Sara Maria Hasbun, founder of Meridian Linguistics, shares about psycholinguistics, working in the language industry, and “extreme” language learning.
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Mentioned in this Episode
- Meridian Linguistics
- Glossika
- Tempo App on iOS
- Tempo App on Android
- Sara Maria’s Website
- Sara Maria on Instagram
- Sara Maria 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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