Polyglot Perspective Rants #6: Is Your Accent "Bad"?

Welcome to our seventh segment of 'Polyglot Perspective Rants' where Lily and Taylor rant all about the most pressing topics in language learning and share their opinions! Ready to take the next step in your language learning journey and talk to native speakers? Seek to practice your language speaking skills by downloading apps such as HelloTalk, Tandem, or Lingbe? In this week's episode, Lily and Taylor talk all about their personal experiences with language exchange apps, funny stories and requests from language exchange partners, and the best practices you can take to get the most out of using these apps. As always, this episode highlights our stories through our perspectives, the polyglot perspective.

Welcome to the 2nd episode of Season 3 of the Polyglot Perspective Podcast! Learning languages to us aspiring polyglots changes how we see the world around us and how we interact in our everyday lives. For many of our listeners, language learning has been a great hobby with which they spend hours dedicating their lives to. Young polyglots of the world, have you heard of linguistics, want to learn more, or would be interested in majoring in this field in university? Polina is a Russian university student studying linguistics. Polina created a student organization at her university to bring language-enthusiasts together. Some of her hobbies include reading, watching TV series and films in other languages, making videos, and running. Polina is currently studying English, Spanish, Norwegian, French, and Greek. In this episode you’ll learn more about what studying linguistics is like in Russia from Polina’s personal experiences. This episode highlights Polina’s story through her perspective, the polyglot perspective.

Welcome to our sixth segment of 'Polyglot Perspective Rants' where Lily and Taylor rant all about the most pressing topics in language learning and share their opinions! Have you ever felt embarrassed or ashamed about your accent when speaking to a native speaker of your target language? Have you ever reverted back to your native language because you were afraid of sounding “foreign” to a native speaker? In this week’s episode, Lily and Taylor talk all about accent discrimination, their experiences with trying to get “rid” of their accents to sound “native,” and some linguistic insights into the differences between accents and pronunciation. As always, this episode highlights our stories through our perspectives, the polyglot perspective.

Welcome to our fifth segment of 'Polyglot Perspective Rants' where Lily and Taylor rant all about the most pressing topics in language learning and share their opinions! Have you ever seen a video with the title, "Learn a Language in Your Sleep! (Results Guaranteed)" or "You Can Learn a Language in Your Sleep. Here's Why."? Well, we have too. But, as exciting as the concept sounds, is it actually possible to learn a language in your sleep? Tune in to this week's episode where Lily and Taylor chat about their personal experiences with sleep learning and their best recommendations for utilizing sleep to supercharge your language learning journeys.  As always, this episode highlights our stories through our perspectives, the polyglot perspective.

Welcome to our fourth segment of 'Polyglot Perspective Rants' where Lily and Taylor rant all about the most pressing topics in language learning and share their opinions! Are you a high school or university student? Are you dealing with the stress of school, extracurriculars, and work and are wondering if it's truly possible for you to incorporate languages into your daily life? In this episode, we talk all about the importance of consistency in language learning and small yet powerful habits to implement into your routine.  Note: Some of these habits don't even require formal materials or technological devices! All you need is your mind and a will to learn! So, sit tight and get ready to soak in all the tips we'll share with you. As always, this episode highlights our stories through our perspectives, the polyglot perspective.

Welcome back to the first episode of Season 3 of the Polyglot Perspective Podcast! We apologize for the hiatus and are very excited to be back! We cannot wait to share more about language learning with you all! Learning a language not only opens doors of opportunities but also helps give insight into another’s culture. Within the United States alone (according to 2022 data published by Ethnologue) 422 languages are spoken. The U.S., being a melting pot, consists of people from various countries holding the most mixed people in the world. Taylor Torres is a high school senior from Southern California currently learning Mandarin Chinese, Spanish, and dabbling in lots of languages such as Korean and Thai. She is the founder of Polyglot Perspective and hopes to inspire youth from around the world to learn languages to bridge the gap between different cultures.  In this episode, Taylor Torres discusses her personal experience being a mixed individual in the U.S. and will be discussing what it's like growing up in a Vietnamese-Chinese-Mexican household, along with some preconceptions of mixed people. Lastly, Torres will share what motivated her to start a multilingual, multicultural polyglot youth community as well as updates for the organization. This episode highlights Taylor’s story through her perspective, the polyglot perspective. Show notes: https://www.polyglotperspective.com

Hello everyone and welcome back to the Polyglot Perspective Podcast! We've been on a bit of a hiatus for the past year but we are back and are more than ready to continue sharing both our personal experiences with language learning as well as those of various international guests with you!  For Season 3, we will be hearing from different voices within the language Instagram, YouTube, and social media communities. From chatting about what it's like to be a language learning creator on these platforms to sharing the truth about language related majors in university and beyond, we cultivated fascinating discussions with countless creators (some of which you might be familiar with) and are incredibly excited to share them with you! Going forward, all episodes will be released on Friday at 2 pm PST / 5 pm EST. The first episode of the month will be a guest episode while the others will be rant episodes hosted by Taylor and Lily.  If you have any suggestions for topics to discuss or guests to bring on the podcast, please let us know! And as always, we would really appreciate it if you could take a few seconds to subscribe to the podcast and our YouTube channel, as well as leave us a great review on Apple podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts! This would help us out a lot. Thanks! Check out our Blog: https://www.polyglotperspective.com Music Credits: DriftMaster by Shane Ivers - https://www.silvermansound.com

Welcome to our third segment of 'Polyglot Perspective Rants' where Lily and Taylor rant all about the most pressing topics in language learning and share their opinions! Have you ever come across Youtube videos with titles like, "How to Learn (insert language) in 7 days?" or "How I learned to speak (insert languages) in 24 hours?" In this episode, we talk all about Youtube clickbait in the polyglot community, as well as our opinions on titles on these videos/Polyglot youtubers, how these videos can act as a source of motivation and demotivation, and how we should go about comparing our language journey with other people's. As always, this episode highlights our stories through our perspectives, the polyglot perspective.

Welcome back to the sixth episode of Season 2 of the Polyglot Perspective Podcast! When learning a language, reading, writing, listening and speaking tie into our learning journey. Among the four, many people believe speaking is the most difficult. Many learners lack confidence, and don’t know how to go about talking to native speakers in their target language. Sam Coates is a university student studying business analytics and accounting. Sam was born in New York but moved to Jamaica as a toddler (as his family is Jamaican) and returned to the U.S at 14. Some of his hobbies include doing track, playing soccer among other sports. Sam is currently studying Japanese, Mandarin, Cantonese, Korean and Spanish. Sam also has an Instagram (@samslanguageprogress)  where he posts videos of him talking with natives. In this episode, Sam Coates discusses his personal experience, tips and tricks on how to be confident when talking to native speakers. This episode highlights Sam’s story through his perspective, the polyglot perspective.

Welcome to our second segment of 'Polyglot Perspective Rants' where Lily and Taylor rant all about the most pressing topics in language learning and share their opinions!  Have you ever come across videos with titles like, "How to Learn (insert language)?" or "Tips to Learn (insert language)?" but are still confused about how to actually learn a language effectively? In this episode, we talk all about the various different study methods that language learners use, as well as the methods, resources, and strategies that we personally use when learning languages. Additionally, we discuss how personality can affect that ways in which you learn languages, and how to find a study method that works best for your personality type.  As always, this episode highlights our stories through our perspectives, the polyglot perspective.