#135 Azren on Going from Window Cleaner to Language Teacher

How can you find good resources to learn uncommon or less popular
languages?


Azren grew up multilingual and made a career out of his passion
for languages. He currently speaks English, French, Spanish,
Gujarati, and Mandarin, but his online tutoring business covers
11 more… Some of which are not widely spoken worldwide.


In his interview with Benny, Azren explains how he went from
working for a window-cleaning franchise during his university
studies to developing his own language-tutoring team. He goes
into details about how he carefully selected tutors over the
course of several years, and how he maintains the same patient
rhythm to constantly grow his business by organically recruiting
team-members to cover new languages.


Then the conversation moves on to a pain point for minority
language learners: finding resources, either digitally or
physically, a struggle which Azren has learned.


From intensive learner to intensive learner, Azren and Benny
discuss Azren’s methods to do full immersion, talk about how he
stumbled upon the online polyglot community, how it helped him to
grow as a language learner, and how it has impacted his teaching
style.


(PS: If you’re struggling to get out of an intermediate plateau,
Azren has some must-hear advice for you!)


Mentioned In This Episode


Calgary Language Nerds

Azren’s Instagram

CEFR Companion Guide

italki



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