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If April is time for a fresh start for your language learning, grab a copy of my free monthly planner to help you set better goals for the coming month. And if you’re really ready to get planning for your language learning goals this month, you need to get hold of The Solo Language Learner Planner with much more detail and planning pages to see you right at every stage of language learning. There were a couple of days when my language learning routine didn’t happen – the first couple of days after Women in Language and the morning after we won the film festival. Women in Language inspired me to experiment with many new things for my language study.

Back when I was wrapping up season one of Language Stories and requesting suggestions for interviewees for season two, a handful of suggestions came in for the same person: Kevin Wong, founder of Kodrah Kristang in Singapore. As I researched more, I learnt that the city of origin of the language, Malacca in Malaysia, has around 1,000 speakers mostly geographically concentrated compared to Singapore’s estimates of 100-200, mostly since Kevin’s classes. Michael Singho Michel is the head of the Malacca Portuguese-Eurasian Association and co-authored the book Beng Prende Portugues Malaká. How to revive a 500-year-old dying language – BBC – Article from the BBC about Kevin’s efforts to revive Kristang in Singapore.

And if you’re interested in learning more about sign languages around the world, be sure to take a listen to our season one episode about Nicaraguan Sign Language. The Alphabet of Vietnamese Sign Language (North), Seek The World – learn the alphabet of one of the sign languages of Vietnam from this Deaf travel YouTube channel. Helping Deaf Children in Vietnam Communicate and Access Education through Sign Language, The World Bank – an article covering Deaf education in a different part of Vietnam. The best thing you can do right now to support the project is threefold, and if you’ve ever listened to any podcast before, I’m sure you’ll be familiar with what I’m about to say! 1.

Every month, I update the free planner with a current calendar page so you can easily keep track of your language learning for the month ahead. If you’re looking for something more thorough that you can use month after month, be sure to check out my Solo Language Learner Planner too. To share a little about what to expect from this year’s Women in Language, I picked 8 presentations at random to share with you. I’ve been going through some lessons on Lernu.net Every month, you can download your free My Month in Languages Planner to help organise your language learning.