Connected By Language: Polyglot Interviews

00:58:52

EP. 37 - Tandem DeutschConnect, Evgeniya and the...

Connected By Language: Polyglot Interviews ·

2026/09/29

🇩🇪 JOIN TANDEM DEUTSCHCONNECT: invite.tandem.net/DCV-37-NK4DEvgeniya knew at five years old that she wanted to teach languages, fell for German through Rammstein songs, and arrived in Germany to discover that the language she'd studied at university was not the one people actually spoke. Fifteen years of teaching later, from classrooms in Moscow to a multicultural au pair household where German, Spanish, and English mixed at the dinner table, she has seen every kind of learner, and one pattern

en

00:49:42

EP. 36 - Veronica: Choosing Languages Like Investments

Connected By Language: Polyglot Interviews ·

2026/09/15

🌍 JOIN TANDEM TODAY: https://tandem.go.link/lcLQHMost people fall in love with a language and then find reasons to learn it. Veronica does the opposite. Before a single flashcard, the 21-year-old from Hong Kong runs the numbers: what career does it unlock, where is the market, how hard is it, and what's the payoff at the end. If a language doesn't pass the test, it doesn't get her time. In this episode of Connected By Language, she opens up the framework that made her choose French over

en

01:02:29

EP. 35 - Sayaka: The Super Kanji Map and Rethinking...

Connected By Language: Polyglot Interviews ·

2026/09/01

🌍 JOIN TANDEM TODAY: https://tandem.go.link/lcLQHSayaka was born and raised in Okinawa, learned English as an investment in her future, and moved fifteen times following military life across the world. In this episode of Connected By Language, she explains how living in survival mode, setting up a new life again and again in a foreign language, shifted her mindset from speaking perfectly to simply getting her point across, and how that philosophy now shapes the way she teaches Japanese.The heart of

en

00:43:53

EP. 34 - FrenchSchoolTV: From Zero to Millions of...

Connected By Language: Polyglot Interviews ·

2026/08/18

🌍 JOIN TANDEM TODAY: https://tandem.go.link/lcLQHVincent wasn't supposed to be a French teacher. He was a construction engineer who hated French at school, until years of traveling revealed he had a talent for teaching the language like an equation to be solved. In this episode of Connected By Language, the founder of French School TV explains how he quit his job at the French Institute in December 2019, three months before Covid put the whole world on their phones, and turned that gamble into

en

00:53:23

EP. 33 - Xena: Exploring Asia Through Food, Language,...

Connected By Language: Polyglot Interviews ·

2026/08/04

🌍 JOIN TANDEM TODAY: https://tandem.go.link/lcLQHXena is an Italian content creator who grew up bilingual between Italian and French, with Senegalese roots and the sound of Wolof in her childhood home. In this episode of Connected By Language, she shares how a multicultural upbringing shaped her relationship with languages, why she once pushed away the language of her heritage to fit in, and how she now finds connection in places where words fail entirely, from dance trainings in China to dinner

en

01:06:31

Ep. 32 - Guillaume: How Speaking Different Languages...

Connected By Language: Polyglot Interviews ·

2026/07/21

🌍 JOIN TANDEM TODAY: https://tandem.go.link/lcLQHGuillaume grew up near Brussels as a monolingual French speaker who failed to pick up Dutch at school and thought languages simply weren't for him. In this episode of Connected By Language, he explains how discovering his own learning methods changed everything, eventually building up to seven languages at B2 level or above, plus a collection of others including Norwegian, Catalan, and Mandarin.The conversation centers on how he combines this

en

01:12:29

EP. 31 - From Language Fear to Language Coaching: a...

Connected By Language: Polyglot Interviews ·

2026/07/07

🌍 JOIN TANDEM TODAY: https://tandem.go.link/lcLQHKaterina is a Czech language coach who moved from the Czech Republic to Germany at nineteen and built her career explaining Czech to German native speakers, a niche she carved out for herself. In this episode of Connected By Language, she talks about the fear and structure that shaped her own German learning journey, why she barely speaks her native language anymore despite growing up with it, and how one supportive teacher taught her the difference

en

01:10:59

Ep. 30 - Natascha Moser: How a Scar Became Her Entire...

