by following and leaving a review/ rating wherever you listen to your podcast. You can follow on Instagram at Insecurities about Language and say Hi! You can send me a message if you are interest in being a guest to talk about your language learning journey or the death of language(s) within your family. I look forward to hearing from ya'll!

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  • Welcome Language Learners to Part 2 of the Death of Language Compilation!

    What does the death of language within families mean to you? And you may think that this is an obvious question, or you’re like what does she mean or what does she want to hear, or maybe you have to think about it for a moment, and really there is no right or wrong answer to this question.

    Really the question is to get you to think about yourself, your family, someone you know, the language and culture and the immersion of that or maybe the literal death of language. The languages that are dying because it’s not being passed down from generation to generation, not being taught, spoken, not being recognized.

    The death of language came from me deciding what I wanted to do with this podcast and having conversations with my mom and thinking about how diverse we are and how like we don’t speak no other language besides English. And so, I have 2 main questions that come from this topic, it’s WHAT HAPPENED? And WHY?

    For this episode, I have 7 guest who will provide their answers with thought, emotion, feelings, and relatability, and in no particular order, here is Karen, Kim, Kamille, Adrienne, Joshua, Martha, and the ladies from the Hermosas Chicas Negras: Ayo, Paula, and D’anne with their answers to "What does the death of language with families mean to you?"

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  • Welcome back! It is SEASON 2 YALL! I am your host Alexandria of the Insecurities about Language Podcast. And this season I will continue to talk about individual language journeys, especially mine since I failed to do that last year. I will be diving more into the Death of Language within families and getting my family involved, so ya’ll can hear more about their stories. I will be interviewing folks about Bilingualism and Linguistic and those topics will be little mini-series within this season! and of course anyone who wants to have a conversation about language and what it means to them and how it relates to their life.

    I also want to invite those who would like to answer the question: WHAT DOES THE DEATH OF LANGUAGE WITHIN FAMILIES MEAN TO YOU?

    There will be a link in the show notes for you to provide your answer.

    Let me know if:

    o Yes, share my name and answer

    o only share answer

    o don’t share

    Death Of Language Answers!

    For this episode, I will talk about my goals, and if you have been following me on IG during January you would’ve noticed that I’ve been doing this 30 day speaking challenge from my online PT program. I’ll talk about how it went and what those results came to be!

    The GOALS are pretty straightforward, I don’t want to overcomplicate it, especially since I'm just getting back into it…

    1. I will be doing monthly updates on my progress, and it will involve some speaking in Portuguese.

    2. I want to document what I’m using and how I’m using it.

    3. I want to start reading, probably will start in April 2023.

    4. I’d love to do a day in my life type of podcast… (said it was 5th on the podcast lol)

    5. I’d love to have one podcast interview in Portuguese and of course it’ll be easy enough for me to get through. - What topics would you want to hear in Portuguese?

    6. My last goal is to test out of the A1 category.

    Thank you so much for taking the time to listen to the Insecurities about Language Podcast. Please make sure to follow, rate and review this podcast, wherever you listen to your podcast. And follow the podcast on Instagram @insecuritiesaboutlanguage and say hi!

    30 Day Speaking Challenge: Portuguese and English

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  • Hey Language Learners! Welcome back to the last episode of season 1, and another amazing interview about Insecurities about Language. In this episode, I spoke with Marcus from Louisiana. He’s a polyglot and currently live in Pamplona, Spain, the place of the famous running of the bulls. He studied both Psychology (Bachelor’s) and Linguistics (Master’s). He has a unique interest in minority language because he is a minority language speaker. His hope is to preserve them and help them gain speakers before they are all gone.

    You’ll hear Marcus speak about his background with language learning and his family as well. He lets us know what a minority language is, its importance and benefits. He talks about his minority language, its geographical location, a little history lesson on the Basque language and its evolution. He also talks about how to maintain a minority language. Marcus mentions language isolates. And of course, he talks about his insecurities about language.

