Kate Billington
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 1 Jun
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hundreds, thousands of examples of people who have done just that, even if they wouldn't consider themselves linguists to begin with.
So I think sometimes people sort of get pushed into doing it and then they
then they learn how to master a language and then other people maybe would do it by choice and would master a language as well.
Yeah, we could well do.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Especially if you're living in a country where you need to master a new language, you know, that's a big motivation in itself.
It's more of an external extrinsic motivation, as we say, rather than intrinsic.
Yeah.
If you sort of resent it.
Yeah.
Yeah.
What about you, though?
You always say your French isn't very good.
Is it still not very good?
I still bake, but not anywhere near as much as I used to because in Taiwan, I don't have a proper kitchen because most apartments don't come with a proper kitchen.
What do you mean, proper kitchen?
You know, with like a built-in oven and sort of space to prepare things and that sort of thing.
There's a lot of studio apartments or just sort of apartments where you would just have sort of a fridge and maybe a hot plate or one.
one ring that you can use for boiling water or whatever.
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