The Language Confidence Project

Good morning, language learners, and happy Tuesday! Today, we are looking at eight ways to give our eyes a rest and enjoy our language away from screens. In this episode, I mentioned the How to Be Me series of language journals, which are themed journals in French, Spanish, German and Brazilian Portuguese. The journals I released this year were "Life Stories: Tales of Me" and "Living Around Here:...

Happy Monday, language learners! Today's episode is a huge permission slip to allow yourself as many restarts, experiments and rest days as you need as you build the language path you love.  Join your host, Emily Richardson, every weekday for a short and snappy dose of language courage to get you unstuck, whether you love languages or whether you really don't, but need to learn one anyway. Em...

Happy Friday! Today, we are bringing No-Vember to our language learning and giving ourselves permission to say "no" to the things that drain us. Join your host, Emily Richardson, every weekday for a short and snappy dose of language courage to get you unstuck, whether you love languages or whether you really don't, but need to learn one anyway. Emily is the tiny and colourful creator of Tea with M...

If you're getting bored and need to bring creativity into your language learning, you are in the right place today!  Join your host, Emily Richardson, every weekday for a short and snappy dose of language courage to get you unstuck, whether you love languages or whether you really don't, but need to learn one anyway. Emily is the tiny and colourful creator of Tea with Me, a platform to help multi-...

Happy Wednesday! Today, we are releasing ourselves from the pressure to "stop being afraid of making mistakes" or to "feel the fear and do it anyway", and we are giving ourselves a much more compassionate definition of language confidence. Join your host, Emily Richardson, every weekday for a short and snappy dose of language courage to get you unstuck, whether you love languages or whether you re...

Today, we are letting go of all the pesky passengers that cling onto our language learning and start ordering us about for their own gain.  Join your host, Emily Richardson, every weekday for a short and snappy dose of language courage to get you unstuck, whether you love languages or whether you really don't, but need to learn one anyway. Emily is the tiny and colourful creator of Tea with M...

As language learners, we all hear that the key to improving in the language we’re learning is to immerse ourselves in as much content as we can. But that is only half the story. Join your host, Emily Richardson, every weekday for a short and snappy dose of language courage to get you unstuck, whether you love languages or whether you really don't, but need to learn one anyway. Emily is the tiny an...

Given half a chance, the Inner Complainer will stockpile all the evidence she can to let us know that life is unfair, language learning is pointless, and it'll all be too hard. She will compound fact after fact, quote after quote. She’ll bring in news headlines, data, song lyrics, your past, all to fit her main goal of finding as many problems as possible that she can claim will prevent you learni...

Are you dreading the language learning process? Putting off getting started, or maybe going back to it after a break? I'm blaming the Inner Complainer. This is the third episode in a trio called For the Very Reluctant Learners, where, in our weeklong Ode to Inner Complainer, we are listening to her most common complaints about learning a language, taking them very seriously, and then learning our...

In a week dedicated to the Inner Complainer, this is part two of our "For the Very Reluctant Learner" trio of episodes, which started yesterday. In this series, we are looking at some of the Inner Complainer’s loudest mental protestations to learning a language and we’re going to try and reframe them for you. And today's complaint is "it's going to take far too long" and by extension, "it's taking...

This is part one of a three-part series I'm calling "For the very reluctant learners". You need to learn a language. You don't want to learn a language. So the Inner Complainer has A LOT to complain about here.  In this series, we are going to look at some of the Inner Complainer’s loudest mental protestations to learning a language and we’re going to try and reframe them for you. And today,...

The Inner Complainer isn’t trying to sway us to any particular decision. She’s also not trying to attack us, like the Inner Critic. She just kind of sits there, musing about how life and language learning just isn’t going how you wanted it to. In this episode, I also talked about some characters I introduced in S1E43 on the Language Confidence Project, in an episode called "The inner townspeople n...