    ***we had some technical difficulties***

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  • Hey Language Learners! Welcome back to another amazing interview about Insecurities about Language. This is a special interview with the Hermosas Chicas Negras! In this episode, I spoke with D’anne, Ayo, and Paula of the Hermosas Chicas Negras about their language learning journey with Spanish. Each are leaning Spanish from different Spanish speaking countries. You’ll hear thoughtful explanations about their language environments, how they meet one another, why they chose the specific Spanish language, and of course, their insecurities about the language! Also, they answered one of my most important questions, “What does the death of language within families mean to you?” And so much more. These ladies are so encouraging, and I hope you all enjoy this special episode!

    Dominican Republic Spanish- D’anne

    Mexican Spanish- Ayo

    Colombian Spanish- Paula

    Make sure to support this podcast by following and leaving a review/ rating wherever you listen to your podcast. You can follow on Instagram at Insecurities about Language and say Hi! You can send me a message if you are interest in being a guest to talk about your language learning journey or the death of language(s) within your family. I look forward to hearing from ya'll!

    Be sure to follow Hermosas Chicas Negras on Instagram

    A few episodes to listen to but listen to them all! You will learn and be entertained!

    Visual and auditory learning styles

    Traditional learning styles

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  • Welcome Language Learners to the Insecurities about Language podcast: The Death of Language and to an exciting topic I am tackling called the Death of Language...within families! In this episode, I had the pleasure of interviewing Jacqueline S. Sadberry, a small-town girl hailing from Texas. She is a poet, self-published author, and passionate language lover. Between studying Japanese, Spanish and Mandarin Chinese, and writing her second novel, she also assists people with becoming conversational in Spanish, Japanese and English. You can find her on YouTube and Instagram under JSS Media: Langs.

    ***corrections from Jacqueline: My oldest aunt was the last one who could speak it and she passed last year. (My other aunt was the second or third oldest girl, but she learned through a member at church. That's the one who passed 4-5 years ago.)

    Make sure to support this podcast by following and leaving a review/rating wherever you listen to your podcast. You can follow on Instagram at Insecurities about Language and say Hi! You can send me a message if you are interest in being a guest to talk about your language learning journey or the death of language(s) within your family. You can also leave me a voice message by clicking here. I look forward to hearing from ya'll!

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  • Welcome Language Learners to the Insecurities about Language podcast: The Death of Language and to an exciting topic I am tackling called the Death of Language...within families! In this episode, I had the pleasure of interviewing Eliza, who works in language education and is currently based in Vietnam. As a child, her father married her Serbian stepmother, a first gen Yugoslav immigrant. From the age of 5, Eliza grew up with summer and winter holidays around Serbian food, language, and traditions. However, neither she nor her brother nor her cousins carried the language further.  After meeting her husband from the south Indian state of Kerala, her attempt to learn his mother tongue, Malayalam exposed a massive lack in resources and educational materials. Meeting various heritages speakers across the diaspora, as well as studying the social and economic constraints on language learning, has helped Eliza to create dialogues about social change for language preservation.

    Make sure to support this podcast by following and leaving a review/ rating wherever you listen to your podcast. You can follow on Instagram at Insecurities about Language and say Hi! You can send me a message if you are interest in being a guest to talk about your language learning journey or the death of language(s) within your family. You can also leave me a voice message by clicking here. I look forward to hearing from ya'll!

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  • Welcome Language Learners to the Insecurities about Language podcast: The Death of Language and to an exciting topic I am tackling called the Death of Language...within families! In this episode, I had the pleasure of interviewing Shana Inofuentes (Aymara and Ashkenazi), who revels in communication that inspires joy and justice. She is a native speaker of English and Spanish, and is an elementary heritage speaker of Aymara, Quechua, and Hebrew. She is a proud daughter of the Bolivian immigrant community of metro Washington, D.C.—the largest Quechua and the largest Bolivian community in the U.S. An art activist, and communications strategist, she recently founded and serves as President of The Quechua Project using social media activism for Quechua revitalization among her community’s youth. After the passing of her Aymara-speaking grandmother in Bolivia, Shana became acutely aware of Native language loss ramifications. Recognizing the potential for this same loss among friends in her predominantly Quechua community, she sought partners to turn the tide. Shana feels compelled to give back to her community by building a future where youth like her son, Amichai, can thrive without sacrificing their identity, a luxury their ancestors did not have. Make sure to support this podcast by following and leaving a review/ rating wherever you listen to your podcast. You can follow on Instagram at Insecurities about Language and say Hi! You can send me a message if you are interest in being a guest to talk about your language learning journey or the death of language(s) within your family. You can also leave me a voice message by clicking here. I look forward to hearing from ya'll!

