#50 Dayna Brockbank on Budget Language Learning with Cartoons, Anki, and italki

Benny and Shannon chat with Dayna Brockbank about learning
languages on a budget with Duolingo, italki and Anki by building
systems for motivation.


Featured Resources


italki

Atomic Habits

Anki



Mentioned in this Episode


italki

Atomic Habits

Anki

Fluent in 3 Months blog

Duolingo

Happily Ever Travels

VIP Kid

Universe of Memory



Episode Overview


Some of the topics brought up during the interview are:


Learning Spanish while living in Chile in complete immersion

What makes language immersion work

How language learners waste time to try to be more effective

Tips for budget traveling

Building a career you can take traveling

Finding motivation with systems

How to choose which languages you learn

Building conversation skills in a new language

Learning for the sake of learning

Common struggles amongst English language learners

Something is better than nothing in language learning



Podcast theme: “A New Beginning” by Shannon Kennedy


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