80. You Can Finally Learn That Next Language You’ve Been Thirsting to Speak

If you’re a regular here at America the Bilingual, you probably know that our founder, Steve Leveen, got serious about learning Spanish about a decade ago, in midlife. In Episode 51, he gives a hilarious account of what it was like to be the oldest one (by decades) in a Spanish class at Harvard.

Ever the undaunted, Steve has continuously researched and tested ways for adults to successfully learn a new language.

Three New Perspectives For Adult Learners To Adopt

In this episode, Steve unveils three wise ways of looking at language learning when you’re older. They will, he promises, make learning another language “not only a challenge you can meet, but master.”

This is where we should reveal what those three methodologies are, right? Actually, we won’t spoil it for you as far as listening to the episode (which you can do here, on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you tune in to your podcasts).

Instead, we’re going to tell you more about the Levenger Master Class™ workbook that Steve describes in the episode, called…

How To Learn A Language For Life

It’s an interactive, analog tool—paper and pencil/pen being its touch-me format—that supports these three perspectives by showing you how to stop looking for the one best method for learning a language and instead, adopt the language via many methods.

Steve cowrote the book with the multilingual entrepreneur Akshay Swaminathan, and the two tag-team each other through 14 sections that help you to set achievable goals for yourself and measure your progress.

Some of what the workbook covers:

• How to build muscle memory
• Reading strategies that lead to great satisfaction
• When to use virtual tutors and when to use human ones
• Using large language models (LLMs), including one that Akshay has developed, to your advantage.

But Wait: Let’s Have Steve Himself Tell You About The Workbook:

How to Learn a Language for Life is available from Levenger, and features the company’s proprietary Circa notebook system that lets you add and move pages at will. Find it here. And if you order by December 17, it’s a gift that your recipients will find under the tree for Christmas. 

And let Steve know how you progress with your own language learning. Email him at Steve@AmericatheBilingual.com.