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  • Hey Language Learners! Welcome back to another amazing interview about Insecurities about Language. In this episode, I spoke with Kamille Lucas, a Social Worker located in the Dallas area who has made a career out of her passion for counseling and the empowerment of youth and adults.  She is the proud owner of Radiating Expressions, LLC which is the manifestation of her many creative outlets.  A few of her passions include working with marginalized groups, the Spanish language and culture, and traveling.  In her time outside of the office, she enjoys time with her young daughters as they explore and appreciate the world around them. 
    Make sure to support this podcast by following and leaving a review/ rating wherever you listen to your podcast. You can follow on Instagram at Insecurities about Language and say Hi! You can send me a message if you are interest in being a guest to talk about your language learning journey or the death of language(s) within your family. I look forward to hearing from ya'll
    Links
    Book: https://www.amazon.com/Immersed-Love-Kamille-Lucas/dp/0578891557?fbclid=IwAR2EuHEp311t9-Ev8-jVbviBktCnnU8qioE93JeDV_-lwZJwzL0QXfxW5FI
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  • Welcome Language Learners to the Insecurities about Language podcast: The Death of Language and to an exciting topic I am tackling called the Death of Language...within families! In this episode, I had the pleasure of interviewing Pona who lives in Toronto, Canada, is the first child of an immigrant family who grew up exposed to several languages, but only spoke English for many years. She has been working to change that in adulthood and is thrilled to have been able to talk about her heritage language experience on this podcast! 
    In this episode, you will hear Pona speak about her parents language, which is a Chinese dialect from Southeast China called Teochew. Pona states that her heritage language isn't dead, its less alive due to migration.
    You will also hear her speak about her families history as it relates to language, what contributed to the death of language, her emotions with the language growing up and her motivation, and so much more. She will define what the Death of Language within families mean to her and of course, her insecurities, because this is a podcast about Insecurities about Language!
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  • Welcome to the Insecurities about language podcast: The Death of Language. In this episode I am going to talk about: what is this, where did it come from, what are my goals with this topic, and I will define what does the Death of Language within families mean to me!

    And so the overall goal of this segment or topic is to talk about and answer the question: What does the death of language within families mean to you? And you may think that this is an obvious question, or you’re like what does she mean or what does she want to hear, or maybe you have to think about it for a moment, and really there is no right or wrong answer to this question. Really the question is to get you to think about yourself, your family, someone you know, the language and culture you immersed yourself in, or maybe the literal death of language. The languages that are dying because its not being past down from generation to generation, not being taught, spoken, not being recognized or respected.

    The death of language came from me deciding what I wanted to do with this podcast and having conversations with my mom and thinking about how diverse we are and how like we don’t speak no other language besides English. And so, I have 2 main questions that come from this topic, its WHAT HAPPENED? And WHY?

    Make sure to tune into this episode to here more!

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  • Hey Language Learners! Welcome back to another amazing interview about Insecurities about Language. In this episode, I had the pleasure of finally speaking about languages from a males perspective. Joshua was born and raised in Minneapolis, MN. He began learning Spanish in school but desired much more than what he received. He started his solo journey after graduating college to learn Spanish on his own. Trying out many different strategies and failing on the way, he has fallen in love with the process and with languages. His passion for language learning has taken him to Mexico, the Dominican Republic twice, a Spanish church, and serving the Latino community as a volunteer distributing food where he lived. Now, he is on a new chapter of his journey learning a new language, French, to add to his toolbelt but also wants to learn German in the future. Also, he has created a YouTube channel called Spanish Blueprints which is dedicated to helping Spanish learners by giving them study strategies, language learning resources, and his personal experiences with the language learning. He desires to one day be a language coach or a language teacher to fulfill his passion for helping others.