People keep telling us to believe in ourselves. But what does that actually mean? What does that look like, in our language learning, and our day-to-day lives? Join your host, Emily Richardson, every weekday for a short and snappy dose of language courage to get you unstuck, whether you love languages or whether you really don't, but need to learn one anyway. Emily is the tiny and colourful creato...

Today, we are reminding ourselves that not all advice is good advice, and it's okay to press on with the road we've chosen.  Today's episode can stand alone, but it was written as the second half of a conversation started yesterday, S2E33: Tell People Before It's Done. So feel free to pop back and listen to that one first!  Join your host, Emily Richardson, every weekday for a short and...

Happy Wednesday! In today and tomorrow's episodes, we are looking at how to protect ourselves and our goals from the wrong outside energy. In this episode, we are looking at the work of Derek Sivers and asking, "will telling people about my goal make me less likely to stick to it?".   You can find his <4min TED Short here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHopJHSlVo4&ab_channel=TED...

Today, we are proudly stating our wins without the "buts".  Join your host, Emily Richardson, every weekday for a short and snappy dose of language courage to get you unstuck, whether you love languages or whether you really don't, but need to learn one anyway. Emily is the tiny and colourful creator of Tea with Me, a platform to help multi-passionate and unconventional language learners spla...

Today, we are diving into the importance of recognising the Now in your language learning and making it a place you want to be.  Join your host, Emily Richardson, every weekday for a short and snappy dose of language courage to get you unstuck, whether you love languages or whether you really don't, but need to learn one anyway. Emily is the tiny and colourful creator of Tea with Me, a platfo...

It's getting colder, and the nights are drawing in.  I hereby proclaim that we need things to look forward to.  Join your host, Emily Richardson, every weekday for a short and snappy dose of language courage to get you unstuck, whether you love languages or whether you really don't, but need to learn one anyway. Emily is the tiny and colourful creator of Tea with Me, a platform to help m...

Happy Thursday! In today's episode, we're getting serious about making language learning resources work for us. We talk about the importance of finding language resources that fit the person you are, the life you live, and the goals you have.  Join your host, Emily Richardson, every weekday for a short and snappy dose of language courage to get you unstuck, whether you love languages or wheth...

If your language enthusiasm is seriously waning and you're worried it might never come back, this is the episode for you.  Join your host, Emily Richardson, every weekday for a short and snappy dose of language courage to get you unstuck, whether you love languages or whether you really don't, but need to learn one anyway. Emily is the tiny and colourful creator of Tea with Me, a platform to...

If enthusiasm is in short supply today, I'm so glad you're here.  If enthusiasm has been in short supply for a while now, definitely also join me again tomorrow!  Join your host, Emily Richardson, every weekday for a short and snappy dose of language courage to get you unstuck, whether you love languages or whether you really don't, but need to learn one anyway. Emily is the tiny and col...

Happy Monday! If you’re looking at your language learning right now, at all the jaggedy pieces around you and wondering if they’ll ever join up, this is the episode for you.  Join your host, Emily Richardson, every weekday for a short and snappy dose of language courage to get you unstuck, whether you love languages or whether you really don't, but need to learn one anyway. Emily is the tiny...

In today's episode, I share an analogy that I heard via the author, YouTuber and founder of the Female Entrepreneur Association, Carrie Green. It had a profound effect on my life, and I really hope it helps you to trust the process and keep the faith that you'll get to where you want to be.  Join your host, Emily Richardson, every weekday for a short and snappy dose of language courage to get...

Today, we are flipping the script on the idea that big progress requires big changes.  Join your host, Emily Richardson, every weekday for a short and snappy dose of language courage to get you unstuck, whether you love languages or whether you really don't, but need to learn one anyway. Emily is the tiny and colourful creator of Tea with Me, a platform to help multi-passionate and unconventi...

Today, we look at why you might be finding it hard to get started, and how it might not be about time-wasting at all.  Join your host, Emily Richardson, every weekday for a short and snappy dose of language courage to get you unstuck, whether you love languages or whether you really don't, but need to learn one anyway. Emily is the tiny and colourful creator of Tea with Me, a platform to help...