Episode Details

Sara Maria Hasbun, founder of Meridian Linguistics, shares about psycholinguistics, working in the language industry, and “extreme” language learning.

Featured Resources

• Meridian Languages
• Glossika

Mentioned in this Episode

• Meridian Languages
• Glossika
• Tempo App on iOS
• Tempo App on Android
• Sara’s Website
• Sara on Instagram
• Sara on Twitter

Episode Overview

Some of the topics brought up during the interview are:

• Choosing which language to learn
• Learning languages in diverse language families
• Studying psycholinguistics
• Dialect and accent in sign languages
• Living in different countries and learning the languages
• Differences between a polyglot and a linguist
• Learning a language with few resources
• Why fluency doesn’t need to be the end goal for learning a language
• Deciding when to learn a new language and when to focus on past languages
• Technology and language
• Balancing entrepreneurship in languages with language learning
• Using accountability systems for motivation
• Rote learning and its benefits
• Combatting the boring aspects of language learning with tricks and bribes
• Lessons from living abroad
• “Extreme” language learning

Podcast theme: “A New Beginning” by Shannon Kennedy

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