About Lindie

I’m Lindie and my life pretty much revolves around languages. 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 also an unashamed follower of Jesus Christ, striving to live for Him every day.

My languages
I aim to motivate and inspire language learners to reach their fluency goals. My home language is Afrikaans and I was raised in English schools. Currently I’m focusing on Spanish, Mandarin Chinese and Japanese while maintaining my French, Korean and Hungarian. On the side, I’m dabbling in Malay, Vietnamese, Indonesian, Arabic, Norwegian, Burmese and Hindi.

Public speaking
I enjoy public speaking and sharing language learning methods. In 2012 and 2018, I gave presentations to diplomats at the Department of International Relations in Pretoria, South Africa. Thereafter in 2019 I had the privilege of speaking alongside notable polyglots at the annual Women In Language online seminar and at Polyglot Conference in Fukuoka, Japan.

I don’t actually do languages full time!
Apart from languages, I work as a UI/UX designer at a startup in Singapore and my job makes me very happy! I also like doing film photography on the side. 

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