#19 Turia Pope - from False Beginner to Spanish Homeschooler
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English - October 12, 2020 11:00 - 33 minutes - 46.5 MBLanguage Learning Education Self-Improvement language learning languages spanish french german japanese chinese motivation Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
This episode features Turia, who learned Spanish to the conversational level in just 90 days with the Fluent in 3 Months Challenge.
Turia shares her experience going from an on-again-off-again Spanish learner to a confident Spanish speaker with the Fluent in 3 Months Challenge. She also shares how she travels alone with her children in Spanish-speaking countries, developing a homeschooling curriculum for Spanish for her children, and how she responded to emergency situations in Spanish.
We actually guarantee that anyone who completes the Fluent in 3 Months Challenge will have a 15-minute conversation in their new language after 90 days of learning. You can find out more here.
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Some of the topics brought up during the interview are:
How the Fluent in 3 Months Challenge helped Turia become a confident learner after 20 years of learning on and off againHow Turia is teaching her three kids to speak fluent SpanishMoving to Spain for immersion and learning about the cultureIncorporating Spanish into a homeschooling curriculumNavigating tricky or nightmare situations in another languageWhat it’s like traveling alone with kidsTuria’s favorite rituals and resources for learning SpanishMaking friends and building relationships in SpanishLetting kids’ language studies be child-ledMore Resources
After we recorded this episode, Turia was kind enough to share more specific resources with us.
Spanish champs - a program that includes a script and is song/activity based. It also includes a dvd with clips incorporating the songs taught.Talkbox Mom - a subscription service that offers resources to help you switch your day to day interactions into your new language.Whistlefritz - a foreign language show for kids by kids available on Amazon prime.Podcast theme: “A New Beginning” by Shannon Kennedy
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