How Eurolinguiste Founder Shannon Kennedy Learns Languages

Published: July 13, 2019, 2:28 a.m.

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Shannon Kennedy is a language lover, traveler, musician, and writer. She has written extensively for Fluent in 3 Months and Drops, and is also the Language Encourager and Community Manager for the Add1Challenge. In 2018, she co-hosted the inaugural Women in Language event, an online conference to champion, celebrate, and amplify the voices of women in languages. In the interview, we discuss \\u2460 why majoring in music led Shannon to start learning German, Italian, and Spanish, \\u2461 how her self-study methods differ from how she had learned languages in school, \\u2462 why learning is short, frequent chunks of time is more effective than longer study sessions, \\u2463 her daily habits and how she fits in language learning around work and motherhood, \\u2464 why kids don\\u2019t learn languages better than adults, and \\u2465 why discipline is more important than motivation when learning any skill. \\xa0

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