Herr Professor on How Engineers Approach Language Learning

Language Hacking

English - October 04, 2021 11:00 - 40 minutes - 56.1 MB
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In this episode of the Language Hacking Podcast, Benny Lewis and Shannon Kennedy talk to Manuel of “Herr Professor” about growing up multilingual, teaching German, and how engineers approach language learning.

Featured Resources

Herr Professor

Mentioned in this Episode

Tiny Habits
Stephen Krashen’s Comprehensible Input
Herr Professor
Herr Professor Courses
Herr Professor Podcast
James Asher’s Total Physical Response

Episode Overview

Some of the topics brought up during the interview are:

How Manuel used his technical background to learn new languages
How to turn language input into output
Why speaking is one of the biggest challenges for language learners
What makes input useful and how to avoid passive listening
What to do when you have trouble focusing on your language learning tools
How to find compelling, comprehensible input at your language level
Why building habits is so important in language learning
The importance of being able to drop things that don’t work and focus on the things that do

Podcast theme: “A New Beginning” by Shannon Kennedy