IWTYAL 210: How was the Montreal Language Festival?

This weekend, I was in Montreal for LangFest 2017. Since then, many friends have been asking me how it was. So, in this episode, I answer that question publicly.

Episode Summary:

• Many people from the Community traveled from far and wide to attend the conference
• It's great to take a few days to step away and think about language and language learning with calm… it's inspiring
• My talk on memory
• Stephen Krashen, Steve Kaufmann and comprehensible input
  • Does comprehensible input or conscious learning result in skill building?
  • Story and graded readers
• The theme emerging from speakers that stuck with me was that of “compelling input” and “passion” … nothing new, but the extent of the emphasis was a good reminder of what matters
• italki
• I personally found this a great boost for my work with graded readers
• Montreal is a great, cosmopolitan city, despite taxes, tips and crazy weather
• Alex Rawlings gave a great talk in which he parodied language learning methods
• I had some great meetings with Stephen Krashen and Teach Yourself
• Caught up with Richard and Alex, had good time to chat with Benny and Steve Kaufmann
• Organising a conference is a LOT of work

Resources mentioned in today's episode:

• LangFest 2017 – conference website
• Stephen D Krashen – website with articles, books and more

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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.