Connected By Language: Polyglot Interviews ·

2026/06/23

🌍 JOIN TANDEM TODAY: https://tandem.go.link/lcLQHWhat happens when the people who are supposed to teach you tell you you'll never make it?For Natascha Moser (@german.language.coach), influencer with 400,000+ followers, and incoming managing director of Expo Lingua, that question shaped everything.In this episode, Natascha shares how years of being told she had no talent in her own mother tongue became the foundation of a coaching philosophy built on identity, belief, and starting before

en

01:01:08

EP. 29 - Petr: How Language Exchanges Led to Helping...

Connected By Language: Polyglot Interviews ·

2026/06/09

🌍 JOIN TANDEM TODAY: https://tandem.go.link/lcLQHPetr is a Czech linguist and freelancer who spent years treating English as just another school subject, until an early internet language exchange site opened up the world to him. From there he taught himself Russian in his thirties, not because he had to, but because he was drawn to the post-Soviet world and the vast geography a single language could unlock. He passed a B2 exam, traveled to Georgia to put his skills to the test, and built quiet

en

01:01:57

EP. 28 - Rafael: Teaching Korean, Learning Spanish,...

Connected By Language: Polyglot Interviews ·

2026/05/26

🌍 JOIN TANDEM TODAY: https://tandem.go.link/lcLQHRafael is a Korean native speaker who started teaching Korean online after noticing how many people in Prague were desperate to learn the language during the height of the K-pop and Squid Game wave. What began as a casual side project turned into a full career… Until he followed his Spanish partner back to Europe, landed in Barcelona without knowing a word of Catalan, moved to Madrid, and suddenly found himself on the other side of the classroom for

en

00:49:24

EP. 27 - One doctor, Seven Languages, and a Polyglot...

Connected By Language: Polyglot Interviews ·

2026/05/12

🌍 JOIN TANDEM TODAY: https://tandem.go.link/lcLQHJonatan grew up in northern Sweden with Eritrean parents, speaking both Swedish and Tigrinya at home, and was promptly labeled the math kid while his more extroverted sister got the language person title. That label stuck until a passionate Spanish teacher named Lars changed everything, and what started as a school subject eventually took Jonatan through Spain, six years of medical school in Hungary, fluency in Hungarian, Russian, and several other

en

01:08:14

EP. 26 - Ali: How Obsession, Self-Education, and a...

Connected By Language: Polyglot Interviews ·

2026/05/11

🌍 JOIN TANDEM TODAY: https://tandem.go.link/lcLQHAli Alradhi grew up in Basra, Iraq, surrounded by brothers who traveled the world and spoke English fluently. At twelve, he asked for a dictionary instead of a toy, started reading five to ten pages a day without knowing why, and spent the next decade quietly building an obsession that would take over his entire life. By the time he was twenty two, he had turned down Arabic music, Arabic friends, and anything that wasn't in English, bought a

en

01:08:41

EP. 25 - From No Plan to Fluent: Frank's Language...

Connected By Language: Polyglot Interviews ·

2026/04/14

🌍 JOIN TANDEM TODAY: https://tandem.go.link/lcLQHFrank grew up in London convinced he was simply bad at languages. Seven years of French at school, five of German, and not a single conversation to show for it. So at twenty-two, fresh out of university, he did the only logical thing: bought a one-way ticket to Buenos Aires with no contacts, no savings, and barely enough Spanish to order a coffee.What followed was equal parts terrifying and transformative. In this episode, Frank walks us through what

en

01:08:17

EP. 24 - English Dominance, Dying French Languages,...

Connected By Language: Polyglot Interviews ·

2026/03/31

🌍 JOIN TANDEM TODAY: https://tandem.go.link/lcLQHLuke is a British-born polyglot who grew up in a national park in northern England, spent his adult life living across eight countries, and now works at a French language school in Lille, advising, testing, and reassuring students from all over the world who come to learn French in an immersive environment. In this episode, he shares what years of living abroad and watching hundreds of students succeed and fail has taught him about what language

en

00:45:21

EP.23 - Inside CLEAR Global: Helping 3.7 Billion...

