Two polyglots geek out on teaching methods (with Lukas Van Vyve)

Lukas van Vyve is the founder of Effortless Conversations and the co-founder of Spring Spanish, a new site and YouTube channel that uses the power of “Conversation Based Chunking” to help you get fluent faster.

In our conversation, we talk about:

• What it's like to grow up in a country where 3 languages are spoken (Hint: it's not what you think!).
• Why Lukas can get in the car, drive 45 minutes in a certain direction, and not understand anything people say when he arrives.
• Why many polyglots learned languages one way, but now teach them in a completely different way.
• The benefits of using “chunking” to learn languages and how it can go hand in hand with story-based learning.

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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.