#35 Richard Simcott on Being a World Famous Polyglot

In this episode, we talk to renowned polyglot Richard Simcott about learning languages at university, raising a multilingual child, and finding motivation to learn languages through human connection.

Featured Resources

• Assimil
• italki

Mentioned in this Episode

• Polyglot Conference
• Richard’s Polyglot Video
• Korean Script Hacking
• Assimil
• Teach Yourself Complete Korean
• Michel Thomas
• Go Billy Korean
• TTMIK
• italki
• Richard Simcott
• Richard’s Youtube
• Richard’s Twitter
• Richard’s Instagram
• Richard’s Facebook

Episode Overview

Some of the topics brought up during the interview are:

• Studying language at university
• Secrets to working on more than one language at a time
• How to maintain languages with anchor languages
• Reactivating, improving and learning languages
• Finding motivation to learn languages through human connection
• Uploading videos and becoming a part of the polyglot community
• The origins of the Polyglot Conference and shifting to the online space
• What language learning resources and methods Richard Simcott uses
• How Richard is learning Korean with his daughter
• Criteria for choosing a language tutor
• Raising multilingual children

Podcast theme: “A New Beginning” by Shannon Kennedy

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