#123 Kelsey Lechner on Speaking 6 Very Different Languages

How much does living in different countries shape your
personality and influence your personal development?


In an episode packed with cultural exploration anecdotes, writer,
translator, and educator Kelsey Lechner shares her experience
with learning six vastly different languages, keeping her career
tightly related to languages in unexpected ways, and adapting to
new cultures while living in countries like Tanzania, Japan, and
Bangladesh.


Kelsey also shares her flexible language learning strategy
pointers, which she developed while learning Japanese, Spanish,
Mandarin Chinese, Swahili, and Bengali. She and Benny discuss how
social acceptance works when trying to adjust to new cultures,
how to take missteps in cross-cultural communication in stride,
and how to deal with culture shocks.


(Psss… Wait until minute 28 for a funny anecdote about how mixing
up Bangladesh and Spanish led Kelsey to hit up on someone without
meaning to!)


Mentioned in this Episode


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Kelsey’s posts on Fluent in 3 Months



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