IWTYAL 156: What to expect from me in 2017

In this episode, I talk about my plans for 2017 and thank some people who have influenced my life and work over the last year.

In this episode:

My big plans for the year:

• Fluent Spanish Academy – growing the Academy into the best resource for Spanish learners on the web
• New beginners Spanish course – watch this space!
• Conversations – collections of fun, natural dialogues for language learners

• Cantonese listening materials – a new project coming soon
• Short Stories – a big (but still secret) project coming soon
• Polyglot Pub – more events for language fans
• Languages Of London – a new Instagram account celebrating the linguistic diversity of the greatest city in the world. #languagesoflondon

Thanks:

• Steve, for being my biggest inspiration for language learning
• Benny, for showing me what's possible
• Colin, for helping me reach more people around the world
• Calif, for her passion for Cantonese and help producing amazing dialogues
• Israel, for his help translating
• Anthony, for his advice and friendship
• Tetsu and Joey, for inviting me to Montreal
• Jan, for being a great travel companion
• Conor and Kris, for bouncing around endless ideas
• Robert, for being the best supporter in the world
• Kruu Nuu, for being an amazing teacher and putting up with my lack of Thai study
• Stu Jay, for inspiring me to continue with Asian languages
• Richard, for his friendship and many conversations about languages
• Amy, for her help getting blog posts out on time
• iTalki, for supporting this show
• Shirley, for a great lunch
• Karen, for showing me some of the coolest things in HK
• Dave, for helping me manage an insane amount of email

Resources Mentioned in This Episode:

• Polyglot Pub – My regular meetups for language fans in London
• Montreal Language Festival 2017, 25-27 August, Montreal
• Polyglot Conference 2017, October, Reykjavik
• Polyglot Gathering 2017, 31 May – 4 June, Bratislava

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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.