IWTYAL 236: How can I create my own study material?

Louise asks: “How can I make my own learning material?”

Episode Summary:

• I have a long history of making my own material
• I want to study with things that interest me
• In Japan, I would record train announcements and ask a native speaker to transcribe them
• I often do pieces of writing and get my tutor to correct them
• I record my language partners giving a monologue about something and transcribe it
• I often commission transcriptions of YouTube videos, movies or TV series
• More recently, Conversations has been my big foray into materials creation
• To make your own materials, ask yourself: “What would I most like to be able to understand?”

Resources Mentioned in Today's Episode:

• How to use virtual assistants to make your own foreign language material

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Olly Richards

Creator of the StoryLearning® Method

Olly Richards is a renowned polyglot and language learning expert with over 15 years of experience teaching millions through his innovative StoryLearning® method. He is the creator of StoryLearning, one of the world's largest language learning blogs with 500,000+ monthly readers.

Olly has authored 30+ language learning books and courses, including the bestselling "Short Stories" series published by Teach Yourself.

When not developing new teaching methods, Richards practices what he preaches—he speaks 8 languages fluently and continues learning new ones through his own methodology.