    Introduction to the Spanish language and culture

    Self-learning with Spanish

    What was most impactful

    Strategies of language learning

    Travels to Mexico and the Dominic Republic

    Environment and tools used

    Insecurities about the Spanish language

    and his favorite word and phrase in the language.

    Make sure to check out his YouTube channel and his Instagram to connect!

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  • Hey Language Learners! Welcome back to another amazing interview with Insecurities about Language. In this episode, I had the pleasure of speaking with Kim! She is currently lives in Mexico and has lived in 3 other countries abroad including Japan, Vietnam, and China. She’s studied Spanish and Japanese and dabbled in Mandarin during her time in China. She teaches English online as her daytime gig, but her passion is showing other Black women how accessible moving abroad can be no matter their current financial situation.

    Make sure to support this podcast by following and leaving a review/ rating wherever you listen to your podcast. You can follow on Instagram at Insecurities about Language and say Hi! You can send me a message if you are interest in being a guest to talk about your language learning journey or the death of language(s) within your family. I look forward to hearing from ya'll!

    Instagram: Live_Life_Untamed

    youtube.com/c/LiveLifeUntamed

    livelifeuntamed.com

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  • Welcome Language Learners to a super special topic that I will be tackling on this podcast!

    Today I have complied answers to a question that I have been asking every guest that you have already heard and will hear soon about a topic that I am very interested in tackling. And so, the question that I’ve asked is…What does the death of language within families mean to you? And you may think that this is an obvious question, or you’re like what does she mean or what does she want to hear, or maybe you have to think about it for a moment, and really there is no right or wrong answer to this question. Really the question is to get you to think about yourself, your family, someone you know, the language and culture and the immersion of that or maybe the literal death of language. The languages that are dying because it’s not being passed down from generation to generation, not being taught, spoken, not being recognized.

    The death of language came from me deciding what I wanted to do with this podcast and having conversations with my mom and thinking about how diverse we are and how like we don’t speak no other language besides English. And so, I have 2 main questions that come from this topic, it’s WHAT HAPPENED? And WHY?

    So, for this episode, I have 7 ladies who will provide their answer with thought, emotion, feelings, and relatability

    This is the order of speakers and a few points that stuck out for me. Make sure to check out their episode if you haven’t had the chance to hear or want to listen again! Also, check out Erin’s episode we actually delve a bit more into the death of language.

    Shahidah- Language families

    Christine- Lost of History

    Tiara- Culture/ Language within families

    Niyah- language and intelligence equivalency, language deprivation

    Erin- ME, 1st generation American

    Nelsy- …managed to keep our language alive within our family, the Death of Language can happen with ME

    Olivia– You don’t notice it until later, Regretful

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  • Hey Language Learners! Welcome back to another amazing interview with Insecurities about Language. In this episode, I had the pleasure of speaking with Olivia, a native of Ohio who's always had an interest in languages. She is currently learning Italian with hopes of being at least 80% intelligible within the next three years.

    Olivia tells us what her fluency goal is and why!

    She talks about how we initially learn languages, and that is through LISTENING! Have you ever though about that? 

    She also talks about how practicing is the hardest part about learning a language.

    Olivia also talks about being blind and learning languages.

    She also co-captains the social commentary podcast Intersectional Insights where she and her cohost Raven discuss issues from the intersection of race, gender and disability.

    Make sure to support this podcast by following and leaving a review/ rating wherever you listen to your podcast. You can follow on Instagram at Insecurities about Language and say Hi! You can send me a message if you are interest in being a guest to talk about your language learning journey or the death of language(s) within your family. I look forward to hearing from ya'll!

