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Jan van der Aa on the quickest method to learn a language at an intermediate level

Published: April 13, 2016, 10 a.m.

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Jan van der Aa\\xa0is originally from the Netherlands and has been working location independently since his graduation from college in 2012. His work has allowed him to live on 4 different continents and to visit over 85 countries.\\xa0Besides his native Dutch, Jan also speaks English, Mandarin, German, French, Portuguese, Cantonese and Spanish. This allowed him to help found Language Boost, a language learning method which helps learners get to an intermediate quickly.
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In this episode we talk about how he started his language translation company and how simply being bold allowed him to get together this group of people to translate documents. He then talks about what he learned by learning his own\\xa0languages\\xa0and finally\\xa0realizing\\xa0that he himself is a good language learner. From this he explains how he put together his startup as well as the struggles behind it.
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