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Ep249. ft. Megan Nicholls - You Don’t Need to Be Fluent to Be Multilingual: The Fluency Myth (Part 1)
What if “becoming fluent” is actually the wrong goal?
For millions of language learners, fluency has become the finish line—the point where they finally feel qualified to say, “Yes, I speak this language.” But what if that mindset is holding learners back?
In Episode 249 of the Languages Pedagogy Podcast, Mike sits down with multilingual educator and language coach Megan Nicholls to challenge one of the biggest myths in language learning: that you must reach an advanced or “native-like” level before you can legitimately call yourself multilingual.
Megan shares her experiences with English…
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