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  • Hey Language Learners! Welcome back to another amazing interview about Insecurities about Language. In this episode, I spoke with Nelsy (Yseuln), currently living in Amsterdam. She was born and raised in Reunion Island, which is located between Madagascar and Mauritius.  French and Reunionese creole are her native languages, and she has a strong interest in language learning. She gave a thorough background about when she began learning languages and her journey. Nelsy talks about the official and unofficial language of Reunion Island, French and Reunionese Creole. She mentions joining Twitter was a big turning point in her language journey with English. Nelsy has learned many languages and has a tendency to take on languages with a different writing system, like the Korean language.

    We get a history lesson for Nelsy about Reunion Island and the language and discusses about some of her own fears or questions with her local language, such as the lack of written literature and therefore most people including herself cannot write the official/conventional way as historically due to slavery it was a spoken language, also the "value" of the language with French, as creole languages are also seen as not a real language.

    Nelsy has provided some music, poetry and literature of her island. Be sure to check it out and her on instagram, below are the links.

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    Traditional/Folk Music : it is called Maloya

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SadOY4sUOo&ab_channel=BourbonCuivre-Topic (this song basically explain what is Reunion Island and Creole language)

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nP6Tz45K_U&ab_channel=PsykoPictures%3Acha%C3%AEneofficielledesr%C3%A9alisateursHonoretKeran (old song but super famous the group itself is one of the most known face in this genre for my Island - language is primarily creole )

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3sMYRKFga0&ab_channel=mru95 (another famous one group)

    New/Urban/Club music:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTvqYrbwEjQ

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPJY12NW7R4&ab_channel=DjSebb

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pclj6rDIETM ( a bit more lover music like we call it)

    In regards to poetry it's a bit tricky but there are some

    https://www.amazon.co.uk/Fonnk%C3%A8r-Libert%C3%A9-Laetitia-Boqui-Queni/dp/2343087792 (for example also bilingual ones with French)

    https://halldulivre.com/livre/9782910791285-zordi-an-kase-brize-alain-armand/

    This is a website for Author in the area but usually most are in French. Literature wise it's just more common.

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  • Hey Language Learners! Welcome back to another episode, where I will speak about the beginning of my speaking journey.
    I have to mention that this episode was recorded in January of 2022 and I restarted my learning journey with European Portuguese. I made this decision because one of my major regrets with learning this language was that I did not start speaking once I joined the program I'm in. So I felt behind compared to others, even though this is a self paced program, so there is no competition buy yourself haha. So I have been speaking (mostly to myself but out loud) and I will be documenting it and sharing soon enough.
    But, for this episode I will speak about what challenge got me to "speak", where I found a language partner (for a short period of time), and an embarrassing moment I had, and if I was successful in the challenge.
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  • Hey Language Learners! Welcome back to another amazing interview about Insecurities about Language. In this episode, I had the please of speaking with Tiara Youngblood, an English teacher based in South Korea for about 3 years.  She’s studied dead and modern languages, including Spanish, Italian, Latin, Ancient Greek, and now Korean, and she’s learned a lot about the language learning process. She is also the "Card Master" of Speak in Spades, which is a language learning platform she created so that others could feel more confident and have fun with the way they choose to study languages.

    (More about Speak in Spades)

    Speak in Spades is a platform where language learners can find tips, resources, and language bootcamps promoting the idea that there's no right way to learn languages, and each person has their own language learning style. 

    We talked about her love for learning language and how that came to be.

    How she became an English teacher and the difference of learning a language in person versus online.

    What keeps her motivated to continue learning and of course her insecurities about language. 

    You can find all the ways to contact Tiara and about her website, make sure to check it out and take the Language Learning Style quiz!

    Make sure to support this podcast by following and leaving a review/ rating wherever you listen to your podcast. You can follow on Instagram at Insecurities about Language and say Hi! You can send me a message if you are interest in being a guest to talk about your language learning journey or the death of language(s) within your family. I look forward to hearing from ya'll!

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