Actual Fluency Podcast Host Kris Broholm on How Language Learning Helped Pull Him Out of Depression

In today’s show, I talk with Kris Broholm of Actual Fluency, an excellent podcast and blog boasting an impressive number of interviews with brilliant language experts, zany polyglots, etc. (over 50 episodes as of writing), including many of my heroes and a few guests who have been on the Language Mastery Show.

In his own words, Kris is not "an expert on languages, linguistics, or learning, is not a great student, and is not gifted at language learning." While I think he is being a bit too humble, I love how he shows that anyone can learn a language regardless of one’s level of introversion, aptitude for learning, location, age, etc.

Unlike many who come to language learning as just a hobby, languages helped pull Kris out of severe depression and transform his life.