Welcome to Episode 25 of the Technology in Human Services Podcast. In this episode I’m chatting with Anesh Daya, Edupreneur, ESL Disruptor, and Chief Innovation Officer of On the Spot Language, an Experiential Language Learning Program that guides and coaches English as a Second language learners to become independent language learners. Anesh is a language lover who has not only taught, managed, and developed ESL programs around the world, he also spent time in Taiwan learning Mandarin and brings that experience to his approach at On the Spot language. On the Spot language has been around since 2009 and like every organization and business, pivoted to virtual over the past year during the pandemic. Anesh and I chat about innovation in newcomer services, language and beyond, from time to time, and I think you’ll really enjoy this deeper dive into one of those conversations. I hope you find our chat useful and interesting. Have a look at how it works: Machine-Generated Transcript What follows is an AI-generated transcript of our conversation using Otter.ai. The transcript has not been edited. It may contain errors and odd sentence breaks and is not a substitute for listening to the audio. Marco Campana 0:00Welcome to Episode 25 of the technology and Human Services podcast. In this episode, I’m chatting with anish de edupreneurs ESL disrupter and Chief Innovation Officer of on spot language. an experiential language learning program that guides and coaches ESL is second language learners to become independent language learners, and is a language lover who has not only taught managed and developed ESL programs around the world, he also spent time in Taiwan learning Mandarin and brings that experience to his approach at on the spot language on the spot language has been around since 2009. And like every organization in business pivoted to virtual over the past year during the pandemic anishinabe chat about innovation and newcomer services language and beyond from time to time. And I think you’ll really enjoy this deeper dive into one of those conversations. I hope you find our chat useful and interesting. Welcome to the technology in Human Services podcast. Can you tell me a little bit about yourself, give us an overview of your work at on the spot language and how you got there. Anesh Daya 0:56Awesome. Well, thank you so much, Margo, for having me on. And it’s a truly an honor to have gotten to know you some of your work. And in regards to myself, my name is anish dia, founder and chief innovation officer of on the spot language, which started in 2009. But it really came out of a necessity of need, like what do language learners need on a daily basis to survive and I it kind of to give you an overview and just quickly started out with a mini little story. I remember I was burnt out as a multimedia specialist working downtown Toronto, at the airport with my parents 21 years old, saying I’m going I’m going to Taiwan right and I get on the airplane wearing this I am Canadian jersey. I am Canadian commercials and when this jersey, right? I’m on the airplane feeling super confident ready to go. And suddenly panic sets in and say I don’t know where I’m going. I don’t know the anything about the language, the country the food turn the guy next to me. I said Can you teach me the numbers one to 10 in Mandarin. So you just took off and went no sensitive.