Author & Digital Nomad Daniel Rusteen on How He Learned Spanish After Two Failed Attempts
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Daniel Rusteen is an author, full-time traveler, digital nomad, short-term rental expert, and former Airbnb employee. He is best known for his books Optimize Your BnB and Profitable Properties, but he has also written a book on learning languages: Zilch to Conversational. In our conversation, Danny shares why he failed to learn a foreign language his first two attempts, the methods he used to finally reach conversational fluency in Spanish, how to choose the right language teacher, why and how to use Anki spaced repetition flashcards, why you should learn the IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet), and why you should go from "sounds to sentences" in your target language. 📝 For show notes, visit ⁠LanguageMastery.com/blog/post/daniel-rusteen.  📧 Get expert language immersion tips in your inbox each week!  Join my FREE weekly newsletter to get the tips and tools you need to get fluent anywhere in the world.  đŸ‘‰đŸŒÂ â â â â â â LanguageMastery.com/newsletter⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠
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