Luke Thompson

Did you manage to follow that?

I expect so.

I think that we carried out that conversation fairly clearly.

I think I at the end there near the end, Patricio talked about his study routines.

And, you know, what's interesting to me is that perhaps part of the secret of his success is not just the methods that he uses, but just simply the conscious choice that he made, like flicking a switch.

that time when he realised that he really needed to focus on his Spanish, and he flicked a switch in his head, and he said, right, I am now going to learn this language.

And so his motivation was high, and the decision that he made, the intention that he had, was, I think, a really important step.

And then one of the other things, as well as the specific methods he used, was the simple consistency of doing something

in English or in Spanish or Brazilian Portuguese, in his case, every single day.

And the variety of learning, the variety, mixing it up in terms of practicing the four different skills, listening, reading, writing and speaking, and even sort of flipping from one to the other.

So listening to something and then responding to it by speaking, you know, reading something and then writing a few things down.

also working alone sometimes, and then also working with other people on a platform like italki, and a range of other types of practice, including reading, writing, listening, speaking, grammar and vocabulary, mixing it all up with consistency and with a sort of intentional, motivated, regular approach.

Yeah, so that was that.

Now...

What about those four London accents?

Did you get a sense?

Did you get a sense of the four accents and how comfortable do you feel identifying them?

So let me go through this bit again.

And despite the fact that.

Patricio and I both agreed that maybe it's not such a good idea to demonstrate accents by copying them.