The Language Confidence Project

Happy Tuesday! If you’re worrying that you’re miles off your language goals, and you’re starting to lose faith, 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...

If you’re looking around at your very familiar four walls and thinking that this is the not exotic, exciting place where language learning happens, 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...

Happy Friday, language learners! Today, we are seeing if there is anything we can let go of in our language learning before we head into the weekend.  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...

Today, I want to talk about why the level we are at now never feels good enough, and give you a simple thing you can do just for five minutes to get that excitement and pride back. 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...

Grab some paper and a pen, because today, we are journal-imagining a language journey without self doubt! The question is: If success was inevitable, what would you do differently?  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 th...

Today, we are mostly celebrating cat videos, and throwing advice out the window.  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 langu...

Happy Monday! Today, we are flipping the script on a message I hear all too often in the self-improvement world: "well, how badly do you want this?" This idea that, if you wanted it badly enough, you'd just do it, even when the odds are stacked against you.  Join your host, Emily Richardson, every weekday for a short and snappy dose of language courage to get you unstuck, whether you love lan...

If you’re telling yourself all kinds of very sensible and very logical stories as to why you’re going to be bad at language learning, 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 cre...

If nothing feels like it's coming together today in your language learning, 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 help multi-passio...

If you're deep in the swampland of the intermediate plateau and wondering if you'll ever get out of it with your language dreams intact, 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...

Are you wondering how long this whole language learning thing is going to take? Today, we're making sure that if we ask about timeframes, we're asking the right questions.  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...

Because for life’s most important moments, sometimes the simplest language has the biggest impact. 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 unc...

We get so caught up in learning the new stuff, but it's exhausting being confused all the time. Sometimes, we just need to go back to what we know. 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 wit...

Sometimes, with language learning, it can feel like everything you want is way over in the distance, on the other side of a huge canyon, and quite rightly, you’re scared to jump. Maybe you’re scared of failing, you’re scared of embarrassment, or you’re scared because, even for Native Speaker You, this is too far out of your comfort zone. In today's episode, I share approximately one bazillion ways...

Happy Wednesday! If you’re feeling like you’re sleepwalking through your language learning, and want a bit of a declutter as we head into autumn, 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 c...

Today, I'm giving a very personal perspective on the question "why do some people just seem to succeed effortlessly, while others struggle for years and feel constantly overwhelmed?".  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 internet can be such a powerful force for good in our language learning, but it can also fill us with a sense of panic that we're not where we should be. In this episode, we talk about the importance of seeing past the highlight reels.  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...

Special episode to mark the death of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. I wanted to send a brief message to all of you who are grieving, and all of you who are anxious about the changes that are coming in the next few weeks. Normal episodes and language courage will resume from Monday. 

The more we learn about learning, the more we dive into studying the processes, the psychology of it, learning every trick in the book on habits, memory hacks, self-care, we’ve got all these tools in our toolkit, the more we personally we take it when things just don’t seem to be going right. But all that effort isn't wasted.  Join your host, Emily Richardson, every weekday for a short and sn...

Today, we are flipping the script on the idea that true language learning isn’t a hobby, it’s a lifestyle. Or that if you want to be an effective language learner, you need to make it a lifestyle.  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 any...

We know it takes time to learn a language. But how do we know when it’s taking too long? 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 unconventiona...

Being in the early stages of language learning is the most amazing feeling in the world. Every tiny step feels like a huge victory. But what happens when we're past that stage, the highs aren't growing proportionately with our progress, and our end goals still feel miles away? In this episode, we talk about keeping that momentum going, and making sure you have the tools to run off your own fuel on...

Hello hello, happy Friday, and welcome to the final episode of the season! In this episode, we are giving ourselves credit for all the things we've achieved in the first half of 2022. Because it is so, so easy to give ourselves a hard time for all the things we haven't done yet, while ignoring all the fabulous things we *have* done, and all the work that goes on behind the scenes to make the big t...

HAPPY SUMMER, LOVELY PEOPLE! :D If you're on summer break, taking annual leave, or otherwise out of your normal routine, and wondering why all the extra hours in the day aren't translating into making solid progress on your language, this is the episode for you!  This is the penultimate episode of Season 1, and we'll be kicking off Season 2 at 7am (UK time) on September 5th. I'm excited alrea...

If you have too many inner voices and conflicting priorities interfering with your language learning, pulling you in different directions, this is the episode for you! We are back in the Language Forest, we've had enough, and we're going to try and get the Village Language Learning Committee to calm down a bit!  Just another quick reminder, this the final week of Season 1 of the Language Conf...