Kris Broholm
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The Actual Fluency Podcast features inspirational stories from world-class language learners, industry experts, and regular people who embraced multilingualism in one way or another. In the episodes we dive deep down in the why that pushed people to learn a new language, the how to figure out how they best achieved it, and of course a lot of great stories of the experiences that speaking multiple languages can bring to people's lives. Licensing "Fretless" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Guest experience becomes a practical education in the methods, emotions, and identity questions that shape language learning.
Chris Broholm builds each episode around a guest's experience of learning and using another language. His interviews move between practical questions and the emotional forces that shape progress, giving language education a candid, conversational frame.
One missed word turns a podcast into a report card; Chris Broholm's guest knows that feeling.
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A practical language-learning conversation about fluency, Korean, and getting through hard years with help from a team.
Benny Lewis talks through a new Korean language mission, what fluency can mean, and how the boot camp format works now that it has been rebranded.
A grounded conversation about listening, expat life, and how movies can help speech stick.
Cara Leopold and Chris keep the discussion grounded in the daily work of language learning. The episode is strongest when it separates business English from the looser speech people need once they are living inside a language, then ties that idea to Cara's movie club and her…
A warm case for play, confidence, and practical language practice.
AFP 192 comes back after a long pause with a steady, practical take on language learning. Chris Broholm keeps returning to one plain idea: people remember more when the process feels playable.
A reflective conversation about language, identity, and what it means to feel split between worlds.
Emily Harris keeps the episode grounded in personal experience as she talks about being a transracial adoptee and the way culture, identity, and language can feel split apart.
A reflective conversation about how confidence in language learning grows through use, not theory.
Luca Lampariello's return to the Actual Fluency Podcast keeps the focus on what actually moves language learners forward: using the language in ordinary life. Ordering coffee or buying a ticket may sound small, but that is where confidence starts to feel real.
Toki Pona becomes a practical lens on comprehensible input, translation habits, and clear thinking.
The episode treats Toki Pona as more than a novelty. It uses the language as a route into comprehensible input and a reminder that meaning gets compressed in language.
Héctor and Beto dissect Mexican grammar, slang, and news in native-speed Spanish conversations.
Chris welcomes back Luca Lampariello to The Actual Fluency Podcast nearly nine years after the original October 3, 2014 episode, and Luca identifies himself as an Italian from Rome who became a language coach instead of an engineer.
Chris Broholm speaks with Benny Lewis, founder of Fluent in Three Months, about a first Korean mission in 10 years, a move from the United States, and a return to intensive travel-based language learning.
AFP 193 explores comprehensible input theory through Joel's unconventional approach: using Toki Pona, a 120-word constructed language, as a sandbox to validate whether comprehensible input methodology actually works.
Emily Harris talks about growing up after being adopted from southern China at 16 months and how that history shaped her relationship to language, identity, and perfectionism.
Chris Broholm brings Actual Funzi episode 192 back after an extended break.
Cara Leopold, an English listening specialist, discusses her journey from learning French in the UK to living in France for 16 years, sharing expat challenges and insights.