Connected By Language: Polyglot Interviews ·

2026/03/17

🫂 Donate to CLEAR Global today: clearglobal.org/donate🌍 JOIN TANDEM TODAY: https://tandem.go.link/lcLQHIn this special episode of the Connected by Language podcast, we dive into the critical mission of CLEAR Global to bridge the "digital language divide". We sit down with CEO Aimee Ansari to discuss why 3.7 billion people remain "digitally invisible". From crisis response in Nigeria to disaster preparedness in Bolivia, we explore how language barriers can become a matter of

en

00:56:21

EP. 22 - This Dutch Mother is Learning Luganda for a...

Connected By Language: Polyglot Interviews ·

2026/03/03

🌍 JOIN TANDEM TODAY: https://tandem.go.link/lcLQHIn this episode of Connected By Language, Dutch content creator Jetske shares her experience learning Luganda, a language of Uganda. Originally visiting for a university minor, she eventually settled there and started a family. Jetske explains her commitment to the language as a way to connect with her partner's family and ensure their daughter grows up with both her Dutch and Ugandan heritage. The conversation covers the technical aspects of

en

00:59:29

EP. 21 - How 8 Years of Self-Directed Learning Led Me...

Connected By Language: Polyglot Interviews ·

2026/02/17

🌍 JOIN TANDEM TODAY: https://tandem.go.link/lcLQHIn this episode of Connected By Language, we sit down with Tess, an Australian content creator and university teacher currently living and working in China. Tess shares her incredible eight-year journey of mastering Mandarin, starting from a high school trip to Guangzhou that changed her life forever.From waking up at 6:30 AM to study before school to navigating the complex world of Chinese radicals and tones, Tess reveals the specific strategies she

en

01:04:14

EP. 20 - How Languages Connect Philosophers Across...

Connected By Language: Polyglot Interviews ·

2026/02/03

🌍 JOIN TANDEM TODAY: https://tandem.go.link/lcLQHIn this episode, we sit down with Dr. Tanu Biswas, associate professor of pedagogy and lifelong polyglot, to explore how language can be more than a skill — it can be a worldview. Growing up multilingual in India and continuing her journey across Europe, Dr. Biswas shares how each language she’s learned became a bridge to new cultures, academic research, and deep human connection.We dive into how multilingualism can shift not just your vocabulary,

en

01:10:09

EP. 19 - Is Learning Swedish With a Non-Native...

Connected By Language: Polyglot Interviews ·

2026/01/20

🌍 JOIN TANDEM TODAY: https://tandem.go.link/lcLQHCan a non-native teacher actually be more effective than a native speaker? In this episode, we sit down with Una, a Serbian-native who built a successful career teaching Swedish. We dive into her "superpower": the ability to explain the language from the perspective of someone who actually had to "survive" the learning process from scratch.Una explains the "secret advantage" that Balkan speakers have when it comes to perfect pronunciation , the

en

01:12:45

EP. 18 - Is Brazilian Portuguese the Most Fun...

Connected By Language: Polyglot Interviews ·

2026/01/12

🌍 JOIN TANDEM TODAY: https://tandem.go.link/lcLQHGuilherme, aka BrazilianPortugui, had a very interesting English learning journey. From crashing into body-language barriers as an au pair in New York to building a thriving online brand from scratch, he shares how teaching Brazilian Portuguese became a global mission rooted in culture, music, and identity.In this episode, Guilherme joins us from Bangkok to explore what makes Portuguese so expressive, why learning a language is like going to the gym,

en

All Episodes

Similar Podcasts

Daily Facts

Amalia Dupray and Montgomery Jones.

Les dents et dodo

BFMTV

Psychology in Everyday Life: The Psych Files

Michael Britt

Bedtime Safari

Bedtime History

The Day with Geoff Barton

The Day News and Media Ltd