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Gabriel Wyner is a polyglot, former opera singer, the author of the book Fluent Forever: How to Learn Any Language Fast and Never Forget It, and the creator of the new Fluent Forever app, the most funded app in crowdfunding history. I highly recommend his book and app, especially to anyone who struggles with foreign language pronunciation or making new words stick. In the interview, we discuss: 1) How opera led Gabe to learn French, Italian, and German. 2) How a summer German immersion program proved he was not "crappy at languages" as he had previously believed. 3) Why opera is the perfect career for those who want to get paid to become multilingual. 4) The visceral difference between simply "pronouncing" a language and actually "thinking" and "feeling" in it. 5) Why you shouldn't learn a language through translation ("It murders you before you start.") 6) How images are a faster, more effective way to build new linguistics connections. 7) Why you should start with pronunciation training first. 8) How minimal pair training helps you learn pronunciation quickly and better notice your progress over time. 9) Why you can't make old memories go away (the groove remains!), but how you can make new memories more powerful (making the groove deeper). 10) Why images (and the meanings they represent) create stronger memories than spelling and sound. 11) Why personal connection ("self-reference") is the ultimate memory "supercharger." 12) How self-testing with flashcards can make your study time five times more effective than simply presented yourself with information. 13) The critical difference between "recalling" and "reviewing." 14)The power of "uh....?" moments and how spaced repetition can help optimize them. 15) Why modern digital flashcards are not really "flashcards" at all, but rather "computerized tests." 16) Why language learning doesn't take nearly as much time if you can actually hold onto what you learn. 17) Gabe's "minimum viable" daily and weekly language learning habits. 18) How to get immersion "chunks" wherever you are. 19) Why frequency dictionaries are linguistic gold.

For show notes, visit LanguageMastery.com/blog/Gabriel-Wyner.

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