Hello!
I’m a designer and language YouTuber based in Singapore. As a Third Culture Kid, I grew up in France, Pakistan, the UAE, South Africa and Japan. I started taking language learning seriously in 2009 after realizing the doors that they can open to new cultures, music, experiences and travel. I’m an unashamed follower of Jesus Christ and aim to motivate and inspire language learners to reach their fluency goals. Currently I’m focusing on Spanish, Mandarin Chinese and Japanese while keeping up my French, Korean and Hungarian. On the side, I’m dabbling in Malay, Vietnamese, Indonesian, Arabic, Norwegian and Urdu.
I enjoy public speaking and sharing language learning methods at various events. In 2012 and 2018, I was invited to give talks on language learning techniques to diplomats in the foreign service at the Department of International Relations in Pretoria, South Africa. I’ve also had the privilege of speaking alongside notable female polyglots at the annual Women In Language online seminar in 2019.
Interviews
Fluent in 3 Months interview
The Economic Times interview on polyglot bloggers
Cosmopolitan South Africa
The Third Culture Kid Project
Bilingual interview on Nak Nak (KR/EN)
Nee’s Language blog
KOCCA Korean interview
Our Friends on my Japanese poster designs
Television and YouTube appearances
Arirang TV: Travel Story
KykNet TV: eNuus interview (Afrikaans)
Portrait of a Polyglot documentary by filmmaker Michael Nel
5 Minute Language chat podcast with Azren The Language Nerd
Assassins of Language Learning chat by Angela from PassionForDreaming
Blogs and news articles
Joy of Languages: 50 Extraordinary Women In Language
Non-Korean YouTubers feature on MotivateKorean
Teach Yourself + IWTYAL Short Stories Collaboration
Japanese Language Learning Hacks feature
Babbel Magazine
Koreaboo
Rocketlanguages
Hungarian news articles: 1 2 3
Podcast interviews
Podcast features
Hey Lindie. Are you shipping your products to germany? Im in love with the notebooks btw
Yes! If you order them on the website you just enter your address. International shipping! 🙂
Lindie,
Thank you for inspiring me to carry on learning languages. Many years ago, I started with French, but felt forced to stop once I went to grad school. Even before that, I had tried Japanese, but also had had to drop out because of work. I feel like I have found useful tips to carry on, without more excuses. Thank you.
Hey lindie I’m a big fan
I was wondering if you did a university degree if so what degree did you do if you don’t mind me asking. The reason why I’m asking is I’m going to start university soon and I want to pick a language as my degree and your my role model so I was wondering what you did.
Thank you
Özge
Hello! I studied Information Design, not really anything to do with languages. 🙂
Hi Lindie! Can you make a masterpost of the books you use for studying Japanse?
Hi Yazu! Sorry for the late reply. I’m almost done writing a post on that, so stay around to see it on my blog soon! 🙂
Nah, that’s fine. I’m looking forward to it! 😄 Just do it on your own pace.