Jess and Jon talk about their backgrounds living and working on four different continents and how they came to work on self improvement so much together. They discuss what the NTL podcast will cover and delve into what it’s like to move to a new country or city you’ve never been to before with no network or job. Touching on how to deal with banking, housing, bills, and visas in new places. Then they talk about their shared goal of fluency in Spanish and some of the learning techniques they’ve used to rapidly learn the language.
Links:
Teaching English in Korean public schools through EPIK
Debit cards no ATM fees worldwide:
3 wireless Ireland, great prepaid deals: 20 euro 1 month unlimited data
Companies won’t let US persons living abroad invest through them
Language Learning Materials:
Italki - affordable online language tutoring
Anki - customizable spaced repetition flashcards (Ankidroid, Ankimobile)
Routledge Spanish Frequency Dictionary
Forvo.com – native pronunciations of millions of individual words in hundreds of languages
Tatoeba.org – native pronunciation and translation of thousands of sentences