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Dr. Gareth Popkins on How to Get Fluent in Any Foreign Language

Published: Aug. 10, 2019, 12:10 a.m.

Dr. Gareth Popkins is a lawyer, historian, and former English and Welsh teacher who is fluent in German, Russian, and Welsh, advanced in French, conversational in Hungarian, Finnish, Italian, Portuguese, and Basque, and now hard at work on Japanese. We first met in June 2019 at the Polyglot Gathering in Bratislava and I knew right away that I wanted to have him on the podcast to share his language learning story and tips. As he puts it: "I\u2019ve got fluent because I really wanted to and I kept going, despite myself. It\u2019s sometimes said that an expert is someone who\u2019s made all the mistakes in the book. If so, I\u2019m that expert. I\u2019m still experimenting. I\u2019m still learning\u2026. and still making those mistakes, of course." \xa0

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