More Than Words | Language, Identity & The Courage to Speak
Richard Marshall, Quang Dang Tran, Katarzyna Ciszewska 🇮🇹Writing about the courage it takes to speak in a second language, in a room full of strangers, or just as yourself.
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Embarrassment, Identity & Speaking a Language You Haven’t Mastered Yet
and I went live on Substack for half an hour or so, and it turned into one of my favourite conversations in a long time, partly because it’s not every day you meet someone whose story runs so closely alongside your own.
Here’s the backstor...
🎙️ Watch the Replay: Fear, Stand-up Comedy & Speaking Badly on Purpose
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Earlier today I went live on Substack with Quang Dang Tran, a former stand-up comedian who built his material around not being able to speak Vietnamese… and then decided to stop joking about it and learn it.
Quang and I have...
Comedy, Loneliness and a Live Conversation with a Fellow Ex-Comedian
There was a time, not long after we moved to Spain, when I couldn’t buy a pack of screws without showing the shopkeeper a screenshot on my phone. And if my wife Monica was with me, I’d opt for hiding in her shadow and let her do all the tal...
Confident Communication | Live Q&A
Yesterday I was a invited by to speak on her series about teachers learning languages, and half an hour in the tech gremlins took her off the call and left me talking to myself. Between that and my Wi-Fi turning everything I said into Mors...
An apron, a disastrous stand-up show in Spanish & the Back to the Future trick!
and I sat down today to talk about what actually happens when you try to speak a language that isn’t your own, the plateaus, the fear, the mistakes that sound louder in your head than they ever do to anyone else.
If you’re learning a lang...
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Recovering thought leader & confidence coach. I write about language, identity and saying what I actually think. No growth hacks, some swearing.
Hello! I share tips on how I've been learning Vietnamese as an adult.
I’m here to help 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗮𝗸 𝗳𝗹𝘂𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗜𝘁𝗮𝗹𝗶𝗮𝗻 and communicate effectively during your next stay in Italy. I'm a qualified Italian teacher and the owner of AL DENTE, an online Italian school for busy adults. Lifelong language learner.
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