IWTYAL 016: How do you stay motivated when you’re living at home?

Yingnoi Lee asks: “How do you concentrate on learning foreign languages when you're living in your homeland?”

In this episode:

• Tactics for staying motivated whilst learning a foreign language wherever you live.

Resources featured in this episode:

• conversationexchange.com
• iTalki.com
• Reflections on learning a language remotely – a guest post I wrote for fluentin3months.com
• Don't travel to learn a language – a great life lesson from Benny Lewis
• How to learn Cantonese in 1 year – the results of my 1-year Cantonese experiment

Today's featured resource:

• Meetup.com – find friends based on their interests, wherever you are in the world

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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.